Will The "Real" Mitt Romney Please Stand Up?

President Obama affirmed his position on same-sex marriage, agreeing that gay and lesbians should have the right to marry. 

On the heels of Obama's same-sex loving evolution, a story broke regarding Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (seen above), who was ousted as intolerable of gay people.

The Washington Post released an article on Mitt Romney's behavior during his high school days in 1965, at the prestigious prep school Cranbrook. Reportedly, Romney taunted, sought out, and attacked one of his classmates simply because the boy looked different from him. 

John Lauber was a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, and was ultimately teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. All boys in the prep school donned the same hair cuts, outfits, and brief cases, while Lauber walked around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and for some reason this irritated Romney. 

“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. 

Mitt kept complaining about Lauber’s look Friedemann commented, and he recalled helping Romney along with other friends who tackled and pinned their classmate to the ground while watching Lauber scream for help as his eyes filled with tears, and Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. 

Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor and one of the five classmates who shed light on the forty-seven year old incident, gave his side of the story saying “It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me.”  

Buford however apologized to Lauber who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”

Another classmate and childhood friend of Romney involved with the incident, attorney Phillip Maxwell stated “It was a hack job. It was vicious.” 

When asked if he had any doubt that what Romney did could be considered bullying Maxwell responded, "Oh my god, are you kidding? I castigated myself regularly for not having intervened. I would have felt a lot better about myself had I said hey, enough. When I saw the look on his (Lauber's) face, it was a look I'll never forget," said Maxwell.  

"When you see a victim, the sense of trust betrayed in this boy who was perfectly innocent for being different. This was bullying supreme," he said.

Mitt Romney's wife Ann Romney attested in an interview this month, that her husband has another side of him as she stated, “There’s a wild and crazy man inside of there just waiting to come out.”  

Ann Romney also commented that Mitt Romney is, "just as mischievous as one of her sons."

Romney apologized to anyone offended by his pranks while in high school, however, he doesn't recollect his actions during this particular tragic incident. Funny how Romney's classmates and friends can't seem to forget this moment in time as it was so graphic and traumatic that it permanently etched itself within their memory, while Romney coincidentally chooses to forget. 

This incident happened forty-seven years ago and although I strongly believe that a person's character can evolve over time, the fact that Romney can't even admit to his past mistakes proves that his character didn't change that much. All five classmates of Romney involved in this matter came forward and admitted their actions were vicious and beyond the pale, so does Romney feel that he's above the truth? 

Will Romney bring his bullying methods to The White House and exercise use of those methods towards minorities, unions, students, women, the elderly, the middle class and the poor? Did Romney's parents raise him to be intolerable of specific groups of people, and has he and his wife raised their five sons to be exactly the same way? 

Mitt Romney was raised Mormon and stated that his beliefs in Mormonism, haven't changed much since he was a young boy. In the Mormon bible it does state that black people weren't allowed to join the Mormon church until 1978, and that God made people black in color as a form of punishment. 

What was it about black people that prohibited Mormon pastors, from welcoming them in their churches? 

In the 1960's when blacks were fighting for civil rights Mitt Romney was just a teenager; was he also taught to be intolerable of black people as well? And if so, did Romney ever implement hurtful tactics towards any black people? 

These are honest questions which I feel Romney should answer. If he wants to become president of the American people then the American people have the right to ask, "Will the "real" Mitt Romney please stand up?"

2012 LA