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Breaking: Romney apologizes for high-school pranks
Hotair ^ | 05/10/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 05/10/2012 8:50:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Thankfully, our long national nightmare is over:

Mitt Romney apologized on Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said “might have gone too far,” including an incident in which he pinned down a fellow student and cut his hair.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was responding to an article published a few hours earlier by The Washington Post documenting the episode with first-hand accounts from Romney’s classmates.

“Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that,” Romney said in a live radio interview with Fox News Channel personality Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.”

Romney’s campaign hastily scheduled the radio interview for the candidate to call in from Omaha, where he is holding a campaign event later Wednesday, to respond to The Post’s report.

Politically speaking, this was the smart thing to do. Other campaigns would have tried challenging the veracity of the stories and/or the motives of the witnesses, but that’s a losing proposition. The more a campaign debates those points, the longer the story goes, and the more legitimacy it has in the media. Instead, the Romney campaign made it an old story before it began to grow legs by just expressing remorse over any cruelty that may have taken place in high school.

I eagerly await the next set of stories about how in middle school Romney refused to give cuts in line to kids from low-income families, or how he shamelessly violated the “exies-no-erasies” rule in elementary school with his female classmates.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apology; bloggers; braking; pranks; prepschoolprank; romney; romney2012; romneyrecord; romneytruthfile; teens
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To: SeekAndFind

How did he evade prison after all these years?


21 posted on 05/10/2012 8:59:58 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not apologizing for mine. The nuns....nevermind


22 posted on 05/10/2012 9:00:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess I can never run for President considering the pranks I did in college—brought a bunch of geese into the school’s indoor swimming pool, hid a pair of dirty underwear in the bottom of a guy’s cereal box, put knives in the spines of the hymn books so during chapel when everyone was asked to open their books a thousand knives all fell to the ground at once.


23 posted on 05/10/2012 9:00:24 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, good grief. No ones cares what you did in high school or elementary school or pre school......what a flipping wimp.


24 posted on 05/10/2012 9:00:35 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Diogenesis
Your posts are the most pathetic I've seen here the past few years.

Obama thanks you

25 posted on 05/10/2012 9:01:13 AM PDT by NE Cons
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To: SeekAndFind

Kids will be kids.

The Bible even says so.

When I was a child, I etc etc.......

But as a man, I put away childish things.

Quote from Paul the Apostle.

I would have said it isn’t relevant exactly because of that, and I wouldn’t have apologized, today, in a presidenial campaign, for an irrelevancy.

Now, about that Romneycare...


26 posted on 05/10/2012 9:01:59 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: SeekAndFind
Did he apologize to his mom for pooping his diaper when a baby?
27 posted on 05/10/2012 9:02:17 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER (I'm supposed to be more angry about what Romney does with his money than what Obama does with mine)
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To: SeekAndFind

You gotta do what you gotta do to get your Temple Recommend. If Heavenly Father needs me to chastise some backslider who missed services a few weeks in a row, then that’s what I gotta do.


28 posted on 05/10/2012 9:02:36 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: SeekAndFind
Notice Obama has never, ever apologized for anything...
29 posted on 05/10/2012 9:02:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: NE Cons

It just escalated to Gay Bashing on the local news.


30 posted on 05/10/2012 9:02:59 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Martin Tell

“Obviously orchestrated with Zero’s evolution coming out yesterday.”

What else is there to say? But it won’t change the final outcome.


31 posted on 05/10/2012 9:03:29 AM PDT by adc
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To: SeekAndFind

Since we’re going back to high school on Romney, can we please see obama’s college transcripts? RELEASE THEM NOW. All of them.


32 posted on 05/10/2012 9:03:51 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: SeekAndFind

Somebody needs to have a word with his handlers. Making Mittens more human is not done by making him a metrosexual, pandering, libtard. He already owns that label. The people who make the nation run would prefer someone who did make waves and kicked butt on the appeasers.


33 posted on 05/10/2012 9:04:16 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet this “hair bullying” will get air play... the whole country seems to be on an anti-bullying kick these days.

Now he will be described as a Bullying 1%er...


34 posted on 05/10/2012 9:08:48 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ("I'm comfortable with a Romney win." - Pres. Jimmy Carter)
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To: GizzyGirl
We are still great friends even now, 40 years later!

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Watch your back.
35 posted on 05/10/2012 9:08:56 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: popdonnelly

High school pranks are so much more important than leftists wrecking American society.
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Definitely! A Marxist that admitted he smoked weed, did a little blow when he had money to buy it and said he hung out with the other Marxist students is a far better choice. GO O!!


36 posted on 05/10/2012 9:08:59 AM PDT by mojitojoe (American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please tell me this is satire.


37 posted on 05/10/2012 9:09:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: ScottinVA
Notice Obama has never, ever apologized for anything...

Noe that's just not true. Give the devil his due. Obama never gets tired of apologizing for America's sins and transgressions.

38 posted on 05/10/2012 9:10:15 AM PDT by Martin Tell (ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think this story will actually do his image good.


39 posted on 05/10/2012 9:10:23 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: MNDude

A+!


40 posted on 05/10/2012 9:10:27 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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