Preppy protester: The moment a 19-year-old Mitt Romney demonstrated in favour of Vietnam War draft

Romney? That is Doug Neidermeyer!

(I recognize Babs Jansen, too.)

Mr Romney will no doubt be proud of his younger self taking what was at the time a very unpopular stance.

The year was 1966 and American involvement in Nam was really just ramping up. Protest was not yet wide spread and if anything, was the minority view at the time. A quick wikipedia search yields this:

A Gallup poll shows that 59% believe that sending troops to Vietnam was not a mistake. Among the age group of 21–29, 71% believe it was not a mistake compared to 48% of those over 50.

So to say that in 1966 Mittens was somehow out of step with the rest of the country and even his peers is a mistake.

There are plenty of other things to fault Romney for - this is a waste of time, erroneous and just the type of hit piece we complain that Ron Paul gets tarred with.

It recently emerged that Mr Romney has plans to quadruple the size of his $12 million California home.
The 64-year-old filed an application in San Diego, California, to bulldoze his 3,009-square-foot oceanfront mansion in La Jolla and replace it with an 11,062-square-foot property.
A campaign official said that the GOP hopeful was planning the expansion as the home he bought three years ago 'is inadequate for their needs'.
The Romneys' official primary residence is a town house outside Boston. They also own a $10million vacation home on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.

Get that man a riding vacuum cleaner!

I think trying to spin this as Romney being for the Vietnam draft is a mischaracterization unworthy of the Liberty movement. The article only shows that he was against the sit-in because it was interfering with the purpose of the school: "We were there to get an education and these people holding the administration hostage was antithetical to that." There is no evidence here he opposed people speaking against the draft, only the sit-in that was causing their school problems. The sign he is holding in the picture even says "Speak out! Don't sit in!"

Note that while the title of the dailymail article says "Mitt Romney demonstrated in favour of Vietnam War draft", and the article makes the claim it was a "pro-draft" rally, it provides zero evidence of that claim. Not only is the sign Romney holding not a pro-draft sign, neither are any of the signs being held up by the other picketers. If there is evidence Romney was really pro-draft and not just anti-messing-with-his-education, then someone should point it out.

he was protesting the 'sit in' not the draft.

He was in favor of the Viet Nam war draft before he was against it!!!

Good ole' flip-flop Mitt, flop-flopping for 46 years and counting!!!