Just a couple of points on the John Lauber incident that I think the press has glossed over, or missed entirely.
Mitt Romney, cca. 1965
First, to recap: Some time in the mid-60s (I’m kind of surprised that no news outlets have been able to pinpoint the month and the year, but Romney graduated in ’65) Romney and four of his droogies at Cranbrook Academy (think Dead Poet’s Society or Catcher in the Rye) pinned John Lauber to the ground and, while he screamed for help and cried, Mitt chopped his hair off with a pair of scissors.
Now, Mitt has pointed out that he didn’t know Lauber was gay and I believe him. If they’d known he was gay they might have done worse.
No, this was just about the long hair. In 1965, long hair on men was a big deal. A very big deal. I graduated from High School in 1972 and it was still socially divisive, but in 1965 it really stood out. When the Beatles hit the scene (their first trip to America was early in ’64) parents, politicians and other protectors of the status quo were horrified, and if you look at a photo of the Beatles from that era, their hair was actually pretty short.
But each rock band had to top the others and eventually hair got long enough that the only way to go was back and then came punk and mohawks and big spikes and hair dyed in colors that don’t actually exist in nature, and tattoos and piercings and I don’t know where we’ll go next but at each stage, there have been pricks like Mitt Romney who appoint themselves to protecting the status quo. Totally in vain, because styles keep changing and always will.
It is not too much of a surprise that a man of Mitt’s age (65) would be the uptight conservative that he is. The weird thing is that Mitt was a 65 year old man when he was 18. He probably hated the Beatles.
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I’m seventy two and remember feeling threatened at twenty six when some men in their fifties accosted me on an Erie, Pa., downtown sidewalk. My hair was short, but I had a heavy mustache which offended the villagers, and they were comfortable with expressing themselves to that effect. Three years and longer hair later I was in an Iowa City gun store and one of the customers aimed a handgun at me from six feet away as we stood at the counter. I reached for my wallet and bought a .38.
You’re probably right that it was more about the long hair than gayness. Romney would have been like the rednecks shooting Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper from their choppers in Easy Rider or beating up Arlo Guthrie in Alice’s Restaurant for their long hair.
His other pranks didn’t sound very nice either, like leading his nearly blind teacher into a closed door and then laughing about it with all his friends. He should have been kicked out of school.
He says he doesn’t remember the incident, so he probably did stuff like that all the time. If it was a one time thing it probably would stand out in his memory. But he’s probably just lying again.
Let’s see:
Gangs up and bullies people who are “different.”
Abuses family pets.
Tries to take credit for successful ideas that he previously rejected.
Yep. Totally Presidential material.