Steve Bannon Goes Off on Mitt Romney: 'You Hid Behind Your Religion'

[DonViejo]

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday blasted Mitt Romney after the former Republican presidential nominee denounced Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore. “You hid behind your religion. You went to France to be a missionary while guys were dying in Vietnam,” Bannon said at a Moore rally in Alabama, in response to Romney’s tweet that “no vote, no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity.” Bannon noted that Moore graduated from West Point and served in Vietnam. President Donald Trump—who later called not getting an STD in New York City in the 1980s his “personal Vietnam”—received a deferment from service in Vietnam because of “bone spurs.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-goes-off-on-mitt-romney-you-hid-behind-your-religion

[NewJeffCT]

1. umm

Bannon's former boss Herr Trump didn't bother to hide behind his religion - he hid behind bogus medical issues. But, I guess the RW doesn't do irony.

[Initech]

6. Not to mention they're actively campaigning for a guy who hides behind religion.

Roy Moore is a perfect example - he's using the family values crowd because they would vote for a serial killer if they were right with Jesus.

[gratuitous]

2. Gee Steve, you were 18 in 1971

But you didn't get around to joining the Navy until 1976 when guys were no longer dying in Vietnam. What were you doing while that was going on?

[atreides1]

7. He went to college

After graduation from high school, Bannon attended Virginia Tech and served as the president of the student government association.

Went from service aboard a destroyer as a surface warfare officer, to a glorified clerk assigned to the Pentagon working for the CNO(Chief of Naval Operations).

It looks as if he spent at least 9 or 10 years on active duty, yet only achieved the rank of lieutenant(03).

[ProfessorGAC]

3. FORMER Chief Strategist

FORMER! As in, "get lost, former chief strategist". They need to quit covering his every dumbass proclamation.

[atreides1]

4. He failed to note Roy's military history

"Moore was perceived to be reckless, but very strict. He insisted his troops salute him on the battlefield, against his training, as such recognition facilitates an officer being targeted by an enemy. Some of his soldiers gave him the derogatory nickname "Captain America", due to his attitude toward discipline. This role earned him enemies, and in his autobiography he recalls sleeping on sandbags to avoid a grenade or bomb being tossed under his cot, as many of his men had threatened him with fragging."




Some who served under Moore there had referred to him, with sarcasm, as “Captain America,” chafing at his egoist style of command. One such officer, Barrey Hall, told the Associated Press, in 2003, that Moore’s “policies damn near got him killed in Vietnam. He was a strutter.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-roy-moores-law-school-professor-nicknamed-him-fruit-salad#intcid=dt-recirc-cral_top1_1

[Motley13]

5. if there is anyone more despicable than the moron, it's Bannon

I was wondering how he could be an asset in Moore's campaign but I guess the deplorables don't care.