Mitt Romney — Still A Bully After All These Years
Posted: June 21, 2012 Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, U.S. Politics | Tags: bullying, Mitt Romney, open thread 23 Comments
Mitt Romney, what a prankster he is! There was that time he and five other high school senior held down a gay classmate while Mitt cut his hair off. What a riot that guy is! And what about the time he dressed up as a Michigan state trooper and stopped a car with some of his “friends” in it and scared them half to death?
But that’s nothing compared to the clever pranks the adult Mitt likes to pull. Last night all five of Mitt’s sons were on the Conan O’Brien show and did they ever tell some funny stories about their dear old dad! Watch it:
Hey, who doesn’t love having a stick of butter smashed into his or her face? Good times. And writing “help” on the soles of your “friend’s” shoes when he’s getting married. Ha ha ha, what a riot! I wonder why the guy isn’t “friends” with Mitt anymore? What a spoilsport!
Here are a few Mitt cartoons I came across tonight:
peej
Carissa
bostonboomer
ecocatwoman
mablue2
peggysue22
quixote
skydancingguestblogger
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
Perhaps it’s just me, but that man is a repulsive human being.
It’s definitely not just you.
Reptilian at best. He really is disgusting.
How is it funny to ruin someone’s wedding? There’s something seriously wrong with this person.
Oh come on! He was just kidding. The guy was just a poor sport.
/snark
The best part is that the sons actually felt the need to explicitly spell out that dad ruined the wedding. If they hadn’t, people probably would’ve assumed that generally, nobody actually sees the soles of the groom’s shoes and Willard just pulled him aside afterward and pointed it out and they shared a private chuckle over the harmless little prank. Oy!
I thought it was funny when Josh said that Mitt doesn’t like it when people pull pranks on him.
People of my acquaintance actually EXPECT some type of prank to lighten the seriousness of the wedding. Even the oldest grannies chuckle when they note that somebody had a cool enough relationship with the couple to tease with a harmless gesture…it adds to the fun – that is, unless your wedding is a calculated show to impress folks who don’t really KNOW their own relatives and friends.
I pity “the people of” your “acquaintance.” And I pity you as well.
Must be the season of the troll. Do you suppose Willard is bankrolling this?
*snorts* Actually, many people consider weddings to be a “sacred ritual,” not a “calculated show.” I’m guessing wacky hijinks from another disrespectful prep school punk would not be appreciated when being sealed in the temple, ask Romney. And there’s a difference between laughter and nervous laughter to cover up the deep displeasure that most people would feel if someone presumptuously took it upon himself to act like an ass at someone else’s wedding.
“People of my acquaintance actually EXPECT some type of prank to lighten the seriousness of the wedding”
People of my acquaintance would have kicked Mitt’s ass for cheapening the wedding ceremony, In case you haven’t been in awhile, the lightening up is GENERALLY reserved for the reception.
Many are holding the bus monitor Karen Klein for the attacks she endured, shown in a 10-minute viral video. I finally found an article that expresses my feelings about Karen’s reaction to the horrible abuse by four children whose names and pictures should be made public.
BTW, the fund for Karen is approaching half a million. She should be able to retire and leave something to her grandchildren.
I had read about this and watched the video and was appalled by what occurred. She truly is a forgiving person – one who all of us should try to emulate. There is far too little of patience and serenity in this world.
And btw, I go to the pool every day (broken shoulder exercises etc) and I have met the most wonderful women – all of whom were very successful in their careers and are now retired. Most of those women have that certain something – like Karen. Not one of them are fat and unworthy in my eyes, nor in the eyes of my 23 year old son – he thinks they are great. Not all kids are disgusting, but the ones who are seem to overshadow the ones who are worthwhile.
As an aside, if I found out either of my children had behaved in that disgusting manner – well they knew what their punishment would be. Suffice to type that they never did anything so repulsive and are as disgusted as I by the treatment of this woman.
Even though those horrid little monsters are no doubt going to become masters of the universe and reign over us all one day, it really is a beautiful thing that there are still fundamentally decent, kind, patient and forgiving people like Ms. Klein in our seriously messed up world.
SCOTUS postponed ruling on the health care law until next week.
Jonathan Chait: How badly will SCOTUS screw up Obamacare?
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/how-badly-will-scotus-screw-up-obamacare.html
What an ass!
For all the years I spent earning a meager living as a temp, I found that solid business people who have the ability to ‘inspire’ people to work together rise to the top of their respective companies. We have already seen that the current occupant of the Oval Office has no such substance. In fact – he was reading Doris Kearns Goodwins’ “Team of Rivals” while choosing his Cabinet – as if he had planned his entire life to emulate Lincoln as President. Christ! It’s like giving a sixteen year old on a permit the keys to a formula one car and betting he can actually race it in a field of competitive drivers! The very voters who rejected “politicians” for Hope and Change are the ones who turned the voting machine into a slot machine, rolled the dice and made our elections a casino game the House always wins.
I look at Romney’s “bullying” as coming from a time when it was the LONG HAIR with no other considerations beyond the disrespect it conveyed in the 50’s when the gay obsession didn’t even exist. He (and his wingmen) cut the guy’s hair because it was rebelliously LONG and nothing more. Jesus!
The forced hair-cutting episode occurred in 1965. I too was a senior in high school in 1965, and I can tell you the “gay obsession” was very much in existence at that time and long before. And what Romney and “his wingmen” did was criminal assault.
But thanks for trying.
West coast here — I also in high school about the same time as BB.
California kids wore their hair “long” or today what would be in style. But the teachers were demanding that all the boys wear their hair military short.
What was “long hair” was NOT long. Many guys at my high school refused to join the football team because the neanderthal coach demanded super short hair — Marine short vs Navy short. I lived on a military base at the time — so I damned well know exactly what military short hair looks like.
East coast, West Coast — Romney was a bully.
One thing that has been missed with Romney playing cop with his fake badges — this was happening on the west coast. The Zodiac Killer was very busy back in the 60s and 70s. Real crimes were happening which involved fake IDs. I wonder where Mitt was when some of the fake cops played judged, jury etc. ???
Mitt Romney is virtually devoid of empathy — I believe he may be one of the most empathy deficient personality who hasn’t wound up in jail for some of his pranks — and who knows what else he has gotten away with???
Does it even matter what the motive was? Oh great, they freaking assaulted the kid because he had long hair and not because they thought he was gay. That makes it all better. Kids who are being bullied over their hair or weight or clothes can rejoice in the fact that they’re not being bullied for their sexual orientation (though there actually tends to be quite a strongish link between hair length and how one’s sexual orientation is perceived by Neanderthals). In fact, that’s actually admirable, they attacked him because they believe so strongly in respect. Jesus Christ, if this were Obama there wouldn’t be any scare quotes or justifications for this behavior.
I guess some of us just don’t get Willard’s particular brand of humor. We obviously need to lighten up. /s