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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Mitt Romney On LGBT Equality [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)24. He was. No excuse--and didn't the Missus go to the "girl's campus" of that outfit?
I rhought that's where he met his beloved, Miss Caddy in Every Garage/Horse in Every Barn. It's not really "all male" when the opportunity to interact with young ladies at school dances and other events exists. He may have gone to classes with boys, and lived in a boy's dorm, but he wasn't off in the country with no access to female companionship.
Look at the little fucker now backtracking and (non) apologizing-- now he's claiming he didn't know the kid was gay, and issuing one of those Non-Apology Apologies....he's fucked. You know how the "Obama's playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers" meme goes around? Don't tell me that someone at WAPO didn't tip BO that this story was being readied at the printer!
Romney Apologizes For Bullying In Prep School, Says He Didn't Know Victim Was Gay
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney made a surprise appearance on Fox host Brian Kilmeade's radio show Thursday morning to respond to a lengthy Washington Post story on his time as a prep-school prankster and occasional bully of closeted gay students.
"They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school," Romney said. "And they describe some that you just say to yourself, back in high school I just did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by it, obviously I apologize."
I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize," he added.
It's never quite clear whether a politician's high school years are fair game for political attacks. Romney suggested during the interview that the acts he was apologizing for were merely youthful indiscretions; the Post described him pinning a closeted gay classmate to the ground and cutting his long hair, for example. But with the story suggesting latent homophobia in an adolescent Romney and with President Barack Obama having endorsed same-sex marriage on Wednesday, the piece reverberated.
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney made a surprise appearance on Fox host Brian Kilmeade's radio show Thursday morning to respond to a lengthy Washington Post story on his time as a prep-school prankster and occasional bully of closeted gay students.
"They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school," Romney said. "And they describe some that you just say to yourself, back in high school I just did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by it, obviously I apologize."
I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize," he added.
It's never quite clear whether a politician's high school years are fair game for political attacks. Romney suggested during the interview that the acts he was apologizing for were merely youthful indiscretions; the Post described him pinning a closeted gay classmate to the ground and cutting his long hair, for example. But with the story suggesting latent homophobia in an adolescent Romney and with President Barack Obama having endorsed same-sex marriage on Wednesday, the piece reverberated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/romney-bully-gay-bullying_n_1506382.html
This isn't "hijinks" or "pranks." it's not even "bullying." It's fucking assault and battery. What a sick SOB.
He's mean to people, he's mean to dogs. He's an asshole.
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Somewhere we have the story of his cornering and bullying a pregnant woman privately.
freshwest
May 2012
#46
He was. No excuse--and didn't the Missus go to the "girl's campus" of that outfit?
MADem
May 2012
#24
Whether he was gay or not isn't even the point, if you attack someone because you presume
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#12
That's the same "toxic ground" that I'm speaking of, it's basically just a matter of degree.
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#17
I don't view breaking up with a boy or girlfriend as being the same toxic ground
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#22
Not in isolation, actions as an adult carry more weight, people do change but we can use
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#42
Can you for a moment put yourself in his shoes? Like being attacked, thrown to
crunch60
May 2012
#65
At the risk of being flamed for saying this, I am more concerned about the Mitt Romney of today
totodeinhere
May 2012
#51