Chickenhawk Quintet Update

The Romney campaign has helpfully provided the YouTube video (or is that the MySpace video) of his untimely remarks praising his family for serving their country by helping him get elected. I don't think the "context" makes this any better.



I'm not seeing much of a difference here. Romney begins by saying we have a volunteer military and his sons chose another line of work, and that's fine. Then he breaks off into talking about a community project (socialism!) where a bunch of neighbors help save his niece from being fined by their neighborhood association. Then the last paragraph is pretty much as reported.

"It's remarkable how we can show our support for our nation and one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping to get me elected, because they think I'd be a great president. My son, Josh, bought the family Winnebago and has visited 99 counties, most of them with his three kids and his wife. And I respect that and respect all of those in the way they serve this great country."

Isn't this exactly the same as Rick Santorum pleading with a crowd to serve their country by buying one of his bumper stickers? It's a warped notion of national service to equate dying for one's country with tooling around Iowa in an RV. Must be nice to be a Romney.