Mitt Romney, high school bully?

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This is even worse than the dog story. What the f[inks].

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It wasn't "cutting a hippy's hair", you awful little person, it was a hate-crime assault. It's disgusting, and the fact that you're brushing this off and attacking the victim is just as disgusting. And you clearly didn't read the article at all, because the story is corroborated by four different sources, all on the record, some of whom are Republicans.

Anyway, there are more really troubling anecdotes in the article, but as has been pointed out, this behavior isn't really surprising. Romney is clearly a hateful, miserable coward, who's spent his entire life sheltered from real people and protected by his family's wealth. Maybe now people will stop believing this nonsense that Romney is at his heart a responsible moderate, who would love to come out for gay rights and what not, if only those darn conservatives weren't forcing him to spew right-wing hate.

"In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, “Atta girl!” In the culture of that time and place, that was not entirely out of the norm. Hummel recalled some teachers using similar language."

"Lou Vierling, a scholarship student who boarded at Cranbrook for the 1960 and 1961 academic years, was struck by a question Romney asked them when they first met. “He wanted to know what my father did for a living,” Vierling recalled. “He wanted to know if my mother worked. He wanted to know what town I lived in.” As Vierling explained that his father taught school, that he commuted from east Detroit, he noticed a souring of Romney’s demeanor."

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And here's the section about the story's veracity, so that people can stop playing the "there's no way we can believe this" card:

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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/content-of-romneys-character.html

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Wow, how dare the media report news stories on presidential candidates during the election campaigns they're running in! The nerve! In respect for Mitt Romney and his family they should have waited until after he was dead to print this.