Cover line on the current edition of Town & Country:

REPUBLICAN GENE MACHINE

The Five Sons Making Sure Mitt Won’t Quit

Really?

The Jaws of Life couldn’t extract Romney from the GOP presidential primary. He needs the Mini-Mitts too?

Well, maybe so. Check out this stat from ABC’s The Note:

If you want to understand why this primary season has — and will — continue to drag on look no further than this finding: 74 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents expect Mitt Romney to be the GOP nominee, but just 31 percent want to see him win the nomination.

Bring on the Mini-Mitts, yeah?

Campaign Outsider Bonus Question™:

This big wet T&C Romneykiss was written by Boston Globe Washington correspondent Matt Viser.

You got no problem with that, @globemartybaron?