Romney ... Making Copies

The Concord Monitor asks Mitt Romney if he'll give "the speech." His answer -- xerox John F. Kennedy's.

"In 1960, when he was running for president, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech aimed at questions about his Catholicism. Kennedy extolled the separation of church and state and assured voters that would never take orders from the Pope. Romney is often asked whether he'll give a similar speech; yesterday, he said he wasn't sure.

'John F. Kennedy gave the landmark speech on the topic. He said what needs to be said,' Romney said. 'I don't know that there's something different that needs to be said than what he said. I guess I could go back and reprint it!'"

Roger Simon, meanwhile, sees seriously bad behavior in Hillary Clinton's planted question scandal:

"The culture of control in presidential campaigning has gotten way out of control. Staffs now want to control every moment of the campaign: not just what the candidate says and how she says it, but what questions she gets asked about it," Simon writes for Politico.

Richard Cohen in The Washington Post says the sky is falling and maybe Mike Bloomberg can fix it. Unlike Ross Perot, Cohen writes, Bloomberg is tempermentally suited for the presidency.

(JENNIFER SKALKA)