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 ...
ROFL
You mean the sitting President? Do you remember how close that primary was?
Obama is a Marxist bent on destroying America.
To anyone with an ounce of brains, there is no comparison.
You don’t have to wallow in every last Romney story in the MSM. I would hope you could tell the difference between actual historical and present issues with Romney’s liberalism and stupid, DNC-driven partisan attacks (and especially in the context of their failure to give Obama’s past any scrutiny), and avoid the latter like any sane conservative should.
Why in hell are you pimping DogsAgainstRomney.com, a site started by an Obama staffer?
Who is the most vulnerable of all? Obama, as an adult, was against saving babies who survived abortions. Romney MAY have cut the hair off another boy while a minor.
Great point.
This was brought up on talk radio several times yesterday.
IF Romney’s handlers have any brains, they will turn this around to ask to have a debate with Obama about what he did in high school, college and state senate. Romney needs to say I will be glad to discuss EVERYTHING I did during my teenage years and twenties. It will reinforce the fact that Obama is trying to hide EVERYTHING he did prior to becoming a US Senator. He should not run away from this at all. This opens the door to look at Obama’s past.
PERSONALLY, I could care less if JR, you and many other Freepers stay home on Nov 6th; vote for Devil or even Dear Leader (one in the same)....
.....But if we are still around in a couple of years and the FACIST, SURRENDER-TOOL, PRO-ISLAMIC-APPEASER, HATE-AMERICA/MILITARY, NEO-COMMIE is re-elected, I and others will remind y'all on how your so called "principles" help lead to the HARM (if not DESTRUCTION) of our Great Republic.
Why not join in with the rest of the Lame Stream Media, the Unions, the West Wing, DailyKos, DummyUnderground, Media Matters and every other kook, far Left group, organization in helping toward Barack Hussein Obama's re-election? Mmm, mmm, mmm?
Oh wait, you and a few others here have already done so.
Nuttin' like helping the enemy, right?
Las Astaslem!!!
The perverts at ABC radio are backpedaling bigtime on this stupid story.
How sad that the country has sunk to the level that Obama and Romney are the best we can do. It does not bode well for the country.
The MSM WILL COVER the bully meme re: Romney.
So how about you spend your energies on this story by attacking the MSM for their double-standard, instead of picking up a liberal hatchet job and using it yourself, while shrugging off the double standard as you did here.
It's one thing to raise legitimate conservative concerns about Romney.
But if you keep using liberal attacks as well, while discarding the opportunity to counterattack those hatchet jobs, you're no longer carrying conservative water.
A few reasons not to vote for Obama 2012
1. Obamacare
2. The failed $850 billion stimulus (where did it all go and to whom)
3. High, persistent unemployment
4. Gas prices
5. The 2012 budget’s fecklessness
6. Massive deficits each and every year
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler, the transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, and the dumping of the GM stock at a loss
8. Dodd-Frank
9. Hostility to Israel, including attack on apartment expansion and icing of Prime Minister Netanyahu in basement of White House. P.S. Fuck Israel
10. Failure to support Iran’s Green Revolution
11. Failure to support Syrian revolution
12. The Libyan Fiasco
13. The incompetent handling of the Gulf Oil disaster
14. The unnecessary permitorium in the aftermath of the Gulf Oil disaster
15. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. The president’s push for cap-and-tax in the Congress
17. The president’s attempt to unconstitutionally impose cap-and-tax via EPA when the Congress wouldn’t pass cap-and-tax
18. The president’s push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies while keeping the unions free to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act
19. The president’s attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order
20. The president’s use of unaccountable “czars”
21. The president’s refusal to accept Congressional direction vis-a-vis his “czars” contained in the last 2011 Continuing Resolution
22. The president’s verbal assault on the Supreme Court while the members of the Court sat before him in the state of the Union
23. The president and Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including the black panthers case and the refusal to defend DOMA
24. The president’s use of demonizing rhetoric towards his opponents, such as accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery for money
25. The president’s hyper-partisan approach to governing including “I won, you lost” in 2009 and the assault on Paul Ryan with Paul Ryan as an invited guest in the president’s April 2011 “deficit speech.”
26. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor
27. Returning the bust of Churchill to Great Britain
28. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic
29. Backing the would-be dictator of Hondurus when that nation’s Supreme Court rightfully removed him from office
30. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea
31. Indecision on Afghanistan surge coupled with announcement of eventual withdrawal.
32. Incoherence on Egypt, most obviously with the dispatch of Frank Wizner and then rejection of Wizner’s advice vis-a-vis Mubarak.
33. Appointment Craig Beck to NLRB via recess appointment
34. Appointment of FCC commissioners who are pursuing “net neutrality” without Congressional authorization
35. Failure to resume full water deliveries to California’s Central Valley because of the Delta Smelt
36. Attempt to close Guantanamo Bay
37. Attempt to try terrorists in New York City
38. Janet “The System Worked” Napolitano
39. Government takeover of the student loan program
40. Cancellation of “virtual border fence” project with no replacement or indeed concern for border security
41. The “Beer Summit” and the attack on the Cambridge Police Department
42. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules
43. The attack on Scott Walker and Wisconsin for the governor’s and the state legislature’s exercise of their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues
44. Dabbling in basketball brackets while the Middle East fell into chaos and the gas prices skyrocketed
45. Arguing that American exceptionalism was the same as any nation’s sense of exceptionalism
46. Implying that Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
47. Inserting himself into campaign for the Olympics
48. Attack on D.C. voucher program
49. Van Jones and a long list of other appointees and czars
50. Teleprompter dependency and the worst run of presidential rhetoric since Millard Fillmore combined with testiness in the few interviews he grants.
51. Larry Sinclair ###### his #### twice and he can’t admit it.
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/51-reasons-not-to-vote-for-barack-obama-in-2012/
You have NEVER responded to a single conservative
concern regarding your Master, dirtboy.
On your knees, you are.
Why don’t you keep attacking the messenger. [/s].
218 reasons NOT to vote for Obama
http://www.postlibertarian.com/2012/03/218-reasons-not-to-vote-for-obama/
Actually, if we had only high school to compare and nothing thereafter, Obama would win. The poor kid had no parents and his Commie Gramps sets him up with a pedophile. They were both at prestigious schools but Obama was the only black guy at his, no black relatives, neglected, sexually abused and confused. Seriously — poor kid.
While Romney seems to already have thought his poop didn’t stink and he was a frat boy style bully and ringleader.
I'm no Romney fan, but I refuse to believe the MSM BS on this story.
Man, you are a one-trick pony. I have NEVER said anything supportive of Mitt.
And I am asking YOU to attack the messenger in this case - the MSM engaging in nonsensical attacks. Instead, you wallow like a dog on their fresh turd.
I don’t like Romney, but picking on a homo fag moved him up a notch or two in my book!
There is so much of this sentiment here that it is very sad. I thought this was a moral site. What else do you people like to do, walk behind kids with Down Syndrome and call them stupid retards?
Obama kissed Larry Sinclair where it counts.
Are you trying to get Bork Obunga re-elected?
I don’t like Romney, but picking on a homo fag moved him up a notch or two in my book!
There is so much of this sentiment here that it is very sad. I thought this was a moral site. What else do you people like to do, walk behind kids with Down Syndrome and call them stupid retards?
You do realize that a lot of FReepers spend significant time praying for each other and caring? That’s why I love this place. I hate thinking some FReepers are cruel at heart.
On November 4, 2008. a majprity of those that voted said, via their votes, that they preferred and wanted onama to be their god, messiah, and savior.Therefore, obama vbecame not America’s idol, becuse no American voted for him, but the object of worship of every parasite, traitor, and freeloader and on it goes...
I really dislike this smarmy child of privilege,BUT we don’t have Sarah, don’t have Rick, don’t have other Rick, don’t have Michelle, don’t have Herman, don’t have Newt. Pubbie elite old money beat grassroots enthusiasm. Pray it’s not 1996 again.
IF Romney’s handlers have any brains, they will turn this around to ask to have a debate with Obama about what he did in high school, college and state senate. Romney needs to say I will be glad to discuss EVERYTHING I did during my teenage years and twenties. It will reinforce the fact that Obama is trying to hide EVERYTHING he did prior to becoming a US Senator. He should not run away from this at all. This opens the door to look at Obama’s past.
Post of the Thread!
"Well Son, I stuck to my "PRINCIPLES" and stayed home!"
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
One difference is this; most of us would change or at least forget our high school experience because we have become better more mature people since then. The Kenyan revels in his victimhood and hasn’t matured a bit since then. He has a coterie of sycophants who feed his needy ego and tell him how brilliant he is. He uses the first person singular more than most 5 year-olds. Most damning is he sees nothing wrong with this.
Oh, and BTW, should I link to some of my posts so far this year bashing Mitt?
Care to retract your utterly idiotic claim?
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
Sorry: for every Romney issue, far worse is already sitting in the People’s house and MUST be removed. The fact that this poorly written and poorly researched article about some “bullying” bs incident in freakin high school 50 years ago even comes up is ridiculous.
Much as I wish there were a more conservative candidate selected, there is NO viable alternative. Not now. last November and December? Yeah...thats when this crap should have happened. But it didn’t or it didn’t take.
Its not about compromising principles its not about anything else. Its about removing the marxist fascist and ALL of his dingleberrys from our government. Romney is the one who has to do it.
I will worry about the sins of Romney later...after the “bigger” disaster is removed.
[shrug]There is no other way: we cannot survive another 4 years of the sob we have now and his insane clown posse.
IMHO.
Once again, should I link to my FR posts this year critical of Romney?
And I defy you to show anywhere I have actually said anything supportive of him.
However, I also do not believe conservatives should co-opt liberal hatchet jobs, no matter what we believe of the target in question. One can point out the rank hypocrisy of this attack without being a slave to Romney.
What a crass politician, knee jerking...
He basically admitted to something he probably did not even do.
That’s going to fly real well, not.
Political gloating aside, however, isn’t it obvious that Obama’s gay politics is stemmed in hate and evil selfishness?
THis is about independenting men from caring and giving a choice to women of mates. This is about turning women into the hell hole that lesbianism is. This is a game of dictatorship, one for me, one for you, and evil little crumbs of power to little witches, even if for bigger witches.
Alea Jacta Est, let the feminist embrace their own destructions.
ANd as for Romney, he is an idiot.
Actually...if you go to The Obama Files...there is a LOT of info there on his early life...and especially college life. All this talk here that there is no one that remembers him...etc...is fiction. There are a LOT of people that remember him...and it's all documented.
In in the case of Obama...the truth is BETTER than fiction. Many of them talk about how self-absorbed he was...how arrogant. They talk about his dealings with Marxist professors in college. There are interviews with people who worked with him at BI that testify about how he lied in "dreams." There are pictures from his high school yearbook. There are interviews with college roommates and with college friends. It's all there.
No....there is PLENTY of info out there about him that proves him to be the radical we know he is. Saying no one knows anything about him hides the truth...and allows HIM to hide. Matter of fact...I would guess that the reason his past is hidden is NOT because he appeared out of no where...but because THEY HID IT to hide the truth of who he is.
What’s ironic even if we were to pretend for purposes of discussion, the story were 100% accurate (which the family disputes)
I would bet good money, that the misfit encountering peer pressure and having his freak hairdo cut like any normal person, was PRECISELY why his parents sent him to an exclusive prep school, to have happen.
The parents almost certainly wanted that. It’s why he ended up there. Back then, it was either than, or the Army.
I would go further, and bet they gave him that exact choice.
They very likely sent him there, because they did not know how to handle him, and wanted their son to be normal.
The GOP-E thought it made itself immune from Democrates by getting Romney in, or they are in complete tack with the progressist agenda for cheap rotten dollars of marketing.
Money was meant so we would be respected from having to reinvent the wheel when born. To honor that these things were given to us and not invented by us, as some atheist crazies seem to think we somehow survived out of the jungle and conquered by hybridization or something.
Thus money is nowadays debauched for “happy gay” products that liberals whore out for RINO CEOs, and this dance of hate is going to go on to its ridiculous levels of utter destruction in pride.
The point is Obama was protected and benefited from heterosexuality just like any woman was to “profit” from a cohort of heterosexual men ready to compete and build gold bridges for them. Now that Obama is in power, it is easy for him to tell the rest of AMerica, liberal or not, to play by the gay-begging rule of misery, without the perks that he benefited from, silver spoon in his mouth.
THIS IS THE WHOLE “SILVER SPOON IN MOUTH HYPOCRISY”, because Zero had one, and Romney or other in their heterosexuality PROTECTED THAT PRIVILEDGE OF HIS SO HE COULD RISE UP.
Now, like a selfish little muslim marxistoidated fool, he takes it from us.
AMERICA! OBAMA! THE JOKE IS ON YOU!!!!
In your fevered rut, you seem damn hot to extinguish freedom in one generation.
You’d swear some of these folks are on the Obama payroll with their attacks.
It’s absolutely reprehsible. Non-stop... Sick really
A brilliant idea. Let's get the bright, shining light of truth on Obama's background once and for all.
For all we know it wasn’t even a “fag” but... he was being weird. Long bleached hair. You aren’t born with that.
NO.
ONE.
CARES.
The press has left 'biased' and gone straight to 'surreal'.
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