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Liberal media slamming Mitt Romney unfairly for actions in high school -- What’s next a demand that he apologizes for passing gas?

Posted on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 09:04 AM

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What will Mitt Romney have to apologize for next?

Being born perhaps, being Republican maybe, perhaps for having a strong marriage and successful kids.
The liberal media has really shown its colors on this occasion slamming Romney for being a high school bully --allegedly.

Show me a high school kid and I’ll show you someone who at some point or other bullied or was bullied.

It is called growing-up but in the PC world we live in it seems Romney’s actions almost a half century ago are fair game in this election.

Actually I’d like to know if he passed gas anytime in the past ten years and whether he apologized for that awful sin.

The GOP presidential hopeful has apologized for behavior that might have hurt anyone after he was described as the high school bully, picking on a boy he thought was gay, in a lengthy Washington Post report.

The article describes a young Romney as the leader of a pack of students at Cranbrook School, Michigan, where he bullied students, including one incident where he cut off a student’s long blonde hair as the victim screamed for help.

Oh my goodness, call the police and the Lord High Executioner?

Romney’s team told the Post he did not recall the incident, involving his fellow student who died in 2004, but other students described the attack as “vicious”.

The student with long blonde hair was John Lauber. A number of years later according to the Post’s article Lauber came out as gay to his friends and close family, after he was expelled from Cranbrook.

In the article described how Romney marched “out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair.

“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Thomas Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”

Romney the gay bully boy -- how convenient in the week that Obama came out agreeing with gay marriage. Except it was a half -century ago, kids are kids, cruel yes and stupid also.
But this incident does not belong in a presidential race.

On Thursday morning Romney apologized for his action while speaking to the Fox show “Kilmeade and Friends”.

He told the host Brian Kilmeade “Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that…I participated in a lot of high jinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.”

Romney denied that particular incident had occurred due to the sexual orientation.

“I don’t remember that incident. I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual.
That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s, so that was not the case.”

Romney’s spokesperson told the Post “anyone who knows Mitt Romney knows that he doesn’t have a mean-spirited bone in his body. The stories of 50 years ago seem exaggerated and off base and Governor Romney has no memory of participating in these incidents.”

The Washington Post’s report also describes how Romney mistreated a near-blind teacher at the high school. According to report Romney allegedly guided the teacher, affectionately known as, “The Bat” into a closed door.

Up next how Romney tortured a house fly he captured in a bottle while Barack Obama fought for the fly’s release.

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pilib04 | May 11, 2012, 09:41 PM EDT

Patrick Roberts seems like the perfect apologist for mittens.

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pilib04 | May 11, 2012, 09:36 PM EDT

It's called character. Something Mittens does not have. That's why he is able to do all these switches on a moments notice. The high school bullying really gives us an insight into where Willard is coming from. As for BrianO, what are you babbling about teamObama? You don't even know the difference between the anti-Irish pig Churchill and George Santayana (Those who fail to learn from history...). Is feidir linn.

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jamthecat | May 11, 2012, 09:24 PM EDT

So you mean it's okay for Fox to rant and rave about Obama going to school in Indonesia or Trump to wonder why Obama hasn't released his grades as far back as kindergarten, but it's not okay for the media to point out that Mitt Romney has always been a bully and a sneak? Okay...typical of your sort, but also very obvious and getting to be ridiculous.

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BrianO | May 11, 2012, 07:55 PM EDT

So was Mr. Lauper gay and did he want the world to know his personal life? So nice of team Obama to make that choice for him after he has passed. headline should read** Obama outs Romney Highschool classmate,** It's more truthful than the washington post lead.

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MegK311 | May 11, 2012, 06:04 PM EDT

Obama and his supportors don't have anything of substance to run on so they go for this type of trash talk. What I want to know is where are the jobs and how are they going to get out of the way so that small business people can create jobs.

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seanfer7 | May 11, 2012, 05:42 PM EDT

really bullying a class mate and then lying about it so he can lead the free world really

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colbertgirl | May 11, 2012, 05:18 PM EDT

I agree that what happened in high school is pointless in most cases. Just like what Obama ate when he was a 10-year-old kid in Indonesia is pointless.

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PhlutiePhan | May 11, 2012, 05:10 PM EDT

The media was pretty pathetic on this one. I am now waiting for the other shoe to fall. It is my understanding that he "pulled a girl's pigtails" when he was five years old. That should just about cancel out Obimini's rampant drug use which was similar to that of GW.

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seagreen | May 11, 2012, 04:40 PM EDT

Romney could not knock an old lady off a piss pot..

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BelfastJimmy | May 11, 2012, 04:15 PM EDT

Romney - AntiGay Bast**d who can never lead America in anything other than how to fleece the people. "Romney was a leading voice against gay marriage as Massachusetts governor. The courts legalized gay marriage in the state during his tenure, (Even when this became law, Romney attempted to go against the wishes of the courts and citizens of Ma.)but he supported a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. After gay marriage became legal, Romney sought to enforce a statute banning state officials from marrying gay couples from other states. In a speech to conservatives last winter, Romney touted that move, saying he prevented Massachusetts from becoming the "Las Vegas of gay marriage." Romney said Wednesday he supports limiting benefits for same-sex couples. "I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name," he told the Fox TV station in Denver. "My view is the domestic partnership benefits, hospital visitation rights, and the like are appropriate but that the others are not." The Romney campaign did not respond to requests for clarification about which benefits Romney supports and which he does not. Romney also faced an internal issue this month when his openly gay national security spokesman, Richard Grenell, resigned after his support for gay marriage drew intense criticism from conservatives. Grenell, who served as spokesman for then-U.N. Ambassador John Bolton during the Bush administration, said in a statement that Obama is on the "the right side of history," though he suggested the president is playing politics with civil rights." I dread to think of what 'President' Romney will do bring the USA back to the 19/20th century.

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Bythebay | May 11, 2012, 03:59 PM EDT

Yes, if he passes gas he should apologize for that!!

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peterson | May 11, 2012, 03:42 PM EDT

Most of the gas being passed comes from the White House !!!

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peterson | May 11, 2012, 03:34 PM EDT

The stupid Democraps are getting desperate. Even I did some dumb things when I was that age. You see, Obama did not accomplish anything to brag about during the past three years, so they will be digging up dirt and rumors.

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jflanagan | May 11, 2012, 03:00 PM EDT

The sisters and brother of the late alleged victim, who is not here to confirm or deny the story, said on ABC News they were upset their brother was being used for political reasons. Phillip Maxwell gave two previous interviews and never mentioned anything bad about Governor Romney. Now that Romney is the probable Republican Candidate he comes forward with this story? A man drowned a woman in Chappaquidick (sp) and went on to be a long time Senator. Another man was a recruiter for the KKK and became a Senator for a long long time. A political advisor for LBJ tried to get files from the FBI to out a gay Goldwater campaign worker and has a very popular PBS show. These are facts the men did not dispute and yet hearsay testimony is going to bring down Governor Romney? I'm a Democrat and not a Romney supporter but I do find this despicably one sided politics. We suffered enough shame from Kennedy, Byrd and Moyers, let's not compound the shame.

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BrianO | May 11, 2012, 02:56 PM EDT

EK. Thank you for your posts. Your blind devotion to your cause is getting cleare everyday.

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