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Want to judge mitt romney by our standards of today. we don't want to go back 50 years and impose those standards. >> how is our standard different from then? >> i think we are more cognizant of the damage that bullying does, and particularly anti-gay bullying. so i'm not going to give him a pass for it, but i kind of agree with michael. you want to give a younger person compassion. but what you can judge by the standards of today is his response, and since we live in a culture where we have the "it gets better" videos where prominent people are telling young, gay teenagers, it gets better, an...

Okay, we understand it. the other opinion i have is, again, this is another time where i think the campaign fl flubbed the opportunity to help get him in front of the story and to define this story in context so that people aren't taking current attitudes about bullying and how they see, you know, young gay men being treated and juxtaposing them to the 1960s. >> what's the second part? how did they handle it? >> how they handled it was poorly. >> denying it, saying he can't remember? >> a lot of people just kind of hit that credulity button and said, not so much. you can't come up with somethi...