Besides taking one of my worst pictures ever with a possible future U.S. President (OMG! My hair is so flat!), my overall impression of Gov. Mitt Romney was favorable. He connected with the people, positions himself on the issues well, and darn it... people like him.

Romney came into the reception area and worked the room with the ease of a socialite. I was impressed that he took the time to shake every single person's hand, spend a couple of minutes chatting with him, and take questions from the crowd. More impressive was the Texans for Mitt crowd who indeed were Texans for Mitt.

As I'm munching on the pepper cheese, I wasn't thinking about Mitt. I was too busy thinking about the fact my hair looked horrible in the picture, I wore the wrong shoes for standing, not to mention a shirt too big, which in turn made me look like the size of a Thoroughbred next to the fit and trim governor in the perfectly tailored suit (although extremely comfortable at the office in slouch mode)....but I digress.

My only suggestion to the Romney team is that he talks too long. True, I'm so ADD that I can barely brush my teeth without getting distracted. However, a simple question needs a straightforward answer. Some of his responses seemed a little canned from my perspective but he did have some interesting tidbits worked into his stump speech.

He rolled through his position on the hot topics easily, made sure to mention illegal immigration, border control, health care and Iraq within a five minute discussion - impressive. After a thorough discussion on these topics and his very high level plan of action relating to these topics, the crowd highly disappointed me.

They asked about him attending the Texas straw poll (yawner), writing a book about his campaign journey, and getting the party back to values. Oh, and my personal favorite, "Who is your 20th century idol?" You get three guesses on his answer and the first two don't count. If you're slow, he was the greatest president in our history and died recently of Alzheimer's. (As if the answer would be anyone but Reagan in this election.)

Shelley the Republican has decided to give Romney a chance to impress. Initially the LDS issue gave me pause, but we're going to watch him more. He's at least giving us more entertainment than Fred Thompson these days.