Mitt Romney should quit the act. He is the most effete candidate ever. As phony as a person as he is, he comes across even more ridiculous every time he tries to claim he is tough.
The biggest joke in the Republican 'debate' on foreign policy is that tough-guy Mitt Romney will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. The mullahs must be cowering.
A short litany of Romney's phony toughness:
Challenged about his "lifetime membership" in the NRA, Romney claimed that he occasionally hunted varmints (to hunt anything else, he would need a license -- he never had one!).
Romney escaped the Vietnam War draft because daddy -- the Governor of Michigan -- arranged for him to be exempted as a religious missionary for the Mormon Church. Did he serve in some third world country, bringing god to the poor? Hell no, Willard spent two years dining on escargots and soufflés as a missionary in France
While in France, Mitt claimed a longing to be with his brothers fighting in Vietnam. Oddly, when his French mission was completed and he returned to the US, that longing seemed to have vanished. Well, perhaps not so oddly.
Romney claimed that he was waiting, hoping (dare one say, praying?), to be called, but somehow, dagnabbit, he never received that letter from Uncle Sam. One can only imagine his daily disappointment awaiting that letter that never popped through the mansion's mail slit.
For six years, it just never occurred to macho-Mitt to follow John Kerry's lead and volunteer.
Fast-forward to post-9/11, the Afghanistan War, and then the Bush/Cheney Iraq War. Like father like sons, not a single one of Mitt's 5 sons followed Pat Tillman's example to relinquish their lucrative careers and fight for their country. And, this at the time that their daddy was proclaiming himself even more supportive of Bush/Cheney policies than Bush and Cheney themselves -- close Guantanomo? Willard suggested we double its size. Tough guy, isn't he?
But, even more instructive about Mitt himself, was his knee-jerk response to an Iowa voter who asked him why none of his sons had volunteered. "Thank god we have an all-volunteer army" was Romney's immediate answer that got less press coverage than his next comment that their tooling around Iowa in a Winnebago to support his presidential run was "more patriotic" than volunteering for wars that their daddy claimed to support... i.e., so long as other peoples' children were fighting it.
There may be good reasons to have an all-volunteer army -- to Romney its main benefit is that he could champion wars without any member of his family risking their life or limbs. Romney's position is a very good reason to have a draft -- at least for military age children of high government officials. Let them determine what a great idea a war is if their own children will be fighting it.
And just how is Romney going to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb? Step up sanctions? President Obama has been more successful in getting Russia and China to support sanctions than the neocons with whom Romney is desperately trying to identify himself ever were. And, Obama is psychologically secure enough to have been incredibly tough when required (e.g., getting bin Laden, development of stuxnet virus) without pounding his chest, a much more effective way to attract allies and support.
The biggest risk of Romney as president is that, like George W Bush, he would try to prove "his" toughness by launching a war.
That is no joke.
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| Obama | Romney | |
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| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
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| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
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| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
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| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
That is no joke."
And even there, tell him there are votes in changing his mind, he's right on it.
Mitt Romney isn't "less" of a man because he decided to study extremely hard and work extremely hard for himself and his posterity. Even though you probably haven't worked half as hard as him, I feel like you should still understand that rationale.
This is about somebody who talks tough, and couldn't make it clearer that he isn't.
Romney claims he is not a politician, and he is an outsider. He has been desperately chasing elected office for the last 17 years. Other than the 4 years from 2003 till 2007 when he was Governor, he has failed in his mission. While I agree that Romney will be the Republican candidate in 2012, He has no chance of getting elected President. But hey, you keep telling yourself he can. Its nice to day dream, even if the dream is an impossible one.
The key point is not that Romney kept himself out of Vietnam, or that none of his sons volunteered for Afghanistan/Iraq, but that in light of all of that, that Romney pretends he is really tough.
The truth of the matter is this: Iran may eventually produce 1-6 nuclear bombs—but it remains a fact that Israel has over 250 nuclear bombs that it can deliver with precision at any time.
Any nation that attacks Israel with a nuclear weapon would quickly become a molten, smoking desert wilderness.
And Willard Romney's chest-beating is not going to change Iran's direction at all—I'm sure Iran sees it as typical neo-con bravado.
It is somewhat scary though that in the foreign policy debate the Republicans seemed all revved up at the idea of yet another Mideast war.
Of course, like Willard's family, none of their sons & daughters will be enlisting to fight in Iran, will they?
If they can manage to con themselves into accepting a man who possesses no evident principles.
He's also starting to SOUND as looney tunes as the rest of the line up. It's hard to imagine who this guy would appeal to anymore.
But the longer he is on display the less substance he seems to have.
The pool of "independent voters" is hardly monolithic in either their principles or their priorities - and the closer you look at Romney the more there is to find fault/flaw with even (or perhaps) especially business acumen and practices.
In his efforts to snag the nomination by appealing to the basest (and most debased) of the GOP/TP he is piling up a landfill of litter and even toxic waste he will have to dig out of and sanitize. He's already in deeper than he thinks.
"my sons are serving their country by helping me get elected President".
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