Did Mitt Romney assault a prep school classmate?

Teenagers are compulsive, impressionable and don't think through the consequences of their actions, which is why you do evolve, grow and change from the mistakes you make as a youngster and it is why these ridiculous stories of something our candidates did 50 years ago are ridiculous.

As much as I loved to bust the balls of fenian and zeke about the Clinton years - the fact that he felt the need to lie about whether or not he smoked pot in college was ridiculous and it was ridiculous that people from the other side even asked the question.

Who gives a shit. The dude went to college in the mid to late 1960's - I presume he ingested a helluva lot more than weed, but what did that have to do with the 1992 presidential campaign?

 

Did they hold you down and do it against your will?

Others are right that what was acceptable in 1965 isn't today, and the greater scrutiny of "hazing" cases is an indication of that.

 

Josh Marshall touches on a few things Mizzou and I were talking about yesterday, namely the Romney campaign making this worse with the way they handled it.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/05/question_of_the_day_12.php?ref=fpblg

Pretty good read.

 

And the fact that Clinton was willing to do something questionable in the pursuit of enjoyment didn't disqualify him from being a good president, but it certainly revealed something about his character that was still quite evident in his mature age.

 

Talking Points Memo?

My God.......

 

Yes, but Rick, your "something questionable" is definitely not everyone's "something questionable."

Many believe that partying in college is a rite of passage.

 

You are joking, right?

What exactly does smoking a little bit of pot in college - at an age when most people experiment with all kinds of stuff - have to do with a man's character?

 

I think "questionable" is a very reasonable, neutral way of putting it. I don't have a huge problem with it, but it was illegal.

 

Clinton didn't mind doing something against the rules if it was fun. That was true about him at every point in his life.

 

There is no question the Romney camp made this worse.

From a PR standpoint, he handled it well the day it came out. He pretended not to remember the incident, I don't think too many people believed him, but I think people were a tad sympathetic that he was being asked to address something that happened so long ago.

I think most people were satisfied with it. The Romney camp trying to get friends of his from high school to say that he wasn't a bad guy in high school, even if that was truly the case, makes it look like they're panicking and I think that has a bigger impact than the actual story does.

The people running Romney's campaign are complete fucking idiots when it comes to knowing how to squash a story.

 

Agree.

Don't give them more questions.

And all day yesterday, they were just raising more questions.

 

Juanita Broaddrick wonders what all the fuss is about.