These Grapes Are Sour Enough to Pucker a Hog’s Butt
So, Yahoo! has a story this morning saying poo on all of you because Mitt Romney never wanted to be President anyway. So there.
Mitt’s son, Tagg, says the whole deal was a set-up to screw the Koch Brothers out of money.
“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run,” said Tagg, who worked with his mother, Ann, to persuade his father to seek the presidency. “If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside.
Okay, okay, Tagg didn’t say the “screwing the Koch Bothers” but that’s exactly what happened.
Now, let’s see about the someone else part —-
So, I just want to thank Mitt Romney for his sacrifice. I am certain that Karl Rove, Sheldon Adleson, the Kochs, and all those folks who spent their money trying to get Mitt elected join me in saying, “Oh, so that’s what happened!”
But, come to think of it, nobody ever asked him, “Do you want to be President?”
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
No wonder Anne was worried about his mental health, poor Mitt had to do something he didn’t want to!
I’d like to state for the record, I didn’t want Mitt to run either, I wanted the crazy lady, Michelle, my bell has run, Bachman and her bodacious Marcus to run.
Think of how much more fun we would have had.
1Other than Jon Huntsman, that photo looks like the graduating class of Whackjob University.
2I wonder just how much of all that money didn’t actually get spent on the campaign. How much went the way of Bain Capital, into Mitt’s personal accounts? After all who, exactly, was keeping track of where it was being spent?
3Tagg, that isn’t passing the smell test. Want to try again? Surely you’re more creative than that. Wait, no? When you have money you don’t have to be creative? Us plebians knew that already. Our creativity is why we survive your ilk.
And, isn’t that sort of like a decaf, non-fat milk, artificial sweetener latte? Why bother?
4I’m just glad to be a small part of making Mitt Romney’s dream (not to be president) come true.
5Oh, Puleeeze, Tagg. Your Daddy has the same “Daddy” issues that W had. They both belonged on a shrink’s couch, instead of elective office. We’ve paid enough already for this foolishness.
6Maybe they are just rationalizing. Running for president seems like an all-consuming task. It’s probably easier to say you didn’t want it than to admit you did a bad job of it. The Romneys were no doubt mentally and emotionally invested in the campaign.
Say what you want about Mitt Romney, the guy has gotten stuff done in his life. And he seems pretty calculating. How can a guy as smart as Mitt Romney get sucked into this monumental task unless he wanted to?
Granted, if I was one of the billionaires who blew a lot of money, I might not be so sympathetic.
7“Tagg, that isn’t passing the smell test.”
My thoughts exactly. I thought Ann had made a video for Mitt stating flat out she did not want him to run again because she could not handle it. I think Mitt is tossing both her and his son under the bus as cover for his miserable, embarrassing loss.
8Well, EverydayFreethought, Mittsy and Taggsy might have thought that they would get away with whatever they wanted to do. After all, Mitt has a long string of improbable, creepy stuff in his past. Cutting hair, impersonating an officer, and only God knows what else. Tagg has the same “super human” complex: he thought he could take on the Secret Service and beat up President Obama.
Slightly off topic: did Sarah Palin name that boy?
9I believe we’ve had a sample of “Sour Grapes a la Romney”. It’s a nutty vintage with subtle hints of nut.
10The ability of these guys to always, always cast themselves as the victim just never ceases to amaze me.
Poor, poor, poor Mitt. It is so tragic to be a super-rich, powerful, white man in this country. I mean, he has had so few opportunities in his life that he was forced to take on one that was distasteful to him.
P.S., I’m guessing Tagg has political ambitions. I don’t know whether to be scared or to laugh my a*s off.
11I’m glad the Romney campaign induced that billion dollar, Koch-high, stimulus into the economies of the swing states without messing with the election of my President. It allowed those economies to perform just a little better than they might have otherwise, making Obama look a little more appealing.
12All that sour grapes and GOPer whining can be traced back to a famous poem:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/
13I’m sure he rejected the crown three times before he was stabbed in the back repeatedly by Cassius and Brutus.
14The picture should be titled “The Looney and the Tramps”
15I nominate the title of this post for one of the top ten JJ titles of the year. It’s just the best. I also wish she’d fashion some sort of icon that would give a head’s up to women over 50 that you might need to pee before you read if you don’t want to embarrass yourself while you are laughing.
Happy Holidays to all the clients at the Beauty Shop. You guys and gals are better for my blood pressure than any pill.
16BarbinDC, if Mitt had Daddy issues the same as Baby Bush, does this mean we can expect Tagg to run later on?
Warren Harding didn’t want to be president either, but unfortunately for him (and the country), he won. He is reported to have turned to his wife and said, “All right, you got what you wanted– now what?”
17I swear, Santa just keeps giving gift after gift… 😉
18Poor Mitt can claim one majority vote. Some 61 million of his fellow citizens did not want him to run either.
19Yes, he soooo didn’t want it that he made multiple stabs at winning that office.
Actually, I remember around the time of the 47% and Romney’s briefing by national security interests that I really thought he had stopped wanting the job. His onscreen image and things he was saying seemed hesitant, unenthusiastic, and even deliberately bad. But come the first debate, that all changed. He came to that debate as CEO Romney and seemed to once again WANT the presidency.
20Yeah, Tagg, and I am sure that the donors who supported your fathers campaign with more than 1 billion dollars, really didn’t want to see him win, either.
They just grabbed the opportunity to do some ‘conspicuous consumption’ (Veblen rules!): “Hey, I can afford to burn 150 millions on a putz like Mitt, that is nothing, pocket change, I am rich”
Merry Midwinter, Merry Xmas everybody.
21Did anyone perchance catch Rachel Maddow’s piece a couple of days ago on the charge-backs to the networks for press meals during the campaign by the Romney folks? Something in the range of $500 to $800+ per person. Right up there in the range of $700 toilet seats, but uglier.
Cheers!
22I’ve always felt that Mitt didn’t want to run for office because it was beneath him; he expected to be given the position because it was his due. That’s why he and his campaign could careless how inconsistent his statements & actions were; it didn’t matter because he always got what he wanted in the past so who cares what the little people wanted. He flashed his money around and he got what he wanted.
23@Ms Patti
Link to that segment:
24http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#50253938
Let’s see if Tagg’s statement will come back to haunt him, like Mitt’s 47% remark, when he, Tagg decides it’s his time to be King! Hubris!
25Must make the fools that voted for him very special indeed.
26I have news for him…………any of the idiots on the stage with him during the “debates” would have gladly taken his place as the nominee! Didn’t want it? Sureeeeeeeee!
“You won’t have Mitt Romney to kick around anymore!”
27Tagg gets my vote as one of the guys I never want to meet in an elevator, dark alley, or any other place (broad daylight at a gas station…) His recounting of why he didn’t leap onto the stage and slug the President (there were Secret Service men around) convinces me he’s the kind of guy who will slug people when he’s annoyed if he thinks he can get away with it. I’ll bet you anything he carries, too.
I’ve tagged Tagg as bad news and I’m not that fond of the other handsome-but-overly-entitled members of the brood.
Ann, now…there’s a woman who thought she would waltz into the White House and be “gracious” all over the television screens. Not having looked in a mirror or listened to herself enough to realize that “gracious” wasn’t among her talents.
28George Santayana said “If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.” The repugs did not learn (they never do) and they repeated history.
29So if we liberals keep telling them everything they did wrong they will never believe us and they will keep making the same mistakes. I believe it’s called reverse psych.