Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was the recipient of outrageous campaign mudslinging over the weekend when the Associated Press published an hit piece revealing that his great-grandfather had fives wives and great-great-grandfather had twelve.

Romney has been married – to one woman – for 37 years. He has disavowed polygamy in the past calling it “bizarre.” In fact, while Romney has only had one wife his primary opponents haven’t. John McCain is in his second marriage and Rudy Guiliani in his third (including briefly being married to his cousin).

We should not hold people accountable, politicians or otherwise, for the sins of generations past. Joseph P. Kennedy, father of one of the greatest political families of our time, was an avowed anti-semite. Does that make his children, some of the greatest politicians of our time, any less qualified?

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Robert J. Johnson is an American political commentator and contributor to DCguide.com.

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