An apology-too-cute-by-half
12 May 2012 |permalink | email article
A Bullying Story about how Mitt Romney harassed a prep school classmate nearly 50 years ago and who later came out as gay, first reported by The Washington Post, has created a perception problem for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. “As pranks were played back then, I don’t remember them all, but again, high school days, if I did stupid things, why, I’ve got to say sorry for it.” “To this day it troubles me,” said Thomas Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who joined Romney in the bullying of their classmate, John Lauber. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.” For Romney,” said Richard Cohen, a Post columnist, “this is not a failure of memory, it is a failure of candor.” Jennifer Rubin, the Post’s conservative blogger, attacked the story, saying it was unfair and misleading. Steve Schmidt, the GOP strategist who ran John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, found the story “ludicrous” and said he did not believe Romney would suffer any political injury. I dissent. Besides displaying a flip-flop persona on diverse issues Romney has managed to use selective amnesia as a clever way not to remember the past.
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