Would Mitt Romney be a wimp in the White House?

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s whining and flip-flopping is making him look like a wimp with something to prove, not a steady future leader of the Western world, writes Michael Tomasky

MITT Romney has bowed to reporters and cowered from the right. He’s a candidate with a serious wimp problem.

It should be the easiest thing in the world for a presidential nominee: A trip to England. The mother country, the shared tongue, America’s firmest ally. And it should have been easiest of all, happening as it did on the eve of the Olympics.