Tagg told the Boston Globe today that the REAL reason his father lost the election was:
“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life," Tagg Romney told the paper. “He had no desire to … run. If he could have found someone else to take his place … he would have been ecstatic to step aside.”
I’m betting Mitt already had a victory speech penned and I’m willing to bet it didn’t have a single comment in it regarding him not wanting to be POTUS.
I wish they’d release that speech. He probably had the inauguration speech written, his second convention acceptance speech, and his second inaugural written too. And maybe even his farewell address. He didn’t want to be president! Ha!
I’m not saying I believe this, but there are times when people step up to jobs that they’re not particularly interested in because they don’t think anyone else can really do it, or at least not nearly as well. Given that he obviously thought Obama was doing a poor job and the pool of other candidates, I don’t think it’s impossible that perhaps he thought that. Still, given his actions, I’d put that as an extremely slim possibility and most likely just sour grapes.
First thing a Romney’s ever said that I think is probably true. No sane person could have run that campaign if he actually wanted the job; it *had *to be self-sabotage. It was the political equivalent of the dude who shows up late to the job interview reeking of Mad Dog while wearing a dirty tshirt and visible tatts and swearing at the interviewer. His family may have wanted him to get the job, but he sure didn’t want it.
I think Romney has been running for President practically his entire life. This line, although it came from his son, is in line with all the bull he spouted.
That explains a lot about his campaign, aside from the whole “running” part. I guess so long as he could do it using somebody else’s money, it’d be a good excuse to get out of the house for a while.
So, when in the last 10 years did he change from wanting to run to not wanting to run?
It’s absurd to claim that would go through all the pain and grief of that primary and then the general unless he actually wanted to run. He ran a bad campaign. Just like McCain ran a bad campaign, and Kerry ran a bad campaign. Hell, Hillary ran a bad primary campaign and no one is going to say she didn’t want to run.
I know it’s fashionable here to always assume the worst about Romney, but this simply makes no sense.
I’ve heard it said occasionally, and not entirely in jest, that wanting to be president should disqualify someone from being president. But this claim about Romney is worse, in a way. If it’s true, then Romney is someone with so little faith in his policies to make people’s lives better (or so little concern for the people affected) as to want to see them enacted, and of so little character as to be pushed into something he didn’t want by the people around him. If either of those is the case, thank goodness he didn’t win.
And that Tagg Romney would make this claim now shows he’s as tone deaf to the messages his words send as his dad is.
I can believe he had some mixed feelings about running. But he did everything he could to stay on the radar as a possible candidate and then did everything he felt he needed to do to win. Making this excuse after the fact is just lame, and it suggests Tagg is cut from the same kind of cloth as Mitt.
No idea. I also don’t think it’s necessarily “assuming the worst” to point it out. I don’t know if he ever *wanted *to run. Maybe he’s just one of those folks who feel so responsible to others that they don’t stand for themselves. Lots and lots of people around him wanted him to run, for sure. Or if he wanted to be a very different kind of president with different policies that he thought couldn’t get him elected. I also have no idea why people come in for job interviews they clearly don’t want, get hired and don’t show up for work, etc. People are weird.