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 hes 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 Romneys presidential bid....
For independents, its a troubling story.
... They dont 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 Romneys prep-school pals
said they were stunned by the Post report."
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
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 budgets 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 Irans 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 Shells Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. The presidents push for cap-and-tax in the Congress
17. The presidents attempt to unconstitutionally impose cap-and-tax via EPA when the Congress wouldnt pass cap-and-tax
18. The presidents 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 presidents attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order
20. The presidents use of unaccountable czars
21. The presidents refusal to accept Congressional direction vis-a-vis his czars contained in the last 2011 Continuing Resolution
22. The presidents 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 Holders politicization of the Department of Justice, including the black panthers case and the refusal to defend DOMA
24. The presidents use of demonizing rhetoric towards his opponents, such as accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery for money
25. The presidents 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 presidents 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 nations 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 Wizners 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 Californias 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 Justices attack on Arizona for that states exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules
43. The attack on Scott Walker and Wisconsin for the governors and the state legislatures 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 nations 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 cant 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 dont 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 dont 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 Romneys 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 Obamas past.
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