Romney & Gingrich: The Draft Dodgers That Want to Send Your Kids to War

When it came time for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to serve in the armed forces during the Vietnam War in the 1960s, both Presidential candidate weaseled out of their duty to “serve their country”. Now they espouse hawkish rhetoric, vehemently back the occupation of Afghanistan, think it was a mistake to pull combat troops out of Iraq (a result of a Bush-era agreement with Iraq),and more recently have touted the need to invade Iran. Just as it’s easy to spend money that isn’t yours, it’s just as easy to send kids to war that aren’t your own. That’s the crux of what Mitt Romney and Gingrich have advocated and what they intend to do if either of them are elected to the highest office in the nation. Living in a palace in France during a mission for the Mormon church, Mitt Romney didn’t get to witness the horrors of the Vietnam War, where over fifty-thousand Americans died. Romney received a deferment in order to further spread his religion in France for two and a half years. While American troops were fighting the Viet Cong in jungles deep inside of Vietnam, Mitt Romney was quoting verses of the Book of Mormon and improving his French. The Parisian mansion Mitt Romney was living in also had a chef and a houseboy. According to the Deseret News, in 1966, before Romney headed off to France under a church obtained draft deferral, he was a part of a counter-protest at Stanford University against a group that was staging a sit-in in opposition to draft status tests. It seems like Romney’s flipflopping career began even before his political career did. Gingrich, on the other hand, received one of his many deferments on the basis of starting a new family with his wife and kids. These are the same kids and cancer stricken wife, who he left just a few years later. While he wholeheartedly believed in sending young Americans to their graves in Vietnam, he cowered away from military service stating in 1985 to the Wall Street Journal, “Part of the question I had to ask myself was what difference I would have made.” Newt believed that one individual, particularly himself, going to Vietnam wouldn’t have made a difference. Robert Scheer over at the LA Times put it eloquently, The media have basically accepted him on his own terms as a righteous champion of family values determined to do battle with the “counterculture” and big government in Washington. Yet here is a professional politician who walked out on his own family with two young children at a time when his wife had cancer. Those kids were the basis of this super-patriot’s draft deferment during the Vietnam War. Now, there’s something to be said about military service: It isn’t for everyone and there are many, many legitimate reasons for not joining the Army. The issue with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich is one of hypocrisy; the notion that they did everything they could to escape the draft into a war while at the same time verbally backing that war and now backing more interventionist wars abroad.They don’t seem to have a problem with bloodshed so long as it isn’t their own blood. This isn’t only true of Romney and Gingrich; it’s true of most neoconservative warhawks like Bill Kristol and Richard Perle whose jingoist rhetoric has resulted in thousands of dead American soldiers and thousands of families missing a son, daughter, father, or mother. The one other frontrunner in the Republican race for President definitely deserves a mention. That’s Ron Paul–the doctor that served in the US Air Force as a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War, who also has the most support from active duty troops. Isn’t it striking how the only Republican frontrunner who actually served in the US military is the one diametrically opposed to the neoconservative agenda of spreading our troops around the globe and endangering us at home?!!!!!

Ho, Ho That’s Rich

Such your phrase on bygone days in the world of comedy was sort of a highly patronizing acknowledgement of someone’s attempt at humor. Obviously that’s rich with humor was the implication. But what’s even richer with humor is when candidate Mitt Romney; sorry, forgot to use his RealFauxNews name of Flitt Romney; maintains that he’s not sure if he’s rich. He’s also yet to release his tax returns. He says if it’s customary he would do it, now he’s talking about April? Why not now before the SC primaries? Because it’s going to show that a man worth almost a quarter of a billion dollars might actually be rich. But the humor, he doesn’t know that that description applies to him…well, that’s taxing.!!!!!

TAXING COMMON SENSE

Mitt Romney’s tax plans would have cuts for every income group, but not all of every income group. If you make: --Less than $10,000 the cut would be .3% and percentage of people who get a cut would be 13 --$10,000-$20,0000 of those who get a cut (and it would be less that 1%) the cut would be 44.2%, --$20,000-$30,000 would get a cut of 2.3% going on up to, --If you make $200,000-$500,000 99.9% of you will get a cut of an average 6.9%, and if you make --More than $1,000,000 well 100% will get a cut and it will average 14.5%, --And the average person making more than a million will get a tax change of $290,000 to the good…or to the bad if you believe America is an upwardly mobile society. And that tax is common sense? !!!!!

CURB YOUR EXUBERANCE

Word to the following political personas: Pres. Obama Mr. Romney Mr. Gingrich Curb your exuberance. For Mr. Obama, when you were sure or hoped that the unemployment rate would drop much faster than it did, rather than being a little more measured conserving your expectation about it going to the 8% and 7%, which it may well do, but your comment was ahead of schedule, and that embarrassed you. Mr. Romney who was convinced he was about to sweep all 3 primaries only to find out Iowa got switched around and in SC he got turned upside down, it was obvious that he had too much exuberance. When early polls showed Newt Gingrich had Iowa he was giving “Ayes to the Newt” and said it was obvious he would be the nominee. He got waxed in Iowa, beaten soundly in NH, and suddenly aided by Mr. Romney’s inept debate performance and explanation of his personal finances, there again were Ayes for the Newt. But everyone should remember to keep expectations calm. Curb your exuberance. Don’t spike the ball on the 10 yard line, or in the case of some of these guys, the 20 or the 30; score first. !!!!!

Where There’s A Will There’s A Sway

Thank you George Will for summarizing the “winning” record of Mitt Romney going back to his 1994 Senatorial primary. He has been in 25 races and he’s only lost 19 of them. That would be a pretty good six-pack if it had been like six or seven or eight races. Yes that’s right Mitt, or as we like to call him in RealFauxNews, Flitt Romney is 6 wins 19 losses in 25 contests. Electability? You bet. He’s like the guy that you listen to his picks in sports ‘cause you know you make money by betting against him.!!!!!

Bit by Bit We’ll Know Mitt By Mitt

This will be a new feature from RealFauxNews in which we will do no negative advertising on Mitt Romney. We will simply quote Mitt Romney on Mitt Romney. Today’s thing is he doesn’t know if he’s rich and he made $45,000,000 last year. Bit by bit we’ll define Mitt by Mitt.!!!!!

FAUXLOSOPHY

prejudice has no greater enabler than short memories.

JOE PA, WE HARDLY KNEW YE

Irish philosopher Edmund Burke famously and correctly said “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”. Whether former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, an educated man in his own right was familiar with the writings of Mr. Burke, I cannot say. But such knowledge would have served him well. Failing that, he hopefully read “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, again with the same sad lesson. One you are aware of a crime you can’t become unaware. And I truly hope that other coaches, administrators and leaders who are facing a similar situation and test that Coach Paterno has failed, take heed.

A Nugget of Knowledge from Paul Krugman

Newt Gingrich was being described by Peggy Noonan in somewhat glowing terms for his supposed intellect and Paul Krugman said that Newt Gingrich is a stupid man’s idea of what a smart man sounds like. Say it, think it, and try not to laugh. That’s some nuggets – from the Krug.

Flight of Flitt

Flitt (you know him as Mitt) Romney has curiously decided not to show at events in Iowa preceding the Iowa primary. The Iowa governor says he thinks that’s an incredible mistake. It’s certainly a puzzling one. But no more puzzling than his attempt to make himself the “butt” of a joke when he falsely claimed, again as a joke, that a waitress pinched his rear-end in a New Hampshire restaurant. Well, talk about flying the campaign by the seat of your pants…

Your Vote Do Mean A Thing When It Does Got That Swing.

Right now according to almost every survey voters are fed-up with these “flat tax, enrich the rich” ideas. 70% in this country feel that Congressional Republican policies favor the wealthy. And 2/3rds say there should be an increase in taxes on millionaires. This could be as odious as 3%. Here’s the rub: their sentiments are admirable, their logic is correct, but they need to keep this intensity going just long enough to the first Tues in November of 2012 and actually go out and vote. If America votes like America thinks, especially in the key states, their vote will mean a thing - cause it will have that swing.

Luxury Foods - We’re Not Talking Peanuts

One of the staples of American diets, peanut, as in peanut butter, as in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, is going up 40% in price. We’re told the average child will have 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before graduating high school. We see these facts to be correct. What have you changed in the product to raise the price from $450 a ton and up to almost $1,200? That’s getting kind of crunchy - in the budget anyway. And maybe down the road peanut will be considered more of a luxury treat. But for now, price-wise, it’s not just peanuts.

Executive Traction

President Obama this week is issuing an executive order which he and his admin believe will stop the growing number of shortages of vital medicines. Many are used to treat life threatening illnesses including cancer and bacterial infections. He’s both offering help and rather “direct incentive” to drug manufacturers and wholesalers. It’s the first time since 1985 that a President has “become involved in FDA (Food & Drug Administration) issues,” but the fact is, people need these medications and we need executive action. Drugs for the following disease have been declared in short supply: Child Leukemia, breast and colon cancer, and a number of other infections. And some of these prices have risen between 15 to 100 times. For people who don’t want government to interfere, I think we want government to interfere when it’s our medicine. And that’s good medicine for us all to remember that we at times have to take.

A Republican In Favor Of Health Care – Mrs. Gingrich

To Mrs. Gingrich (the third lady who would be our First Lady), an important note: When Mrs. Gingrich (the first) got cancer, the eye of the Newt then began to wander and he cheated. When Mrs. Gingrich II got cancer the eye of the Newt wandered again and he spent 6 years with you auditioning for your current position as Mrs. Gingrich III. You must be in favor of health care and pro-active exams. Stay healthy. And if you should get the “C” word, don’t let him know.

Acting Like Half-Wits To Patrick Witt

The Rhodes scholarship committee in all its “wisdom” has decided the one day of the calendar year 2011 they can interview the Yale starting quarterback is the day of “The Game” (Harvard vs. Yale). Are you kidding us? The kid can’t change the day of the football game. He can’t change the fact that he’s the starting QB. And you’re saying he’s got to choose between taking a shot at a Rhodes Scholarship and playing his final game for Yale against Harvard? Mr. Patrick Witt transferred from Nebraska and has a 3.9 average in history and has a legitimate Rhodes Scholarship candidate. We wish the Rhodes Scholarship people had kept their wits about them regarding Patrick Witt.