Like Father, Like Son

In December 2005, Mitt Romney released his decision to the press that he will not run for a second term as governor of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney has accomplished most of the goals he had set for the Atlantic state. He successfully closed a $3 billion budget deficit, continued high scores in national tests throughout public schools, and is close to an overhaul of health insurance in Massachusetts. Recently, Romney has begun to distance himself from the New England stat and its natives' beliefs, which is necessary of a presidential candidate. With a strong resume behind him, if Romney should run for the Republican candidate, he must battle others including Senator John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

My grandmother would comment on this dramatic irony with the expression "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". In 1968, Governor George W. Romney of Michigan, yes another George W. Senior, ran for the Republican nomination. Mitt Romney's father, however, lost to he favorable Richard Nixon and would later become the Housing and Urban Development Secretary under his competitor. As the decline of a second term hints, there seems a promising possibility of a second Romney running for the Republican nomination in the near future of the 2008 presidential election.