Mitt's 5 sons don't like any kind of service
Sun Aug 19, 2007 at 09:05:16 PM PDT
By now, the word's been around that Mitt Romney's 5 sons are all of age to serve nobly in combat serving in the American military but all seem to have other priorities than to fight in a War that their father backs 100%.
However, despite all of the criticism from the left and some quarters of the right for the apparent hypocrisy of Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig, it would seem they're only being consistent. They simply don't seem to enjoy any kind of service unless it's hamming it up for dear old Dad on the campaign trail.
Here are the dots I'm connecting...
It would seem that Mitt has a problem with all of the illegal aliens working in this country. Mitt might be finding himself in a bit of a pickle due to this revelation expounded upon by Gail Collins from the NY Times opinion page:
Mitt Romney’s well-manicured suburban lawn was kept that way by illegal immigrants. The workers were hired through a local landscaping company. The Boston Globe tracked some of them down back in their native Guatemala, and they said they worked for $9 to $10 an hour and that Romney had never inquired about their legal status, reserving his interaction to an occasional "buenos días."
Sure, there's plenty of hypocrisy to go around here when speaking of Mitt. But the thing that really struck me is why the hell would you spend $9 an hour during all those years when you have 5 young sons to mow the damn lawn?!
I mean jeebus, what the hell were these 5 guys doing all day, watching re-runs of Gilligan's Island? Now these guys weren't exactly of my generation as I'm 12 years older than Tagg, but hell... I was in a household of 5 sons and my Dad stopped doing (or paying for) all yard work once my older brother hit the age of 10. Believe me, once you hit the age of 13 and could hand off the duties to a younger brother, that was a big day in our family. But that just meant you had to go out and get a real job like a paper route or shoveling coal or something.
I hear there are some serious Family Values going on in the Romney household but they seem pretty foreign to me. More French than American, perhaps. Not that I know diddly squat about what goes on in France.
So I just wanted to point all this out to the DailyKos community. And note, at least I'm not accusing the 5 sons of getting out of military service by being gay... like the Rude Pundit done did.