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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor all you people calling Romney a chickenhawk, QUIT IT! It will backfire.
He has retroactively enlisted in the Marines and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam.
When elected President, he will retroactively issue himself a Medal of Honor.
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)nuxvomica
(12,429 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)so he claims in his book.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)or he might break skin... oh wait, at that range... never mind...
tjwash
(8,219 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)spit on him when he retroactively returned.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)retroactive purple hearts.
mikekohr
(2,312 posts)nt
Bosso 63
(992 posts)used 'childhood' as an excuse."
Paid for by Zombies for Romney 2012
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)organize the solipsist shock troops in France, and never came back.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Looking for Godot....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And that was after he retroactively went after Cacciato.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Romneybot must be programed in Fortran.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)"I love the smell of foie gras in the morning."
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)This is getting a little creepy...
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)I'm RETROACTIVE!
VOX
(22,976 posts)He can be anywhere, anytime, before or after any event. He's involved in pursuits that haven't happened yet, and yet they've already occurred.
Mittens is a quantum-physics miracle.
kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)Please, someone submit it. I don't remember how!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)copy and paste the actual post in a PM to duzy awards, with the link to the post as well
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)... the new Chuck Norris.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)of firemen, policemen and whatever the fuck else is because he actually is those things in alternate realities, which he can step in and out of at will.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...retroactively.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)"Mitt who?"
Response to Jackpine Radical (Original post)
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riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)My bubba brother who was a Marine but never went to Viet nam and just was a clerk in DC for his two years would hate me so much for saying that....but we don't talk anymore.
3feetofsnow
(56 posts)Rmoney will be given his Medal of Honor for being a retroactive greedy pain in the ass going back to his days as playing a fake cop out in society.
evilhime
(326 posts)Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)Honesty, I love your post, OP.
What's the difference between Mitt Romney and a sack of shit? The sack of shit is good for fertilizer, while Mitt Romney is good for nothing.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)The sack.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)your punchline is better!
struggle4progress
(118,294 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)BTW, I'm going to retroactively change everything I ever did and live like royalty!
Yup, soon as I find wherever I left that handy time portal.
And if you move quick, you can leap in right behind me and be a billionaire, too.
Maybe, unless I decide I'm too good to have you in my alternate reality...
tclambert
(11,087 posts)And a brain surgeon! And a double-naught spy!
But not a policeman, fireman, or teacher. He thinks we have too many of those free-loaders.
valerief
(53,235 posts)4bucksagallon
(975 posts)Now that the SCOTUS has said it is okay to lie about ones military service and medals or commendations I guess your right he now can claim that he, Mitt served with honor and so can the rest of these guys. Yeah this is old and I would love to see it updated to reflect the current crop, but as a Nam vet I can NEVER let these guys forget that I know, what they are and what they did.
Prominent Republicans
Representative Patrick McHenry, R-NC - did not serve. Saw fit to endanger American troops' lives after a visit to Iraq by violating operational security and helping militias target their mortar attacks on the Green Zone.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve (1)
Senate Assistant Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-MI - avoided the draft, did not serve.
Senate Republican Conference Chairman Jon Kyl, R-AZ - did not serve.
Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair John Cornyn, R-TX - did not serve.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Ensign, R-NV - did not serve.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-OH - did not serve.
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-MO - did not serve.
House Republican Conerence Chair Adam Putnam, R-FL - did not serve.
House Republican Policy Committee Thaddeus McCotter, R-MI - did not serve.
National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-OK - did not serve.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani - did not serve.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney - did not serve in the military but did serve the Mormon Church on a 30-month mission to France.
Former Senator Fred Thompson - did not serve.
Senator John McCain - McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Why did the Bush campaign smear him so in 2000? At least Senators Cleland (D-GA), Kerry (D-MA), Kerrey (D-NE), Robb (D-VA) and Hagel (R-NE) defended him.
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Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did not serve.
Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve (1). "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
Former House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve. (An impressive medical resume, but not such a friend to cats in Boston.)
Rick Santorum, R-PA, formerly third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve. (1)
George Felix Allen, former Republican Senator from Virginia - a supporter of Nixon and the Vietnam war, did not serve. (1)
Former Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld - served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor. (1) Served as President Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East and met with Saddam Hussein twice in 1983 and 1984.
GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years. Still says that he's "been to war." Huh?
VP Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service" (1)
Former Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve (1, 2); received seven deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State
Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve. (1)
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Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve (1), too busy being a Republican.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve (1, 2)
Former President Ronald Reagan - due to poor eyesight, served in a noncombat role making movies for the Army in southern California during WWII. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor playing a tail gunner with the real thing.
"B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting classes (Orange County Weekly article). Enlisted only after the fighting was over in Korea.
Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments
Congressman Ron Paul - active duty flight surgeon from 1963-65; Air National Guard from 1965-68. (link)
Former Senator Bob Dole - an honorable man. http://www.bobdole.org/bio/wwII.php
Chuck Hagel - two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam. http://www.senate.gov/~hagel/Information/bio.htm
Duke Cunningham - nominated for the Medal of Honor, received the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, fifteen Air Medals, the Purple Heart, and several other decorations Recently entered plea bargain on felony charges of bribery, etc. etc.
Senator Jeff Sessions U.S. Army Reserves, 1973-1986
Colin Powell. What are we to make of Powell? On the one hand, a long career as a military manager. On the other hand, accused of covering up the My Lai massacre. Back on that first hand, one of the seemingly sane voices in this administration when it comes to Iraq (or at least he used to be). On the other hand, a clear hypocrite ("I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units..."
Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), served in USMC in Vietnam; wounded in action.
Republicans/Conservatives
Political
Senator Richard Shelby, did not serve (1)
Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ - did not serve (1, 2)
Senator John Cornyn, R-TX - did not serve. (1)
Senator Tim Hutchison, R-AR - did not serve (1, 2)
Rep. Christopher Cox, R-CA, (formerly) fifth-ranking Republican in the House - did not serve. (1)
Rep. John T. Doolittle, R-CA, sixth-ranking Republican in the House - did not serve.
Rep. Mark Kirk, R-IL -- his website claimed he served in Operation Iraqi Freedom; in reality, he had to correct the record.
Representative Saxby Chambliss, Georgia - did not serve (1, 2), had a "bad knee" (yet somehow feels he has a right to attack Max Cleland's patriotism)
Rep. Randy Kuhl, R-NY - Did not serve. (1)
Former Representative JC Watts - did not serve (1, 2)
Jack Kemp, did not serve (1, 2) (was unfit because of a knee injury, though he heroically continued as a National Football League quarterback for another eight years - source)
Former Vice President Dan Quayle, avoided Vietnam service, got a slot in the journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard when the unit was at 150% capacity (at least he showed up for his duty, unlike GW) (1, 2)
Eliot Abrams, did not serve (1, 2) (however, played a key role in subverting democracy in South America)
Paul Wolfowitz, did not serve (1, 2)
Former Representative Vin Weber, did not serve (1, 2)
Richard Perle, did not serve (1, 2) (is the current bloodshed in the Middle East a direct result of his treasonous meddling in Clinton Administrstion foreign policy?)
Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy - did not serve. (1)
Michael Bloomberg, did not serve (1, 2)
George Pataki, did not serve (1, 2)
Spencer Abraham, did not serve
John Engler, did not serve (1, 2)
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - website used to claim service as a "Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm veteran." A current biographical website makes no such claim. In reality, was a National Guard lawyer who never left South Carolina during the Gulf War.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, did not serve (1)
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA/49th, there were some problems with his service.
Rep. John M. McHugh, R-NY - avoided the draft, did not serve (1)
Rep. Todd Platts, R-PA - did not serve (1)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, CA Republican Governor - went AWOL from his Austrian army base to enter a bodybuilding competition
Senator Joe Lieberman - did not serve.
George Herbert Walker Bush, pilot in WWII. Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross. Shot down by the Japanese; was lone survivor out of airplane (link).
Representative Sam R. Johnson, combat missions in both Korea and Vietnam, POW in Hanoi from April 1966 to February 1973 (1)
(don't ever run for president Sam, they'll spread rumors that you're crazy)
Senator Ted Stevens, R-AK, WW II pilot, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Air Medals, and the Yuan Hai medal awarded by the Republic of China.
Sen. John Warner, R-VA - Served in the Navy 1945-1946 as a RM3; reenlisted in the USMC 1950, 10 years service in Marine Corps Reserve, retired as Captain.
Congresswoman Heather Wilson, R-NM, served in the Air Force 1978-1989
Former President Gerald Ford, served in the Navy, WWII
Former Senator Strom Thurmond - apparently believes, along with Trent Lott, that America should have been a segregated society. Still, he served.
Punditocracy and Preacher-types (See also Media Whores Online)
George Will, did not serve
Chris Matthews, Mediawhore, did not serve. (However, apparently served in the Peace Corps.)
Bill O'Reilly, did not serve
Paul Gigot, did not serve.
Bill Bennett, Did not serve
Pat Buchanan, did not serve
Rush Limbaugh, did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst' [see "The Rush Limbaugh Story" by Paul D. Colford, St. Martin's Press, 1993, Chapter 2: Beating the Draft.])
Michael Savage (aka Michael Alan Weiner) - did not serve, too busy chasing herbs and botany degrees in Hawaii and Fiji
John Wayne, did not serve
Pat Robertson - claimed during 1986 campaign to be a "combat veteran." In reality, was a "Liquor Officer."
Bill Kristol, did not serve
Sean Hannity, did not serve.
Kenneth Starr, did not serve
Antonin Scalia, did not serve
Clarence Thomas, did not serve
Ralph Reed, did not serve
Michael Medved, did not serve
Charlie Daniels, did not serve
Ted Nugent, did not serve
Country Singer Toby Keith, did not serve. (1)
Radio Host Phil Hendrie, did not serve.
Ollie North - Convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal, at least he served.
Charlton Heston - served in WWII, but went AWOL when Michael Moore asked him some tough questions.
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association - did not serve (apparently pulled lottery #97 in 1969 as a campus radical at SUNY-Albany, but weaseled out by getting a family doctor to claim he had a nervous disorder).
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
EC
(12,287 posts)like the baptizing retroactively of all those "new" Mormon converts.
Kennah
(14,273 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)how did Romney get a bunch of Democratic Operatives to be his advisers. After the Etch A Sketch thing and now Ed Gilespie saying that Romney retired retroactively, I refuse to believe that their are not Democratic Operatives in his campaign working as hard as they can to sink him. Any way I hope he keeps them and gives them raises, they are working very hard to make him likable.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)As payback for all those post-mortem baptisms "converting" Jews to Mormons.