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Mitt Romney’s Cranbrook: The Untold Story

May 11 (Bloomberg) -- How well I remember the day many years ago that I was walking through the quad at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Suddenly I heard a voice shouting, “There he is, the bastard!” It was Mitt Romney, who went on: “He’s the guy who favors health insurance reform with an” -- he spat out the words -- “individual mandate. Let’s get him, boys.” I tried to outrun them, but soon enough I was pinned to the ground as they whipped me with the brochures I had been handing out and said things like, “You want to cover pre-existing conditions? We’ll show you some pre-existing conditions.…”