For those who don’t know what the high school prank was, here’s Ed Morrissey explaining it:
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I guess the Washington Post ran out of stories based on Seamus the Roof-Ridin’ Dog. Despite demonstrating zero curiosity over Barack Obama’s college transcripts to check on just how brilliant the academic actually was, the Post now has a big expose on Mitt Romney’s high school career as … a practical joker:
“Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
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That is a pretty cruel prank. It’s one reason not to vote for a teenager for President. It’s not a story that will cover Romney in glory, but this took place almost half a century ago.
Has Romney apologized for “TANKING” Massachusetts?
Instituting endless fees?
Putting in Murderer-freeing judges?
Apologized for RomneyCARE?
Oh? Not so much.
Now, if he would take the apology one step further and withdraw from the GOP race, we might get somewhere.
See the double standard here? Obama can sit in a hate-filled church for 20 years and make financial contributions. And Obama can HIDE all his school records, but Romney needs to explain pranks from high school!
That settles it................ Romney’s got my vote!
So when will we hear the dirt on O’suckyObummer? Wasn’t he an elite pot smokin, cocaine snorting, private school in Hawaii, Franklin Davis pupil?
Wait till after your coronation flop horse. The EnemaMedia is going to splash it every where.
And you'll still probably win.
This story finds a nice bookend with the NYT’s front page effort to portray George H Bush as a war criminal during WWII, because his diary indicated he strafed some Japanese after sinking their ship.
High school pranks are so much more important than leftists wrecking American society.
How did he evade prison after all these years?
I’m not apologizing for mine. The nuns....nevermind
Oh, good grief. No ones cares what you did in high school or elementary school or pre school......what a flipping wimp.
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.
Since we’re going back to high school on Romney, can we please see obama’s college transcripts? RELEASE THEM NOW. All of them.
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.
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...
Please tell me this is satire.