Romney bullying allegations grow legs
The stories about Mitt Romney’s bullying behavior as a high school student, first reported in the Washington Post, do not appear to be going away.
Quite the contrary.
“One former classmate and old friend of Romney’s – who refused to be identified by name – said there are “a lot of guys” who went to Cranbrook who have “really negative memories” of Romney’s behavior in the dorms, behavior this classmate describes as “evil” and “like Lord of the Flies.”
The classmate believes Romney is lying when he claims to not remember it.
“It makes these fellows [who have owned up to it] very remorseful. For [Romney] not to remember it? It doesn’t ring true. How could the fellow with the scissors forget it?” the former classmate said.”
While saying that he does not remember specifics, Romney offered an apology of sorts in a radio interview with Fox News:
“I’m not going to be too concerned about their piece. They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school and they describe some that, well you just say to yourself, ‘back in high school, well, I did some dumb things’ and if anybody was hurt by that or offended obviously I apologize but overall high school years were a long time ago.”
Romney also says that at the time, he had no idea that the victims of his pranks may have been gay, since they didn’t come out of the closet until much later. That’s quite plausible. In one case in which Romney is described as leading an attack on a student, the victim’s alleged mistake was to have worn his hair too long.
The Romney campaign is reportedly reaching out to former classmates, asking them to come forward and vouch for the candidate’s behavior and character. It’ll be interesting to hear what they have to say. This story has a ways to play out yet.
Two closing points:
– It’s important to note that Romney was 18 at the time. None of us is the person that we were at 18. Norms of social behavior were also different back then.
– That said, the behaviors described are troubling. Having learned of the allegations, The Washington Post had an obligation to report them. If you read the entire , lengthy Post story, it does a good job of putting the allegations into context, including anecdotes that speak well of the future GOP nominee. Neither the story nor Romney should be judged based on incomplete information.
– Jay Bookman
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Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 11th, 2012
7:30 am
Thank Gawd the Avon Ladies disbanded or they would be next.
Anyway the Catholic hierarchy have a history with this…Witch hunts, anyone?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 11th, 2012
7:30 am
USinUK
The Catholic Church and the scouts….I too am pissed.
If I could find it I’d return my Marian Award.
Damn fools to be sure.
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
7:31 am
And further to the point I began making @ 7.20 in response to RB’s typical cluelessness?
Most people draw a distinction between OBama’s indiscretions and Romney’s because, you see, a relatively harmless little dalliance with recreational drugs – whether legal or not — is something virtually everyone can own up to.
Organizing a group of thugs to hunt down some kid who just doesn’t look right, and cut his hair while he screamed for help? When you’re old enough to know better and are fully aware that what you’re doing is wrong?
Well no. Most people haven’t done anything remotely like that. At least not the “organizing a group of thugs” bit, which dovetails nicely with Mitt’s career as a vulture capitalist at Bain.
But like I said, I really don’t think the so-called liberal media will give this anything like the attention the Sh-t Float Liars received in 2004. If they were really biased liberal, as conservatives virtually ALL claim, they would. It’d be a top story at cnn.com; it’d top the news.google.com amalgamator.
It isn’t; it doesn’t. It’ll wind up just being another reason a lot of people who already find Romney kind of a jerk, will continue finding him kind of a jerk.
nelsonhowar
May 11th, 2012
7:32 am
I was bullied. I hardly see it as an impediment to being president. 50 years after the fact, the DEMOCRATS ARE in full RETREAT when they put something like this over the airways and it shows how desperate the media is to put non news in the news. You would think the deplorable condition of the economy, unemployment, JP Morgan losing 2 billion, dismal middle east would be issues. You all desrve 4 more years.
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
7:33 am
It’s important to note that Romney was 18 at the time.
yes, it is important. That’s pretty f-cking old to be doing that sort of thing, frankly.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 11th, 2012
7:33 am
Normal
But what about the Tupperware ladies? Pampered Chef?
OMG!
Save the burping plastic tubs! Protect your potato peeler!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 11th, 2012
7:33 am
I just think that, after last month’s screed against American nuns paying too much attention to the poor and the sick and not enough attention to birth control and abortion, this story shows a VERY disturbing trend
the Catholic Church has always had a crappy attitude towards the concept of women as equals – this just further cements it that they are MORE concerned about women NOT having control over their own lives than they are about education, esteem and a positive future
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 11th, 2012
7:35 am
nelson
got character?
or just a milk moustache?
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug
May 11th, 2012
7:36 am
“DEMOCRATS ARE in full RETREAT when they put something like this over the airways and it shows how desperate the media is to put non news in the news”
if you think THIS is desperate, then I’d LOVE to hear your opinion of “Obama ate dog as a child”
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
7:37 am
I hardly see it as an impediment to being president. 50 years after the fact…
Agreed, nelsonhowar.
But as for being so contemptibly craven to feign not remembering it???
That is.
And you party faithful just letting him get away with it???
Screw Willard. More than ever he deserves his upcoming thrashing…
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 11th, 2012
7:39 am
The Catholic Church is trying to rein in their “flock” because they know that the people of the world aren’t buying what they are selling anymore. The End Of Days are coming and by that I mean the time when people stop believing their BS and they lose their power base. After all, It’s all about power and not spirituality.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 11th, 2012
7:40 am
Granny Godzilla – Union Thugette
May 11th, 2012
7:33 am
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
7:40 am
But as for being so contemptibly craven to feign not remembering it???
I remember the dumb bad stuff I did in high school all those years ago. But then again, I’m not a sociopath.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
7:40 am
Enter your comments here
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
7:41 am
oops
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 11th, 2012
7:43 am
J. P. Morgan lost 2 billion? I wonder if that means the C.E.O. will get a bigger bonus?
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
7:43 am
I suspect that the papists are in a very unflattering way, a lot like the GOP.
The farther up the food chain one travels, the more the stench…
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
7:44 am
J. P. Morgan lost 2 billion? I wonder if that means the C.E.O. will get a bigger bonus?
Jamie Dimon: “Mistakes were made. Just not by me.”
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
7:44 am
“J. P. Morgan lost 2 billion? ”
it was a WHALE of a deal!!!
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
7:45 am
But then again, I’m not a sociopath.
And being a sociopath is more or less a requirement for running for political office as a Gooper. You’ve got to be deliberately anti-empathetic. You have to consider empathy as optional, at best, and ridicule someone who’d mention it as a quality he’d like to see in, say, a Supreme Court justice.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 11th, 2012
7:47 am
I lost a twenty once.
Mr. G claimed it in the dryer.
Did Mr. Dimon check the Maytag?
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
7:47 am
ByteMe, not that I would ask you to bother , but I believe if you go back through this thread, you will not find even one Republican here who denounced Willard’s disgraceful “memory problem”.
Not one.
I wish that this miscreants were atypical of their beloved party, but sadly i suspect that, at least in Georgia, they are the very poster boys of it.
And this has nothing to do with politics, but I have always intensely disliked cowards like them and Willard…
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
7:48 am
I’d LOVE to hear your opinion of “Obama ate dog as a child”
…”and we dumbass Goopers only happened to have noticed this *17 years* after his book was published, where he’d clearly stated it.”
Don’t forget to add that; it always makes the whole meme all the more delicious.
Mick
May 11th, 2012
7:48 am
On romneys past life-
Chick a boom, chick a boom, don’t you just love it?
Peadawg
May 11th, 2012
7:50 am
“And being a sociopath is more or less a requirement for running for political office” period. Take your blinders off and end the sentence right there, sport.
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
7:51 am
Normal, dig this…
The global banking giant HSBC is a “criminal” operation, charges a former officer for the company’s southern New York region in a video interview with WND.
John Cruz, a former vice president and relationship manager, has turned over to WND more than 1,000 pages of documents, including customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through which, he charges, the financial institution was laundering money each month.
“It was supposed to be a shipping company that does over $2 million a year in transactions,” Cruz said, recognizing the HSBC computer-generated account ledger. “But the ledger shows millions and millions of dollars in transaction, but the transactions are all through PayPal and American Express.”
Cruz also described his visit to see the company in person.
“There were two employees on site that didn’t speak English,” he recalled. “The only evidence of any packaging being done was a couple of small boxes in the corner.”
WND presented Cruz Exhibit B, showing a redacted HSBC account ledger for a company with over $1.34 million in deposits and $1.23 million in withdrawals in a one-month period from July 21, 2009, to Aug. 20, 2009.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/banking-giant-hsbc-a-criminal-enterprise/
In my best Republican accent…
A corporate crime wave?
What corporate crime wave?
I don’t see any corporate crime wave!
Do you see any corporate crime wave?
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
7:52 am
Take your blinders off
really, Pea? You think those Democrats who are supporting, say, this
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70
do so out of sociopathic motivation? Please to explain.
fair and balanced
May 11th, 2012
7:54 am
And this is the candidate who said it was wrong for Obama to pull all troops out of Iraq despite the end of our legal right to be there.He also said he would approve military action with Iran. Typical chickenhawk neocon who wants to prove how macho he is.Maybe if he gets elected he can do one of those “mission accomplished” stunts like George W.
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
May 11th, 2012
7:54 am
Bullying is making news in other areas this year. This Romney story is very appropriate.
Midori
May 11th, 2012
7:55 am
50 years after the fact, the DEMOCRATS ARE in full RETREAT when they put something like this over the airways…
um Norman — exactly WHICH democrats are putting this on the airwaves?
Peadawg
May 11th, 2012
7:56 am
“really, Pea?”
Yes, really.
nelsonhowar
May 11th, 2012
7:32 am
I agree. All this crap about Obama eating dog when he was little and Romney bullying someone 40 years ago is sad. Anything to distract from the real issues.
Mick
May 11th, 2012
7:56 am
Actually, this little episode in romney’s past falls right in line with his life’s pathway, at bain he took the scissors to many a weaker company…
Peadawg
May 11th, 2012
7:57 am
HaHa Luckovich’s cartoon today is perfect.
Jm
May 11th, 2012
7:59 am
Romney probably gave someone a swirly at some point too
Oh noes!!!!!
Jm
May 11th, 2012
8:01 am
Once, Romney didn’t use his turn signal
Shocker!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:02 am
“Don’t forget to add that; it always makes the whole meme all the more delicious.”
let’s not forget they’re also comparing what an ADULT did to his dog to what a CHILD was fed.
but, hey.
tomayto … tomahto
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:02 am
jm
Seems like your saintly hero has some peculiar skeletons lurking around in that closet! Then again, who doesn’t? Man, if anyway is crazy enough to want that job you need to be ready for it all to come out, then deal with it. It’s the toughest political slog on earth…
bob
May 11th, 2012
8:02 am
Lets look at Obama’s past. If the MSM can dig up some high school kids from forty years ago maybe they can find out why Obama has a phoney Social Security card.
Jm
May 11th, 2012
8:03 am
What’s next? College pledging stories?
Dumb
Lefties have lost it.
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:03 am
usinuk
How the hell are you? Summer euro trip is out this year, olympics mess is a deterrant, going to canada instead but….see you next year!!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:04 am
The devastated mother of 10-year-old Ashlynn Conner spoke up about the bullying that she says led to her daughter’s suicide. Stacy Conner broke down, as she recounted how kids at school and around the neighborhood would tease the girl.
“They’d call her a slut,” said a tearful Conner, “Ashlynn’s ugly. She’s fat.”
Conner, a single mother, says it’s been going on for years. She knew her daughter was picked on, but she didn’t know what to do. They had talked about the bullying before, but Conner says Ashlynn never told her things were this bad. The girl had asked to be home-schooled after coming home Thursday. When her mother said no, Ashlynn’s sister found her the next day in a bedroom closet. She had hanged herself with a scarf.
“I thought my kids were strong,” sobbed Conner, “That my words to them for guidance and advice would have more weight than what these kids were saying. I was wrong.”
Ashlynn Conner was a 5th grader at Ridge Farm Elementary. She recently made it onto the school’s Honor Roll and aspired to become a veterinarian.
“She loved animals,” said her Grandmother, Lory Hackney. “She didn’t want to see any of them sick or hurting.”
WCIA reached out to the Georgetown Ridge Farm School District. No one was available this weekend, but they did issue a news release.
“The Board of Education is very saddened at the tragic loss of one of our children. Our hearts go out to her family in this time of loss, said the release. The district said counselors would also be available Monday to speak with students and family.
Ashlynn Conner’s family is heartbroken. They’re still struggling to cope with the loss, hoping that sharing Ashlynn’s story can keep it from happening to someone else.
“I don’t know what its gonna take to stop it,” said Conner, “but no child should ever feel like they have to kill themselves to stop that kind of pain.”
http://illinoishomepage.net/fulltext/?nxd_id=310257
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:04 am
A 14-year-old boy who blogged about being suicidal due to being incessantly bullied at school has been found dead outside his home in an apparent suicide.
Jamey Rodemeyer, from Buffalo, New York, cried for help online for months before his death and his family and friends said suicide was a popular topic with him.
He regularly posted about being bullied at school and how people would launch gay insults at him.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039801/Bullied-gay-teen-Jamey-Rodemeyer-commits-suicide-Thanks-Lady-Gaga-post.html#ixzz1uYuKn4Mi
Jm
May 11th, 2012
8:04 am
Mick
No doubt
His record is cleaner than 98% of americans’
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:05 am
A 14-year-old girl whose Facebook page says she loves ” all my haterz” has committed suicide after enduring two years of bullying by her female classmates, her family claims.
Eden Wormer, an eighth grader at Cascade Middle School in Vancouver, Wash., hanged herself Wednesday.
The girl’s family told ABC News affiliate KATU that she committed suicide after two years of being bullied by girls in her class. Wormer’s older sister, Audri, told the station that Eden changed her appearance several times in an effort to fit in, and begged her older sister not to report the bullying because she thought it would only make the problem worse.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/bullied-teen-commits-suicide-posting-loves-haterz/story?id=15887174#.T60Ad8W4J8E
Recon 0311 2533
May 11th, 2012
8:05 am
If this and the family dog story is the best that the left has it will be a cake walk for Romney in November. Pathetic desperation.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:05 am
yep
bullying = not turning on his blinker
independent thinker
May 11th, 2012
8:05 am
Peadawg- great comment. Fits the flip flopper to a T.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:06 am
Mick – we’ll leave a light on for ya!!!
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:08 am
jm
You miss the boat by accusing the left, that’s incorrect it’s any type of sensationalist journalism; national enquirer, tmz, etc…I cringe at some of the things in my past that could be laid bare with an improper spin – too late, the 24 hour news cycle would be very difficult to counteract…
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:09 am
Once, Romney didn’t use his turn signal
Shocker!
Yes, jm, if I were in your shoes and had your warped motivations, I might consider looking for ways to make it seem like no big deal that your guy was a sociopath.
Of course, what that says about you is…
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:09 am
Once, Romney didn’t use his turn signal
ok, Jm, you’re seriously trying to draw equivalence between that, and an 18 year old Romney herding a small band of thugs and hunting down this “effeminate looking” kid and terrorizing him.
Thanks for confirming your psychopath status. You’re a good Gooper.
SAnford
May 11th, 2012
8:12 am
This is almost as hard hitting as the stories done on Obama’s high school years, so it can’t be much. Those Obama stories never made it to the editor’s desk, and even though he’s in another presidential race, the Obama background stories will be assigned.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:12 am
Thanks for confirming your psychopath status
I think the right term is “sociopath”, not “psychopath”.
Biden proves catalyst for Obama on gay marriage
May 11th, 2012
8:12 am
After nearly single-handedly pushing gay marriage to the forefront of the presidential campaign and inadvertently pressuring President Barack Obama to declare his support for same-sex unions, there was only one thing left for Vice President Joe Biden to do: apologize.
Biden’s mea culpa came Wednesday in the Oval Office, shortly before the president sat for a hastily arranged interview in which he told the American people that he now supported gay marriage.
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/11/11653498-biden-proves-catalyst-for-obama-on-gay-marriage
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:12 am
let’s not forget they’re also comparing what an ADULT did to his dog to what a CHILD was fed.
I don’t forget that. But these are psychopaths we’re dealing with here, and they simply don’t care.
Not noticing it for 17 years? Blowing that opportunity? That, they care about. And I’ll continue to ridicule them over it mercilessly.
Tundra Dude
May 11th, 2012
8:12 am
If this and the family dog story is the best that the left has it will be a cake walk for Romney in November. Pathetic desperation.
Rong!
Allan Lichtman, the American University professor whose election formula has correctly called every president since Reagan’s 1984 re-election, has Obama taking a second term.
The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President
http://bit.ly/KdBN3a
kayaker 71
May 11th, 2012
8:13 am
So, now Romney is a sociopath. You liberals are pathetic.
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:14 am
Bullying today is very serious business, especially with all the internet tools available. In my time, it was a right of passage, a very unpleasant one just the same, but I don’t recall anyone being suicidal abaout it…
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:14 am
I think the right term is “sociopath”, not “psychopath”.
Meh. Basically the same, but if you want to split hairs, here’s how.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Psychopathy_vs._sociopathy
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:15 am
So, now Romney is a sociopath.
Well, hardly just Romney, K-71.
First step is recognizing you have a problem.
Jm
May 11th, 2012
8:16 am
So now Romney is a sociopath psychopath?
The left is obviously losing and grasping at straws
Oh dear
Recon 0311 2533
May 11th, 2012
8:16 am
Wow, you mean THEE Allan Lichtman.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:17 am
So, now Romney is a sociopath. You liberals are pathetic.
Nope, we’re just labeling things just the way we learned from cons like Newtie.
How’s it feel, sociopath-supporter?
kayaker 71
May 11th, 2012
8:17 am
Meanwhile, USinUK wants us to think that that people like that evil Romney were responsible for kids hanging themselves. That’s quite a stretch for even you, USinUK.
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:19 am
USinUK wants us to think that that people like that evil Romney were responsible for kids hanging themselves.
well no. She’s asserting that bullying has serious consequences; that it’s not merely failure to use a turn signal or (hey, let’s go there) trying a little weed and coke at a time when both were in incredibly widespread use and there was little social stigma attached.
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:19 am
So, this is all the lefts fault? This is friggin presidential politics circa 2012 with the internets and all, what did you expect? There’s probably a whole lot more coming, it’s a dog eat dog world, if you get my drift…
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:20 am
it’s a dog eat dog world, if you get my drift
Yeah, I always wondered about that: DO dogs drive with other dogs on top of their car??
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
8:20 am
Jm, loves his lying candidate.
Shocker!
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:21 am
**Yeah, I always wondered about that: DO dogs drive with other dogs on top of their car??**
Nah – they put cats up there…
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:21 am
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, once again, Kayaker hears the POINT as it goes whooshing over his little, shallow head
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:22 am
Nah – they put cats up there…
Far Side calendar reference?
Recon 0311 2533
May 11th, 2012
8:22 am
“In my time, it was a right of passage, a very unpleasant one just the same, but I don’t recall anyone being suicidal abaout it…”
Mick, that’s what the entitlement society has brought us, children who aren’t learning to cope with adversity even the growing up process is being politicized.
SBinF
May 11th, 2012
8:22 am
Funny happenstance, the biggest jerk in my high school class grew up to work as a lawyer for a prominent conservative legal advocacy group. He was racist, sexist, and a general bigot.
Now this story with Romney. I wonder if there’s a connection. Romney could have ended this quickly by admitting that he did it, then admitting that it was wrong. Instead, he claims to have no memory of the incident which means a. he’s a sociopath, b. he’s assaulted so many people during his life that he can’t remember them all, or c. he’s lying.
The story was independently corroborated by several people, yet he has no memory?
Lastly, holding someone down to cut their hair? I must wonder who the gay one is in that scenario…..
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:23 am
Byte Me – they can’t – they drive convertables
http://www.sonlight.com/images/products/TA10-l.jpg
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
8:23 am
If this lie-filled and disgusting attempt at covering up this incident is the best that the right has it will be a a second consecutive RINO getting McCained in November.
Pathetic desperation that Tundra could not be the very first Republican here to even broach the subject of Willard’s veracity problem.
And I love it…
kayaker 71
May 11th, 2012
8:24 am
Anything to divert from the real election issues. Next it will be Sherrif Joe Arpaio is a self avowed racist, Jan Brewer hates women and anyone who thinks that Bozo shouldn’t marry himself is certainly a homophobe. Do anything, say anything…. desperation prevails. It’s just going to get worse, liberals.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:24 am
“children who aren’t learning to cope with adversity even the growing up process is being politicized.”
holy
effing
crap
you, sir, should be ashamed of yourself.
we’re not talking wedgies or being shoved into a locker
we’re talking 360-degree harassment … in person … online … at school … at home … these kids are living in HELL and it’s a-holes like you that tell them that they’re part of the problem
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 11th, 2012
8:24 am
I wonder why that when President Obama was a kid and had no control of what was on the dinner table, it was such serious stuff that he ate dog meat, yet when an 18 year old Mitt, who did have control of the situation, committed an act of extreme bullying (not to mention assault and battery) is an act of “pathetic desperation” on the part of Liberals in pointing this out?
The disconnect here is quite telling. Sometimes I wonder if the general Republican has a soul.
Tundra Dude
May 11th, 2012
8:25 am
Wow, you mean THEE Allan Lichtman.
Ya, the one that’s 7 for 7 …..
you got one right yet…??
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:25 am
Byte Me – they can’t – they drive convertables
“I DO, I DO like that hat!”
My 5-year-old was reading it out loud to himself the other morning.
Mick
May 11th, 2012
8:26 am
recon
No, it has nothing to do with entitlement, it’s more of a self esteem issue. Never the less, it’s a brave new world out there and all I can say about it is that I’m pretty thankful that I experienced a completely different time warp. I’m not going to judge this because you always meet the client where the client is at…
Recon 0311 2533
May 11th, 2012
8:27 am
“HELL and it’s a-holes like you that tell them that they’re part of the problem”
I didn’t say they were the problem, I said a$$ holes like you are the problem.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:28 am
we’re talking 360-degree harassment … in person … online … at school … at home … these kids are living in HELL and it’s a-holes like you that tell them that they’re part of the problem
Holding a kid down while you perform some physical act on him is something you can be arrested for. But some fools think it’s just “part of growing up”.
And a Presidential candidate who does it somehow can’t remember it… and issues a non-apology for it. And the same fools here are happy to support him, because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking life will be better for them with that type of candidate in the White House.
Pathetic fools.
Peadawg
May 11th, 2012
8:29 am
“And a Presidential candidate who does it” – He does it now? Still? You’ve got proof of this I’m sure.
REAL ISSUES PEOPLE. MOVE ON.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:29 am
Recon – ooooo … so my saying that they SHOULDN’T be persecuted online and in school is actually the cause of the suicides ..
my god, man, the pretzel logic you employ would make the Utz family green with envy.
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
8:30 am
Anything to divert from Mitt’s little problem with telling the damn truth.
Cowards for Willard in 2012!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 11th, 2012
8:31 am
“But some fools think it’s just “part of growing up”.”
and think that WE’RE part of the problem for saying that it’s flat out WRONG
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:31 am
And a Presidential candidate who does it
Yeah, my bad on tense.
Like I said, though: it’s not so much that he was a bully in high school. It’s that his memory of his dad laying off workers makes him laugh NOW. You can take the boy out of high school, but it seems you can’t take the pathology out of the boy.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 11th, 2012
8:32 am
A picture of Mitt at his school…
http://www.quora.com/The-Far-Side-comic/What-is-the-best-Gary-Larson-The-Far-Side-cartoon
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
8:32 am
Mick, that’s what the fake Christian, dead red Republican society has brought us, adults who aren’t learning that just telling the damn truth is the right thing to do…
massachusetts refugee thug
May 11th, 2012
8:35 am
willard wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on his white, pasty butt. but then again, neither would the current WH occupier…
kayaker 71
May 11th, 2012
8:36 am
So, the liberal logic seems to prevail here that we should go through another four years of lies, deception, favoritism, lack of leadership, big government, strangling debt, lack of domestic growth, homes in the tank, unemployment still over 8%…… just because Romney might of bullied some kid with blond hair in high school. Makes sense to me.
Tundra Dude
May 11th, 2012
8:36 am
I think there’s a reason Romney was a 2nd-stringer in 2008, promoted to 1st team this year
by default.
from BLOOMBERG:
Obama Winning Investors by 49%-38% Against Romney in Poll
May 10, 2012
Global investors increasingly prefer President Barack Obama to Republican challenger Mitt Romney and most say they believe the incumbent will remain in the White House for another four years.
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:37 am
Next it will be Sherrif Joe Arpaio is a self avowed racist
that’s hardly news.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 11th, 2012
8:38 am
I stopped still after reading this:
Mick, that’s what the entitlement society has brought us, children who aren’t learning to cope with adversity even the growing up process is being politicized.
You mean like the adversity of being anally raped at Penn State?
Or dragged to your death?
What the hell is wrong with you?
RECON – you are a piss poor example of a human being.
Joseph
May 11th, 2012
8:38 am
Oh yeah? And so has Obama’s antics when he was in high school.. Smoking dope beating women and snorting cocaine… Just the life of your average student in the 70’s LOL… I’m amazed that you freaks on the left don’t realize that when you try and make up an issue about Romney you don’t fact check how pathetic Obama was in his youth….
ByteMe - Political thug
May 11th, 2012
8:39 am
just because Romney might of bullied some kid with blond hair in high school. Makes sense to me.
K71 sees tree. Misses forest all around him.
Shocker.
stands for decibels
May 11th, 2012
8:39 am
Yeah, Del’s on my “can’t kick off soon enough to suit me” list at present. Maybe he can redeem himself. Maybe not.
Anyway, Wall Street oopsie sheetz.
JamVet
May 11th, 2012
8:41 am
So, 71’s logic seems to prevail here, among the Friends of the Lying Republicans Club, that we should go through another four years of lies, given that his socialist communist Marxist candidate just got caught red-handed lying.
Brilliant…
kayaker 71
May 11th, 2012
8:43 am
This whole thing reminds me of a cartoon of a woman standing on a sinking ship named the United States of America, holding tightly to the rail as the ship goes down, yelling , “At least they didn’t take away my birth control pills”.