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JUST LIKE George W. Bush, "Pep Club" member Mitt Romney "chanted cheers into a megaphone"
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A lot of people are upset about the Washington Post’s revelations concerning Mitt Romney’s early years in prep school.
Me too, but for a different reason. Like most people, I find highly disturbing the reports that, in prep school, the young Romney was part of a gang that held a student down and cut his hair.
But as I read through that Washington Post article, I came across something truly bothersome. After detailing Romney’s failures at athletics, the writer notes, “He was more at home on the sidelines, cheering the football team on as a member of the Pep Club, chanting such cheers into a megaphone as ‘Iron them out. Iron them out. Smooooth.’ ”
This is getting weird. George W. Bush also was a cheerleader in prep school. And then there’s Bush’s successor as governor of Texas and wannabe successor as president, Rick Perry. He was a cheerleader at Texas A&M University. And now we learn that the presumptive nominee in the November presidential election also was a cheerleader.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/05/the_real_romney_prep-school_sc.html
Me too, but for a different reason. Like most people, I find highly disturbing the reports that, in prep school, the young Romney was part of a gang that held a student down and cut his hair.
But as I read through that Washington Post article, I came across something truly bothersome. After detailing Romney’s failures at athletics, the writer notes, “He was more at home on the sidelines, cheering the football team on as a member of the Pep Club, chanting such cheers into a megaphone as ‘Iron them out. Iron them out. Smooooth.’ ”
This is getting weird. George W. Bush also was a cheerleader in prep school. And then there’s Bush’s successor as governor of Texas and wannabe successor as president, Rick Perry. He was a cheerleader at Texas A&M University. And now we learn that the presumptive nominee in the November presidential election also was a cheerleader.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/05/the_real_romney_prep-school_sc.html
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Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up here in Jersey, we didn’t have male cheerleaders. The boys played sports. The girls cheered. If we saw a guy standing with them urging us to chant, “Iron them out. Iron them out. Smooooth,” we would have fallen out of the stands laughing.
The author, Paul Mulshine is the Star-Ledger's conservative columnist. I don't agree with him most of the time but he's usually pretty funny and is consistently a good read. Plus he hated W, hates Chris Christie and now this on Mitt.
Iron them out, Iron them out, Smooth?
when the real nefarious shit was going down with the pom-poms and megaphones club 
"Rah, rah, sis boom bah." Obviously nefarious!
I've got to figure out how to work that into everyday conversation!
Bricka bracka, firecracker, sis, boom bah... Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny, rah rah rah!
From the Ole Miss yearbook. He's on the bottom row, second from the right.
You think Trent Lott knows the words to "Patsy's Got the Biggest Breasts in Town"?
