Mitt Romney’s Bully Problem
Mitt Romney has a problem.
Yesterday the Washington Post reported that in 1965, when he was a high school senior, Romney organized a group of his fellow students in a physical assault on a gay classmate, John Lauber. When Lauber, who was closeted at the time, appeared on campus one spring wearing his hair longer than usual, and dyed blond, Romney reportedly put together a posse who grabbed him and held him down, screaming and crying, while Romney cut his hair with a pair of scissors.
Four of Romney’s classmates confirmed the story to the Post, including one who says he participated in the assault.
Of course, 1965 was a long time ago, and few of us would want to be judged on the basis of our worst moments in high school. But this was a physical assault, an act of bullying that participants and witnesses remember as
Yesterday the Washington Post reported that in 1965, when he was a high school senior, Romney organized a group of his fellow students in a physical assault on a gay classmate, John Lauber. When Lauber, who was closeted at the time, appeared on campus one spring wearing his hair longer than usual, and dyed blond, Romney reportedly put together a posse who grabbed him and held him down, screaming and crying, while Romney cut his hair with a pair of scissors.
Four of Romney’s classmates confirmed the story to the Post, including one who says he participated in the assault.
Of course, 1965 was a long time ago, and few of us would want to be judged on the basis of our worst moments in high school. But this was a physical assault, an act of bullying that participants and witnesses remember as