Mitt Romney’s kinky uniform fetish

by digby

When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer – a crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived. And he had the uniform on display as proof.

So recalls Robin Madden, who had also just arrived as a freshman, the startling incident began when Romney called him and two or three other residents into his room, saying, “Come up, I want to show you something.” When they entered Romney’s room, “and laid out on his bed was a Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.”

The funny thing (odd, not haha) is that if Romney liked wearing uniforms so much the country was more than happy to legitimately issue him one at the time and he didn’t take them up on it. In fact, he seems to have gone out of his way not to, as did his father and his sons. It isn’t a Mormon thing —there are plenty of them in the military. For some reason though, the Romneys, despite claiming to be uber-patriots who fervently support all of America’s wars, choose not to join up. It’s a little bit odd.

And it’s more than a little bit odd that young Mitt liked to parade around in a cop costume and scare his female classmates in high school, and then took the uniform with him to college. Considering that police uniforms carry with them automatic authority that make people submit in ways they normally wouldn’t, you can’t help but wonder what he did with it.