Dipshit Nitwit Mitt Romney.

From the files of You Can't Make This Shit Up:

BETTENDORF, Iowa - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended his five sons' decision not to enlist in the military, saying they're showing their support for the country by "helping me get elected."

Romney, who did not serve in Vietnam due to his Mormon missionary work and a high draft lottery number, was asked the question by an anti-war activist after a speech in which he called for "a surge of support" for U.S. forces in Iraq.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, also saluted a uniformed soldier in the crowd and called for donations to military support organizations. Last week, he donated $25,000 to seven such organizations.

"The good news is that we have a volunteer Army and that's the way we're going to keep it," Romney told some 200 people gathered in an abbey near the Mississippi River that had been converted into a hotel. "My sons are all adults and they've made decisions about their careers and they've chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard."

He added: "One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."

Tell that to 3 week-old Jayten Wickham, whose father is getting shipped out to Iraq this week, you sociopathic dick.

AP/Hays Daily News, Jeff Giraldo

BTW, TBogg has been all over this "5 Romney Sons" story for a while now. Go check it out.

Comments

[ina]

Yes, this is the story for me today--there was a profile in my local paper of a fella who will ship out next month. Along side the article, they ran a piece about a woman who is 'walking a mile for a soldier'--walking from here to DC to show the troops she cares, but she doesn't want to be confused with a mother who is 'stomping her foot in washington.'

She has heard the rumors coming from Iraq: 'they think we don't support them.' And here's my point: that's right, dear, we never did. We don't take care of our own, so if you're unlucky, if you don't have a daddy to help elect president, you wind up in the military or in jail.

[Toucari, fka cosmic tumbler]

Romney sucks. End of story.

[pansypoo]

chickenhawk is an insult to chickens, hawks, and chickenhawks that are more human than mittens.

[MD]

Maybe the young tykes are needed at home.....Daddy is unemployed, you know...Besides Daddy didn't become a Right-Winger until he decided to run for the Republicant nomination. Maybe they are caught in a quandary over the mixed messages emanating from their Daddy. ... . Still that $55K bonus to enlist could keep the Romney family warm this winter. ... . Volunteer Army ??? . ... . My Ass.

[Tom]

"One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."
OR
Maybe they could just wear one of those flag lapel pins.

[Tommy Corn]

I think he makes a good point. So good that I think we should extend the offer to all troops deployed in Iraq now: come home and work on a political campaign, any political campaign, or stay the course in Iraq.

[donna]

Yeah, soldiers doing their third tour, but oh no, not Mitt's kids.

What a bunch of fucktards.

[sister of ye]

Mitten's dad George, a pretty decent governor, got ravaged by the Kewl Kids of the day for daring to speak the truth about political and military lies about the Vietnam War, and never became president.

Guess Mitten learned the lessons that you can be a piss-poor governor, a moron, an animal-abusing creep and a first-class hypocrite as long as the way you do it is politically approved by your delusional party and and the still-more heatherish Kewl Kids.

[wa ching]

Help us...
It's Utah

[leslie]

Frankly, I’d be happy if no one’s son or daughter enlisted until this war/occupation is over and the irresponsible and fraudulent administration is gone.
But if he can justify his sons’ not enlisting with that rationale, I can justify the need for them to be the first to be drafted.

[leslie]

oh, and he's yet another
.
..
...
....asshat

[leslie]

Jon Stewart just opened his show with this story.

He said he was moved ny this and wondered how they would manage
their PTSD after confetti in their eyes and paper cuts, etc.
He mused that if 4 of them suffered too much,
the 5th might be allowed to go back to campaign headquarters
to do phone banking.

[Emily]

Damn. That picture just breaks my heart.

[The Oracle]

Happy Anniversary!!!

NIXON RESIGNS

August 9, 1974

Thirty-three years ago today, the second most corrupt Republican president in American history resigned in disgrace, chased from office with criminal charges dogging his heels, edged out in Republican corruptness only by our current Republican president, George W. Bush.

Anyway, Cinemax is rerunning "All the President's Men." It is a potent reminder of how far many Republicans will go to gain and retain political power, including illegally using our national intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies for partisan political purposes.

Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer and all the mad-dog Blue Dog Democrats should be forced to watch "All the President's Men" to help them understand the criminal mind-set of certain Republicans.

I'm certain they will sit there and realize that they are watching a movie from the 1970s about Watergate that perfectly depicts the "culture of corruption" Republicans of today, using the same criminal tactics, with the only difference being that the names have changed.

And if the Democratic leadership won't willingly cooperate in viewing "All the President's Men," then they should be strapped into a chair like in "A Clockwork Orange," have their eyes forcably kept open, and be made to watch hour after hour after hour...until it finally dawns on them how gravely in danger our democracy and our liberties really are...

[wa ching]

Shit like this makes me Proud of my well-earned 4F.

[wa ching]

I raised two fraternal twin boys. How would that have gone if I was over "there" tryin' to kill Gooks?
I ain't got nothin' 'gainst nobody.
But I refuse to get sentimental. ('cept about passed on Jazz musicians...)

[Margie in Austin, Texas]

Smoth move there, Mitt. Talking about "wartime sacrifice" in a state that produced the Sullivan Brothers. All five of them DIED during World War II, you sanctimonious pencil dick.

STFU,Mitt. Just S T F U!

[leslie]

Margie~
You Go Girlfriend...

The day Nixon resigned I was supposed to take a road trip with my sister in law and my daughter (she was 2 at the time and doesn't remember this). I refused to leave the house until Nixon said on the teevee that he was resigning. It was after 8:00 whe I left, with people being absolutely fuming that we hadn't left earlier.

Even still, it was the happiest road trip I ever took. And when we arrived at my sister's house, I got to watch him board the hoppiter (as my daughter called it) for San Clemente. I had tears running down my face - tears of joy and relief that democracy and our nation had been saved.

Oh, that we could hear shrub say he's leaving....
Oh, that we could have a Congress that was willing to do the right thing.

[BlakNo1]

Thank you, Shannon O'Brien, for being such a "wonderful" dem candidate in 2002.

[/heavy snark]

[Melissa in San Antonio]

I really freaking hate the volunteer military comment. There are a TON of people in the military who would LOVE to get out, but can't because of stop/loss. Hell, some of them can't because there are no jobs.
Oh, and for the psycho mother walking to DC. Military wife here, actually was in Brooks Army Med Center for several days this spring(where many of the burn victims are treated), and NOT ONCE have I heard that clap trap about the troops think we don't support them. They want to come home. They are sick of being there. They want to come home and heal.

[queek]

How did blue Massachusetts ever elect this turd their governor?

Between Mitt and LieberWhore, New England's dug itself a pretty deep hole!

[Mike]

This page is crap. WaterTiger is an idiot.