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Some guy took a swing at Mitt Romney on a plane a couple of days ago because Romney asked him to return his seat to the upright and locked position for takeoff. First, I didn’t realize Mitt Romney is as old as he is. He’s 62. I thought he was in his late 40’s/early 50’s. Second, he didn’t retaliate, perhaps because he’s 62. I don’t know if this makes me like him more or less. On the one hand he showed remarkable restraint. On the other hand I don’t know if that’s the type of restraint I want in a president. He was flying coach for some reason. He’s 6’2”, which means he didn’t have a bunch of room for his knees, and even less if the jackass in front of him had his seat back. He made a reasonable request and was met with violence. With the naturally heightened stress level of air travel, if someone took a poke at me for asking him to follow the rules and show a modicum of courtesy, we’d be on the front page of the newspaper the next day. I would utterly lose it. There would be a picture of me covered in the gore of this guy’s exploded eyeballs and my thumbs two knuckles deep in the sockets. MJ would be covered in an airline blanket – if they still have those – trying to pretend she didn’t know me. If there was an air marshal on the flight he’d be wondering why his taser wasn’t working on me. When asked about it, John McCain would say he’d do the exact same thing. Colin Powell would disagree saying it would have been more efficient to jam the guy’s nose into his brain. George W. Bush would say that’s why he doesn’t fly commercial air or visit Arab countries like Canada. Dick Cheney would have been the guy who wouldn’t move his seat.