Sounding a little bit like Miss Teen South Carolina that time she tried to answer that question about why Americans can’t find the U.S. on a map, Mitt Romney was the first to field a question at Tuesday’s GOP debate about invading Iran.

Here’s the NYT description:

All the leading contenders offered tough if slightly measured responses when asked if they would, as president, take military action to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon without seeking the authority of Congress. But Mr. Romney, who was first to answer the question, seemed caught off guard.

“We’re going to let the lawyers sort out what he needed to do and what he didn’t need to do, but certainly what you want to do is to have the agreement of all the people in leadership of our government, as well as our friends around the world where those circumstances are available,” Mr. Romney said.

And here’s something that caught me off guard. In the 21st paragraph of the NYT story, they quote John McCain. I forgot that guy was running.