By HugoOdiogor, with agency report
Former Massachusetts Governor, Mr. Willard Mitt Romney ,was born on march 12, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan to one time Michigan Governor, Mr George Romney,who also ran for Republican Party  presidential nomination  in 1968, but was defeated by Richard Nixon, nicknamed “Tricky Dick”.

Business and Politics

Mitt Romney began his career in business when he found a private investment company,called Bain Capital. In 1984. ten years later, he ran for U.S Senate and was defeated by late Teddy Kennedy.

Mitt Romney

Romney attended the prestigious Cranbrook school before he went for his under graduate degree at Brigham young university in 1971.

He attended Harvard Law School and Harvard School of Business where he obtained degrees in law and business administrate. The later is at Master degree level.

Faith and Family

The ardent  Mormon faith Worshipper got married to Ann in 1969 and they have five sons. Namely Taga, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig.

They are all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. His openness about his faith gave the Mormon faith a national recognition.

He was voted in as the Governor of Massachusetts in 2003 after he salvaged the Salt Lake City Olympic games in 2002.

As the Governor of Massachusetts, he reduced the over  $3 billion deficit  and signed into law a health reform bill which tried to provide a universal heath care for resident of the state of Massachusetts.

In 2008, he made a bid for U.S presidency before he was defeated by John McCain. He spent about  $45 million of his own money in the effort which cost him $110 million.

On June 2,2011, he announced a second bid for the presidency and eventually defeated other notable republican party contestants like Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum,  e.t.c .

Romney has been a vitriolic  critic of the president Barack Obama’s heath care and economy recovery plans. His so called Obama care was modelled after the universal.

His greatest weapon against Obama, has been the sluggish economy that has left 23 million people jobless. Romney has a world view that is not compliant with a dynamic world order that has seen the the emergence of new power players.

In the world stage he described Russia as the number one Geopolitical enemy of America, and slammed China as currency manipulator. He went to the Middle East and picked up quarrels over the comments he made about the Palestinian issue.

The British media whipped him silly in July during his UK tour where he said the organisation of the London Olympic Games was sloppy. His choice of Wisconsin Congressman, Ryan Paul as his running mate doused the controversy that trailed his first foreign visit. Critics of Romney call him master flip flop because of  shifty position on issues.

He started of as a conservative candidate, but suddenly shifted to centrist position. He has shifted so consistently that President Obama called his tendency for inconsistencies “Romnesia.” The opportunity of the first presidential election where Obama slept early give the former Massachusetts Governor the platform to launch himself as a capable candidate.

Romney is extremely rich and runs well organised campaigns. He has made an impressive run but it remains a tough call for the GOP candidate