Posted on 05/11/2012 3:37:33 AM PDT by Diogenesis
Bully story a black eye for Mitt Romney
"Straight-laced and squeaky clean Mitt Romney
must show he’s not the teen bully critics now say he was,
if he hopes to limit the damage from a published report
on his prep school days that paints him
as a cruel and possibly homophobic prankster
who once pinned a vulnerable schoolmate down
and cut his bleached-blond locks
....
Republican consultant John Feehery called
the Washington Post report “troubling”
for Romney’s presidential bid....
“For independents, it’s a troubling story.
... They don’t like bullies, and anti-bullying has
become a issue on the national stage,”
“In the context of a close election,
little things like this can matter,”
Romney, in a hastily arranged radio interview yesterday,
..... said he did not remember the alleged Lauber incident.
“I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks
during high school and some may have gone too far...."
Romney told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade.
....
Some of Romney’s prep-school pals
said they were stunned by the Post report."
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Kinda late to the party aren’t cha?
Being the WAPO is already retracting.
Even without notice.
Now, about that Obama bullying ‘fat nerdy black girl’ story
, just didn’t see your post on that one?
So Backstabber Romney APOLOGIZED for an alleged
incident which, you claim, "did not happen".
Romney is clearly delusional.
Weaving tales of horesh1t from the azzes of unicorns.
Whoopty-dam-do.
At least people knew him when he was a kid, here in the states, unlike, unlike the halfrican in the white house that no one knows anything about.
From the Palin children to every GOP conservative,
Romney has left a trail of assaulted bodies in his wake.
And the Kenyan snorted cocaine in high school and very likely dealt some. Lets compare.
too late....unless you can change things at the convention...
....How about zer0bummer EATING DOGS!
Pretty obvious that Biden's over-the-skis blurtation on Sunday led to Zero's premature evolution on Wednesday. That in turn meant that the trigger got pulled on the Romney bullying-homophobe WaPo story before it could be vetted at all - even by MSM standards.
Of course it's all fake but accurate. The Romney folks need to counter now before the bully meme gets set.
Exactly. I am constantly surprise at the number of people I talk with who believe that Sara actually said she could see Russia from here front porch. Unless countered forcefully it has a way of becoming fixed in the public memory.
Good point.
However, even though the Undocumented Imam has
probably had his team murder anyone getting
in the way of exposing his fake documents
(including witnesses and Coroner, recently),
the MSM will never cover it in our lifetime.
The MSM WILL COVER the bully meme re: Romney.
Amazing, isn't it? The Washington Post has to go back to high school to find dirt on Romney (he bullied a gay kid. Boo hoo...) but they can't bother even to look for a former girlfriend of Obama's so they make up a "composite" one. LOL!
And in other news...Romney kicked his mother while still in the womb! What a bully.
It appears the family of the “victim” are offended by the story and don’t stand by it. Interesting that the family was never contacted as a source .
Reagan could NOT even beat Ford in 1976!
Obama hit a girl in High School.
The “bullies” in America are the leftists running the Democrat Party and the media supporting them.
True story...
Wow, you actually are taking the WAPO bs and running with it? The dog meme is just about as lame....
This just makes you look like a tool of the Obama/MSM re-election campaign.
This post is literally better suited for Democratic Underground than Free Republic. You should consider where your dislike of Romney is taking you.
If you read the entire quote or saw the video you would know that Romney said he didn't recall the WaPo incident. What he DID apologize for was other pranks he knows he did.
WaPo is backpeddling on the story.
If you read the entire quote or saw the video you would know that Romney said he didn't recall the WaPo incident. What he DID apologize for was other pranks he knows he did.
WaPo is backpeddling on the story.
Most people did really dumb, thoughtless things in High School—myself included. Its just another example of bias that the MSM will go all the way back to HS to dig up dirt on Romney, but won’t touch Obama’s past (pre 2007) in any way, shape, or form. The question is: are most voters smart enough to see through it? I’d like to think so, but most people have a whitewashed vision of themselves and like to feel superior to others.
When MUST Obama "show he's not" the anti-American, pro-Muslim, pro-Communist he was groomed his entire life to be?
This is silly, everytime the media/obama attack MR it backfires.
Dog on roof=obama ate dog
Bullied kid=obama calling kid a Tom and pushing Coretta
Every childish attack makes barry look worse
His Richy Rich perception is increased with this one.
I'm really glad that this came out before the nomination process completed.
To be clear, what he did in HS is not a concern (short of selling drugs). But I believe it will be with a lot of voters. Many will see him as Biff Tannon.
I don’t like Romney, but picking on a homo fag moved him up a notch or two in my book!
More to the point as much as I don’t like Romney, this is an orchestrated attack originated by the whitehouse. This story comes out a day after his excellency does his waffle. The press is nothing but stenographers (cannot take credit for that one, someone said it on TV last night) in that they just put out the party line, unsubstantiated.
I cannot say which pillar of our Republic I hate more: the democRAT party or the MSM. In fact, they are the same thing I guess.
I missed the corresponding story four years ago that “Straight-laced and squeaky clean Barack Obama
must show he’s not the drug-addled communist his own memoirs say he was”. It’s only Romney being slammed this time, but I’d still like some journalistic integrity and balance. Why is it only republicans whose failings are news?
What exactly, is your motivation?
This High School story of course opens the Obama High School Record?
so the MSM, which totally ignored Obammas shady past, couldnt be bothered to even consider checking his status as an American, is now digging up high school dirt on Romney to see if he ran with scissors or skipped study hall.
The local law enforcement people were very worried once when a gang of motorcycle hippies from Denver threatened to ride up one summer night and teach the whole town a lesson.
The local cowboys and Indians were waiting for them and a fight ensured. No injuries beyond a few scratches and bruises, but the final outcome was one broken storefront window and a motorcycle gang of newly minted short-haired hippies limping out of town southbound on highway #789 to the raucous singing of a combined cowboy and Indian chorus.
Shearing hippies was evidently a fairly popular pass time in that era, especially in Rocky Mountain ranching towns.
the media isn’t fooling anybody anymore, except those that want to be fooled. The next story about alleged misdeeds will come out again in time for the next weekend news cycle and pretty soon, people will have to ask about Obama’s past and the media’s deafening silence will be it’s final undoing.
I’ve been saying this for two years, this election will not just be a referendum on Obama and his brand of socialism but one of the media as well. They will be rebuked with extreme prejudice but they will not go quietly. I expect at least a few claims of closeted homosexuality including a few sightings of Gloria All-Red and homely women claiming he made them feel uncomfortable and some digs at the LDS church.
In 1964 after 6th grade basketball practice, I was depanced by 6 guys in the school yard as a new id in town. That was it. My initiation as the new kids in school.
Now, about that dyed blond hair over one eye in 1963? I tend not to care about Cranbrook kids born with silver spoons in their collective asses.
Bullies are people too!!!!
(said in my best liberal, moonbat voice)
He was the designated loser. This was all pre-planned.
That story was hilarious!
Thank you!
And it’s an important point (regarding the culture at the time).
So the press is in a snit over some rumor that Romney may have given some bleached-out poofter a wedgie 40 years ago. Meanwhile, they remain undaunted by Barack Obama’s documented dalliances with left-wing extremists, black liberationists, and gangster goons.
I have it on good authority that Romney jaywalked once in third grade too.
Most grew out of it. Romney and Obama never did. Both have cold evil eyes. Both are still punks.
Do these people really wanna go there????
Oh for crying out loud.
And he used his dessert fork in his salad.
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