Romney impersonated a police officer

[BDBoop]

Oh, gee. I wonder WHERE he could have gotten the idea. >.>

Romney Aide Resigns - NYTimes.com



Romney aide’s bogus badges: Sources detail ‘illegal’ security tactic - BostonHerald.com

Mitt Romney's Skeleton Closet -- political scandals, quotes and character

No comment?

thats some crazy shit, but rw's have been put in a position where they have defend every action or be labeled a moderate...anything but that!

Oh, yeah. He's their Messiah now.

I can't wait until he starts healing the sick and raising the dead.

Good times.

 

[Warrior102]

As a youth? Ya. If he was doing it now I would have a problem with it.

Well, Romney's not "dressing up" as a police officer now - so STFU.

 

[tjvh]

Re: Hearsay. I don't think that applies when MITT is the one who said these things. Granted it was 45 years ago - but he's the one who said it.

Also;



She's still alive.

So... the eye witness indicates there was no actual uniform... it was a prank... and thought it was funny.

Case closed.

Again, the sources I've read say there was a uniform.

Where does it say there was not a uniform?

A "cap and FAKE badge" does not make a uniform. We don't rage against children for impersonating soldiers when they put on their plastic army helmets and don their squirt guns, do we?

 

[California Girl]

You fucking idiot.

She's still alive as in, she is someone else who remembers what happened.

You really are a blond.

You really are a delusional twit. I'd rather be blond than a delusional twit.

But you are both.

I'm not the one who starts threads based on gossip and represents it as 'fact'.... with 'eye witnesses'.

 

[BDBoop]

I also dressed up as a pumpkin on Halloween one year, assbrain.

Does that mean I impersonated a pumpkin?

Do the board a favor - stick a Food Stamp in your mouth and STFU

The sources I have read do not say he did it on Halloween. Would you please post the link where YOU read he did this on Halloween?

Thanks.

the date it happened on is immaterial, dipshit. I used that as an example to show how fucking stupid this is. The eye witness BD posted doesnt say there was even a full uniform... a cap and a badge... they eye witness admits it was just a prank on some classmates... the eye witness thought it was funny.

non-story, made into a story by dumb ass scared libtards like yourself,

Post one states there was a uniform, and he said how he got it and what he used it for.

 

[BDBoop]

You really are a delusional twit. I'd rather be blond than a delusional twit.

But you are both.

I'm not the one who starts threads based on gossip and represents it as 'fact'.... with 'eye witnesses'.

No, you're the one who has been showing your ass on a regular basis for a very long time.

 

[asterism]

This is not something that can be brushed off with no explaination. It needs to be vetted immediately for truth. If the "witnesses" are lying that needs to be exposed in fairness to Romney. If this report holds up it is serious and demands an explaination.

Obama's illegal use of street drugs is now on the table? We want to look at his getting drunk and high and not caring about anything?

Or is it somehow different to Romney, and why?

Okay.

Most of us got drunk or high.

Raise your hand if you put on a police uniform your dad got for you, and used it with a cherry light to freak the fuck out of people.

"freak the fuck out of people?"

It's a prank, and one that has more serious connotations today than in previous decades. Lots of things are like that, though.

What would the reaction be today to a school principal dragging kids down the hall by their ears? What was the reaction 30 years ago?

 

[Conservative]

Oh, gee. I wonder WHERE he could have gotten the idea. >.>

Romney Aide Resigns - NYTimes.com

A top aide to Mitt Romney has resigned amid accusations that he impersonated a police officer and distributed fake badges to staff.

Jay Garrity, who had been on leave from his position as the Romney campaign’s director of operations since earlier impersonation allegations surfaced, stepped down Friday following a report in The Boston Herald in which unidentified people accused him of distributing badges to members of the advance team to gain early access to event venues, control crowds and reporters and avoid paying a highway toll.

Romney aide’s bogus badges: Sources detail ‘illegal’ security tactic - BostonHerald.com

Mitt Romney's Skeleton Closet -- political scandals, quotes and character

So this was not just one staffer's personal fetish. Sources named at least two other Romney staffers who used the badges -- Mark Glanville and William Ritter. "They knew the badges were fake and probably illegal," the campaign source said. In fact, Garrity was Romney's right-hand man and rarely left his side. It's hard to believe that Mitt Romney himself did not notice the fact that Garrity was constantly flashing a police badge as they blew through security into various events. The Romney campaign has not commented on whether Mitt Romney knew about the badges.

No comment?

2007? At least it's more recent

The Romney campaign has not commented on whether Mitt Romney knew about the badges

Got anything that states Romney knew about the badges?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

rw's, please stop twisting and lying about this news story. If you don't have evidence that it happened on Halloween or that there was no uniform, it doesn't help your cause to lie about it. If you DO have evidence that differs from the published articles, all of us would benefit from seeing those links.

 

[Meister]

No comment?

thats some crazy shit, but rw's have been put in a position where they have defend every action or be labeled a moderate...anything but that!

Oh, yeah. He's their Messiah now.

I can't wait until he starts healing the sick and raising the dead.

Good times.

Speaking of this kind of behavior...remember when they had paid actors to fake fainting when Obama spoke? That was some funny material, also...remember this:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI]Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!! - YouTube[/ame]

Now that is a true messiah

 

[BDBoop]

As a youth? Ya. If he was doing it now I would have a problem with it.

Well, Romney's not "dressing up" as a police officer now - so STFU.

You got it.

 

[Warrior102]

rw's, please stop twisting and lying about this news story. If you don't have evidence that it happened on Halloween or that there was no uniform, it doesn't help your cause to lie about it. If you DO have evidence that differs from the published articles, all of us would benefit from seeing those links.

This is now a news story?

I thought it was desperation.

 

[theHawk]

The National Memo » Did Young Mitt Romney Impersonate A Police Officer? Another Witness Says Yes

Yes, I know; /yawn - who cares. Y'all know the drill.

So recalls Robin Madden, who had also just arrived as a freshman, the startling incident began when Romney called him and two or three other residents into his room, saying, “Come up, I want to show you something.” When they entered Romney’s room, “and laid out on his bed was a Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.”

Madden, a native Texan who graduated from Stanford in 1970 and went on to become a successful television producer and writer, has never forgotten that strange moment, which he has recounted to friends over the years as he observed his former classmate’s political ascent. The National Memo learned of the incident from a longtime Madden friend to whom he had mentioned it years ago.

Said Madden in a recent interview, “He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler.”

In Madden’s recollection, confirmed by his wife Susan, who also attended Stanford during those years, “we thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him,” although both Madden and Romney were prep school boys living in the same dorm, called Rinconada.

Other eyewitnesses have previously recalled Romney’s alleged use of a police or trooper uniform in pranks during his high school years at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

And you people think the birthers are bat-shit crazy.

 

[California Girl]

So... the eye witness indicates there was no actual uniform... it was a prank... and thought it was funny.

Case closed.

Again, the sources I've read say there was a uniform.

Where does it say there was not a uniform?

A "cap and FAKE badge" does not make a uniform. We don't rage against children for impersonating soldiers when they put on their plastic army helmets and don their squirt guns, do we?

Oh, don't put ideas into their heads! That'll be the next thread.... Romney impersonated a SEAL..... when he was 5!

 

[asterism]

Nobody read the WaPo article, huh. The police uniform was mentioned in that article, weeks before this story broke. I'm assuming she read the one and recalled the other.

Report: Mitt Romney impersonated police officer as part of high school prank - VOTE AZ 2012

Or she read the one and decided she remembered the other...

Just like the four gentlemen in the WaPo article remembered the haircut Romney doesn't remember?

What cracks me up is these people are professionals in their 60's, but people, without doing any investigation, malign them rather than take a hard look at the man at the center of these stories.

And then it's all "BUT OBAMA!!!" without acknowledging that y'all are doing EXACTLY what you accuse this side of the aisle of doing, i.e., giving the man a pass, when if it was OBAMA, you'd be so far up his shit, I'd hear your voice when he opened his mouth.

So does that mean you want people to be as outraged as you are or give the guy a pass? You can't have it both ways.

 

[Conservative]

Re: Hearsay. I don't think that applies when MITT is the one who said these things. Granted it was 45 years ago - but he's the one who said it.

Also;



She's still alive.

So... the eye witness indicates there was no actual uniform... it was a prank... and thought it was funny.

Case closed.

Again, the sources I've read say there was a uniform.

Where does it say there was not a uniform?

where does BD's eye witness say there WAS one? Or did she just forget to mention it along with the hat, badge and siren she remembered?

 

[theHawk]

rw's, please stop twisting and lying about this news story. If you don't have evidence that it happened on Halloween or that there was no uniform, it doesn't help your cause to lie about it. If you DO have evidence that differs from the published articles, all of us would benefit from seeing those links.

And you have NO evidence it happened at all....

 

[hjmick]

Tomorrow - the Libs will report Romney clubbed a baby seal in grad school

What's a baby seal doing in grad school?

 

[California Girl]

rw's, please stop twisting and lying about this news story. If you don't have evidence that it happened on Halloween or that there was no uniform, it doesn't help your cause to lie about it. If you DO have evidence that differs from the published articles, all of us would benefit from seeing those links.

It is for those who made the claim to prove it as true.... one cannot prove a negative... or is that above your intellectual pay grade? And... why did I even ask that... of course it is above your intellectual pay grade. My bad.

 

[HUGGY]

As a youth? Ya. If he was doing it now I would have a problem with it.

Well, Romney's not "dressing up" as a police officer now - so STFU.

No one is suggesting Mittens is impersonating cops today. I am concerned that Mittens EVER though that kind of behavior was not totally out of bounds.

STFU? Really? You are in no position to back that up...but you could be if you had any balls.