Mitt Romney broke our deal.  Perhaps he didn't know he'd made
it, although, really, I thought it was pretty clear.    It
didn't seem like a lot to ask, but when the crisis in the Middle
East flared up, Romney turned out to have no restraining inner
core. All the uneasy feelings you got when he went to London and
dissed the Olympic organizers can now come into full bloom. Feel
free to worry about anything. That he'd declare war on Malta.
Lock himself in a nuclear missile silo and refuse to come out
until there's a tax cut. Hand the country over to space aliens.
Here is the Republican candidate for president of the United
States on Wednesday, explaining why he broke into a moment of
rising international tension, denouncing the White House for a
mild statement made by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo about the
importance of respecting other people's religions:  "They
clearly -- they clearly sent mixed messages to the world. And --
and the statement came from the administration -- and the
embassy is the administration