The Most Disgusting Comment In Last Night's Debate

[ProSense]

The Most Disgusting Comment In Last Night's Debate

by News Corpse

The Republicans held their 629th debate last night in New Hampshire and, for the most part, it revealed nothing new about the candidates or their positions. OK, they are against gay marriage and they think Obama is a socialist. We get it. However there was a moment with the inevitable nominee, Mitt Romney, that was disturbing, if not revealing.

Mitt Romney: I find it amazing that we have troops in harm's way around the world - in Afghanistan right now, in Iraq the first three years of this president's term. He doesn't go on TV every month and talk to the American people about the sacrifice being made by these men and women. I find it extraordinary that a very few number of families are paying the price of freedom in America. The hurdle to actually putting our troops in harm's way is very, very high, and the test is America's interests. Our security interests. And they have to be involved in a very significant way to deploy our troops.

First of all, what president has ever gone on TV every month to talk about war? Only someone who is not paying attention, or is being deliberately dishonest, could accuse President Obama of not speaking up enough on behalf of the troops.

More importantly, how can Romney, who evaded the draft in his youth by going on a Mormon missionary trip that he spent in a palace in France, and took a couple of educational deferments to attend Brigham Young University and Harvard Business School, now grumble that too few families are "paying the price of freedom."

And what of Romney's family? He has five sons who were of age to serve in the military during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but here is how he described their contribution to freedom's cost during his 2008 campaign:

Romney: It's remarkable how we can show our support for our nation, and one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping to get me elected, because they think I'd be a great president. My son, Josh, bought the family Winnebago and has visited 99 counties, most of them with his three kids and his wife. And I respect that and respect all of those in the way they serve this great country.

So traveling around the United States in a custom painted luxury RV, touting their father for president, is somehow analogous to risking one's life in the harsh deserts and mountains of the Middle East? This is how the Romney boys sacrificed on behalf their country:

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/08/1052774/-The-Most-Disgusting-Comment-In-Last-Nights-Debate

Mitt's comment on wanting to send 30,000 troops back to Iraq ranks up there.

[aquart]

1. Draft dodger Romney's sons are too rich to serve in the US armed forces.

[SteveG]

8. Meanwhile, Huntsman

Whose family was at least as wealthy as Mitt's has two son's in the Navy. If Huntsman does become the nominee (won't happen) he could actually be a real contender. I don't agree with his policy prescriptions, but he is the one GOP candidate that sane, and basically a decent person. (which is why the Republican party would never nominate him - he isn't a complete asshat, which seems to be the fundamental requirement to be a legitimate GOP candidate).

[Smilo]

17. I agree with you

I agree with you ... but I think this is practice for Huntsman - wait for 2016 he is going to be a real contender then and by then people will be more than ready to kick the far right to the curb.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Mitt himself is a chickenhawk. Mitt was pro-Vietnam (war) even

though he spent his time in Paris.

[pinboy3niner]

5. And Mitt protested FOR the draft while avoiding it, himself

He was all for sending other mothers' sons to fight and bleed and die.

John Fogerty's 'Fortunate Son' nails Mitt perfectly:

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Fortunate Son
Recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Written by John Fogerty

Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no

Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh
But when the taxman comes to the door
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no

[ProSense]

7. Perfect. n/t

[Beavker]

14. +1

[babylonsister]

3. Really. More than disgusting. nt

[roguevalley]

4. don't forget he protested the protesters of the Viet Nam war in his brooks brothers, the slagger.

[Wait Wut]

6. This will look nice on my FB wall...

...for my Marine son and all his buddies to see. I'm sure they'll all be very grateful to have the "support" of Mitt and his sons. I hope they have one of those helpful yellow ribbons on their cars to prove how compassionate and patriotic they are.

Keep talking, Mitt.

[w8liftinglady]

11. Gee... Mine,too.

My OIF Vet son will LOVEit!

[riverwalker]

9. the odd thing

(it's becoming an obsession, I can't get over it) looking at his family history, going back three generations full of healthy (rich) men in that family, no one EVER in the military much less fought in a war. Not WW1, not WW2, not Korea, not Vietnam, not Gulf War One, not Iraq, not Afghanistan.

[JNelson6563]

10. This election is going to be highly entertaining, already is!

[pinboy3niner]

12. That price is something he knows NOTHING about

A lot of us were spilling our blood in Vietnam while he, like Cheney, was off doing their "better things."

I knew more than 60 guys who died in Vietnam, one of my own men who spent 3-1/2 years as a POW, and others who took their own lives either immediately after their return or years later.

Romney lives with his privilege and his smugness; I still have to live with my grief...

That bastard has no right to talk about those who are paying the price. As a Vietnamese saying goes, he's not worth the little fingernail of a one of them.

[opihimoimoi]

23. yup...heres W.... another chicken Hawk gone Shallow and HOLLOW

[Raine]

13. Ron Paul had it right when he called Romney a coward and

a chickenhawk.

[MilesColtrane]

15. Romney's an unctuous, contemptible shitheel.

[Burgman]

16. Wow. Buying a Winnebago and riding around the countryside to VIP events. What sacrifice!

Hey, Mittens! Buy me a a nice RV and I'll run around and tell people all about you too!

I doubt it will be the same things your boy is telling, but oh, there are some tales your supporters should hear.

[Rex]

18. Hmmm...did some people around here think that Mittens the Kitten

was any less a horrifying TROLL then his other lessers? Nay.

[Mark D.]

19. For Me

The most disugusting was Santorum being 'proud' he served big coal for profit. Helping them evade not just 'cap -n- trade' laws but important regulations as well. We have let too many forget what happened at Massey mines. The coal industry is evil, and he is for supporting 'their side' of it. If he were a true 'Christian', he'd have been fighting for the rights of the miners, sickened or killed by it.

With respect to the OP, to be honest, I'm seeing his statement. 'Too few' could as easily mean 'always the same' (poor, minorities, those with nowhere else to go, due to the military being their only way out, for college, etc.. Too many live insulated from serving, but support war like chichen hawks. No to make less of his evasion of service. But if that is his point and it may be, I agree with it.

[gopiscrap]

20. As a war orphan myself

it never ceases to amaze me how hawkish all these folks are who figure out ways to get out of serving on technicalities!

[tabasco]

21. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sometimes, it's easy to understand the excesses of the French Revolution.

[neverforget]

22. He's an insufferable ass.

[KamaAina]

24. Here's Willard counterprotesting for the war

that he never fought: (he's the one on the far right, of course)



Don't you just want to give him a swirlie??

[coalition_unwilling]

25. Romney spits in the face of veterans every time he opens his fucking mouth. He

enjoyed a college exemption from the draft during Vietnam and had the temerity to demonstrate in favor of the draft, while enjoying his exemption:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128336

What a total fucking asshole he is. I already hate him as much as I ever hated Bush or Cheney.

[The Genealogist]

26. This elitist reveals more and more each day just how out of touch

he is with the issues that millions of Americans face each day. Only in Willard's narrow little worldview would riding around like a prince in a custom RV equal putting your ass on the line in combat. Only in Willard's narrow little worldview is living in a palace in France, with servants to wait on you a lower middle class existence. Only in Willard's narrow little worldview is getting religious and educational deferments to keep out of war license to actually go out and heckle people who question willingly submitting to being cannon fodder. He is a disgusting elitist and I think is a bigger hypocrite than the rest of the passengers in the kkklown kkkar put together.