I took his mentioning Romney as a joke.
You could be right. It was certainly more lighthearted than serious. Isn’t it amazing, though, how the anti-Cain people have latched onto it. It’s good news, I guess. There isn’t enough actual bad things to say about Cain, so non-bad things have to be finessed until they sound bad. That’s more than can be said about the others in the race.