Gay Vietnam Vet Confronts Fortunate Son Romney

Probably the most real, genuine episode of Mitt Romney and his barbarism ever captured on video.

If my information is correct the video is from December of 2011.  While campaigning in New Hampshire, Mittens decides to sit down at the breakfast table with a Vietnam Veteran and chew the fat.  Complete awesomeness ensues.



Calling this a disaster for Mittens is an understatement.  He looked uncomfortable from the beginning.  You have an obvious blue collar Vietnam Vet sitting next to a billionaire draft dodger.  Romney quickly calculates the two are about the same age and begins to reflect just exactly what he was doing in 1966 while the Vet was in the jungles of Vietnam serving his country.  Romney's answer?  Graduated high school in 1965, off to college for a year and "then I went off to serve my church for a couple years."  Seriously??

Romney didn't just go serve his church for a couple years.  He fled to France to avoid fighting in Vietnam.  He lived in a palace in Paris.  He had his own butler and chef. Only because Romney was a Fortunate Son did he get to avoid Vietnam.  He was drafted 4 different times by his government and he chickened out of every single one. 

Could you imagine what the GOP would be saying if Obama had fled to France to avoid Vietnam?  That he even thought about sitting down at a table with a veteran of the war he ran from would have sent the crusty old white men into conniptions.  Yet Romney is now the standard bearer of the Party that supports War Without End, the Party that thought 100 years in Iraq was fine.  Mittens himself even called the ending of the war in Iraq "tragic."

Essentially what we have in this video is a very wealthy man who fled to France to avoid fighting for his country-- only because he was the son of a millionaire mind you-- telling a Middle Class man who gave up everything to go fight for his country when he was called to do so that he does not have equal rights.  And maybe most appalling, Mittens uses the Constitution to support his intolerance.  The Superiority of Mitt Romney and his Republican Party is appalling. 

That the guy is gay isn't even the best part of this video.  It simply makes it perfect.