Wow man. That's heavy.
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.
"You Gunky!"
“Notice Obama has never, ever apologized for anything...”
Sure he has:
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=8867
NE Cons
Since May 7, 2012
Get lost, n00b. Willard jock-sniffers aren’t welcome here.
That does it, he just got a bunch of youth votes. College kids can totally identify with this.
I apologize for my fat fingers.
Oh Noe!
I played “Smear the Queer” in Elementary School, so I’m out.
I wish Romney would tackle Axelrod and cut his “Hitler” comb-over.
1. I liked “W”’s approach best: “When I was young and foolish, I was young and foolish”. And he left it at that.
2. In the current public school concern about bullying, I have wondered what typically happens to all the bullies when they grew up? Did they ever apologize or improve? I think it is heartening to know that Romney remembers having been mean to that kid and regrets it. I don’t really care one way or the other how it affects him as a campaigner.
Wow man. That's heavy.
This story has to be one of the more idiotic ones I’ve seen during a presidential campaign.
I was just about to post the Washington Post hit piece. Funny how nobody has come out with memories of Obama’s past.
Romney was idiotic for even apologizing. How about, “Geez it was over 50 years ago when I was young and stupid, get over it.”
RE: Is this a joke?
Really?
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Not a joke.
Here is the AUDIO of Romney’s apology:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/audio-romney-apologizes-for-high-school-bullying
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.
It's obviously the new anti-bulling vigilance that's behind this.
Just like Obama apologized for being mentored by a Communist Party member and pedophile author (Frank Marshall Davis) who as an adult, he later praised in his autobiography?
And the (McCain) GOP 2008 Rollover for the MSM Redux begins!
And you wonder why there is no enthusiasm for Mitt.
Romney apologizes for stepping on a crack and almost breaking his mother's back!
Details at the top of the hour.
-PJ
You ain’t kiddin’!
He’ll also apologize for going through the supermarket express lane with more than 10 items.
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