The boomlet of speculation last week about Mitt Romney's Presidential hopes has earned him what all prospective Presidential candidates yearn for: A pair of articles in this week's editions of the nation's leading newsweeklies, Newsweek and Time. But you can bet that Romney wasn't overly thrilled with the treatment he received from them. The most interesting thing from the two pieces is a nugget of news at the end of the Time piece to the effect that Romney's advisers are trying to figure out whether to address the potential liability of Romney's Mormonism head-on:

Romney advisers are debating whether he will need to give a big speech in the tradition of John F. Kennedy, who told Protestant church leaders in Houston 46 years ago that he was "not the Catholic candidate for President" but instead was "the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be Catholic."

The rest of the Time piece runs through all the usual stuff you hear about how Evangelical Christians won't vote for a Mormon. Meanwile, Newsweek offers a scathing look at Romney's efforts to ride his opposition to gay marriage into the White House, concluding that it's "a strategy that won't get him very far."