If Romney really can't remember...

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I believe he's been a politician a bit longer than that. :wink:
Point taken.
But he's only been at extraordinary odds with the ever more rightward-shifting centre of the Republican Party in the last few years.
Was he as much of a chameleon when he was governor of Massachusetts? I don't think so, but I'm not an American and wasn't watching that closely.
 

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How pathetic this is. It was 50 fucking years ago and he was a minor. He was a bully. OMG get the fuck over it.

It's not even so much what he did then; it's how he's handling it now. If he would simply say that he did some stupid things as a kid, acknowledge that it was wrong, the whole thing would die down. It's an easy fix.

But his vacillating responses haven't helped him. If he's this maladroit at managing a simple problem like this, how will he be at handling real issues?
 

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This plus the picking on a blind teacher and the habitual inability to state his position only give credence to my hypothesis that he is a sociopath.
 

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I'm sure he remembers.
But I don't find these statements contradictory.
I might remember Jimmy, one of my classmates, and have no memory of ever thinking he was gay, and at the same time simply not remember a very particular incident that may have taken all of two minutes to perpetrate.
I don't believe him, but I don't think the statements are irreconcilable.
I believe he was more saying that He didn't know the boy was gay was a defense in regards to his motives, implying he remembered the incident when he said he didn't.
A sociopath? Are you fucking joking? Talk about the irrational demonization of the "other". Unreal.
I agree here, I don't think he's a sociopath, but I've always maintained that I thought he was a fucking idiot. His responses to the most minor and easy of questions seem to support this. :smile:
 

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How does Mitt reconcile these 2 statements:

"I don't remember the incident"

and

"We didn't know the boy was gay"


Plz that asswipe remembers, hell he probably even jackoffs to the memory of him being so evil. You don't NOT remember something and while talking about it, especially actions that were so egregious to another human, chuckle while denying your memory......... Unless of course, if you're psychotic and ROMNEY does indeed fit the profile perfectly of a psychopath.


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This plus the picking on a blind teacher and the habitual inability to state his position only give credence to my hypothesis that he is a sociopath.


NO actions of that nature, tend to make him a PSYCHOPATH, not a Sociopath. Sociopathy is when one is not able to function within society. ROMNEY does that exceedingly well !


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And he would eagerly do it again as prez. (only with the biggest military in the known universe behind him) Once a bullying bigot, always a bigoting bully.
Now that is a politically relevant comment. Will the US as a whole find it a disadvantage or a benefit in a president?
 

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How can I say, at once, that it's both very likely and ain't necessarily so?
I'm holding open that real possibility that Romney forgets the particular incident. It's only a possibility. I assume, like you, that he remembers it.



Well, those lies are forced on him as someone seeking the Republican nomination.
This is a circumstantial liar, not a habitual liar.
(Of course, you could say he's made a habit of lying over the past couple of years ... but that's a different thing. I don't think it's a lifelong trait, embedded in character.)
I've been wondering about this for months. It is possible that he was lying when he was espousing moderate views when he run for the Senate against Ted Kennedy in the nineties and again as Governor of a generally liberal state. Maybe the more right-wing positions he is now taking are truer to his core.

The man always seems to speak to the situation and not from any firm set of beliefs. He tells you what he thinks you want to hear. I don't think it much of a stretch to think that these are lifelong patterns. One of my brothers is the same and has been since he was a little kid.

Missionary, venture capitalist, politician. These are endeavours that such a personality would excel at.
 

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He remembers. And he would eagerly do it again as prez. (only with the biggest military in the known universe behind him)

Once a bullying bigot, always a bigoting bully.
You mean like President Obama shoving the little black girl? (he mentions it in his book Dreams Of My Father).
 

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You mean like President Obama shoving the little black girl? (he mentions it in his book Dreams Of My Father).

HEADS UP
Please do not post any links to the above mentioned story. It involves small children.

This is something Breitbart.com has dredged up and you can find an audio clip of Obama reading the passage from the book on that site. It is in no way similar at all to what young Romney did and was "self-reported" by Obama himself.
 

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HEADS UP
Please do not post any links to the above mentioned story. It involves small children.

This is something Breitbart.com has dredged up and you can find an audio clip of Obama reading the passage from the book on that site. It is in no way similar at all to what young Romney did and was "self-reported" by Obama himself.

I had no intent of linking to the book, I was even uneasy mentioning it.

It does however relate in that the President has 1 known incident and may have others which we haven't been told of. In general people running for public office don't go into details about their past misdeeds from before they were adults if no legal actions were ever taken.

As to the Romney matter, he may be in even worse shape if it turns out he is now lying. I say this because John Lauber's family is questioning the accuracy.

Whoa: Family of Romney’s Alleged Bullying “Victim” Says Story Inaccurate, They’re Disgusted by WaPo | The American Pundit
 

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It is utterly ridiculous and pathetic to suggest that the incident involving a 9 year old Barack Obama is in any way comparable to that concerning Mitt Romney in High School. It's worse than the Romney campaign trying to deflect Mitt's treatment of his dog with the fact that a 5 year old Barack ate dog meat in Indonesia. Is this how Romney will handle every campaign crises; scour Obama's books for "salacious" details?
P A T H E T I C !