Even though I'm a veteran, I advised my strapping young son (at the time) not to join the military. With the draft, my options were limited and I chose to join, but he had more going for him than the military could provide. If I read about Romney's sons shooting up a theatre or being busted for this, that or another I might say they would have benefitted from service. I take pride in my son's life and I'm sure Mitt does the same.
But YOU served. Presumably, so did your male ancestors. This family has categorically and systematically dodged service for generation after generation. This is very curious and strange. As I said, it was deeply and viscerally offensive to equate working for his campaign as equivalent to serving one’s country. That family thinks it’s OK to have the power and privilege of office while the peons get to be suckers serving in uniform.
Mitt evaded the military, and while his non-vet father was running for president during wartime, and none of his five sons would serve either, even though draft evading dad was running for president, during wartime.
The Romneys came here about 1842 to serve Joseph Smith, and no man in Romney’s direct line has ever served America in the military, no war, no draft, no wave of patriotism, no anything has ever gotten one of them to serve.
The Romneys don’t do military service.
That's not what Romney is about. Starstruck, for me to bring to mind even one average American family I've known in my 50-plus years so far, who didn't have some military service somewhere pretty immediate -- a grandfather, a brother, an uncle -- who had served in the Army, the Navy, the Marines somewhere -- to find an American family who's been American for many generations, with ZERO military service ...??????? The only place I'd find that is in a very first-immigration-status family from another country. Romney's conspicuous lack of military service in his family should be noted and used as insight.
Romney is bad news, has always been bad news, and will always be bad news. I'm pretty much of the mind that as long as he is considered "Republican," the Republican party isn't worth the sweat off of Holyfield's chin.
With every day that passes lately, it seems more and more clear to me that the GOP is so screwed up that it just might be a tragedy if it is the party to nominate Cruz. Cruz deserves better, America deserves better, than a Stupid Party that plays charades with fully functional leftists like Romney posing as "Republicans," and offers a primary field nearly THREE TIMES larger and scattered and schizophrenic, than the opposition Democrat party at the same state of their equally important primaries.
The reason the Republicans have something like 15 declared candidates and another ten in the "exploratory" stage, versus a simple, easy, seven declared Democrats with only three more serious exploratory types -- that's ten max for the Democrats to weed through in their primaries, versus the probably neighborhood of TWENTY FIVE in the Stupid Party --
The Republican party doesn't know it's patoot from a hole in the ground. It is not only having an identity crisis, it has zero identity. That's why it has 25 contestants in the Dog and Pony Circus, versus a sane 10 in the Democrat primary.
The Republican party doesn't deserve Cruz. If it's smart enough to nominate him, I'll be pleasantly surprised.