Romney himself is incapable of taking a bad photograph. But he is capable of putting himself in a bad setting. Such as in front of a seriously creased backdrop of a smushed and warped outline of New Hampshire...
...at a school where his name doesn't exactly elicit awe-struck recognition.
And his staff is capable of bad judgment, such as putting a large Romney sign on an altar to, um, you know, God.
"Three Men and a Baby" cast reunion, circa 2048.
When you officially declare your candidacy in a steady rain JUST OUTSIDE the shelter of the largest tent in the entire state, you can't complain about people wearing sweatshirts like this.
Aarrgghh, matey!!
It's like a time-lapse photograph of Mike Huckabee's next forty years.
Okay, so maybe it wasn't his best speech.
Hey, it's Fish from Barney Miller! Despite the occasional eyeball flare, Giuliani doesn't tend to take very bad pictures.
Though this is pretty unflattering.
And this is the best, and only, picture I could get of Giuliani's photo op with fallen Manchester police officer Michael Briggs' motorcycle. Because the photo op lasted all of about four seconds.
Well, Ron Paul has always been a lot more "Atlas Shrugged" than Charles Atlas....
Jowls are not your friends. Unless Jowls is the name of your hound dog.
Don't frown, Barack, she's going to endorse you. Yeah, this is about the worst picture I could find of him.
The very worst picture I've ever taken of John Edwards.
If Fred Thompson looked like this on his good days, he'd -- well, actually, he'd still be a lazy third-tier guy pulling a mighty 2% in New Hampshire, but maybe we'd understand what his wife saw in him.Not the worst expression on earth, but not one we tend to associate with Hillary Clinton.
I believe this would be the pre-likability tour Hillary.
He's never denied being a full-throated liberal. Not that bad a picture, really.
Joe Biden: the truth exposed.
Near-profile angles are not Bill Richardson's friends.
My real Worst picture of Richardson is hilarious, but has incredibly racist overtones, so it'll have to stay secret. And not Huckabee-attack-ad secret, where I show everybody, but only once, but secret as in I don't show anybody until the primary's long over. Sorry. It hurts me more than it does you.The Good
Rarely do we see a candidate whose bone structure has been running for President all its life.
McCain in a nutshell: flat out wrong, but a decent guy.
Sure, he looks cute, but the kid was as persistent a questioner as we wish White House reporters were.
Depending on how you feel about the Iraq war, this could also fall into the Worst category.
Rudy's bad pictures may not be that bad, but he doesn't exactly take Romney-quality pictures either.
Ron Paul's Birthday Party at Martha's Exchange
Change the angle a bit, and he doesn't look half as bad. Brains and good looks can take you a long way on the road to the White House. But while Mrs. Thompson's supplying those, Fred, maybe you could come up with just a little bit of give-a-darn.
At Mack's Apples in Londonderry.
At Lebanon High School. If you couldn't guess.
Hillary's post-filing rally.
She'd love this shot, if not for the sign in the background....
Dodd with daughter at Labor Day Parade. His wife was up a couple of times, but I never got to see her.
You've gotta love a guy who, while on his way -- literally, not figuratively -- to file for the NH primary, holds an impromptu twenty-minute town hall meeting with a group of schoolkids who won't be eligible to vote for President until Britney Spears is old enough to run.
Richardson actually looks pretty decent here, but if Richardson and Romney switched bodies, you'd have a top-tier Democrat and a second-tier Republican complaining that his resume oughta be getting more respect.
The Kuciniches. 'Nuff said.
