Mrs. Romney: Mitt’s mission in Paris mansion was similar to Vietnam

[UCmeNdc]

Mrs. Romney went on the The View yesterday, and among other things was asked why neither her husband Mitt, nor any of her five sons, had ever served in the US military.

Mrs. Romney replied that her husband and sons served Mormon missions abroad (trying to convert infidel Catholics and others to the one true God of Mormonism, btw). She went on to explain that doing a Mormon mission in a place like Paris – where Mitt lived in a mansion (with his own own butler and houseboy who prepared all the meals); a mansion so posh that it went on to become a foreign embassy – is a similar “service to our country” as those who fought and risked their lives, and died, in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.


http://americablog.com/2012/10/mitt-romney-war-vietnam-mormon-mission-paris-france.html

[tk2kewl]

1. Gotta love the picture at the link

and this is how is was captioned: "Mitt Romney during his time in Paris in the late 1960s. Like Hanoi, but different."

[no_hypocrisy]

2. She means that snipers were shooting at Mitt on the Champs Elysee?

[DJ13]

3. Mitt thought Agent Orange was a tanning solution

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. !

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. "Saigon on the Seine".

Annie's flogging this pile of malarkey to death.

[Sugarcoated]

5. Her explanation was lame

didn't look or sound good to a non-partisan undecided voter.

[DemKittyNC]

6. Omg

That is sick. This is the first I have heard about this. How could anyone in their right minds vote for this douchebag? I think with this statement she just slapped all our brave fighting men and women in the face. How disrespectful!

[barnabas63]

7. Anyone know how many Americans died in France during that time period..?

Hmmm..

[riverwalker]

8. Ann, tell that to the 58,000

on the Wall, and their families.

[JaneQPublic]

9. Hey, if you think Mitt had it easy in Paris, then...

...you just try convincing the French to join a religion that prohibits wine.

It's a wonder he got out of there alive!

[DollarBillHines]

10. I would have traded that PBR on the Qua Viet for a bicycle in Paris...

in a heartbeat.

I think the you-know-what word should go back into circulation strictly for application to her.

[Politicalboi]

11. So all those who got drafted

Could have ridden their bicycles in Paris. If only they knew. What a dumb "witch".

[montanto]

12. "tell it to the marines."

Can't believe I got a chance to actually use that.

[newsboy]

13. On a MISSION

Her answers are not well crafted, but crafted
she said missions .... not mormon missions
You know like chuck norris goes on 'missions'
i just wish Ms Goldberg would have asked more about the 'missions'
Is it like boot camp at Parris Island
do they build low income housing?
do they feed the poor?
do they build churches, schools, choir stands, Locus traps?
What service is provided?

What Magic challenges does the Mormon church present , I assume it is something like the marines, to turn 'Boys into Men'

[mnhtnbb]

14. If it weren't so late in the game, I'd be urging OFA to make a commercial and run it a LOT

near NC military bases--and in other states that are close and have military bases.

If that wouldn't change a few minds...well....

[obamanut2012]

15. I think these people would disagree with her, don't you?

[Mike Daniels]

16. In a just world this would have every active and fomer armed services member up in arms

to the point where Ann would need to be shuttered off somewhere and kept out of public view until the election.

But because people on the right are so convinced that Obama is the Muslim reincarnation of Hitler/Stalin they'll vote for a candidate whose wife equates his living in luxury in France to soldiers dodging bullets and huddling in foxholes.

[nobunnyclue]

17. And this from a guy who wants to foist millitary service

... as a condition for citizenship on undocumented aliens brought to the US at a young age and entirely raised here but not legally citizens. I can only think of Starship Troopers, with Mitt and his square jawed spawn delivering the last line of the second film without missing a beat: "Hurry up spud, we need fresh meat for the grinder." But if you are in the elite class of "psychics", you just feed the meat into the grinder...

And then I think of a Presidency with Mitt and it doesn't seem altogether absurd that I am seeing similarities to Air Marshall Omar Anoke, leader of the Federation in the third movie. Although, frankly, Anoke seems like a nicer, more genuine guy than Mitt.

[struggle4progress]

19. Did Mitt ever take any stand on Vietnam during the heady year of 1968?

Or did he figure that avoiding the draft and living in a Paris mansion said everything that needed to be said?