Distracting voters with Mitt Romney's teenage 'bullying,' Barack Obama assaulting a girl and eating a dog

PHOTO: This photo of Romney was posted at the Web site, "Shut the Fuck Up, Conservatives" - lovely, right? That helps the national dialogue.

The Washington Post and others have set out to distract the electorate once again, posting an 11-page story about Mitt Romney allegedly bullying a man who years later came out as gay. The alleged incident happened...in 1965. That's right, when my mother was 10. I wouldn't be born for another eight years. Romney was a teenager. Yet the Washington Post wants to turn this into an election issue. In. Sane.

When the alleged incident took place, Romney was 18. I remember when I was 18. I was a Far-Right religious conservative. I didn't know what pad thai was. I had been outside of New England once in my life. Yet somehow the Washington Post and Democrats want us to brand Romney a bully because of what he did at the same age I was pumping out peanut buster parfaits at a Dairy Queen. 

I was bullied as a kid because I was perceived to be gay (turned out to be true). From fourth grade until I graduated from high school, I heard the taunts regularly; For a couple years, it was daily. I was physically abused at recess and I was tormented in the locker room. Do I think for a second that any of the young teenagers who made some of my formative years a living hell should pay for it today? Should they now be held responsible? Absolutely not. They have grown, as have Romney and Obama, since their teenager years, as evidenced by the warm embrace at my high school reunion last summer.

GLSEN, whose efforts I generally support, released a politically charged statement somehow linking Romney's presidential run to what he did...47 years ago:

Far from being 'hijinks' or a 'prank,' Romney's behavior toward his high school classmate amounted to harassment and assault.

Stop it. Stop. It. Bullying has only entered the public conscience in the last few years. To take our standards today and apply them to a teenager in 1965...when this kind of thing was widely accepted as "hijinks"...is intellectually completely dishonest.

By the way, Romney has admitted he made mistakes as a child and apologized unequivocally for those mistakes. 

Just as dishonest is the branding of President Obama because he admits to bullying a girl and eating a dog as a child. Again, HE WAS A CHILD!!! He and Romney have both grown considerably since they were in grade school and high school. Does anyone think Romney would condone a young man being held down and physically tortured for his sexual orientation today? Does anyone think Obama would eat a dog today or push a girl? If you do, you're part of the Far Right or Far Left, because both assertions are in. sane. 

Whom these men did or did not tease, or what they ate when they were teenagers, has absolutely nothing to do with the national debt, unemployment, Iran's race for a nuclear weapon or the impending energy crisis in this country. Anyone who puts a second thought into any of these accusations or admissions should have their head examined.

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Agreed. While I don't want to minimize the experience of the gay man on the receiving end of the inappropriate behavior, I am about as interested in what a jerk a candidate was at 18 as I am in knowing when and where he inhaled. I like to think that I am not the person I was when I was 18.

Nice to see you back in the blogging pool!