Can we judge the New Republic's attitude toward Mitt Romney by the photo chosen to illustrate an article about him?

But I don't think the author of the piece, Noam Scheiber, picked the photo, and it's not an unflattering article. Here's the core of it:

If the nomination went to the candidate most at home delivering PowerPoint presentations, Romney would almost certainly win it.

... Everything Romney has achieved in life, he's achieved thanks to his relentless empiricism and analytical rigor--in a word, his rationality....

And yet, it turns out that something as seemingly irrelevant as his religion inspires irrational fear and loathing among the people who will anoint the GOP nominee, particularly in the South...