Vicious and Idiotic

[Lucrum]

Quote from futurecurrents:

So even at a young age, it was obvious Mitt was no bleeding heart liberal.

Good, all the more reason to vote for him.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from FixedGrin:

+1


But seriously, for everyone, if you find yourself hating or discriminating in anyway, you should stop for a moment and consider how you feel and why you feel that way. You'll realize that you either hate yourself or have a low self esteem.

Does this ridiculous statement apply to liberals who hate conservatives?

 

[FixedGrin]

Quote from Lucrum:

Does this ridiculous statement apply to liberals who hate conservatives?

How is that statement ridiculous? I know you may not be able to explain yourself because you're limited to two sentences for some reason. Yes, it does apply to liberals who hate conservatives.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from FixedGrin:

...Yes, it does apply to liberals who hate conservatives.

Which is just about every liberal here on ET.

 

[indythink75]

Quote from FixedGrin:

How is that statement ridiculous? I know you may not be able to explain yourself because you're limited to two sentences for some reason. Yes, it does apply to liberals who hate conservatives.

The judgement is already in on this lucrum person. Very sad individual, nothing of value to say, just a hate, hate, type of lonely person.

 

[JamesL]

Quote from nutmeg:

What's he going to do, bully Congress?

Didn't someone just try to do this with SCOTUS?

 

[PiggyBank]

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I guess we can mark this as the official beginning of the fall campaign. The liberal media are excited about a trivial incident that happened decades ago in some fancypants private boys school.

I agree that it was not nice and reflects poorly on him. How has his life been since then? He raised a family, was a faithful husband and father, was a dutiful member of his church, rescued the Olympic Games, ran a highly successful business, was a reform governor in one of our worst governed states and now is running for president.

I contrast all that with the media's treatment fo Obama. They have displayed zero interest in his upbringing as a muslim, whether he is or was a citizen of Indonesia, his mentoring by communists, how he got into columbia and Harvard Law, how he got on the law Review, how he became president of the Review without producing any scholarly work, how he got a prestigious job at University of Chicago Law without ever writing any scholarly articles or having a judicial clerkship, who actually wrote his bestselling books, his association with mobster Tony Resko, his association with black liberationist preacher jeremiah Wright, his association with admitted domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, how dirty laundry from not one but two sealed divorce cases of opponents were leaked during his Senate campaign, etc etc etc.

I contrast Romney's record of accomplishment with Obama's one page resume: he got a make work job at the University of Chicago where he was held to far lower standards than any other faculty member, he was an organizer for ACORN, he was a local pol, he ran errands for mobster Tony Resko, somehow he got elected to the Senate, then immediately ran for president.

Not that there is a double standard or anything.

Well said. Romney bullied some kid in prep school (oh no), Obama has a life full of relationships with scummy, radical characters and sealed records. No one with any sense of objectivity can compare the two and come to the conclusion that Mittens has the more shady past.

 

[futurecurrents]

Quote from PiggyBank:

Well said. Romney bullied some kid in prep school (oh no), Obama has a life full of relationships with scummy, radical characters and sealed records. No one with any sense of objectivity can compare the two and come to the conclusion that Mittens has the more shady past.

" full of relationships with scummy, radical characters "

.........according to right-wing conspiracy nuts everywhere whose judgement is highly questionable. And relationships are a little different than actual participation in scummy acts......... like Mitt's was. Yes Mitt was a leader. He LEAD those others guys in this cruel act. Yep, no follower is he when it comes to assaulting others, if it is, as he said about the guy,.."It just isn't RIGHT!". So good to know someone who reveres a charlatan, con-man's scheme (Joseph Smith's Mormonism) knows what's "right".

 

[tomdavis]

Quote from futurecurrents:

I don't know about other schools but what he did is not something that ever happened at my school (public) . What he did was pretty damn cruel and would definately qualify him as being one the biggest bullies in almost any school, then and now.

So even at a young age, it was obvious Mitt was no bleeding heart liberal.


"Mitt Romney has been forced to apologize today for forcibly shaving the head of a high school classmate who was regularly taunted for being gay.

The Republican presidential candidate grabbed tearful John Lauber and hacked away with a pair of scissors because he thought his bleached blond hair was ‘wrong’.

Mr Romney also supposedly mocked another student who was a closeted gay by shouting ‘Atta girl!’ when he tried to speak in class.

“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.

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.

“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”

“It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.”

The incident transpired in a flash, and Friedemann said Romney then led his cheering schoolmates back to his bay-windowed room in Stevens Hall."

If this happened last year, or even ten years ago, it might affect some people's perceptions of Romney. The fact is, it happened forty-five years ago.

In the last four decades, Romney has worked with thousands, literally thousands, of people in private business, running the Olympics and as governor of Massachusetts. Have any of those people come forward to say that Romney abused them, bullied them or in any way physically assaulted them?

What Romney did 45 years ago was wrong -- but it was 45 years ago. In the intervening four plus decades there have been no further incidents that have been reported.

The only people who are making a big deal about this, 45 years after the fact, are the people who were never going to vote for Romney anyway. The net effect is zero.

 

[Brass]

Quote from kut2k2:

"Vicious" and "idiotic" are two of the adjectives used by classmates of Mittens Etch-a-Sketch to describe the gang bully attack he led against a lower classman in prepschool. In true pathological-liar fashion, Mittens denies any recall of what he did, but unsurprisingly everybody else who witnessed or participated in the event recalls it vividly. I find it very noteworthy that "vicious" and "idiotic" are precisely the adjectives used by one character in HBO's hit series GAME OF THRONES to describe the worst character in that series: King Joffrey, a literally inbred bastard who has wrongfully inherited the most desirable throne in that fictional world. I now consider Mittens Etch-a-Sketch to be the King Joffrey of 2012 America.

Interesting how he continued his pattern of attack hair-cutting with Bain Capital, as they bought companies, leveraged them to the hilt and then pillaged them for personal gain and with complete disregard for the jobs and careers they eliminated and ruined. But I guess once you have the system down, it's all about repetition. Seems they named the company appropriately, but chose to spell it differently:

http://www.answers.com/topic/bane