Tagg “Hey, look at me, I’ve got a retarded first name” Romney had this comment to make on his father’s recent electoral loss: “(He) wanted to be president less than anybody I’ve ever met in my life. He had no desire. If he could have found someone else to take his place … he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.”
What a steaming pile of horseshit. “If he could have found someone else to take his place…” Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich would all have been perfectly happy to take his place. He tried really hard in 2008 to take that place instead of John McCain. He was willing to totally renounce all of his previous positions to get to that place.
It’s no good, Tagg, saying at this point “He didn’t really want the job.” That’s juvenile. I remember people saying that, when I was in elementary school, after a game of pickup football or whatever. “You didn’t beat me. I wasn’t really trying to win.” Nobody believed it even then, and certainly nobody believes it now. Try to imagine the team that has just lost the Super Bowl, or the Stanley Cup, saying “We weren’t really trying. We’re actually glad we lost.” Doesn’t sound quite right, does it?
Of course, they do it in Hollywood on Oscar night, but at least they usually play the lowered expectations game before the awards, saying “Oh, there are so many great actors nominated, I couldn’t possibly win” but that’s just being gracious and besides, it’s Hollywood, they are professional speakers of lines that are not the literal truth. It’s what they are paid to do.
Tagg Romney, on the other hand, is not being gracious, and he’s not convincing anybody. He’s just being a pathetic, whiny little loser.
