The American Spectator

Romney is having his share of credibility issues. The Post gets on him about the story we ran on abortion and related comments saying he always stood up for life. Yesterday Andrew Sullivan ran an item suggesting Romney's statements about watching his father march with Martin Luther King, Jr. were wrong. I followed up with Romney spokesman Kevin Madden who directed me to a Business Week article suggesting no, the march really did occur. Well now we learn that Romney in multiple comments on the topic was speaking "figuratively." This runs the risk of taking on an Al Gore like "I invented the internet" quality. Romney persists in going just a tad beyond the facts as we noted yesterday. There is no need other than an insatiable salesmen-like desire to impress for stretching what are basically good facts( e.g. George Romney supported civil rights) into tales of grandeur. Yet he does. (On the "NRA endorsed me" front I'm more sympathetic. It's hard to keep his positions straight and at some point, when he wasn't praising gun control, some group of gun owners likely did support him.)

UPDATE: Others are following the story too but some dwell on the tears. This sort of thing seems to play into McCain's appeal-- you get what you see-- as the anti-Romney in NH.