Thread: Mitt Romney

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by barbaro

Obama will never get these evangelicals.

If the Evangelicals show up at the polls, they will plug their nose and vote for Romney.

The question is (perhaps): how many Evangelicals will show up at the polls.....

Agreed ... bunch of hypocrites in my book. How many show up might depend on the VP choice.

Agree on the hypocrites and agree that the VP choice will be to motivate them to participate.

Saw an interview a month or so ago when he was slamming Turkey over their 'honour' killings, he did not pull any punches.
He quoted numbers and suggested if he got in power that would be a big issue with him, bearing in mind that the US airforce is based there very strategically it was a bold rant.
At least he has direct opinions, not like wishy washy boy Obama.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is one of the Republican front-runners, said U.S. troops "shouldn't be sent all over the world." He called Obama's comments "ill-timed" and "ill-considered."

Cant really argue with that can you?

I mean, he for it before he was against it, wasn't he?

Or was that John Kerry??

GOP tolerance,........


there isn't much of it


Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives

Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.

In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says:

I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.

No women, no Hispanics, no young voters and now no gays: EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives - Right Turn - The Washington Post

GOP voters might have a problem with Romney because of this statement from Grenell,......

I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.

Newt throws his support to Romney

well maybe not

Heh...it's on!

Team Romney Rains on Obama’s Parade



— GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney welcomed President Barack Obama to the Buckeye State on Saturday by parking his campaign bus outside of the site where Obama will hold his first campaign rally of the 2012 campaign.

Romney bus welcomes Obama to Ohio – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

I hope Romney wins, he said recently that he was disgusted with Turkey (NATO) not doing too much to prevent so called honour killings and if he was in charge he would raise that sick issue with a country that wants to join the EU.
Romney to win and the Turks to not join, happy days.

I don't want to hear it. Of course we (or most of us) were assholes when we were younger, but none of us are Presidential material (and either is Romney).

Teasing (other kids) one another when growing up is a part of life. But not to a point where it is vicious.

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[at]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.

The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.

Fuck Romney and his scissors: Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents - The Washington Post

and fuck Romney's (just recent) apology (audio link): Breaking: Romney apologizes for being a fuckin' asshole - Hotair

Heh...Family of Romney's alleged bulling 'victim' says Washington Post story is inaccurate.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post is quietly airbrushing passages in the story.


Also: ABC, “Sister of Alleged Romney Target Has ‘No Knowledge’ of Any Bullying Incident.”


Fail...more examples of Yellow Journalism, eh?

^have to agree with you on this one boon. very stupid indeed to go after Romney for high school pranks.

Phillip Maxwell wishes he had done something to stop it.

Maxwell, a Michigan attorney, is still haunted by what he claims he witnessed on the campus of the state's elite Cranbrook School in 1965: a young Mitt Romney and a group of friends holding down a classmate named John Lauber and cutting off chunks of his long hair.

"It was not an event you take a lot of pride in. And it was that way for all of us," Maxwell told CNN.

Maxwell confirmed the story, first reported in the Washington Post. However, he insisted the incident was far worse than a high school prank.

"I'm a lawyer. I know what an assault is. This kid was scared. He was terrified. That's an assault," Maxwell said.

Romney said in an interview with Fox News Radio he does not recall the incident described in the Post article.

Doesn't remeber? Yeah right: Romney’s former classmate: ‘You have to take it into account’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Originally Posted by raycarey

Quote: Originally Posted by Humbert very stupid indeed to go after Romney for high school pranks. we agree on a lot, but you and i have a very different understanding of the term 'prank'.

The following passage from an article in Vanity Fair puts the event into perspective for me and it makes a more important point.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2012/05/When-the-Mitt-Hits-the-Fan

The incident of hair assault revealed this week that led colleague Bruce Handy to dub Romney "the Demon Barber of Cranbrook" shows the mark of a bully, part of a pattern that goes from strapping his dog to a car roof to "I like to fire people." But I think that Romney as bully misses something larger about the political, public man: He's a coward. He's never gone against the grain, stood up for an underdog or advanced an unpopular cause before it became popular, risked a single gleaming hair off his head, shone any backbone apart from the determination to win, tapped into anything larger than himself, risen to the moment. His selfishness is such that you think conservatives would appreciate him more, since that's their driving ethos. He may have to show some of that old nasty Cranbrook spirit if he truly wants to win their love.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.

Fuck Romney and his scissors: Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents - The Washington Post

sounds like a repressed homosexual becoming a bully to save face,

^
Nice try but Washington Post Romney Hit Piece Implodes.

Today’s unconscionable Washington Post story, which implied without evidence that Mitt Romney was a homophobic bully to one John Lauber back in his high school days five decades ago, has totally imploded.

Timed to drop the day after President Obama’s announced embrace of same-sex marriage, the story set the political world atwitter. But earlier today, Breitbart News reported that the Post had inflated witness testimony. The original Washington Post piece stated the following:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and has long been bothered by the Lauber incident. [emphasis added]

Yet in an interview with ABC News today, White disowned that characterization:

While the Post reports White as having “long been bothered” by the haircutting incident,” he told ABC News he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.

White didn’t know about the incident until this year, but the Post reported that he had “long been bothered” by it. We demanded a correction.

So the Washington Post did what no reputable newspaper should ever do when caught falsifying testimony: it made a stealth correction to its own article. The article now reads:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been “disturbed” by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by The Washington Post. “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.” [emphasis added]

The Post did not note that it had made any correction to the article.

It was irresponsible of the Post to run the hit piece in the first place, especially given its obvious bias; to retract a critical phrase and replace it without noting the retraction is just as bad.

But it gets worse. Tonight, Christine Lauber, John Lauber’s sister, said that she didn’t know anything about the bullying incident. More importantly, she said that the story had factual inaccuracies. Betsy Lauber, another of John’s sisters, told ABC News, “The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family.” Said Christine, “If he were alive today, he would be furious [about the story].” Jason Horowitz, the reporter on the Post story, did speak to both sisters and quoted them in the story – but apparently still botched the facts.


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So sorry there Libs - you failed again!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Nice try but Washington Post Romney Hit Piece Implodes.

Your source has zero credibility and is trying to create spin where it doesn't exist. There is no "implosion" that is pure far right blogosphere hype. Nice try.

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What a finely tuned, well-developed, tasteful, sophisticated sense of humor Willard M. Romney has. Why, who wouldn’t find it difficult to stifle a giggle when discussing animal abuse, assault with a deadly weapon (scissors), bigotry, firings,and cutting programs for those in need?

And somehow, despite all those rib-ticklers, Mitt didn’t remember some of his most notable “pranks”? And by “pranks” I mean vicious, sociopathic behavior.

He was eighteen years old– not nine or ten– when he attacked someone as they cried and screamed for help. Yeah, well, maybe that’s exactly the kind of moment that slips a bully’s mind, but not the bullied, ever, as I can personally attest. Ever.

Glad ol’ Mitt got such a chuckle out of all those youthful indiscretions, they make him seem so “wild and crazy,” so… “human.” Just ask his equally crass supporters, including his economic adviser wife.

How is it that Republicans find it so easy to slam six-year-old Barack Obama for eating dog meat that was fed to him, but find it so offensive when their own candidate is scrutinized for his adult mistreatment of his own dog and young-adult physical and emotional abuse of fellow classmates and a severely sight-challenged teacher?

And speaking of “severely“… the vetting has only just begun, but it’s becoming quite clear that Romney is severely unqualified to hold office.

Family values my ass.

Character Matters! Defining the Republican Mitt will be fun.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

How is it that Republicans find it so easy to slam six-year-old Barack Obama for eating dog meat that was fed to him, but find it so offensive when their own candidate is scrutinized for his adult mistreatment of his own dog and young-adult physical and emotional abuse of fellow classmates and a severely sight-challenged teacher?

Because that's all they got.
Can't run on the economy...they already screwed that up and, even with all the rhetorical tricks they can muster, can't seem to lie their way out of it.
They go for sanctamony often, but invocations of Biblical scripture to support their meanness of the poor, the elderly, and the helpless all fall flat when confronted with the consequences the "morality" brings about.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Nice try but Washington Post Romney Hit Piece Implodes.

Your source has zero credibility and is trying to create spin where it doesn't exist. There is no "implosion" that is pure far right blogosphere hype. Nice try.

Pathetic, three days later, the liberal media is still pushing the debunked Romney bully story. Three days later the liberal media is still ignoring the Obama bully story. And, three days later the liberal media is still ignoring the wishes of a bereaved family. Romney classmate’s family say the media story is “factually incorrect.”

The AP weighs in on the report, The so-called Romney bully story.

When Mitt Romney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up ’60s, corporal punishment was the norm and bullying had a different, more acceptable name: hijinks.
Yet in today’s zero-tolerance world when it comes to, well, just about everything, things haven’t changed all that much for young victims of bullies. Definitions have tightened, become law, but bullying is far from over.
“Bullying’s never going to go away,” said one crusader, ex-Marine James McGibney, a dad who founded a new social network, BullyVille.com, where victims can find help. “What makes it a million times worse is the advent of the Internet.”
There was no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or sexting when several fellow students at a posh Detroit-area prep school say 18-year-old Romney led a boy posse to hold down one among them perceived as different and snip off his bleached blond hair……

Let’s face it, the lamestream media would rather report on this crappy old story than the Obama economy...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Pathetic, three days later, the liberal media is still pushing the debunked Romney bully story.

Not debunked at all, just more bm from BM.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Three days later the liberal media is still ignoring the Obama bully story.

The shove Obama describes is hardly bullying. Not the best way for a kid to handle a situation, but it doesn't compare to leading a gang of 18 year old boys weilding a pair of scissors, getting somebody down on the ground and cutting their hair. Extreme and cruel even by the standards of that day, and a clear look at the fetid ethical foundations of this hollow little man.

I only stopped to read the references because I thought that such a claim could not be made without some factual basis. Wrong. A word of advice for all those reading; never, ever waste your time on BM or his posts.

Originally Posted by MrG

leading a gang of 18 year old boys weilding a pair of scissors, getting somebody down on the ground and cutting their hair. Extreme and cruel even by the standards of that day, and a clear look at the fetid ethical foundations of this hollow little man.

another words,......Romney is guilty of a vicious premeditated hate crime

Right wing media fails again in their desperate attempt to discredit the Mitt Romney bullying story. Truly pathetic, especially the idiot Steve Doocy who reminds me a lot of Ronald Reagan with his ability to say with a straight face what other smarter more calculating and devious people write for him.

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