September 08, 2012 01:41 AM UTC

Did Romney just officially kill his chances with veterans?

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• by: SSG_Dan

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

The RNC based their entire convention on a manipulated misquote by Obama. Now the DNC will demolish Romney for a real quote.

Contrary to right-leaning opinion, the initial criticism of Romney’s deliberate omission of deployed troops in his RNC acceptance speech came from a prominent CONSERVATIVE columnist, Bill Kristol. Since that column, that criticism has been growing against the GOP for not even mentioning veterans and the military in their entire convention…a serious mistake pounced on by Democrats who made sure their real contributions to military families and veteran issues were at the forefront of their convention.

Undeterred, Romney was given a chance to respond to this contemptuous snub of America’s bravest warriors.

His answer? “They’re not important.”

Let me give it to you in text form:

   BAIER: To hear several speakers in Charlotte … they were essentially saying that you don’t care about the U.S. military because you didn’t mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech. … Do you regret opening up this line of attack, now a recurring attack, by leaving out that issue in the speech?

   ROMNEY: I only regret you’re repeating it day in and day out. When you give a speech you don’t go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important and I described in my speech, my commitment to a strong military unlike the president’s decision to cut our military. And I didn’t use the word troops, I used the word military. I think they refer to the same thing.  

Folks, this is not a carefully manipulated distortion of a speech – the GOP Candidate for president specifically stated that the men and women fighting overseas are “not important.”

And despite his unchecked weaseling on a friendly media network, Romney did not even talk about “the military.” He specifically and deliberately excluded mentioning men and women risking their live for their country, and those who have already done so and come home.

Bill Kristol called him on that –

The United States has some 68,000 troops fighting in Afghanistan. Over two thousand Americans have died in the more than ten years of that war, a war Mitt Romney has supported. Yet in his speech accepting his party’s nomination to be commander in chief, Mitt Romney said not a word about the war in Afghanistan. Nor did he utter a word of appreciation to the troops fighting there, or to those who have fought there. Nor for that matter were there thanks for those who fought in Iraq, another conflict that went unmentioned.

Leave aside the question of the political wisdom of Romney’s silence, and the opportunities it opens up for President Obama next week. What about the civic propriety of a presidential nominee failing even to mention, in his acceptance speech, a war we’re fighting and our young men and women who are fighting it? Has it ever happened that we’ve been at war and a presidential nominee has ignored, in this kind of major and formal speech, the war and our warriors?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/…

This seems to be the ironclad proof of what I’ve always know – that the Republican’t Party and it’s erstwhile Presidential nominee could give a shit about about the men and women who fight, bleed and die for this nation.

“National Security” only matters when we stuff the Defense budget so full it collapses our economy….the actual brave Americans who carry out the missions are so many “assets” to ignore and discard once their usefulness in campaign ads expires.

This is not a “gaffe.” This is not a “mistake.” This was THE illuminating moment that shows this aloof, out-of-touch Millionaire is incapable and unworthy to hold the highest office of this great nation.

Repubs, it’s OVER. Once this honest admission gets the full scrutiny it deserves, the veteran vote walks away en masse and takes many Independents and moderate Republicans with them.