ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
It's now coming out that Mittens didn't really want to run, according to his son Tagg.............
AFP: Romney didn't want to run for president, son says
So...............my question is, why DID he? He started his campaign for 2012 almost right after he lost the bid in 2008, and there were many others who a lot of conservatives thought would have a better chance against Obama, so why didn't Mittens just drop out like Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich?
If a person really doesn't want to run for president, then why did Mittens sink so much time, effort and money into it?
And.....................if he didn't really care about running, why did he pretty much carpet bomb all the other candidates in the primary with negative ads?
Either way, this sounds fishy....................
WASHINGTON 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.
AFP: Romney didn't want to run for president, son says
So...............my question is, why DID he? He started his campaign for 2012 almost right after he lost the bid in 2008, and there were many others who a lot of conservatives thought would have a better chance against Obama, so why didn't Mittens just drop out like Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich?
If a person really doesn't want to run for president, then why did Mittens sink so much time, effort and money into it?
And.....................if he didn't really care about running, why did he pretty much carpet bomb all the other candidates in the primary with negative ads?
Either way, this sounds fishy....................