Did Mitt Romney assault a prep school classmate?

So in this case the distinction would be.

Cutting someone's hair: OK
Cutting someone's hair against his will with four friends holding him down: Not OK.

 

And ABC has an update.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/romney-friend-stu-white-says-campaign-wants-him-to-counter-prank-accusations/

I honestly didn't think this story was gonna hang around.

 

What a coincidence all of this is coming out the day after the President's big "announcement". I mean, what are the odds?

 

Honestly, if this is Team Obama feeding the Post oppo, they're better than even I give them credit for.

 

Yeah, I'm guessing this started as the routine, "Who was this guy in high school?" story.

 

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/10/theres-something-fishy-about-the-mitt-haircut-incident/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

I think if they were smart it would have gone away, especially in the wake of all of the Obama news from yesterday.

 

Reaching out to HS friends to act as surrogates was a bad move -- especially if they aren't willing.

They're making this worse.

 

I'm sure everybody has a perfect memory about what may or may have not happened 47 years ago.

 

Agreed. What he said yesterday was fine. If they were smart they wouldn't have said another word.

 

Don't have the HuffPo article in front of me, but I read there that the Post held the story out of print to keep it from going A1 against Obama. They thought it would be too much.

 

If we get 6 months of the Obama campaign coordinating stories like this that just serve to distract from the economy it will backfire if a very big way.