Did Mitt Romney assault a prep school classmate?

Fuck Cranbrook!

 

I don't want anyone to think I am saying something like this wasn't wrong back then. It was. Please also note I am not saying Romney did it, I am simply referring to an incident of this sort.

 

Some of the same people filled with glee about 47-year old stories about Mitt Romney are the same ones who say that Bill Conlan should be left alone because there is no new news there.

Shameful.

 

Sort of an imprecise parallel.

When did Conlin declare his candidacy for US President?

 

Meanwhile, over at Liberty University......

 

Well, there's that one.

As well as his poor teeth-brushing habits. That'd be in the news cycle for a couple of days.

"How can we trust him with the leadership of our new country when he can't even take care of his teeth?"

 

Who is Bill "Conlan"?

 

More intellectually honest comparison to Bill Conlin: When is the last time you saw a Herman Cain sexual harassment story?

 

This is pretty smart. By Edmund White, a novelist who attended Cranbrook.

www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/05/cranbrook-and-romney.html


When his father was elected governor and moved to the state capital of Lansing, he became a boarder. Suddenly he was surrounded by other Cranbrook students and the strict “masters,” 24/7. He no longer had the constant support of his tight-knit family. Now he had to win approval from the other boys.

No wonder he became a daring and even violent prankster. He who worried about his own marginal status couldn’t bear the presence of an unapologetic sissy like Lauber, with his long bleached hair (the Mormons, then as now, have insisted on a neat, traditional, conservative appearance, especially in their young missionary men whom they send out all over the world). In scorning and shearing a sissy student and leading a gang of five other boys in this “prank,” Romney may have felt popular and in the right for the first time.

 

What's pretty cool is that this guy really broke it all down and got into Romney's head at that time. This is quite an accomplishment seeing that he graduated from Cranbrook in 1958 ... seven years before whatever happened happened.

 

Did you read the whole thing? Or just the part I quoted?

 

I know some Mormon families that accept the idea of their kids sewing their wild oats in their late teen years before they have to go on their mission.