LAT nitpicks Romney's speech

Perhaps it's a measure of the effectiveness of Romney's speech that the LAT editorial page editors feels the need to nitpick Romney's speech, finally calling Romney's statements contortions and suggesting they were intended to cover all the political bases. Then the LAT takes a swipe at Republican evangelicals, calling them hyper-politicized. This editorial is an embarrassment to the LAT. Evangelicals are no more hyper-politicized than many groups in the U.S., including gays and lesbians, blacks and Hispanics, unions, environmentalists and many others. Romney's speech was well written, sometimes even elegant, and well planned, which is why the LAT had to nitpick.