I don't really feel like courting a "wanker of the day" award, but Romney's statement that he "saw" his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. when, really, he just knew -- or thought he knew -- that his father was marching with Martin Luther King Jr., just isn't a big deal. More to the point, it's not the sort of media feeding frenzy that should be validated, even when it's against a figure as odious as Romney. This is exactly the sort of crap the press pulled on Gore, exactly the sort of thing they routinely haul out against politicians they want to destroy. Sometimes, the leader in their gunsight is a good man, and sometimes he is not. But the press corps' ability to inflate every misstatement or rhetorical overstep in the final months of a year-long campaign into a Question of Character seems like a power we don't necessarily want to bless them with. Romney's sins are legion, his panders clear, his political positions a mixture of the opportunistic and the idiotic. Attack him on that. Not a line about something he thought his father did.