Mitt Romney Smells Great?

Huh, in the New York Times article we read the following:

Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, also looks great, sounds great and smells great, like shaving cream.

And from CNN the following:

Cho: He looks great, sounds great, smells great.

I’m sure Mitt Romney gets the latest toiletries to ensure his body odor is on the up and up, but just what the heck does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Glenn Greenwald has more on pundits and journalists’ adoration of Republican candidates’ body odors. For example, he quotes Chris Matthews about Fred Thompson:

Does [Fred Thompson] have sex appeal? I’m looking at this guy and I’m trying to find out the new order of things, and what works for women and what doesn’t. Does this guy have some sort of thing going for him that I should notice? . . .

Gene, do you think there’s a sex appeal for this guy, this sort of mature, older man, you know? He looks sort of seasoned and in charge of himself. What is this appeal? Because I keep star quality. You were throwing the word out, shining star, Ana Marie, before I checked you on it. . . .

Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man’s shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of — a little bit of cigar smoke? You know, whatever.

There’s that shaving cream again.