Respect

The headline read "Romney Chokes Up Explaining How He Met Former SEAL Killed in Benghazi Attack" and the story, as quoted from Romney, described his meeting with Glen Doherty, a former seal killed defending the consulate in Benghazi.  Romney finished his tearful "remembrance":  “They didn’t hunker down where they were in safety – they rushed there to go help,” Romney concluded with emotion.  “This is the American way – we go where there’s trouble. We go where we’re needed.  And right now we’re needed– right now, the American people need us.”  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/romney-chokes-up-explaining-how-he-met-one-of-the-seals-killed-in-benghazi-attack/

"But Romney’s not only telling the story against the wishes of Doherty’s family, he’s also mischaracterizing his encounter with the former SEAL. According to Glen Doherty’s longtime friend, Doherty said Romney had introduced himself four times in the span of less than 30 minutes, saying it was "pathetic" ... and that ... Glen believed it to be very insincere and stale.”  Doherty's mother, interviewed by a radio station, said “I don’t trust Romney. He shouldn’t make my son’s death part of his political agenda. It’s wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama,”.  Romney ignored the mother's request to stop using her son's memory until national media picked up the story.  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1142665/-Romney-ignores-request-from-mother-of-Navy-Seal-killed-in-Benghazi-to-stop-using-son-in-stump-speech?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29  So breaking it Mr. Romney deliberately and repeatedly used the heroic death of Glen Doherty in an apparently concocted "remembrance" of an earlier encounter between the two of them.

The more egregious conduct by Romney in my opinion was to suggest in this instance that his political ambition in entering this presidential campaign was comparable in courage to the heroic effort of the former Navy SEALs in rushing to protect the consulate staff.  In the recent past many attacks were made here and elsewhere from the Right arguing that President Obama had claimed personal, political credit for the actions of SEALS and other Special Ops at the killing of bin Laden.  What do these same voices from the Right say now about this political message from Romney.  Or will they spin or turn their backs.