Mitt Romney (R-How Ya Like Me Now?) is apparently riding on the coattails of Willie Horton in the GOP presidential primary race. From Politico’s Morning Score:

THE CREATOR OF THE WILLIE HORTON AD IS BEHIND ROMNEY’S SUPER PAC SPOTS: In this week’s New Yorker, Jane Mayer profiles Larry McCarthy — a director and ad maker for the pro-Romney Restore Our Future Super PAC. He’s most famous for the 1988 spot targeting Michael Dukakis. The group is “technically fighting a proxy battle on behalf of Romney, but in practice it has become the head warrior,” she explains. Mayer notes that ROF has already spent $17 million this year—more than the Romney campaign itself—and that almost all of it paid for negative ads made by McCarthy’s firm. The whole story: http://nyr.kr/zOmM2c.

Then again, there is no whole story when it comes to Mitt Romney. Just bits and pieces that serve his purpose in the short run.