Riding around his ranch instead of the yale educated son of a wealthy political dynasty and john kerry combatted questions of his vietnam war record with this visual, arriving by boat, accompanying by swift boat crewmates at the democratic convention in boston. we ll have to wait until thursday night to find out the story mitt romney wants to tell us about who he is. but one thing is clear, the self-portrait will be drawn in etch-a-sketch ink. this is the moment when mitt romney tries to shake off what has come before and recreate himself anew. only what s he going to tell us that we haven t already heard? after all this ain t the first time he s been at the rodeo. mitt romney has been running for president for at least the last six years. to paraphrase a line from the great herald melvin and the blue notes, if we don t know him by now, we ll never know him. thanks to todd akin s junk science claims about rape,