Who Says Grammarians Don’t Have a Sense of Humor?

My freshman-year journalism professor once called copy-editing “the most fun you can have with your clothes on.” While I don’t know if I’d go that far, I do know that the notoriously stiff Mitt Romney likely knows very little about fun or taking his clothes off. Maybe that’s why his campaign has a track record of embarrassing proofreading mistakes. (Of course, there’s also my theory that grammar and spelling are topics better suited to those commie liberal arts majors, who waste time in English courses and lamestream-media-endorsed J-school classes, than business students.)

First, there was the “America” oops moment. The official Romney iPhone app promised a better . . . Amercia?

Then the geniuses in Boston gave us a pre-Spellcheck update on the campaign’s Facebook page. “Mitt Romney’s graphics team misspelled (and randomly hyphenated) the words ‘sneak peek,'” the Atlantic Wire reported. Perhaps the millionaire candidate is hiding Mt. Everest in his brand-new car elevator?

In other Facebook news, “offical” Romney gear is also available, reported Mashable:

Today, the Romney folks misspelled “Reagan,” of all things, prompting this hilarious remark from New York Magazine’s Dan Amira: “For a Republican presidential candidate, that’s the worst word you could possibly misspell. Worse even than ‘America,’ the nation founded by Reagan in 1981.” From an Obama-bashing PowerPoint presentation developed for Romney bundlers — a group with more MBAs than English majors, I’d wager — by the campaign’s pollster:

The clincher? New York Magazine’s politics blog offers a screen grab from the campaign’s LinkedIn page. Apparently, Boston is looking for a copywriter.

Grammar nerds, it doesn’t get any better than this.