With Romney, Anything Goes

By Dana Milbank
Washington Post

Before Mitt Romney arrived to give a stump speech in Des Moines on Friday, his aides covered the windows with blue curtains. When that failed to block enough sunlight, they taped campaign signs to the windowpanes.

It was a sensible precaution: Much of what Romney says can't stand up to the light of day.

At Friday's event, the candidate tried to argue that the major speech that he had delivered Thursday about his Mormon faith had absolutely nothing to do with politics.

"That's not what the speech was about," the former governor of Massachusetts said, indignantly.

"What was it about, sir?" a questioner asked. "The speech was about faith in America," Romney asserted, "not about politics."

"But it is a political season, sir," the questioner pointed out.

"Then you got to get together with the political pundits," came Romney's angry reply.

The questions continued along these lines until an aide hustled the candidate out of harm's way: "Gotta catch a plane, Governor." Even that was a stretch: The campaign has a chartered plane, so it never leaves without Romney.

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