I'm a teacher, and I will be making the following announcement to all my classes tomorrow:

[LibDemAlways]

21. I was in 8th grade in 1966. There was a kid in my class

who was bullied mercilessly. He was a skinny kid who wore sweaters and had thick glasses. He was given a hard time because he was considered a nerd. Back then bullying was simply accepted. There's actually a picture of the boy in the school yearbook having his sweater pulled while he's trying to run away. That was considered funny and appropriate for inclusion in the yearbook. I sometimes think of that kid and the scars he carries around from what must have been a hellish adolescence.

I would like to think we now live in a more enlightened age where that sort of crap simply isn't tolerated. It's not a harmless prank. It wasn't then. It isn't now.

It says a lot about Romney's character that he was a bully and even now can't bring himself to acknowledge the harmfulness of his actions. MIttens reminds me of Tom Buchanan in the Great Gatsby - an arrogant, careless spoiled rich prick lacking any sort of moral compass.