On Saturday the NYT ran a very strange photo of Mitt Romney under the headline “Romney’s Tone on Gay Rights Seen as Shift.” It is probably not the first image the candidate wants to come into your mind when you think of him. Ask yourself – what does it look like he's doing? If the answer that pops into your mind is scatological you aren’t alone.
Of course a candidate can’t control every photo op (though Republicans seem to do a very good job trying), but if I were working with the Romney campaign I would be asking just what the candidate did to tick off whoever laid out the NYT front page that day. It gets worse. The very next day Romney’s main opponent Rudy Giuliani gets a full page black and white close-up on the cover of the Sunday Magazine over the headline “The Crusader” – maybe a little “Big Brother” for my taste, but a very effective portrait of the ex-Mayor none the less.
Is this just an extension of the Yankees/Red Sox East Coast Corridor rivalry, or are there more sinister forces at work? I would love to know the story behind the choosing of this image to represent Romney’s “stance” on the issues.
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