Romney Lies Again, or Worse

Five eyewitnesses and participants say that as an upper classman at his prep school, Mitt Romney led a 'posse' of kids to tackle, pin down, and then cut a younger classmate's hair as he screamed for help. Romney says he can't remember the incident. Here's why I think he's lying:

The five eyewitnesses remember it very vividly. Some deeply and frequently regret their part in it. One of them ran into the victim 30 years later and apologized.

I got in a few fights as a kid, the last in eighth grade. I can remember nearly every detail of every one. Who struck first, where the blows landed, the expression on their face, everything. Romney was nearly an adult at the time, I was in grade school.

It is politically incredibly convenient not to remember. It avoids having to answer a barrage of acutely uncomfortable and politically damaging questions.

But what if I'm wrong, what if he really doesn't remember? What could that mean? I can only think of two possibilities:

That cruelty meant so little to him that he can't even remember it.

He did stuff like this so often he can't remember this particular incident.

Either way, that's worse.

Most likely, he's just a liar.