The other big story this past week was a very long front page story in the Washington Post regarding Mitt Romney's days at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Romney at that time was known as a prankster who would often get laughs at the expense of others. There were times when the jokes went too far, as exhibited when Romney cut the hair of a fellow student, John Lauber, who later came out as gay. In an interview this week when asked about this and other incidents, Romney said that he did not remember, but he did apologize to anyone he hurt with his pranks.
The Lauber story of course was front and center in article, especially with President Obama's big coming out interview regarding gay marriage (as Paul Mirengoff notes at Power Line, it's more than odd that this story never came out during any of Romney's previous runs for office). Trying to beat Romney over the head with something he did 50 years ago -- and who knows truly why he did it in the first place -- and to implicitly tar those who do not agree with same-sex marriage as mean bullies seems very in character with the way things seem to be going. I guess what Romney did 50 years ago would actually matter if a couple weeks ago he knocked down Barney Frank and started giving him a buzz cut.
These types of front page exposés on some telling point on what Barack Obama did 30 years ago (drugs, anyone?) never seemed to fully materialize in 2008. Why these stories matter so much today is telling.
For some insights on how Romney changed as a person between then and now, read this post, which is an excerpt from the recent Romney biography titled The Real Romney.
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