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  1. “… a better-looking 65-year-old you’d be hard-pressed to find.”

    I. Beg. Your. Pardon.

    I can see I’m going to have to start sending pictures around. Again.

  2. Any time Mitt appears with Ann he looks better, more charming and relaxed. They really ought to put her out there more often…it can only help.

    On his sense of humor, I really had no idea until recently that he had that dry wit. It was his comments after the “hair on fire” remark that made me take notice (reported in the WaPo):

    “It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments,” Romney told reporters. “We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusatory and attacking President Obama that you’re going to jump up in the polls. You know, I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.” A few minutes later, when a reporter brought up Romney’s comment about lighting his hair on fire, the well-coiffed candidate interjected: “I’m not going to do it. I don’t care how hard you ask. It would be a big fire, I assure you.”

    Ann Althouse commented on his sense of humor here:

    http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/romney-says-im-not-willing-to-light-my.html

    Of course, we we see him on Letterman and Colbert and Conan, etc? I have to wonder. Doesn’t fit the “narrative.”

  3. It seems to me that persons who are internally weak, especially when they have power, use humor to attack others; whereas those who are internally strong are more gentle in their use of humor and often direct it at themselves.

    Abraham Lincoln, when accused by Stephen Douglas of being two-faced, responded ‘If I had another face, do you think I’d wear this one?’

    I wonder if any current candidate, Obama or any of the Republicans, is able to disarm an adversary with such self-referential humor. I think if any of them were to use humor, it would be to attack. At least, that is what I have seen so far.

    Best wishes,

    Jim

  4. Jim Nicholas
    It seems to me that persons who are internally weak, especially when they have power, use humor to attack others; whereas those who are internally strong are more gentle in their use of humor and often direct it at themselves.

    Consider Dubya’s sense of humor.

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