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Mitt Romney's “Top 10 Reasons for Dropping Out of the Race"

April 17, 2008 9:17 AM

Mitt Romney's “Top 10 Reasons for Dropping Out of the Race"

Per Politico's inimitable Mike Allen, Gov. Romney appeared at the Radio & Television Correspondents’ Association dinner, last night where he presented this list:

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.”

Watch the VIDEO HERE.

- jpt

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Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos were out to do a deplorable job. The event was supposed to benefit the Democratic Party; instead, it looked like the RNC had hired the moderators to escalate the trite trivialities and keep the candidates from addressing the real issues.

Posted by: TK | Apr 17, 2008 10:28:41 AM

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