romney urged his government to draft unwilling participants into the war, to draft college classmates of his into the war, to send them to their deaths as long as romney didn t have to go to war himself. romney went to france instead. as a mormon missionary, which he used to preserve his deferment from the draft. while he was trying and mostly failing to convert parisians to mormonism, tens of thousands of boys his age were being killed in vietnam. martin luther king was assassinated in 1968 when romney was in france. perhaps mitt romney can tell us what the civil rights issue was in paris in 1968. but in mitt romney s country, in the then not so united, united states of america, the civil
image as a straight arrow mormon missionary good guy by having maybe done something straight out of lords of discipline or separate peace. i was thinking about separate peace. those years to humanize and warm up the image of her husband, talking about his wild and crazy behaviors. they try to frame it as pranks. that s the interesting thing. the campaign had been affirmatively using the high jinks pranks line to humanize the candidate without the washington post able to find it doing some due diligence to figure out what those pranks we all look at were. i would fault the campaign for not having taken this seriously enough before the story came out. what we saw at least reported in the story was the campaign saying, well this seems
time to time in france. the last vacation we had there, walking around the city of paris and walking not to the garden of luxembourg and around the city, one of the most magnificent cities in the world. and i look forward to occasional vacations again in such a beautiful place. so, krystal, there s his opportunity to remember france, where he was a mormon missionary, not living in any kind of fancy way. you know, very you know, a very, very humble lifestyle. and instead he remembers his rich guy tourist experience in france. it s so classic romney. you can t even believe what comes out of this the guy s mouth sometimes. i remember watching a town hall that mike huckabee did, where a ron paul supporter came up and same, governor romney, if you re the nominee, convince me. i m not sure i m going to vote for you over president obama, convince me. and remember, this was a ron paul supporter.
which is also something that was used against john kerry. let s listen to this exchange with a reporter that mitt romney had. i have a lot of memories of france. i think the best memories were with my wife on vacations from time to time in france. the last vacation we had there, walking around the city of paris and walking not to the garden of luxembourg and around the city, one of the most magnificent cities in the world. and i look forward to occasional vacations again in such a beautiful place. so, krystal, there s his opportunity to remember france, where he was a mormon missionary, not living in any kind of fancy way. you know, very you know, a very, very humble lifestyle. and instead he remembers his rich guy tourist experience in france. it s so classic romney. you can t even believe what comes out of this the guy s
this was a french journalist and i am sure every republican consultant hit their head. he had a choice of bad options. he could be rude to the journalist asking him, a polite man would not do. he can go back down the rabbit hole about my trips to paris and luxurious living or what was he going to do, talk about his years as a mormon missionary in france? i thought he answered it fine. it was fine. it doesn t it goes against the image he is trying to fight. it betrayed the longstanding tradition of republicans obligatory spitting on france. that s what republicans do. i forgot about that, right. that s what you re supposed to do. i know a lot of mormons, and that missionary time that they spend is incredibly seminole, it is not surprising that he would want to talk about it, have fond memories, feel connected to france, and he said it many times. it is an important time for a young mormon. and it goes to the elitism