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[December 24, 2012] Tagg Romney Says His Father Didn't Want To Be President
Business Insider ^ | Dec. 24, 2012

Posted on 08/28/2014 12:33:51 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell

No one wanted to be president less than Mitt Romney, his son said in an interview out Sunday that raises new questions about the candidacy of the losing Republican nominee.

In an interview with the Boston Globe examining what went wrong with the Romney campaign, his eldest son Tagg explains that his father had been a reluctant candidate from the start.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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To: CharlesOConnell

Yeah, the 2nd and 3rd debate made that as plain as day. Thanks for wasting our time and keeping Governor Palin out of the running, Milt.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 12:35:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course all the news reports are that he’s thinking of running in 2016...


3 posted on 08/28/2014 12:38:13 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: CharlesOConnell; BlackElk; EternalVigilance; Diogenesis; Elsie; Finny; NFHale; sickoflibs; verga

Tagg, you’re not supposed to tell folks your dad was a ringer for Zero.


6 posted on 08/28/2014 12:56:28 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: CharlesOConnell

I didn’t want to be President, but I managed to stay out of the WH without spending $700,000,000.


7 posted on 08/28/2014 12:59:53 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: CharlesOConnell

Other comment:

We could tell.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 1:00:46 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: CharlesOConnell

The Mormons picked a skittish white horse to fulfill their prophecy.


9 posted on 08/28/2014 1:07:50 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Show me the man and I will find the crime. - Lavrenti Beria)
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How old are Romeny’s sons? Can we expect to see them being groomed for 2020, 2024, 2028? Hope and pray we are still around by then.


10 posted on 08/28/2014 1:22:57 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Why ? Doesn’t the GOP have enough slick, Socialist weasels already ?


11 posted on 08/28/2014 1:37:57 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Our Republican primary voters are so dense, they might well nominate Romney again. Twice they fooled with Dewey, who also lacked the fire in the belly.


13 posted on 08/28/2014 3:58:15 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire... to run,” Tagg Romney said. “If he could have found someone else to take his place... he would have been ecstatic to step aside.”

There were other choices. As I recall Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachman, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Gary Johnson, Tim Pawlenty, Herman Caine, Rick Perry, Buddy Roemer, Thaddeus McCotter and Jon Huntsman were candidates at one time or another during the caucus and primary season. Had Romney chose not to run Palin might have thrown her hat in the ring.

Perhaps what Tagg is saying is the hidden king makers told Romney to run and lose. He was given an offer he couldn’t refuse and played his role perfectly.


14 posted on 08/28/2014 4:10:10 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Theodore R.

Don’t forget Dole and McCain.

They just wanted the line on their resume—Not the office itself.


15 posted on 08/28/2014 4:11:37 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It showed.


16 posted on 08/28/2014 4:38:15 AM PDT by cp124 (Government is value subtracted.)
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Tagg Romney Says His Father Didn't Want To Be President,

I'm sure glad he's cleared THIS up!


17 posted on 08/28/2014 4:51:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: peyton randolph

The Mormons picked a skittish white horse to fulfill their prophecy.


Office of First President & Living Prophet®:

November 8, 2012

Fellow MORMON Freeper Christians!!
 
I must apologize and ask for forgiveness from you all.
 
As you know, we at Headquarters NEVER tell you pew warmers how to vote. It says so right in our press releases. Anyway, we were ALL thrilled to the max when there were two – TWO! – MORMONs being touted in the primaries: Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman.
 
Talk in our upper chambers high above SLC was how our gods were favoring us with these men; who had prepared their entire lives for an opportunity to save this Nation; which so badly needs guidance: OUR guidance even! So naturally, I and the other twelve analyzed and discussed the situation.
 
Consensus was that the voters should listen to the inner urging and vote for the one they wanted; but that seemed to be leaving WAY too much to chance.
 
I decided, that since I am the ONLY man on earth that can hear GOD’s voice, that I would pray for wisdom and clarity in the matter.
 
I hadn’t used the fleece in a while, so I questioned GOD with a test. A paper, with Romney on one side and Huntsman on the other was to be placed by the air conditioning vent high above my desk in the sumptuous office the Full Tithers have provided.
When the air would kick in later in the evening, while I was home, the paper would be blown down and whomever GOD wanted would then be visible on the upper surface.
 
As you can probably guess, when I came in the next day, the paper had landed on my desk, with Mitt’s name on top.
Last night, I was staying late, praying to GOD about how it was even possible that Mitt lost, when the janitorial cleaning crew came in. Being surprised to find me here, they apologized for interrupting me. I said to them, “It mattereth not, as I was about to leave anyway.”
 
As I was going out the door, the foreman of the crew just happened to mention that my office is ALWAYS so neat and tiny, never anything out of place, that they barely have to do anything to tidy up. Then one of the sweepers said, “Except that time in the spring when we came in to clean and found a paper with Huntman’s name on the floor by your desk. We put it back on your desk and left.
 
 
Tommy M.
 
PS Keep praying that Huntsman will add an “H” to his name. Jon looks so dang effeminate!
 
Onward to 2016!!!

18 posted on 08/28/2014 4:53:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
The studio said that Marion sounded to sissified, and want to name me Jon Wayne; but I sure modified THAT!


19 posted on 08/28/2014 4:57:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin would not carry ten states.

As much as folk around here want to stare at her, she is done, over, kaput.


20 posted on 08/28/2014 6:20:44 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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