George Romney

Mitt Romney apologized Thursday after a newspaper story described bullying behavior on his part when he was an 18-year-old senior at an elite, all-boys prep school in Michigan. The Washington Post detailed a 1965 incident at Cranbrook School in which a...

Reaching out to a 30,000-strong Christian crowd at Liberty University on Saturday, Mitt Romney delivered the school's commencement address, half congratulating the students, and half delivering campaign remarks. In the speech, Romney reiterated his...

For most of American history, voters wanted their president to be white, Protestant and male. But such prejudices have eroded — dramatically, in some cases. The last Democratic presidential primary contest was between an African-American and a...

LANSING, MICH. -- Campaigning down the road from a GM plant, Mitt Romney made no mention Tuesday of the federal auto bailout that he opposed and that many credit with saving that company and Chrysler. Instead, his only remarks about cars were lamenting...

A newspaper in Tampa, FL., is speculating that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder could be presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 presidential election. Florida-based GOP consultant and blogger Chris Ingram posted his Snyder VP theory...

Whenever President Barack Obama and other top Democrats say that simple fairness requires a tax increase on wealthier Americans, Republicans accuse them of fostering “class warfare” based on resentment of success. Presumptive GOP nominee...

PHILADELPHIA — When President Obama told a Russian leader that he could be "more flexible" after the election — during what he thought was a private conversation — Mitt Romney came down like a hammer. He accused his Democratic rival of...

President Obama got a rise out of Mitt Romney with the campaign-trail observation that "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth." Romney saw the remark (plausibly) as an attack on him and (not so plausibly, but ingeniously) as an attack on Romney'...

Mitt Romney isn't exactly my cup of tea, and loyal readers know this. But my readers are quite civilized and know that tea is served properly with silver spoons. Not wooden spoons. And not earthenware spoons fit for turnips and onions. But silver spoons....

Mitt Romney defended his father, George Romney, after Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said the Republican presidential front runner's dad grew up on a "polygamy commune." During an interview with Fox News Chief Political correspondent Carl Cameron on...

Once again, the pot has been stirred over press responsibility in wartime, after the Los Angeles Times published two 2010 photographs of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with the bodies and body parts of slain enemy troops. They were printed despite...

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney likes to talk about how his father "grew up poor." But that's not the whole story. The father of the presumptive Republican nominee, George Romney, grew up in a family that suffered financial losses and enjoyed prosperity....