Mitt Romney, the Mormon Missionary - The establishment knew very well in 1960 that the Kennedys were playboys and that their Catholicism was BS and Opportunism - Mitt is another creature of another planet

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Mitt Romney, the Mormon Missionary :

Read the story of Mitt Romney : the anti Hippie, anti California, anti Woodstock, pro Vietnam War and Jingoist, anti Vietnam Protests, anti Modern World, the development of a Bigot, Jingoistic War Monger and pure sheer Mormon. A box of Uber Nationalism and enthusiastic believer in what is irrational fantasy.

This is NOT NOT NOT another "Catholic" John F. Kennedy. ( Catholic in name only )

Mitt Romney in Wikipedia


Some Excerpts :

In July 1966, Romney left for 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary, a traditional duty that his father and other relatives had done.[10][24][25] He arrived in Le Havre with ideas about how to change and promote the French Mission, while facing physical and economic deprivation in their cramped quarters.[25][26] Rules against drinking, smoking, and dating were strictly enforced.[26] Like most individual Mormon missionaries, he did not gain many converts, with the nominally Catholic but secular, wine-loving French people proving especially resistant to a religion that prohibits alcohol.[10][25][26][27] He became demoralized, and later recalled it as the only time when "most of what I was trying to do was rejected."[25] In Nantes, Romney was bruised defending two female missionaries against a horde of local rugby players.[26] He continued to work hard; having grown up in Michigan rather than the more insular Utah world, Romney was better able to interact with the French.[17][26] He was promoted to zone leader in Bordeaux in early 1968, then in the spring of that year became assistant to the mission president in Paris, the highest position for a missionary.[25][26][28] In the Mission Home in Paris he enjoyed palace-like accommodations.[28] Romney's support for the U.S. role in the Vietnam War was only reinforced when the French greeted him with hostility over the matter and he debated them in return.[25][26] He also witnessed the May 1968 general strike and student uprisings.[25]

In June 1968, an automobile Romney was driving in southern France was hit by another vehicle, seriously injuring him and killing one of his passengers, the wife of the mission president.[nb 4] Romney, who was not at fault in the accident,[nb 4] became co-acting president of a mission demoralized and disorganized by the May civil disturbances and by the car accident.[17] Romney rallied and motivated the others and they met an ambitious goal of 200 baptisms for the year, the most for the mission in a decade.[17] By the end of his stint in December 1968, Romney was overseeing the work of 175 fellow members.[25][29] Romney developed a lifelong affection for France and its people, and speaks French.[31] The experience in the country also changed him. It instilled in him a belief that life is fragile and that he needed seriousness of purpose. He also gained organizational experience and a record of success that he had theretofore lacked.[10][17][26][29] It also represented a crucible, after having been only a half-hearted Mormon growing up: "On a mission, your faith in Jesus Christ either evaporates or it becomes much deeper. For me it became much deeper."[25]

While he was away, Ann Davies had converted to the LDS Church, guided by George Romney, and had begun attending Brigham Young University.[10][21] Mitt was nervous that she had been wooed by others while he was away, and indeed she had dated others, but at their first meeting following his return they reconnected and decided to get married in two weeks but agreed to wait three months to appease their parents.[21][32] They were married on March 21, 1969, in a Bloomfield Hills civil ceremony presided over by a church elder; the following day the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony at the Salt Lake Temple.[32][33]

Both Mitt and Ann Romney went to college at Brigham Young, where he gave the commencement address at graduation.

Romney began attending Brigham Young too.[9] He had missed much of the tumultuous American anti-Vietnam War movement while away, and was surprised to learn that his father had turned against the war during his ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign.[25] Regarding the military draft, Romney had initially gotten a student deferment, then like most other Mormon missionaries had received a ministerial deferment while in France, then got another student deferment.[25][34] When those ran out, his high number in the December 1969 draft lottery (300) meant he would not be selected.[13][25][34][35]

At culturally conservative Brigham Young, Romney continued to be separated from much of the upheaval of the era, and did not join in the few protests against the war or the LDS Church's policy at the time of denying full membership to blacks.[13][25] He became president and successful fundraiser for the all-male Cougar Club and showed a new-found discipline in his studies.[25] In his senior year he took leave to work as driver and advance man for his mother Lenore Romney's eventually unsuccessful 1970 campaign for U.S. Senator from Michigan.[13][32] He graduated from Brigham Young in 1971, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and giving commencement addresses to both his own College of Humanities and to the whole university.

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