Keeping It Real: Every once in a while a story comes along that
captures a candidate and what he represents. And
The Washington
Post just did that by revealing a dark
incident from Mitt Romney's past.
At 18, he led a group of boys who hunted down younger
student John Lauber because he seemed
gay to them. They held Lauber down, screaming and crying, while
Romney cut off his dyed-blonde hair. It's something that haunted Lauber and
those who participated in his assault decades later.
But Romney laughed it off in a radio interview last
week. And the right-wing media is
pushing the Romney campaign's spin that this bullying story is
nothing.
Romney's right that this election isn't about what
happened 48 years ago. It's about the man who, in business, picked on struggling
companies, fired their workers, pocketed the profits, and then dumped the
companies back out riddled with debt.
It's about a man whose policies would take from those
struggling in a tough economy, to give to those on top. Because after 48 years
one thing hasn't changed for Romney: there are
people who count and people who don't, like young John Lauber, or the 99% of us
who get beat up by Romney's policies. Ya Dig?...
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