It's been a bad couple of days for Mitt Romney. You probably have already read that John McCain crashed the Republican Governors Association meetings in Doral, Florida. This was supposed to be Romney's turf since he's head of the organization, and he had certainly made planes for it to be just that. Then McCain came to town, courted the governors, their associates, and the many lobbyists, and turned the event into, well, more than a competition, but a triumph of the senator's audacity and charm. If you haven't yet seen the details, read about them in a story by Scott Helman in today's Boston Globe and in another story by Adam Nagourney in today's New York Times. So what else is shadowing Romney? There are two (other) stories about Romney on the front page of The Boston Globe this morning. One is that his successor, Deval Patrick, the former assistant attorney general of the United States under President Clinton, has complained that at five minutes before midnight a Romney-controlled board has appointed his own flak to run the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. This is, as the article by Andrea Estes reports, the organization "which controls state funding for biotechnology initiatives in the Commonwealth." One problem is that Aaron D'Elia knows nothing about biotechnology. The other problem is the designation of D'Elia is a lame-duck appointment, just of the kind that Romney bitched about when his predecessor Acting Governor Jane Swift, as her term was in late dusk, put some of her cronies into high office. Romney actually got some of those appointments reversed. There's a fight brewing, for sure. And here is the much bigger story. Do you remember Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood? These were Bill Clinton's unconfirmed appointments for attorney general who'd hired illegal immigrants. Here's another one of these stories. Three Globe reporters have researched a real Romney scandal. You may know that he is one of those Republicans who are on the paranoid right about illegal immigrants. And, lo and behold, Romney and his wife, Anne, had at least three illegal immigrants working on and actually landscaping their 2 1/2 acre lawn (and their son's, as well) for years. It's true that sometimes Mrs. Romney gave their workers water. Good for her. When asked about this report, Romney himself answered, "Geez." This news demonstrated the hypocrisy of almost everyone on this issue. People against illegal immigration employ illegal immigrants. People sympathetic to illegal immigrants are outraged when other people employ them. Almost no one actually says, "Let them in and let them work, yes, illegally."