MICHELE NORRIS, Host: In Washington last night, one former presidential candidate provided some entertainment. Republican Mitt Romney attended the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner. He offered his top 10 reasons for why he dropped out of the race.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: Here they are.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number ten: That there weren't as many Osmonds as I had thought.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number nine: I got tired of the corkscrew landings under sniper fire.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number eight: As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of varmint season.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number seven: There wasn't room in the campaign for two Christian leaders.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number six: Word leaked out that nobody even bothered to search my passport files.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number five: I'd rather get fat, grow a beard, and try for the Nobel Prize.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number four: I wanted to finally take off the dark suit and tie, and kick back in a light-colored suit and tie.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number three: Once my wife, Ann, realized I couldn't win, my fundraising dried up.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Number two: I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.</s>MITT ROMNEY: And number one: There was a flaw in our campaign theory that as Utah goes, so goes the nation.</s>MITT ROMNEY: Thank you.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: And so goes Mitt Romney. He was speaking last night in Washington at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner.
Departed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, was a hit at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents in Washington, D.C. He offered a "Top Ten" list of his reasons for leaving the White House race.