# Tagg Romney "joke"; take a swing at Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 18, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143 "2012-10-18T16:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/41 "2012-10-19T01:04:11Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > As was asked earlier, **Bricker** - if Obama had a son, and he said the same thing about Romney… do you think we’d ever hear the end of it from the righties? > > Personally, I’m not getting too worked up about it. But I can easily imagine the rightwing hysteria we’d be hearing if the situation were reversed. Hell, the righties are still complaining that Biden \*bullied \*Ryan in their debate. Hell…forget his son, I’d love for Malia to go on national TV…(maybe on The Ellen Show) and say “Well, you know what Ellen, the secret service guys are great. They’ve been teaching me some awesome fighting moves. I bet that I could kick some serious Romney butt - and with all the vile stuff Mitt’s been saying, nothing would make me happy than to break his legs” As to spawn of Mitt - It ranks a “meh” from me - what I am more upset about is how incompetent his handlers have to be. I mean, he’s appearing on radio - you’ve gotta see a question like this coming right? I do PR, our normal practise was to brainstorm all the potential questions and then prep the client to answer them. Couldn’t something along the lines of… “Well, you know, dad always taught us to speak out against injustice, and call out liars, so its goes against our nature to sit there and let blatant untruths go unchallenged. But that’s the nature of the debate, so you’ve gotta let it go” ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/42 "2012-10-19T01:34:37Z")
This was utterly devastating for the Romney campaign and will be the lead story for the next few weeks. Remember how damaged the Obama campaign was when Michelle Obama said she wanted to scratch out Bill Clinton’s eyes and it took months for them to recover. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/43 "2012-10-19T01:48:08Z")
Another vote for this being a pretty immature thing for a grown man to say. But overall it’s just silly and unimportant. Tagg Romney isn’t running for office. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/44 "2012-10-19T01:54:16Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > When my son was three, another kid shoved him out of the way at the playground slide. I wanted to run up and shove that kid down and ask him how he liked it. I think there’s a vast difference between somebody shoving your three year old child at the playground and somebody arguing with your 65 year old father at a debate. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/45 "2012-10-19T02:05:18Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > This was utterly devastating for the Romney campaign and will be the lead story for the next few weeks. > > Remember how damaged the Obama campaign was when Michelle Obama said she wanted to scratch out Bill Clinton’s eyes and it took months for them to recover. I would beg to differ on that… from what I see around here, those that lean towards Obama’s side of the aisle don’t really care about such things more than as a laughing/discussion/gossip round the watercooler point. Certainly not to make it an actual voting issue. It seems that those that lean more towards the R side like to take such things and blow them out of all proportion ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/46 "2012-10-19T02:25:28Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > This was utterly devastating for the Romney campaign and will be the lead story for the next few weeks. > > Remember how damaged the Obama campaign was when Michelle Obama said she wanted to scratch out Bill Clinton’s eyes and it took months for them to recover. When did she say that? :eek: I remember the fuss over her “For the first time, I’m really proud to be an American” remark, but nothing like that. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/47 "2012-10-19T02:46:51Z")
I googled it, difficult to search on phone. Nothing showed up on first three pages. This thread was page two But gawd, there’s some awful ignorant crap out there! ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/48 "2012-10-19T03:48:53Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > “Please proceed, Tagg.” > > [Josh “Patrick Bateman” Romney](http://popsoundoff.com/wp-content/uploads/josh-romney-gif.gif) was [on The View this morning](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82581.html?hp=t2_3) with his Mom and was asked about Tagg’s quote. His reply was actually pretty funny: The video of An Romney talking about what a sacrifice it is for them to be running for President kind of blows my mind a little bit. Michelle Obama did something like this once and it didn’t look good then either. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/49 "2012-10-19T04:02:03Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > The video of An Romney talking about what a sacrifice it is for them to be running for President kind of blows my mind a little bit. Michelle Obama did something like this once and it didn’t look good then either. I wish spouses weren’t such a big part of the election. I know all the stated reasons, but it just mucks things up even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/50 "2012-10-19T04:38:17Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > When did she say that? :eek: I remember the fuss over her “For the first time, I’m really proud to be an American” remark, but nothing like that. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/04/barackobama](http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/04/barackobama) > [@](#): > > In Wisconsin, I asked her if she was offended by Bill Clinton’s use of the phrase ‘fairytale’ to describe her husband’s characterisation of his position on the Iraq war. At first, [Michelle] Obama responded with a curt ‘No’. But, after a few seconds, she affected a funny voice. ‘I want to rip his eyes out!’ she said, clawing at the air with her fingernails. One of her advisers gave her a nervous look. ‘Kidding!’ Obama said. ‘See, this is what gets me into trouble.’ It’s actually a really well-done profile of Michelle. Also, don’t be surprised that you haven’t heard of it. The point is that no one cared. Admittedly part of that is that Michelle is female and while there are many disadvantages to being one in politics, in some areas women are given breaks men wouldn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/51 "2012-10-19T04:40:47Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > I would beg to differ on that… > > from what I see around here, those that lean towards Obama’s side of the aisle don’t really care about such things more than as a laughing/discussion/gossip round the watercooler point. Certainly not to make it an actual voting issue. > > It seems that those that lean more towards the R side like to take such things and blow them out of all proportion Whoosh!!! ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/52 "2012-10-19T05:00:31Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Whoosh!!! Whoops:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/53 "2012-10-19T06:51:02Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > The point is that no one cared. Admittedly part of that is that Michelle is female and while there are many disadvantages to being one in politics, in some areas women are given breaks men wouldn’t be. Well, I imagine if she’d said something more like, “I want to claw his eyes out! _laughs_ Kidding! But no, seriously, just gouge them out one at a time. I could do it,” then it would have taken up a couple news cycles of people going, “Wait, WTF?” ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/54 "2012-10-19T11:12:39Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Only in SMDB-Left-Land does that utterly unremarkable fact garner any surprise, and only if it’s in support of Lefty Candidates. **Bricker** , we are patiently awaiting your backtracking of this statement. Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/55 "2012-10-19T12:32:31Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Non-issue. There is no indication that he ever really had any intention in that direction. He’s just blowing off steam. I personally would love to see Karl Rove tarred, feathered and left in the wilds of Alaska hanging from a tree by his toes. But I would not support any action that would move in the direction of making that a reality. I’d gladly donate one of my pillows. The incident is a yawner. The only significance is that it provides further proof, as if any was needed, that the Romney family has a dominant gene for assholishness. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/56 "2012-10-19T12:49:31Z")
At least he didn’t say he wanted to hold Obama down and cut off his hair. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/57 "2012-10-19T13:24:47Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > At least he didn’t say he wanted to hold Obama down and cut off his hair. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/58 "2012-10-19T13:33:55Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > 😕 Reference to an incident in Romney’s youth where he organized a posse to hold down and cut the hair of a fellow student that they suspected was gay. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/59 "2012-10-19T14:12:31Z")
Oh, okay, gotcha. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143/60 "2012-10-19T15:26:35Z")
Lawrence O’Donnell did a great bit on his show, pointing out that he (unlike Obama) _had_ called Mitt Romney a liar, made a point of doing so again, and invited Tagg to try taking a swing at him at any time and place of Tagg’s choosing. It was the best mockery of phony bravado I’ve seen in some time (nicely accentuated by O’Donnell slipping into his Sauth Bahsten accent). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tagg-romney-joke-take-a-swing-at-obama/638143.md?page=4)