Mitt Romney Needs to Start an Apology Tour, Pronto

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I suppose this doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things, but for a guy supposedly dedicated to shoring up the Anglo-American special relationship, Mitt Romney sure has managed to screw the pooch a remarkable number of times in a mere 24 hours. It’s almost Palinesque, in a lower key kind of way. Andrew Sullivan has the details.