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QOTD: Mittens channels the Duggars

QOTD: Mittens channels the Duggars

by digby

Remember how he was all moderate and regular and not-like-that-crazy-Santorum? Well, not so much. Here’s what Mitt told graduates at Southern Virginia University last weekend:

“If you meet someone you love, get married. Have a quiver-full of kids if you can”

I’ve written a bit about the Quiverfull movement over the years, which is just about as retrograde as you can get without going full-blown fundamentalist polygamy: instead of having 20 kids by several wives, just force one poor wife to do it. For all his modern money making cleverness, he’s still a primitive patriarch.

But I’m fairly sure he is still jealous about this (who wouldn’t be?):

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