I am thinking back to the only time Romney lost his cool at the media. It was when Stephanopoulos asked him that question about where he would stand if a state wanted to make birth control illegal. Remember that? And Mitt told him it was a silly question, because there were no states that were asking for that. Mitt won that round. And I wondered at the time where Stephanopoulos was going with that.
Now I think he was trying to get a quarrel going between Romney and Santorum, who is the only one who has come out against birth control, and Mitt was having none of it. Not because he’s against quarrels but because he wanted Santorum to stay in the race and not be made to look ridiculous in the debate. In order to prevent Newt from taking over Santorum’s supporters.
Too convoluted maybe, but it was the first time Mitt got mad during the debates. If it was just a silly question, he wouldn’t have lost his cool.
You know, you might be onto something there.