Meet Mitt Romney. He's an author, you know.

Noted author Mitt Romney
(Matthew Reichbach)
  Via HuffPo:

When people donate more than $200 to a candidate or committee, they are required to provide a bit of personal information for the Federal Elections Commission: name, address, occupation and employer go along with how much money they donate. [...]

Ann, who has been outspoken about her stay-at-home-mom status, not surprisingly lists herself as a "homemaker."

Romney, however, lists himself as "self-employed." His occupation? "Author."

I know when someone asks me who Mitt Romney is (note: this never happens) I immediately think, "Oh, he's that author." The one that writes, you know, stuff.

On the other hand, I feel for him; those forms can make for some awkward times. He certainly doesn't want to list "unemployed" because the entire free world would make fun of him (again). I don't know if there's a category for "people who live off their pile of money," but it probably would be worse than saying "unemployed," and nobody ever seems to list their primary occupation as I'm running for office, for Pete's sake.

Still, it doesn't feel right. Maybe he just should have said that his career is in a blind trust right now, and he's not allowed to know what it is until after the election.