The real significance of the WaPo article on Romney the high school bully

[eridani]

Clear proof that the 1% have given up on him as a candidate for president. Otherwise, the story would just be knocking around the blogosphere.

The only way anything good is going to happen in the next four years is by electing Democrats all up and down the ticket--as progressive as we can find. Recall that FDR had a Congress that was 70-80% Democratic.

[hifiguy]

1. I don't know. This might be a piece of superb oppo

research by the Obama people that they gave to the WaPo. This is a professional operation, not random or unplanned in the least.

[longship]

2. You don't know that

This is precisely what newspapers and journalists do. No matter how jaded one might be about today's journalists, print media still has incredible power.

This is what is called a scoop. If you were alive in the late 60's you might remember another by the WaPo. Yes, Ben Bradley and Company are long gone. And the WaPo is not what it used to be.

But just maybe they sense a turn in the road -- something DUers have been talking about since day one here.

But here's the deal. This is precisely the type of story that some ambitious journalist would sell their soul for. The framing was already in place: Rmoney's inability to relate to normal people. Where better to research that than at his exclusive high school.

I think the most likely answer is that these four guys walked into the WaPo offices and offered their story. They are of the age that they were voting at the time of Woodward and Bernstein. Where do you take a scoop like they had? The WaPo, of course.

That's it. No campaign collusion here.

[hifiguy]

3. I don't disagree, but all I said was

"might" so you don't need to lecture. Someone did some deep digging, whomever it was. What's surprising is that the WaPo actually published it. That fishwrap has been carrying water for the Repukes for going on twenty years.