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Posted on June 18, 2007, Printed on June 19, 2007
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This post, written by Howie Klein, originally appeared on Down With Tyranny!
Although Romney has flip flopped on everything else that has come up, one issue he does seem firm on is support for the occupation of Iraq and for Bush's disastrous escalation policies. When I woke up this morning, CNN seemed to be in the midst of a "Mitt Romney Day" series of mini-interviews with the slippery Mormon. Some are even calling the perpetual 4th placer "the frontrunner," because he has so much money to spend in Iowa and New Hampshire. The Mormons, a wealthy and secretive cult, will spend any amount to get one of their own in control of the White House.
This morning when CNN asked him why none of those strapping, toothy Romney brothers who he's tried to make the face of his Iowa campaign have served in the Iraq occupation he loves so much, he had a rather bizarre response: "Each of my five sons gave two years of their life to the service of their church, and I consider that service to be laudable. But I very highly value those who serve in the military. But it is a volunteer military and I hope that we keep it that way." Each of his five sons, aside from being a cult member trying to proselytize among the Maoris, Bantus, Tutsis and the French, is also a multimillionaire-- thanks to daddy's vulture-capital "investment" buy-out business-- so they don't have to "volunteer" to protect the nation-- or whatever Romney, Cheney and Bush claim our soldiers are doing in Iraq. Instead they can grow the very profitable Mormon business model which can then re-invest in candidates like... Mitt Romney.
I should stop putting Romany down and pray the Rupugs nominate him. Hillary would beat him by 20 points, despite Craig and Josh and Matt and Ben and Tagg and Togg and Twerp.
UPDATE FROM MY FRIEND JOHNNY
Not to mention Winkin, Blinkin', Nodd, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Merrill, Lynch, Smith and Barney
HMM . . . DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL?
by Ken
Let's see, five strapping lads (okay, there's the one kind of funny-loooking one), no doubt all patriots, and yet none of them finding his way clear to serve in the military. What could that be?
What? All five of them? Are there any nekkid beefcake photos, like of their pops?
Howie Klein was president of his freshman class, drove to Afghanistan and Nepal, became the president of Reprise Records and started a blog called Down With Tyranny!. He's always hated tyrants.
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