Objection, lady lawyer! Someone who used his church to obtain a draft deferment to avoid military service in a war that his "brainwashed" old man was solidly, liberally, and vocally opposed to does not merit "integrity." I'll grant you that he is intelligent, but so is Bill Clinton
Not to mention the overt and thinly veiled Mormon haters that dominate much of discussion. After this election season, I’m no longer contributing to FR
Crybaby! (Waaah, if my candidate doesn't win I'm not going to play)...Bush, who I considered unworthy and still do, beat my favorite back in 2000. I'm still around and still contributing--and I've even been kicked out a couple of times for criticism of #43 and the idiots he appointed to office (Rumsfeld, for one).
Mormon missionaries were granted temporary deferments to serve missions. So what. There is nothing any more wrong with that than getting educational deferments.
Then, when they finished with their missions, they were draft-eligible again.
This is, in no way, a lack of integrity.
BTW, young men who go out to serve missions at the age of 19 have to be worthy. They can’t smoke or drink. They have to be morally clean. They devote all their time to preaching the gospel. They can’t socialize or do anything that most 19 years olds are doing. Every 19 year old young man who measures up and serves an honorable mission is, to my way of thinking, a minor miracle.
There’s no way you can turn Mitt’s missionary service into a negative.