Joe Conason: Did Young Romney Impersonate a Police Officer? Another Witness Says Yes
from truthdig:
Did Young Romney Impersonate a Police Officer? Another Witness Says Yes
Posted on Jun 14, 2012
By Joe Conason
When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officera crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived. And he had the uniform on display as proof.
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 Romneys room, and laid out on his bed was a Michigan State Troopers 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 classmates 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. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/did_young_romney_impersonate_a_police_officer_another_witness_says_yes_2012/
xchrom
(108,903 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)old news on DU, but has the MSM ever reported on this?? I bet not...
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Where are the "professional reporters" with their questions? Why hasn't someone asked Romney about this "rumor?"
Aviation Pro
(12,181 posts)...we have bloggers and their uninformed opinions. That's why vetting a candidate has gotten so difficult with 70 gazillion morons typing away at computer monitors and thinking their "facts' count.
SalviaBlue
(2,917 posts)are telling their opinions.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)catapulting the propaganda is their job. Their Corporate Conservative Republican job.
trusty elf
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BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)(((((((:hug )))))
love it!
I gotta run now, but might post your pic to my FB
marshall
(6,665 posts)So far all that has bee reported is hearsay. People have said that Romney TOLD them he impersonated a police officer. What they need to find are people who actually SAW him do it--the folks he says he pulled over or otherwise appeared to in the police uniform.
NS2012
(74 posts)Focusing on it makes Democrats seem trite.
Focus on the Romney of today - today's Romney is deplorable enough.
SalviaBlue
(2,917 posts)madmom
(9,681 posts)marew
(1,588 posts)Patterns of behavior are what we look at when evaluating a person's character and, if nothing else, Romney's arrogance is amazingly consistent. If his father gave it to him, doesn't speak well of dad either.
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)This is why Democrats lose. Let's be nice and sing Kum By Ya and hold bipartisan hands.
Only problem is, the Other Party is off on a proverbial head hunt, sabers rattling and slashing up our rights and well-being and children's financial future, salivating over 3-4 Supreme Court nominations and cementing control of the US for decades to come, while reveling in the squandering of (free to them) hard-earned taxpayer funds to merrily send off our (not theirs) country's next most precious future, our finest young men and women to be pounded into desert sand or returned maimed with PTSD. All for the pleasure and profit of their military industrial corporations.
Sorry, Romney's already done this exact thing in the business world...he got where he is now by doing the above, short of sending any men, including he and his to war, with businesses, people's lives, people's jobs, people's health or lack thereof laughing all the way to the bank. If the democrats don't have the cojones to hammer without mercy on this, we'll all lose.
He is a sociopath...a psychopath...a draft dodger...unfit to hold office.
And calling him out isn't "trite" ... Def ... power to evoke interest through overuse or
repetition; hackneyed. 2. Archaic Frayed or worn out by use.
He's unqualified to be president...based on yesterday, today and tomorrow.
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got." And Romney clearly has no intention of changing.
NS2012
(74 posts)You lose all credibility. Any Romney supporter can simply shrug and say "Well, people change."
At that point the rest of any argument you have, no matter how strong, is negated.
I'm not talking about holding hands with Republicans. I'm merely interested in upholding credibility.
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)and I hear and appreciate your intent. Thing is, no RWer is ever going to change their mind on any minute detail, unless of course, it is about them or theirs, at which time they show a dazzling ability to shift gears and "change" and accept formerly derided taxpayer largesse.
This is not the case for those who are undecided, in the somewhat diminishing middle, or the even more diminishing right-middle. For them, these issues count. Many are Libertarian, many have more than half a brain, and still more are Christian with actual virtues.
The case against Obama was entirely his past, his family, his race, his church, his pastor, his birth certificate, and even his wife's African-American physical build.
They defined the path. Like war, and this is currently a social and political war like never before, no one especially Liberals likes it, but sometimes it's necessary.
It is always the "undecideds" who tip the scale. They look for something to tip the scales for them, and if all they have is the above Case Against Obama, and Mitt the Mighty, White, Successful Businessman...
They are the target...forget the TPers and the Nutwings.
Journeyman
(15,037 posts)Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)Tacky as it may be. Hillary Rosen mentions Anne Romney's lack of "work history" and is forced to apologize what, like 10 minutes later, due to the RW/MSN Squawkers. But make a CD of Obama The Blackie, or the "Joker" poster, or on and on ... and nobody squawked, at least very loudly.
Having been brought up RW/John Birch and made a conscious change as soon as I got to college and had the opportunity to think for myself, I well understand the dyad.
NS2012
(74 posts)And that Hillary Rosen fiasco was a load of shit.