As we found out, Willard was afraid to face the women of the view so he sent his wife. To say it was tense from the get-go would be an understatement even though Barbara tried to smooth the undercurrent.
Almost out of the gate Whoopie asked the question we all want answered but no one is asking:
to clarify if her husband did not serve in the military for religious reasons.
Whoopie:
As first Lady, if you get the job, It's gonna tell a lot of things and one of the the things is going to be talking to the mothers whose children are coming home in bags, you know, from wars. Now I believe that your religion does not allow you to go fight?
Ann responded:
"No, that's not correct,"
Whoopie:
"OK, um, well I say that, what I read about your husband, what I read, and maybe you can correct this, is that the reason that he didn't serve in Vietnam was because it was against the religion,"
Ann's version of Willard and her son's mission:
"He was serving his mission," "My five sons have also served their mission. None served in the military." "I sent them away boys and they came back men."
Whoopie:
"So when you're facing these mothers , how will you explain to them that your sons haven't gone?"
Ann Romney:
"I think it's the hardest thing that a president will probably do," "while governor of Massachusetts, her husband "went to every funeral ... and it was the hardest thing [he] had to do."
All their service was/is to their church. None to their country and none where their lives were endangered.
Tagg Romney showed his disrespect to The President when he said "you want to rush down to the stage and take a swing at him"yet this man/child (his father and his brothers) will not bear arms to protect the country which he feels his father is entitled to be the Commander-in-Chief of.
When does this family put their country ahead of their church?
How do they explain this to the grieving families?
Why would Mrs. Romney not tell us the reason why none of the men in her family has/will serve in the military?
Why did Mitt Protest For The War in Viet Nam and then NOT serve?