Mittens Apologizes for “High School Pranks”

Stories are out about Mitt Romney bullying an effeminate student who later turned out to be gay. Romney returned from spring break in his senior year to find that John Lauber, a quiet, offbeat type, had bleached his hair blond. Mr. Romney, brandishing a pair of scissors, led other boys on a hunt for Mr. Lauber, teasing him and holding him down. Mitt cut the kids sissy hair. Mitt took the high road and apologized about all the stuff he did in his wild days. “As to pranks that were played back then, I don’t remember them all, but again, high school days, if I did stupid things, why, I’m afraid I’ve got to say sorry for it,” He said he also had no reason to believe “the fellow was homosexual,” which was “the furthest thing from my mind back in the 1960s.” True dude, it was the 60s who knew about gays then. They stayed pretty quiet so local thugs wouldn’t jump them.

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