Meanwhile, he hid safely behind a religious shield. Sociopath.

If he flunked out of school and lost his academic deferrment his father would of been able to get him into a national guard unit for the well connected- much like George Bush junior. IOWs - he didn't have a religious shield, he had college and political connections.

What a fuckin' hypocrite.

From Wikipedia: "Regarding the military draft, Romney had initially gotten a student deferment, then like most other Mormon missionaries had received a ministerial deferment while in France, then got another student deferment.[25][34] When those ran out, his high number in the December 1969 draft lottery (300) meant he would not be selected."

Of course, that might have been thanks to the political connections.

So I guess his attitude was, "I'm not going, but you should."

country by trying to get old dad elected last time. I loathe them. Viscerally.

Demonstrating for the draft when you have an exemption from that same draft?

This coward stains the memories of those brave Americans who were drafted and never came back...

And seeing that exempt jerk protesting in favor of it..... ARGH.

The hypocrisy is so great it has its own gravitational field!

But like every other chicken hawk, he wants others to do his fighting for him.

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I was a senior in college in 1966 (in Kansas I might add) demostrating against the war. My brother enlisted in 1964 because he was about to be drafted. My boyfriend did the same. I had already lost a good friend from high school. My sister dropped out of college to marry her boyfriend and start a family so he could not be drafted.

That damn war changed everything.

I am seething with anger at that smug rat bastard.

The picture brings up bad memories...

I knew I was too angry to type.

He could have killed two chickenhawks with one stone but didn't.

Wonder why that was?

Don

Team Obama won't have to get very creative to reveal what an asshole Romney is. He has done all the work in that regard.

Julie

In favor of a draft policy from which he was exempt. How utterly brave of him to put his life on the line to serve.....oh....wait...how brave of him to support putting everyone else's life on the line BUT his.

He's probably one of those idiots who still think Vietnam was a just war, even in hindsight.

When I saw that picture it suddenly hit me.



Greg Marmalard, formerly the whitest person in America (before Mitt).

He and the young Mittens share one thing - a facial expression that makes you want to pelt them with rocks and garbage.

Chicken Hawk Little Turd ...... Protesting so others can go and fight in Vietnam because he
knew that since he was rich and connected there was no way he would have to go and risk his ass.
The same Mitt grow up to be so cold and nasty that he made millions killing off jobs for many
Americans.


BTW I bet some Vietnam vets would recoil in horror @ see this picture.

Right?

In 1966 there were relatively few protests against the draft. Many students at affluent private universities like Stanford knew that they were unlikely to be drafted. It was quite easy to get exemptions, as Dick Cheney and most of the other Republicans now in office did.

Even at the height of the anti-war protests in the late 1960s and early 1970s many, many Americans disagreed with the protests. Many people were quite happy to let others be drafted. And there was a lot of patriotic fervor even then.

of a fortunate son,
who now has five fortunate sons.
Not a one fought in wars they supported in word, deed and money. At least three generations of .01% chickenhawk hypocrites in one family.

This should be all over the news.

I wonder how many of them went to that war they loved so much.

. . . somehow the words "Obama couldn't be HANDED a better opponent" doesn't quite cut it.

so sad that the poor have to fight the pointless wars of the rich.

to run for President) and came out against the war ... (think Nixon's "I have a secret plan to get out of Vietnam&quot . Suddenly, the rumor was that he was "brainwashed by the communists" ... a concern that Mitt actually adopted, and, IIRC, Mitt came out questioning his own father's "mental health".

Strange, since many times, mental illness can run in families ... and, since Mitt would think his father might have been mentally ill, then it would follow that Mitt could suffer from mental illness, too ...

on a visit to Saigon in 1967. The statement pretty much finished off his campaign for the Republican nomination for President in 1968. That more or less left the field open for Nixon, as Romney was the most serious obstacle to Nixon, though Nelson Rockefeller and even Ronald Reagan garnered a significant number of delegates.

Jeebus.

When I was in public high school in 1966 blue jeans were still somewhat frowned upon.

serve in Iraq or Afghanistan. Then I remember, Romney didn't serve - "like father, like son." It's easy to be a chickenhawk and promote military engagements when there is no personal cost to be considered.

Totally off topic, but something about them

Different nose, but wow.

That is, corrupting the "uncorruptable" (as if Nixon's kids could be that...)

But the young lady is certainly cute as a bug.

Say, a fundy Christian, tight as hell, realizing his life was a lie...

Would that work?

But temptations will always abound.

He knew he was exempt because he was a "Mormon missionary", but he had no problem protesting in favor of sending young people to their deaths in an unwinnable war in an jungle on the other side of the planet.

Fuck you, Willard.

i think you have to be to support all their hate filled policies.

i hope this makes the rounds on the interwebs though - people need to know just how big of an asshole this guy is. and when he's not doing that he's - Tying his dog to the roof of his car for a 12 hour trip! heartless bastard.

"... the family went on a 12-hour drive with their pet Irish setter strapped to the roof of the car in a crate. -- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/01/picture-of-the-day-the-past-dogs-mitt-romney/250991/

right now. Let me know if that's a prob.

it's a pic of a dude from liberal activist group "SC Forward Progress" and I'm sure they'd be glad for people to pass it around. Here's some of what they had to say about it to buzzfeed:

"Anyone who would strap their dog to the top of a moving car has neither a soul nor a brain," SC Forward Progress said in a statement provided to BuzzFeed. Mitt Romney obviously does not share our South Carolina values. South Carolinians deserve to know about Mitt Romney's history of animal cruelty. We do not strap our dogs to the tops of cars in this state. Not only is it illegal, it's downright cruel."

from: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/01/picture-of-the-day-the-past-dogs-mitt-romney/250991/

with which I took issue, finding them tied. I think this thread pretty much tips the balance of who's the biggest asshole firmly in Romney's favor.

Goddamn, this really pisses me off.

I wish John Kerry would come out and just destroy Romney for this.

He should have had that on his little picket sign. Nearly 46 years later, and he is still a big hypocrite and elitist snob.

Draftees accounted for 30.4% (17,725) of combat deaths in Vietnam

http://www.mrfa.org/vnstats.htm

Ah, the protests of privilege.

What an asshole.

My three sons.

I can just hear his chants now: "Send them now." "Draft others, not me." "I've got 3 deferments but send other people."
"I like war but wont be fighting in this one or the next." "Force other people to fight and die, not me."

Sounds like what all RepubliCONS say and do.

What a fugging elitist scumbag.