Alfred Waddell: Nixonian Romney?

The following letter was published on July 16, 2012 by
The Providence Journal
Providence, RI

I suspect that the Bain Capital fiasco in the sense of Mitt Romney hiding from the truth is the first big round delivered by the Democrats against Mitt Romney's run for the presidency.

In my reading of The Boston Globe account on Romney's tenure at Bain Capital, and watching Romney on TV deny the claims, I, like many others, feel Romney wants to buy and lie his way to the most powerful position in the world.

Could this be a common trait among some of the most twisted wealthiest people in the world? I would think maybe not; Richard Nixon was not considered to be among the ones with the greatest wealth; yet, he claimed he was not a crook.

After much of the evidence surfaced during the "Watergate" investigation, Nixon was found to be what he claimed not to be. Time will tell about Romney's denials as well; I suspect there are other rounds of discoveries to make his denials transparent.

Knowing what many of us all know now from the evidence in The Globe, I wonder whether there are any regrets on the part of newspapers that have endorsed Mitt Romney?