What happens in the youth of a candidate is really not that important; Americans are forgiving and they don't particularly care if you played a prank dressed up like a cop, or did cocaine and smoke marijuana; they care about what you've done with your life.

Rmoney on the other hand, has been a vulture capitalist, fucked up Massachusetts while governor, and has no way to relate to the rest of America.

Let's focus on the real issues rather than what he did or did not do when he was a fucking kid.

so you can just cut with the "what he did as a kid" shit. IF he actually went around with a Michigan State Troopers uniform on and pulled people over, you can bet your butt he did it as an adult- and it does count.

twisted bunch

maybe he stole it? You think he is above stealing? I don't.

The stoy say "he got it from his father", not his father gave it to him.

If this is TRUE (I have no idea) then it is a better reason to vote against somebody as President than anything that happened at Bain.

Lot's of people know someone who did drugs or fathered a baby out of wedlock or cheated on a test.

Very few people know anyone who dressed up as a cop for the purpose of pulling people over, and of the few who do know someone like that also know that that person was the scariest, most fucked-up person they ever knew.

Or should've been, anyway...

Or should be, anyway...

It's fucking creepy as hell, and about 20 miles past the point of being a "prank".

I probably even drove around once or twice going "WHOO WHOO WHOO!", in the relative privacy of my car, pretending I was a police car or a fire engine or suchlike... probably...
But I NEVER dressed up like a cop and pulled people over.
Cuz I'm NOT insane.
Just rather silly at times.

It's far more effective than talking about Bain and his time as MA governor. Making those arguments requires facts and figures, and will be rebutted with facts and figures from the Republicans, and requires an electorate willing to pay enough attention to understand who's figures are correct and what they mean.

On the other hand, "Mitt is really creepy" is very, very easy to get across to low-information voters.

Agreed. That's our whole mission: getting low-information voters engaged. Obviously, we chose "Mitt Romney is a tool".

and there may be voters for whom such a "prank" would make a difference.

How do cops in general feel about people impersonating them and pulling people over?
Do they think it's a funny prank?

drugs.

Also which of the two different kinds of behavior is more common, similar to other people's average behaviors, and which is pretty damned unusual and similar to what other more rare kinds of behaviors and what are those behaviors, e.g. psychotic behaviors, with the difference being pretty much a matter of degree.

Who did he stop?

Where did he stop them?

Were they women or men?

Did he ask for their ID or License?

What reason did he give for stopping them?

When did he conduct these stops, daytime or evening?

HOW MANY TIMES DID HE VENTURE OUT IMPERSONATING HIMSELF AS A COP? I imagine that after his first Cop-dress up Super-rush, he was embolden to repeat it once again? Why let a good cop uniform go to waste?


Oh, and BTW, couple such acts along with a serious bully assault on a gay student and you have a pattern of a real disturbed individual with issues.

it can rise to the level of felony.

I guess it's ok... it's a republican.

It's not a cute prank or something a lot of teen did, like smoke mj or do coke. This is not something "normal" teens do.

Most folks are not gonna believe that a kid not old enough to shave is a state trooper.

against his will.

coming from work. I was stunned by how young he was, but his uniform and cruiser certainly looked real enough to me. (He was apparently trolling for dates because he let me go immediately.)

I suspect that most troopers these days have gone through a four year academy or military police training. I just can't believe that anyone would believe that turd was really a trooper.

But given that sanity seems to be in extremely short supply in this country, I'm somewhat doubting your assertion. I hope beyond hope that what you say is true, I'm just not entirely convinced.

I worked with a guy years ago who was arrested for that same thing. He had a badge, not a uniform, and was pulling people over, mostly young girls. Someone took the badge number and called the station. Cops take that very seriously, he was charged with impersonating an officer and a few other charges. I would think it would be worse with state police.

And I'm sure he's gotten away with a lot -- the rich tend to do that, you know?

the account I read said he had the uniform laid out on his bed in his college dorm to show it off. If true, he did it in high school and wagged it to college with him. I've no idea if those accounts are true - if so, he's one weird puppy.

I totally believe he commandeered the high school "hair cut", and he was plenty old enough to know better. That was pure meanness and bullying.

Funny the reports from his neighbors surfaced just yesterday, reporting his complaints to the police about kids drinking and smoking on "his" beach at his new vacation home.

Jeez, all his life he's had to keep all this riff-raff under control!

and those thinking it will are kidding themselves.