NOW WHY DO MORMONS THINK THEY'RE TOO GOOD FOR THE MILITARY? WE'LL HAVE TO ASK THE ROMNEY FAMILY

Army? Navy? Air Force? Marines? Nope-- all fortunate sons

You probably remember a few days ago when Republican billionaire presidential wanna be, Flip Flop Mitt Romney explained away the fact that none of his right-wing, pro-war sons has ever joined any of the military services. Turns out, it's kind of a family tradition. Just like Flip Flop Mitt, Matt and Togg and Twigg and Winky, Blinky, Stinky, Merrill and Lynch all used their service trying to seduce normal people into Mormonism as their excuse for not joining the U.S. military.

"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."

Rich white people, particularly of the Republican variety, regardless of how pro-war they are, tend to not serve in the military. And where did the Romney boys learn that? Well, according to today's Boston Globe the role model was good old dad, who avoided compulsory military service through the machinations of the Mormons. "As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon 'minister of religion' for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years."

The deferments for Mormon missionaries became increasingly controversial in the late 1960s, especially in Utah, leading the Mormon Church and the government to limit the number of church missionaries who could put off their military service. That agreement called for each church ward, or church district, to designate one male every six months to be exempted from potential duty for the duration of his missionary work.

Romney's home state was Michigan, making his 4-D exemption as a missionary all but automatic because of the relatively small number of Mormon missionaries from that state.

...By serving as a missionary and being given the deferment, Romney ensured that he would not be drafted from July 1966 until February 1969. Romney's draft record from the time describes him as "minister of religion or divinity student."

And Romney learned what Mormon divinity is all about-- bamboozling poor souls out of their hard earned cash, through accounting tricks and corporate predatory practices, which is how he became a billionaire and how he is attempting to buy the White House... along with the Mormon cult, which is funneling huge amounts of money into his campaign.

Like Tom DeLay, who claims he was discriminated against by Hispanics and African Americans when they grabbed up all the spots in Vietnam, forcing him to stay home and waste his days in a hot tub and then learning the bug extermination trade, Romney claims he yearned to be in 'Nam. "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam." He then flip flopped when his father, also a kooky Mormon Republican, claimed the U.S. government had "brain-washed" him on Vietnam. "When my dad said that he had been wrong about Vietnam and that it was a mistake and they had been brainwashed and so forth, I certainly trusted him and believed him." Yes, you did. And it looks like Winky and Blinky and Merrill and Lynch and the rest of them all believed you too: send other people's sons and daughters to die in the nightmare you and your venal political party created in Iraq.





UPDATE: WHAT ELSE DID ROMNEY TEACH THOSE POOR DEFECTIVE, UNPATRIOTIC SONS?

Cruelty to animals?