# So, Mitt Romney "...had no desire to ... run" according to his son, Tagg **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 23, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954 "2012-12-23T20:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/81 "2012-12-26T17:54:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That was intended as a general comment, not a response to this specific story. There’s still plenty of snarking on Romney here - not that the guy didn’t do anything to deserve it, but the corpse is pretty well picked clean. What?! You don’t eat the gristle?! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/82 "2012-12-26T17:56:12Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > What?! You don’t eat the gristle?! Don’t forget the marrow! It’s [the latest trend in high end cuisine](http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/11/18/food-bone-marrow-s-peculiar-appeal.html). ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/83 "2012-12-26T18:01:14Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That was intended as a general comment, not a response to this specific story. There’s still plenty of snarking on Romney here - not that the guy didn’t do anything to deserve it, but the corpse is pretty well picked clean. You’re speaking purely as a poster here, correct? This is not a Mod suggesting which political topics we should and shouldn’t be discussing, right? Just checking. Because I might have forceful responses to your post, depending on whether or not you’re addressing us purely as another poster here. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/84 "2012-12-26T21:05:35Z")
Much of the world is grateful to Mitt for going on his overseas tour before the election.All that faux gravitas and authority was hugely entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/85 "2012-12-26T23:00:47Z")
He was too good to keep to ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/86 "2012-12-26T23:06:27Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#): > > 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. Yes, if Romney lets this statement stand, he’ll have burned his bridges with the Republican Party. It’s basically saying that Romney was forced to run because he found all of the other candidates to be hopeless. And they in turn, will claim that Romney lost the 2012 election because he wasn’t committed to winning and he should have stepped aside. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/87 "2012-12-26T23:10:06Z")
Mitt does have a way of distancing himself from things. Like the way he disavowed any interest in his horse just before the Olympics. You don’t do that to a horse before her biggest day. Rafalca probably shed many a tear in her stable that night. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/88 "2012-12-27T00:17:18Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He was too good to keep to ourselves. He was … (_sniff_) … too beautiful to _live_, man. Just … too beautiful … ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/89 "2012-12-27T17:34:50Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Wasn’t Tagg the one who said he had felt like taking a swing at Obama during the debate (and then had to go up to the Prez to apologize)? > > Sounds to me like the younger Romney needs to go contemplate the many benefits of keeping his thoughts to himself until someone else gets to proofread them. I dunno, wanting to cut off Obama’s nuts didn’t hurt Jesse Jackson so much. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/90 "2012-12-27T17:39:54Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I dunno, wanting to cut off Obama’s nuts didn’t hurt Jesse Jackson so much. Yes it did. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/91 "2012-12-27T18:43:29Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > Yes it did. Well, then…there it is. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/92 "2012-12-27T19:24:22Z")
Every family has a Tagg. The family doofus who says stuff they think is helpful but somehow is always the wrong thing. My favorite has always been Billy Carter but G.W. Bush is a close second because he managed to become president. Watch for Tagg in 2040. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/93 "2012-12-27T20:12:50Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Watch for Tagg in 2040. Tagg is 42 and he will be 70 in 2040. People forget this occasionally when talking about Mitt Romney’s children - I know I did - but they’re not kids. They’re in their 30s and 40s. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/94 "2012-12-27T21:12:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Tagg is 42 and he will be 70 in 2040. People forget this occasionally when talking about Mitt Romney’s children - I know I did - but they’re not kids. They’re in their 30s and 40s. Curse you and your fancy math. I was going to say 2020 and changed at the last second. But wait, maybe Tagg will be the long prophesied second coming of Reagan, who was just shy of 70 at inauguration. You heard it here first. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/95 "2012-12-27T22:14:46Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Every family has a Tagg. The family doofus who says stuff they think is helpful but somehow is always the wrong thing. My favorite has always been Billy Carter but G.W. Bush is a close second because he managed to become president. Watch for Tagg in 2040. Hopefully we’ll be spared the spectacle of Tagg Beer. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/96 "2012-12-29T05:59:41Z")
Obviously he had to _apply_ for the job so he could keep drawing unemployment. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/97 "2012-12-29T06:59:31Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Obviously he had to _apply_ for the job so he could keep drawing unemployment. In fact he has to run for at least two presidencies every week, but he’s really hoping he won’t win any of them, especially Somalia. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/98 "2012-12-29T14:48:08Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He was … (_sniff_) … too beautiful to _live_, man. Just … too beautiful … He was … (_sniff_) … too beautiful to _live_, man. Just … too beautiful … Mitt Romney was … (_sniff_) … too beautiful to _live_, man. Just … too beautiful … ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/99 "2012-12-29T18:51:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > In fact he has to run for at least two presidencies every week, but he’s really hoping he won’t win any of them, especially Somalia. Are you kidding? If he got elected to Somalia’s presidency, he could get rid of all the oppressive regulations that are ruining that country. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954/100 "2012-12-29T18:57:46Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Are you kidding? If he got elected to Somalia’s presidency, he could get rid of all the oppressive regulations that are ruining that country. I will grant that he could help with Somalia’s stifling gun control legislation, but I find the rest of their legal system to be refreshingly Libertarian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-mitt-romney-had-no-desire-to-run-according-to-his-son-tagg/644954.md?page=6)