I think Romney did the right thing because in general the media will side with Obama we all know this. There might be one reporter at each major news paper working on the story .... how many democrats still read the paper though?
After all was said and done, the Rush's, Beck's, Hannity's, etc. say it was thee thing to do, not to bring it up, because they all agreed had Mitt done so, the Obummer campaign would have used all of Mitt's comebacks.