Where the hell have I been? "Survivors recall tragic car crash in France with Romney at the wheel"

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part1_side/

BERNOS-BEAULAC, France --The mission car was packed that day.

The president of the Mormon mission to France, H. Duane Anderson, was eager to get out to visit congregations after a difficult May in which travel in France had been severely limited because a general strike had caused a gasoline shortage.

A dispute had developed in the small Mormon congregation in Pau, in southern France, and Anderson thought he should pay a call. So he took his wife and two missionaries along, and on the way they picked up a French Mormon couple in Bordeaux.

There were six people in a car that would comfortably seat five, but otherwise it was an ordinary drive that happened to turn tragic.

On the way back from Pau, the car was hit head-on and Anderson's wife, Leola, was killed.

Anderson's driver, a 21-year-old missionary named Mitt Romney, is now a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, with the June 16, 1968, accident one of his rare dark moments.

[Zoeisright]

1. This needs to be more widely publicized, along with Romney's dog abuse.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html

[cthulu2016]

2. There's no indication in the article there that he did anything wrong.

I'm not sure why this is of any particular meaning (?)

[w8liftinglady]

5. Actually, it enlightens me on why he supported universal health care.

[Politicalboi]

4. At least he wasn't drunk like

Pickles was. But the story says it wasn't his fault.

[rfranklin]

6. If they had left her home, she might be alive today...

There were six people in a car that would comfortably seat five

[kentuck]

7. It's only an analogy...

of what he will do to the country when we put him in the driver's seat...

[qb]

8. Maybe it's payback for the Republicans' frequent Chappaquiddick references.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Is this the same Romney who supported the war in Vietnam yet sat it out.....

when he received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion"?

By definition, I say he was a Chickenhawk

Edited to add a DU link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128336

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. hadn't heard this story before