I try not to talk politics and religion, my Gran always told me they were not polite topics they upset people? So what did I do? I became an advocate for the abused and the disabled one is done at an alarmingly high rate by the Catholic Church and the other has their rights shat on by the political system, sorry Gran.

This week with an astonishingly rare coherent uttering, mit Romney was being understandable for a moment sans babble even and when I heard his diatribe I could not help but have a dog in the fight.Back in the sixties while attending and obscenely expensive private school, he stormed from his dorm room followed by a posse of adoring sheep ranting that a supposedly gay student with a 60’s mod hair cut probably reminiscent of the Beatles was wrong.He screamed his hair was wrong, and in his hand he held scissors the sobbing screaming crying youth was beaten down by a homophobic mob and his crowning glory was sheared from him like a sheep.

When this came to light, the herd of bleating followers were tracked down one by one all admitting it, and all ashamed and many even stated the event was a shame-filled benchmark of their youth they wish had never happened. You see that’s what decent people who have made a mistake do.

The ring leader, heir Romney laughed and sniggered his way through every syllable of his reply when questioned, and even continued laughing when told the victim died several years back.

The republican spin doctors cried foul, they screamed in harmony,” No one remembers”, “no one cares” “and neither should the voters, who cares what happened to a weird kid 50 years ago”?

I can tell you who cares mr Romney, any decent normal caring human and if the Romney brown shirts think for one moment that boy who became a man ever forgot, it just shows how much of the Republican Kool-aid they have drunk.

What rock have Romney and his jack booted pundits been living under? From 4 years of age till almost 13 in one form or another my older brother molested me that was almost 40 years ago and I still see a therapist for the horror filled nightmares and PTSD and physco-genic symptoms I suffer now into my fifties because of it. The gay youth who killed himself in upstate New York who was sung about by lady Gaga, do you think his parents and sibling will forget his death from bullying in 50 years? Hell no, the Irish girl in Boston who was harangued and bullied until she came home and hung herself do you think her family will ever forget? The dozens of teen suicides from bullying that have occurred over the past two years do you think their families friends and loved ones will ever forget? The violin player from Rutgers University who jumped from a New York bridge because he was filmed with his gay lover and it was sent viral will his family forget? Of course not and any decent society should never forget the monsters who caused it just as we should never allow mit Romney to laugh his way out of what he did to a young gay youth whether 5 or 50 years ago.

Once a bully always a bully, having hundreds of millions of dollars may have finessed the methods he uses and the tools at his disposal but isn’t it obvious by his flip flopping and outright lying and claiming involvement and taking credit for things he had nothing to do with that he hasn’t changed. I’m not a political person, I don’t give a tinkers damn if the person in the white house is black white Latino, Asian or Martian but I sure as hell care whether they’re human and decent and at least have never personally been the root cause of someone’s despair and shame or have been the reason why someone somewhere has ever considered suicide or addiction or alcoholism to drown the pain caused by them.

So Mr. Romney do I forget? Do I forgive? no, I have won against my bully I am still here, I may be a wheels under my ass middle aged dyke with disabilities but I never ever bullied a soul in my life. No parent has a tomb stone or a mental ward to visit because of what I considered entertainment , And unless you can say the same in this era of homophobic hate filled rants by anyone with a soap box your address should never be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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