Mitt Romney didn't want to run for president, his son says
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[quote=AFP]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.
After failing to win the 2008 Republican nomination, Romney told his family he would not run again and had to be persuaded to enter the 2012 White House race by his wife Ann and son Tagg.
"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."
Mitt Romney "is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them. He loves his country, but he doesn't love the attention," his son said.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and multi-billionaire businessman, has been widely criticized for blaming his loss in the November 6 election on President Barack Obama's "gifts" to Latinos, women and the poor.
"What the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney said during a call with campaign donors in mid-November that represented his first public reaction to his election loss.
The Globe story sought to look beyond that narrative and examine what really went wrong.
It focused on the fact that Romney was unhappy that one of his most trusted advisers, Mike Murphy -- the architect of his successful 2002 run for governor of Massachusetts -- did not join the campaign.
Instead, the campaign settled on Stuart Stevens, who had worked on Romney's 2008 presidential bid.
The Globe story also highlights the decision to downplay Romney's biography in favor of going after Obama and the flagging US economy.
Campaign strategists feared that highlighting Romney's biography would open the Mormon candidate up more to personal attacks that he was wealthy, out-of-touch and belonged to a minority faith.[/quote]
[url=http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/2012/12/23/the-story-behind-mitt-romney-loss-the-presidential-campaign-president-obama/2QWkUB9pJgVIi1mAcIhQjL/story.html]Tagg Romney's full interview[/url]
"I lost, but I didn't really want to participate, so joke's on you!"
I spent millions on my campaign but if I won I was just gonna be like lol jk no thanks. i r smrt wif my money
[QUOTE=T-Sonar.0;38957686]I spent millions on my campaign but if I won I was just gonna be like lol jk no thanks. i r smrt wif my money[/QUOTE]
Romney spending millions on his presidential campaign is little different from you and me spending fourty bucks on a steam sale on games we never really wanted but they were so cheap :v:
[QUOTE=Riller;38957707]Romney spending millions on his presidential campaign is little different from you and me spending fourty bucks on a steam sale on games we never really wanted but they were so cheap :v:[/QUOTE]
Hey no. The magic conch said I might need it some day.
All for money and power, nothing else.
I always suspected that the people around Romney were more motivated than he was. People always doubted me when I said that he ultimately lost because his reason for running was not as strong as Obama's.
I really wish I could post that 5 minute long video of the Joker laughing.
This is like the king of backpedal right here.
"Didn't want dat white house anyway"
With some of the stupid shit Mitt did and said during his campaign, I can see this as being factual. I couldn't count the times I said during the race that Mitt is just tossing away his chance to win.
Wow the Romney's are dragging this out.
That was kinda showing with the things he said during his campaign.
For the sake of the USA and himself, i'm glad he achieved what he was aiming for :v:
what a sore loser, ostensibly anyway.
It- its not like I wanted to be your p-president anyway...
I think it shows how party-devoted the two-party system is that a candidate didn't even want to take part, and he practically tied (at least, up until the actual election) simply because people 'didn't want the other guy'.
"Guys, I totally meant to lose! Seriously!"
I didn't want Mitt Romney to run for president either.
Gingrich would have been a better president than Romney anyday.
Sue me if you disagree.
So that means we won't see him next term?
Right?
Right...
Don't tell me he did it to save the US from Obama's dark claws of communism...
So what if he won? He would have just half assed the whole job?
Well.. I guess that would mean he would have been great.
[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;38959536]Gingrich would have been a better president than Romney anyday.
Sue me if you disagree.[/QUOTE]Its kinda hard to show preference between a bag of shit and a box of shit.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;38959776]Its kinda hard to show preference between a bag of shit and a box of shit.[/QUOTE]
I think it's pretty easy. One of those pieces of shit wanted to make the moon a state and the other didn't.
tagg, one of the few names worse than mitt
he knew obama had to win, but the republican candidates thus far had been too sane of contenders. He infiltrated his way via money, the republican politician's biggest weakness, to becoming the primary candidate himself. Despite the media pushing and peddling and lying through its teeth, he just barely managed to foul up so much that he lost, securing obama's re-election and the safety of the country's future
truly a martyr deserving of a starring role in an espionage novel with a generic romance novel cover image but of him and obama
[QUOTE=kooper44;38960112]tagg, one of the few names worse than mitt[/QUOTE]Tagg, you're Mitt.
[video=youtube;h0q2eGAjyGg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0q2eGAjyGg[/video]
[editline]24th December 2012[/editline]
Accurate.
[QUOTE=Paramud;38958874]I didn't want Mitt Romney to run for president either.[/QUOTE]
still better than Santorum
"I-I-I never wanted to win anyways; i-idiot, I'm glad I lost... baka" - Romney-Kun 2012
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