Romney shares Top 10 reasons why he lost, forgets to include "I'm an asshole"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

April 17, 2008
Romney: I could have won, with a few more Osmonds
Posted: 12:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) — At Wednesday night’s Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C., former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave his “Top 10 Reasons for Dropping Out of the Race":

10. There weren't as many Osmonds as I thought.
9. I got tired of corkscrew landings under sniper fire.
8. As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of the varmint season.
7. There wasn’t room for two Christian leaders.
6. I was upset that no one had bothered to search my passport files.
5. I needed an excuse to get fat, grow a beard and win the Nobel prize.
4. I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.
3. I wanted to finally take off that dark suit and tie, and kick back in a light-colored suit and tie.
2. Once my wife Ann realized I couldn't win, my fundraising dried up.
1. There was a miscalculation in our theory: "As Utah goes, so goes the nation.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/17/romney-i-could-have-won-with-a-few-more-osmonds/

[TwilightGardener]

1. OK, I laughed at some of those, I'll admit.

[bunkerbuster1]

2. That's decent.

And I'll admit, his joke about taking a punch from Huckabee -- "Just don't touch the hair!" -- pretty funny too.

Of course, if you catch this guy on the right day, he's a liberal Northeastern Republican...

[Clear Blue Sky]

3. Some funny ones.

Is his wife independently wealthy? I thought Romney made his $$ in business. McCain's wife has big $$.

[gratuitous]

4. A most rare sighting

A conservative making jokes, some of which are genuinely self-deprecating and funny. As they used to say on the Bullwinkle and Rocky Show, now there's something you don't see every day.