I checked out Redstate to see what they were saying. Warning: you may wish to have your eyes washed after reading this. I won't link to it.
Erik Erickson:
Now this is just silly. The Washington Post can’t be bothered to worry about Barack Obama’s college years, college transcripts, communist friends, cocaine use, or cop-killing plotters in whose living room he first launched his major political career, but they can get in the really way back machine to 1965 and Mitt Romney’s high school years... Let’s leave out the fact that the kid who got his haircut was subsequently thrown out of school for smoking one cigarette, but we’re to believe that the assailants of his hair, witnessed by many, were ignored.
That's right, he was thrown out of school for smoking a cigarette, therefore kids should have been able to do anything to him.
And here's what the mouth breathing commenters had to say.
The other side is worse
Some of the greatest people I know had “spotty” childhoods obviously learning through their mistakes growing up. But the idea of Mitt as a bully somehow is tantamount to Bill Maher having been respectful as a youth.
It's all a big plot by the left
How convenient that the guy is dead now and can’t give an account of this. We all know that Dems use dead people in many ways.
Never mind the 5 living people who told the Post they remembered it.
Today was the perfect time, right after Obama had announced that he was supporting gay marriage. Instead of negative attention on Obama for his position, time to put negative attention on Romney for his supposed bullying of a supposed gay person. In other words, make Obama look like an insightful, caring person, and Romney an ugly bully for his stance against gay marriage and all things gay.
Oh, and Obama’s announcement was also timed to occur right after the NC amendment passed, because that took the sting out of the landslide victory for conservatives.
Everything they do is calculated. They are brilliant. And truly evil.
Yes, Democrats are clearly the "evil" ones in this situation.
its entirely orchestrated.
First contraception, then Trayvon, now this.
That's right, Obama planned Trayvon's death for political gain. And now Romney's behavior 50 years ago is another Democratic plot. Man, Obama must have a GINORMOUS team of cover up people with all the conspiracies the guy has going, not to mention having orchestrated this event, remembered by 5 separate people, which occurred when Obama was maybe 2 years old. The guy is MASTERFUL.
Apparently they refer to the MSM as the "Gang of 500" - I saw that mentioned more than once, such as:
Wise up, conservatives.. The gang of 500 is EVERYTHING. Attacking their credibility by shouting “liberal bias” isn’t good enough anymore.
Waitaminit! What about Obama????11!!
The bias here is just incredibly astounding. We cant look at Obama in college, but hey lets check out Romney 40 freaking years ago. Mitt Romney, will cut the budget and give you a free haircut too!
Cute. I don't understand why they are so obsessed with what Obama did in college, but whatever.
[Romney should say] “I’m interested to hear more about the president’s life. All I know is that he ate a dog once and had a lot of Pakistani friends at Occidental and that his grandmother was scared of black people, or something. Can we learn a bit more?”
Pakistani friends at Occidental? I guess this is some rumor I managed to have missed.
I knew it!!!! Obama makes the announcement he supports same sex marriage and he Biden got married by the Justice Kagen at the same time makes the statement Michelle is his sister.
Um ... yuck.
This happened 50 years ago and people change from highschool to adulthood. But that is really not the main point.
The main point is the media’s absolute hypocrisy. As Erick said, where are Obama’s college transcripts? Why did he associate with a known terrorist? What did he do at Acorn? What did he do in highschool, college, etc?
The WaPo just opened up a hornet’s nest for themselves. They forget they no longer have absolute power. The New Media will find these things out about Obama, Breitbart has already started. You can bet that what they find will pale in comparison to Romney’s alleged “hair-cutting” episode.
I await their uncovering of shocking incidents.
Blaming the victim / "What's the big deal?"
Guess the white house under Romney won’t be giving “Free stimuluses” but line up for “Free” haircuts ..The kid who got the first one probably got rid of his lice too!
So the kid who was bullied probably had lice. Textbook example of "othering" the victim.
The guy probably had chewing gum caught in his hair and Romney was just helping.
Again ... really nice.
So what? Maybe it’s about time America had a candidate who isn’t always doing the PC things in life. Yeah, so he cut off some homosexual kid’s hair. He didn’t beat him up. It was hazing and nothing more. How anyone can say that this incident, and putting his dog on the roof of his car, has anything to do with Romney’s character, is a big stretch. These were incidents that happened long before he was running for president. When he was a young Mormon man, still finding his way in the world.
No, that had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with his character. Jesus himself might have helped Romney wield the scissors.
Strategery
The Wishful Thinker:
Every obscure canard that they ‘uncover’ will drive the approval rating of O’bummer lower and lower.
I was hoping he could spin this Democrat Swiftboating in a lighthearted way. I thought he didn’t remember it, but the witnesses were probably too many and too credible to pretend it didn’t happen.
Lighthearted, eh? Yes, this is an incident it would be easy to be "lighthearted" about. Ha, ha, just a little joshing between the lads!
It's all part of Obama's playbook. His plan is to convince gay, non-white, and female individuals that Romney will oppress them, not only with “heteronormative,” “anglonormative,” and “andronormative” values, but in the case of the Washington Post story, literal violence.
Too bad for Romney that there are more "gay, non-white, and female individuals" than there are straight, white, non-female individuals.
Uh-oh, this person might have drunk a bit of reality water somewhere:
Seriously, this is the kind of attack that’s hard to deflect or reverse. For some reason, people just viscerally dislike a bully and a rich snot more than they dislike a cocaine user who hasn’t been proven to be a dealer. This could really hurt Mitt’s likability scores and inexplicably help Obama’s, which have started to drop recently.
Ya think?
Well... I hope you have enjoyed this little dip into the cesspool.
I feel like this incident is a "sticky" one because it fits the emerging frame that Romney is just a guy with no empathy who doesn't seem to care at all about anybody else. This is just another example of someone who does not get other people.
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