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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJUST LIKE George W. Bush, "Pep Club" member Mitt Romney "chanted cheers into a megaphone"
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A lot of people are upset about the Washington Posts revelations concerning Mitt Romneys early years in prep school.
Me too, but for a different reason. Like most people, I find highly disturbing the reports that, in prep school, the young Romney was part of a gang that held a student down and cut his hair.
But as I read through that Washington Post article, I came across something truly bothersome. After detailing Romneys failures at athletics, the writer notes, He was more at home on the sidelines, cheering the football team on as a member of the Pep Club, chanting such cheers into a megaphone as Iron them out. Iron them out. Smooooth.
This is getting weird. George W. Bush also was a cheerleader in prep school. And then theres Bushs successor as governor of Texas and wannabe successor as president, Rick Perry. He was a cheerleader at Texas A&M University. And now we learn that the presumptive nominee in the November presidential election also was a cheerleader.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/05/the_real_romney_prep-school_sc.html
Me too, but for a different reason. Like most people, I find highly disturbing the reports that, in prep school, the young Romney was part of a gang that held a student down and cut his hair.
But as I read through that Washington Post article, I came across something truly bothersome. After detailing Romneys failures at athletics, the writer notes, He was more at home on the sidelines, cheering the football team on as a member of the Pep Club, chanting such cheers into a megaphone as Iron them out. Iron them out. Smooooth.
This is getting weird. George W. Bush also was a cheerleader in prep school. And then theres Bushs successor as governor of Texas and wannabe successor as president, Rick Perry. He was a cheerleader at Texas A&M University. And now we learn that the presumptive nominee in the November presidential election also was a cheerleader.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/05/the_real_romney_prep-school_sc.html
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JUST LIKE George W. Bush, "Pep Club" member Mitt Romney "chanted cheers into a megaphone" (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
OP
A lot of people were cheerleaders, left and right leaning. :^) No one has asked me to run for POTUS
GreenPartyVoter
May 2012
#1
Maybe it's a hair ironing cheer for long curly haired guys they assault and batter
aint_no_life_nowhere
May 2012
#10
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)1. A lot of people were cheerleaders, left and right leaning. :^) No one has asked me to run for POTUS
yet, though. LOL
Laxman
(2,419 posts)2. I'm Sorry, This is Just Creepy....
Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up here in Jersey, we didnt have male cheerleaders. The boys played sports. The girls cheered. If we saw a guy standing with them urging us to chant, Iron them out. Iron them out. Smooooth, we would have fallen out of the stands laughing.
The author, Paul Mulshine is the Star-Ledger's conservative columnist. I don't agree with him most of the time but he's usually pretty funny and is consistently a good read. Plus he hated W, hates Chris Christie and now this on Mitt.
Iron them out, Iron them out, Smooth?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)3. And they had everybody scared of skulls & bones
when the real nefarious shit was going down with the pom-poms and megaphones club
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. Those secret cheerleader codes should have given us a clue
"Rah, rah, sis boom bah." Obviously nefarious!
rurallib
(62,413 posts)5. Well, Norquist says he doesn't need Romney to play, just sign the bills
Shit he won't even get a seat on the bench if he were POTUS
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)6. Iron them out, Iron them out, smoooth?
I've got to figure out how to work that into everyday conversation!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)10. Maybe it's a hair ironing cheer for long curly haired guys they assault and batter
and decide to use other hairdresser techniques besides shears.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)7. You call that a cheer?
Rick 'em, rack 'em, rock 'em, ruck 'em
Get that ball and really . . . SCORE!
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)8. The cheer is as lame as Mitt...
Bricka bracka, firecracker, sis, boom bah... Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny, rah rah rah!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)9. Trent Lott was a cheerleader, too - must be a Republican thing
From the Ole Miss yearbook. He's on the bottom row, second from the right.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)11. I think there's a striking resemblence...
You think Trent Lott knows the words to "Patsy's Got the Biggest Breasts in Town"?