Are Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani in a secret battle to prove who has the least competent deputies? Undoubtedly, Rudy's winning the fight, but this from yesterday's Palm Beach Post marks two small victories for the Romney team. More trouble, it seems, for recently suspended Romney aide Jay Garrity--or "Trooper Garrity" as he called himself on at least one occasion when impersonating a police officer. Garrity had been called out for forcing reporters off a road in rural New Hampshire. Apparently, he also took his tricks out of New England and brought them further a-field. A Florida reporter, the Post's S.V. Date, is complaining that Garrity bullied him in the Senate Office Building, preventing the reporter from entering and riding an elevator. When Date inquired as to whether the brusque Romney aide he ran into was the same who had been running reporters off New Hampshire's roads, a Romney spokeswoman replied, recalling a different scene: "You mean the time you practically knocked over Mrs. Romney? You were so aggressive and rude," the spokeswoman wrote to Date. (The entire exchange is up on a Post blog.) How did mild-mannered Mitt find such a bristly bunch? --Samuel Jacobs