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No, there will not be a Senator Romney anytime soon. Looking to quiet chatter that he's considering running in the special election to fill newly-minted Secretary of State John Kerry's Massachusetts Senate seat, Mitt Romney's eldest son Tagg issued a statement today breaking the news to supporters: "The timing is not right." "I have been humbled by the outreach I received this weekend encouraging me to become a candidate for the U.S. Senate," he said. "I love my home state and admit it would be an honor to represent the citizens of our great Commonwealth. However, I am currently committed...

Obama whispers in the ear of Tagg son of Mitt Romney, at the end of the final U.S. presidential debates.

In response to an innocuous joke Tagg Romney made on a radio show in North Carolina, Lawrence O'Donnell used the platform that is his late night talk show on MSNBC to taunt and threaten the oldest son of a presidential hopeful. Seemingly as serious as a heart attack, the nearly 57 year-old O'Donnell challenged the 42 year-old to a fist fight "any time, any where". [ video and transcript below ]

The great American newspaperman H. L. Mencken said nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. I believe the Obama campaign is about to prove him wrong. I am not going defend the intellect of a nation where the top entertainers are Honey Boo Boo and the “Real Housewives of New Jersey.” But when it comes to picking a president, folks who care enough to vote can tell the difference between the presidential and the petty. And right now, Team Obama is waging the least presidential, most petty campaign in the modern era. As Americans struggle to...