As reported by Red County National Politics Editor "Tomahawk" (most likely not his real name), Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney today suffered a meltdown in the face of aggressive questioning from an Associated Press political reporter. The Associated Press was simply posing queries to the former Massachusetts Governor at a press conference, where, presumably, reporter questions would be permitted.

Read "Tomahawk's" take here.

As unfortunate as this incident is for Mitt Romney, it is not the first time Mitt Romney has flashed a temper.

As Romney frequently invokes his service to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympiad, one troubling incident emerged that has an eerie resemblance to today's blast of anger.

Read a narrative from a 2002 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) article of an altercation between Mitt Romney and an Olympics parking lot volunteer:

Mitt Romney said news reports Thursday that he used obscenities to criticize security personnel and transportation volunteers were inaccurate.
      "I used the 'H-word.' It takes a lot of frustration to get me to say the 'H-word,' " he told the Deseret News.
      The accusation came from Capt. Terry Shaw, a Weber County sheriff's deputy who is in charge of Olympic security at Snowbasin.
      Several calls to Shaw Thursday were not returned.
      Shaw reportedly said the Salt Lake Organizing Committee president was abusive during an incident at the resort Sunday and demanded an apology.

But according to a Morgan County sheriff's report filed by deputy Kodi Taggart, Romney and three or four other men pulled up in a tan SUV and began directing traffic through the exit around Taggart's patrol car.
      One motorist who Taggart tried to direct back onto the freeway told her "Mitt Romney himself told me to go this way," the report stated.