MITT ROMNEY A BULLY? TALK ABOUT GRASPING FOR STRAWS.

        

         By now just about every American has heard or read the stories littered throughout the media that presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was a supposed “bully” in high school.  Oh what a black mark!  Oh how horrific!  Oh how damning this is to his entire credibility as a human being!  To you I say, “Are you freaking kidding me?  Are you that juvenile?  Are you that so lowly desperate that you have to stoop to playground finger pointing?”  Have you ever heard the phrase, “He who lives in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones?”

          If you honestly believe that one or two single acts done knowingly or unknowingly in your childhood, whether that be preschool, elementary school, middle school or high school – heck even college, should define you as a human being throughout your entire life regardless of what you have done with your life - then, by golly, every single human being on the planet is a scoundrel unfit to hold any position in any career because there is not one single solitary human who has not at one time or another bullied someone else, knowingly or unknowingly.  You can deny that you’ve ever bullied anyone but that would simply be untruthful whether you want to admit it or not.  We ALL have bullied.  However, because we have bullied at one time or another in our lives does not make us a bully.  By definition, a bully is one who consciously and perpetually instigates inappropriate behaviors, both physically and verbally, against another with no emotional regard to what harm such acts may or may not be inflicted.

          The story going around that Mitt Romney bullied a student in high school by cutting off locks of his hair is just another absurd attempt by the leftists to try and smear a candidate who has no blaring, tarnishing skeletons that can be dangled in front of the voting public to help steer voters to lean towards their very questionable, still unresolved legally eligible, communistic, Marxist, anti-American, mobster loving candidate Barack Obama – himself an admitted bully.

          Naturally this story has brought out the overzealous mental health “supposed” experts who have to put their warped, unfounded, unproven two cents worth in by saying that the high school student who was the supposed victim of this one time incident was mentally distraught throughout the rest of his life.  Leftists have gleefully jumped on board of this fanatical bandwagon.  Of course, the young man in question died in 2004 from liver cancer and cannot, therefore, be questioned to clarify whether or not the incident itself ever actually occurred or that he was irreparably harmed by it.  In fact, the original source of the story who first stated that they witnessed it and participated in it came forward to say that, in fact, they only “heard” about the incident bringing into question whether it ever actually occurred.  In addition, the family of that former high school student has spoken out publicly in support of Romney, denying that the incident took place and, on the half chance that it might have, the young man never spoke of it, would have been enraged today to hear that it was being used to “bully” a running candidate for office (“two wrongs never make a right”), and that he lived a very fulfilling life right up to his death – showing no mental distraught from that or any other incident.

          Bullying is, in fact, a normal, emotional behavior that is exhibited by everyone while in their youthful years.  It is a part of defining how you will eventually fit into society.  There are, however, many different facets of bullying and because of that you cannot simply classify every single incident of bullying as being mean spirited.  Sometimes loners who find it hard to “fit in” in a peer group begin to bully to disguise their feelings of loneliness.  Sometimes someone has been pushed to a limit and they need to strike back.  For example, when I was in elementary school there was a boy whose lunch was stolen from him every day.  No one knew who was doing the stealing.  In an attempt to find out the culprit or culprits, this young boy began to add a dye to his food.  The dye caused mild diarrhea that was bluish in coloring.  It didn’t take long before everyone knew who the culprits were.  Some may say that he “bullied” back but I can tell you this much, his lunch was never stolen again.  His act of “bullying” resolved a negative behavior inflicted by others.  Some bullying is really no more than playful pranks.  Some pranks can be really funny – others not so much so.  Again, pranks are merely another form of social communication and by far, more often than not, the prankster and the pranked person wind up becoming friends.  No one is emotionally distraught for the rest of their lives.

         There are incidents of extreme, unending, manipulative, egregious incidents of bullying that can lead to extreme cases of mental and physical harm to others.  These incidents cannot be allowed to continue.  In many cases, persons who exhibit this form of bullying wind up in a prison somewhere – not as a school principal, a CEO of a business or a candidate for president of the United States.  But the Leftists are pulling for straws to try and discredit an opponent who is proving to be a very formidable threat to their progressive movement.  No one will be surprised by whatever other little straw they will pull as the campaign heads into the last final months.  They’re running scared and they must do all that they can to try and make the voting public forget the disastrous nature our country is in – due mostly from the unethical, unconstitutional actions of the sitting administration.  They have not reached their goal yet to make us a martial law nation with a sitting dictator but they will fight to the bitter end to attain it.  Our duty is to not be distracted by their feeble attempts.  Our duty is to not let this administration “bully” us into silence.

Chris Broome

Politically Incorrect!