I think I need to elaborate on a Tweet I sent earlier. It's tough to make your point clear in 140 characters.
There are all these stories about Mitt Romney being a bully or a terrorizer of gays or whatever he was alleged to be in high school. I don't know if they're true or not. I don't care if they're true or not. I mean, if he'd killed a guy, that might matter. But I believe someone could be one thing in high school and almost an entirely different person a few decades later. I would never not vote for someone because they were an asshole in eighth grade. Most of us were back then. It was just a matter of how big an asshole you were.
All I was trying to say was that I don't buy the "I don't remember" defense here…and that is somewhat relevant in who the person is today. I'm only five years younger than Romney and I don't think the following will change soon: I remember everything I did in those days that I wish I hadn't done or am ashamed I did…and if you came to me and said, "Hey, someone says you and a couple of your friends held a guy down and cut his hair," I would certainly know that hadn't happened.
And I'll bet if you went to Romney and said, "It's being claimed that you paid for a girl's abortion," he would remember that absolutely, positively hadn't happened.