On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “The most important part of the evening [at the Republican convention] for those there was the fuller picture of Mitt Romney. I was moved by the testimonies to this man’s character.”
One of the more poignant stories told about Mitt Romney’s generosity came from Pam Finlayson, whose daughter was born three months premature. Finlayson, a member of the same Mormon church as the Romneys, recalled how Mitt Romney would visit at the hospital when daughter Kate was in the intensive care unit.
“I will never forget that when he looked down tenderly at my daughter, his eyes filled with tears, and he reached out gently and stroked her tiny back,” Finlayson said. “I could tell immediately that he didn’t just see a tangle of plastic and tubes. … He was clearly overcome with compassion for her.”
Speaking on NBC’s Today show, Ann Romney said the stories told by friends such as Ted and Pat Oparowski, who lost their son to cancer, helped other people see “the emotional side of him that I know so well.”
Dennis: “Are there such stories about Barack Obama? Did he go over to families and help out people who were sick? To no acclaim and to no expectation that this will be made public? Romney is of a church and of a demeanor where these things are assumed, not proclaimed. This is how you act when you’re a faithful member of this church. It’s irrelevant your station in life. I knew a man whose bishop was his haircutter.”
“I know from my own synagogue life that it is absolutely irrelevant what you do for a living or if you even make a living. You’re another member of the congregation and we help you and you help me and we enjoy each other. Where is that in secular life?”
“Politics is not a substitute for personal goodness. It is on the Left.”
