There's a very good diary on Mitt Romney, the bully (and please recommend it), but it left out one point: Today Mitt's acts might be seen as a hate crime, the sort of bigoted assault that has led some children to suicide. The victim of his bullying was thought to be gay at the time:
John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
snip
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.
WaPo
Just a "prank," right?
Mitt Romney was the kind of person who bullies and assaults "presumed" gay folks.
He's a bigot with a history of hate acts.
No wonder he did not do a "It Gets Better" ad.
This is a bad man. Makes McCain look honorable, and we all know McCain's problems.