Posted on 05/10/2012 8:50:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thankfully, our long national nightmare is over:
Mitt Romney apologized on Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said “might have gone too far,” including an incident in which he pinned down a fellow student and cut his hair.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was responding to an article published a few hours earlier by The Washington Post documenting the episode with first-hand accounts from Romney’s classmates.
“Back in high school, I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that,” Romney said in a live radio interview with Fox News Channel personality Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.”
Romney’s campaign hastily scheduled the radio interview for the candidate to call in from Omaha, where he is holding a campaign event later Wednesday, to respond to The Post’s report.
Politically speaking, this was the smart thing to do. Other campaigns would have tried challenging the veracity of the stories and/or the motives of the witnesses, but that’s a losing proposition. The more a campaign debates those points, the longer the story goes, and the more legitimacy it has in the media. Instead, the Romney campaign made it an old story before it began to grow legs by just expressing remorse over any cruelty that may have taken place in high school.
I eagerly await the next set of stories about how in middle school Romney refused to give cuts in line to kids from low-income families, or how he shamelessly violated the “exies-no-erasies” rule in elementary school with his female classmates.
Say what you want about Romney, but he is smart for simply apologizing for "whatever it is he might have done" and making it old news. If Elizabeth Warren adopted that tactic, nobody would be talking about "Fauxahontas" today and Scott Brown would still be worried. It seems that, unlike McCain, Romney is in this to actually win.
Obama's internal polls must really suck for him to resort to this desperation move.
What retread troll are you ?
Who's facts? Yours?
Here's one article on this topic from the Wall Street Journal. You can easily look up others.
I’m not your enemy. Go harass someone else.
Playing the victim, eh ? How like a Willardbot. Attacking Diogenesis for posting the facts about that Socialist abomination and when called on it, you whine like a baby.
What are you, joined at the hip? He can’t fight his own battles? Get lost
Tell you what, instead of attacking respected Conservative posters, how ‘bout YOU get lost, n00b troll ? Go over to some Willardfanboi website to do your brown-nosing of your Socialist idol.
Get lost
What was your last handle before you got zotted, troll ?
Welcome to IGNORE
Just what I thought. Can’t answer a straightforward question. Another punk retread troll.
I’m not interested in silly banter with you. I’m interested in defeating Obama. Whether that’s Romney or a local dog catcher...
Your insults are really mature. Wow
RE: Romney is apologizing for something 45 years ago?
Actually closer to 50 years ago.
He apologized “if he did anything to upset anyone”... This hit piece has been thoroughly debunked
You guys are SO predictable. You Willardbots whine how you’ll ignore and never respond (!) to folks calling you out, but yet you never keep your word, and keep on coming back to complain and play the victim. So like your Socialist idol, Willard. Weak and lame.
Infactuated with me much?
Sorry, sugarplum. I don’t play for YOUR team. Go try Ann Coulter.
I have way better things to do. Way. So go harass someone else
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