On the 17th (Thursday) Mitt Romney got into an altercation with a reported in an office supply store.  A visibly angry campaign said "He's not running my campaign" so many times I lost count.
"Don't argue with the candidate, that's so out of line."  Was my favorite part of the whole thing.

Ron Kaufman is a lobbyist?  I'm not sure I really care.  What's really interesting to me is if that was a good example of a journalist being tough and doing his job of reporting and holding people accountable to the public.

I really think this was also a great example of a political acting too political.  Romney had some kind of political-strategy-nerd-bodyguard too.

Are there lobbyists running Romney's campaign, I guess I still don't know.  The repetitive scuffle taught me two things...there's a guy named Ron Kaufman that may or may not have a lot of influence over Romney's decision making.  Unfortunately the information the reporter was unsuccessfully trying to dig up wouldn't sway my vote either way but Romney's three minutes of anger toward a reporter might.

Here are the fateful three minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8cHiEGLEls

Why would you even get in a fight in an office supply store anyway, Romney need pens and the AP just happened to be hanging around?

In the end, having the political bodyguard-type tell the reporter that arguing with a politician was a bad thing was a little too much for me to swallow.  Politics are way to political sometimes, that circular argument in an office supply store shouldn't have happened.  Maybe Romney strayed from the script.

A politician should know better than to be flustered by a side comment and a reporter should know better than to repeat himself over and over again, wasting time for the other reporters's questions.  Both laked political grace by miles.  So much so that the video clip aired on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer.  As a fan of Wolf Blitzer I do not take the "situations" lightly.

The point is, America probably laughed at the expense of Romney no matter if he was right or wrong.