Romney Looks Like a President?

The newest issue of TIME is really strange.

A black and white photo of Mitt Romney is on the cover, accompanied by the words "Sure, he looks like a president."

The cover story introduces the "real" Romney to the country.

Naturally, the article talks about Mormonism. It also details Romney's changing attitudes about issues like abortion. It's sort of a "Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up?" type of report.

What initially caught my attention was the cover shot of Romney.

He may look like a president, but he doesn't look like himself.

It's a really bizarre picture.



Maybe I haven't seen enough of him to recognize his different expressions. I don't know, but it's a very odd photo.

At first I thought Ward Cleaver was on the cover.

The lib media must have agreed to make this Romney week. In addition to the TIME story, Romney will be interviewed by 89-year-old Mike Wallace will this Sunday on 60 Minutes.

Romney is 60, hardly a spring chick, but he looks like a baby compared to Wallace. He is a baby compared to Wallace.

Wallace poses some creepy questions.

He delves into polygamy and Romney's sexual habits and history. Romney must be getting so tired of the Mormon question.

Wallace also gives Romney the opportunity to slam President Bush on Iraq.

Romney seizes it.

In what may be his strongest public statements against the Bush administration, presidential candidate Mitt Romney says his fellow Republicans in the Bush White House made mistakes in Iraq that the country is still paying for.

Romney also deplores the polygamy his ancestors practiced in the 19th Century....

"I think the administration made a number of errors," he tells Wallace. "I don't think we were adequately prepared for what occurred. I don't think we did enough planning. I don't think we considered the various downsides and risks," says Romney.

He says President Bush isn't the only one to blame. "He's the person where the buck stops, but it goes through the secretary of defense and the planning agencies, the Department of State — it's the whole administration," Romney says. "They made mistakes … and we're paying for those mistakes."

The president's "surge" policy of putting additional troops into Iraq may never work, says Romney, but it deserves a chance. "We're going to know in a matter of months if it's working or not working."

Romney acknowledges that voters may have a problem with his religion's history of polygamy.

"That's part of the history of the church's past that I understand is troubling to people," he says.

..."I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't image anything more awful than polygamy," he tells Wallace.

Bush = Bad

Polygamy = Bad

Got it.

This is the killler:

Romney's wife, Ann, who converted to the Mormon Church before they were married, is also interviewed. When asked whether they broke the strict church rule against premarital sex, Romney says, "No, I'm sorry, we do not get into those things," but still managed to blurt out "The answer is no," before ending that line of questioning.

What kind of question is that???

Would Wallace ask that of Hillary Clinton and spouse?

How about Barack Obama?

When Lesley Stahl interviewed Obama and wife Michelle, the subject of premarital sex didn't come up.

What an inappropriate line of questioning!

The real question: Why does Wallace keep coming out of retirement?

He's as bad as Barbra Streisand.