Top Ten Cloves: Other People Mitt Romney Saw His Father With

10.  The first Super Bowl… I still have the picture in my head, Dad standing there, arm-and-arm, with Max McGee

 9.  Margaret Mead… I was very young, and it was on a dig in some foreign country … I can still see, both of them, in their dirty kakis

 8.  U Thant… I believe that I saw Dad be the first person to greet him at the United Nations

 7.  Charlton Heston… In the early 60’s, I think it was on the set of “The Greatest Story Ever Told” that I saw them … If Dad were still alive, I can see him, at the NRA convention – who has endorsed me, by the way – handing Mr. Heston the “cold dead hands” rifle

 6.  John Glenn… It’s so crystal clear, that I could have swear Dad was on the first orbit with him

 5.  Miles Davis… It was just before ‘Bitches Brew’ came out … Not many people saw it, but Dad was an old hipster …

 4.  Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Prime Minister… In fact, as I remember seeing, Dad had, kind of, a Mormon Prophecy, and told Smith that the country would, some day, have a name like “Zimbaby”, or something like that …

 3.  Hank Aaron … Dad was there the big night, No. 715… Almost can see Dad himself, hitting that homerun

 2.  Abba Eban … I can still see them, like they were standing here today … Dad told Eban, he could wrap things in in five, or six-days

 1.  I can see it clearly… August 15, 1965 … Shea Stadium… Dad up there with The Beatles …

Bonus Make-Up (and Made-Up) Mitt Riffs

Steve Benen/Crooks and Liars:  Romney’s tall tale about MLK

Josh Marshall:  Saw in the Sense of Imagined

Tbogg:  Black History Month with Rahsaan Roland Romney

Andrew Sullivan:  It Gets Better

Is John Boehner Consulting The Romney Campaign, Giving Make-Up Mitt Crying Lessons?

Romney Speech: Where’s Leonard Pinth Garnell When You Really Need Him?