Mitt Romney Loses His Cool

We think this might have been how Bing Crosby looked when he got too much Scotch in him and started beating on his wife and kids. What brings the scary early scenes of The Stepfather out of mild-mannered Mittens? QUESTIONS! Questions about gay marriage, and children of undocumented workers getting in-state tuition, and medical marijuana, specifically! Don't you want to ask any questions of significance? he asks the CBS reporter in Colorado -- where, in fact, those are all issues of significance! At about two minutes in, his voice rises with stress, he interrupts repeatedly, he starts to get more and more carried away -- he's no Ted Nugent, that is clear, and no one gets raped or fellated in the angry interview -- but he looks to be malfunctioning under his bio-inspired material resembling skin, his lips curled in a hate-smile pasted over his angry, anxious face. Then he gets it together again, because he is running for office for Pete's sake, and you can stop watching.

Newt Gingrich would have yelled at this reporter with pure bombast and blowhardiness, but he wouldn't have been creepy about it, just a disingenuous jerk. Mad dad is mad!