Mitt Romney, teen prankster

Mitt Romney in high school.

There was an episode of The Simpsons. Homer goes to college. In one scene, we see him in the hospital standing at the dean's bedside after running him down in a car.

"Dean, I'm really sorry about the running-you-over prank," Homer says.

"Prank?" the dean says.

"And all those other pranks were my idea, too. I'm the one who should be expelled."

And now we have Mitt Romney, apologizing for any "pranks" he might have played in high school.Like the beating-up-a-gay-kid prank or the tackling-a-gay-kid-and-cutting-off-his-hair prank and the causing-a-blind-person-to-walk-into-a-door prank.

A teenager would be arrested for doing this stuff today.

Romney claims that he has no memory of these specific crimes, but, strangely, does remember that he didn't think his victims were gay.

People are dismissing this stuff. It was almost 50 years ago!

Well. Romney is 15 or 16 years older than me. If I knew someone like that in high school, I would still hold it against him.

 Romney and his gang tackled and cut off the hair of a kid who had bleached his hair blond. "He can't look like that!" said wealthy Mormon Romney. Now he says he's sorry if his amusing prank offended anyone.