I was curious about how "the other side" has reacted to this story. I searched on "freep" and have collected comments from two different sources:
Detroit free press, which we can take as neutral
and
Free republic, the other side
See some reactions beyond the fleur-de-kos:
From Detroit Free Press
Yeah, Romney's a different person now - instead of being a child bully, he's an adult bully. Another rich Republican who doesn't know what real life is all about. Cranbrook? A school only for spoiled rich kids.
Ahhh!!! Let the hit pieces begin!!!! Next we're gonna hear about how he threw snowballs and eggs at cars at night - or soaped peoples houses on the annual devils' night - blah blah blah. Only a real knucklehead is gonna be impressed (fooled) by this. There was a much wider array of pranks you could get away with back then - and we became a little tougher for the challenges. Please media, stop continuing to make yourselves look foolish by campaigning for Obama this way. They were completely different times and to apply your jaded lens on them with today's "standards" is a wash.
ok imagine a rich governors kid, was in the IN crowd, good looking had a nice girl, full of himself. He didnt have to worry about getting picked on or beat up.
Obviously his other preppy friends held the kid down.
Just like one of those bad 80's movies.
Obama hasnt even gone on the offensive yet! He's going to bury this preppy punk.
I'm sure if Obama went to cranbrook at that time, Mitt would have tried to shave his afro. Course one of his relatives would have fashioned a nice spear, and then curtains for the mittster.
Yet, you mean like Obama who was a punk in an exclusive Hawaiian high school. He was sent to the school by his bank VP grandmother. He admittedly abused drugs, including cocaine. Of course, Obama is now in the Chicago/Washington "IN crowd, good looking had a nice girl, full of himself. He didnt have to worry about getting picked on or beat up." His liberal friends in the media protect him and hold his opponents down while Obama falsely attacks them.
Maybe Romney was a punk in high school. It is clear Obama is a punk and bully now.
little jerks tend to be big jerks. mittwit is both. his attempts at one-liners trying to be one of the cool smart mouths like he was at school is kinda sad.
This entire incident is a non-issue, and it will only matter to voters if the media continues to ram it down their throats. Liberals are using this to thump their chests and loudly proclaim that Mitt Romney is a bully, dismissing any possibility that the sins of our youth are simply that. What a bunch of fools.
What really SAD is that Karl Rove was right when he said that, "The American people are stupid!!! It very easy to get them to vote against their own welfare”! Jesus was a conservatives he hated the poor!!!!!! Just ask any right wing republican!!!
From Free Republic
Riiiiiiighhht.... I am sure the voters are going to be absolutely devastated.
Funny thing is, though... Stories like this are likely to help Mitt more than hurt. He may — again MAY — have the Republican nomination sewn up, but his personal stock with Conservatives is still decidedly weak.
When stories like this hit the news, they forcibly remind Conservatives of the depths to which the MSM will sink to attack Republicans — ANY Republican — and the lengths to which they will go to protect Obama.
If this represents their best shot, they’re in trouble.
If we knew anything about Obama I’m sure we’d find much worse. He already admitted to eating a dog. It would be interesting to hear about his background in the religion of peace, if he stoned to death any women, did any beheadings, raped any kids and the other lovely things Muslims do to pass the time.
Much to my chagrin, I have been finding myself reacting to the lies Ubama and state-controlled media have been throwing at Rodney.
They keep this up, and I may not feel bad about voting for him in 6 months, 22 days, 18 hours, 7 minutes and 23 seconds from now.
Not that I'm counting.
Funny how we can get stories about something that involved Romney 50 years ago, but we cannot get any information about Barry’s citizenship—his schooling—his grades—his actual participation in the ‘Haaavaad Review’, his past associates & possible girlfriends, etc. Barry is barely 50 years old.
I wonder now if all this flap about Barry’s support for Gay Marriage is a prelim to the world finding out that Barry himself had/has/is in a Gay relationship himself?
Feels like we are being softened up for something.......
Exactly! I said the same thing when I first heard about this latest propaganda. They can find out about Romney 50 years ago, but no HS classmates from Punahou?? My brother-in-law is younger than Barry, but was at Punahou at the same time, AND followed basketball. He never heard of Barry (not that it’s THAT small a school, but supposedly Barry was some hot-shot basketball player).
Any classmates? Anyone who remembers him??
The concept of “bullies” resonates deeply and is pretty common human experience. People who’ve had a run in with bullies have a visceral reaction when they encounter another one.
I bet zero’s campaign is behind this - and is just the tip of the iceberg.
Now that RINOmney apologized - confirming he was guilty - I believe the bullying meme will be used to tie into him also being one of the 1 percenters - who got their $ by defrauding , cheating or abusing others (another common meme about rich people... Especially business men)
I know I tend to filter my own news sources, so I thought it helpful to gather comments from others.
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