1. To get to the other side?
2. Because unknown to Speed Racer, her campaign manager, Patti Solis, was 'Racer X'.
3. Patti's chants of "Yes, We Can, Yes We Can" were not as motivating with her supporters as she thought they would be.
4. Because Solis kept starting at a picture of Obama and saying, "He's so dreeeeeamy! I could just hug him!"
5. Because she was tired of hearing Obama referred to as "The 'cute Beatle' of the political circuit... AND the smart one."
6. So she could afford to make her health insurance payments.
7. Because she found a wad of Bill's in Patti's purse.
8. Because she didn't have the time to turn her and her little dog into flying monkeys.
9. Because she failed to put down the rebel alliance on the remote planets of Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, N. Dakota, and Utah.
10. Because she suggested carpooling to her campaign office with fellow Democrat Ted Kennedy.