Romney apologizes
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The Almighty
you are truly deranged.
I never held a kid down & cut off his hair.
Look, I'm being goofy with Munny, but there is no way he doesn't remember that. His claim that he doesn't just isn't credible. That kind of incident is not one that slips through the cracks of the memory, unless his memory is simply god-awful...
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Darla
This is a blatantly false statement without being an actual lie. It is a lie really, but it's got built in deniability. You are implying that the people who witnessed the scissor assault, later stated that Romney changed when he met Ann. That's untrue.
One guy who as far as I can tell, had nothing to do with the scissor assault and so was not one of the witnesses, made this claim:
“Mitt began to change as a person when he met Ann Davies. He gradually became a more serious person. She was part of the process of him maturing and becoming more of the person he is today,” said Jim Bailey, who was a classmate of Romney’s at Cranbrook and later at Harvard.
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Darla
Also the "the love of a good woman turned him around" is so incredibly farcical and patriarchal and really plays into a right wing conservative meme. Permit me to laugh.
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Darla
Or unless committing physical acts of violence was so commonplace to him, a daily or weekly event, that he can't remember them all...
I mean, I suppose that's a possibility.
therein lies the difference between the bully and the bullied - the bully forgets and the bullied never forgets
as for being a kid, he was around 17, the gop tries kids that age as adults
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The Almighty
That is pure nonsense. You are making the above statement because you don't like Romney. Period. Many people don't remember events from their past. You are projecting how 'intense' the moment was. If it wasn't intense for the bullies, it may not stick with them. I know bullies from high school that never saw themselves as such. It certainly stuck with those they picked on, but not them. If Romney was constantly pulling pranks and he thought this was just another, it may not have stuck with him. You just want to paint him as evil for political purposes.
Funny how this nonsense from 50 years ago popped up right as Obama came out in favor of gay marriage. Got all the Dem lemmings to fall in line jumping on this 'vicious hair cutting' rather than on the economy, Obamacare, jobs, the problems in Europe etc... No no no... lets pay attention to a hair cutting a high school kid did 50 years ago.
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Darla
I don't think this is generally true, though it may be in some cases. Have you ever read a really in-depth article about bullying? I have and I've been very moved by the remorse of some of the people who did the bullying. Some of them were badly tormented by guilt themselves. They sought out their victims to attempt to make amends. I think that even this WAPO piece highlights some of that. According to some of the others involved in this, they carried extreme guilt over it all their lives. One of them apologized to the victim years later, in person.
One man appears to have felt no guilt - the man who initiated and led the attack, Mitt Romney.
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The Almighty
This I agree with. I just made a similar comment.
Conservative
Repent, America!
Homosexuals are asking for it. On the other hand, a Christian would not have attacked. But Romney is not Christian.
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The Almighty
yeah... no kids ever grow up, they are all the same exact people they were in high school. R... D... S
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Darla
BULL SF. Bullshit. No one normal considers holding down a screaming person and forcibly cutting their hair off a "prank".
Sorry, you are way off, and dead wrong. Dead wrong.
dang, i missed it
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The Almighty
Wow, you slammed gay people and Mormons all at once... congrats... you are our douche bag of the day award winner.
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The Almighty
no, I was typing it as you posted yours, so it came after your post.
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Darla
Anyone reading my posts on this thread knows this is not my claim. My claim is that people who aren't sociopaths who bullied others, especially in cases where they physically assaulted a screaming kid as happened here, feel and express tremendous remorse over it throughout their lives. Often, they seek out their victims to make amends. To gain forgiveness. They do this because they are tortured by these memories. That is change.
What Mitt did? Not change.
Romney was the son of a governor. He was the epitome of elite. Poor kids have an excuse in a sense for when they bully... they may be reacting to their frustrating social rank. I give rich kids much less slack when they bully. There is something seriously wrong with the kid who has it all and still feels the need to make others feel small in order to lift his own spirit.
I have no respect for Romney. He's the kind of person who straps a dog on a roof.
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The Almighty
yeah, they do. In high school the wrestling team would grab a freshman basketball player at random and wrap him up like a mummy with athletic tape and give him a reverse mohawk. It happened every year and was considered a boys will be boys thing.
Frankly, if the bolded was his m.o. in high school, that's much worse.
You're really downplaying how people are likely to view this. Virtually everyone knew a guy or 2 like this in HS. Many of those people were harassed or bullied by one. That's generally the last guy they'd want to see become President someday.