Newt Gingrich has made his pronouncement.

Newt Gingrich on Monday pronounced himself “dumbfounded” that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney earned fewer votes than the party’s 2008 standard-bearer, Ariz. Sen. John McCain.

“The president won an extraordinary victory, and the fact is we owe him the respect of trying to understand what they did and how they did it,” Gingrich said on NBC’s “Today.” “But if you had said to me three weeks ago that Mitt Romney would get fewer votes than John McCain — and it looks like he’ll be 2 million fewer — I would have been dumbfounded.”

Dumbfounded?  Well, you gotta hand it to Newt – at least he found his dumb.  That’s a lot better than most other Republicans.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.