Tagg Romney: Father wanted to be president ‘less than anyone I’ve met’

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19. There may be an element of truth to what he says in this sense

What I focus on from Mitt's career and demeanor

is a very conflicted person. He's narcissistic, as most politicians
and people in public life have to be, but in a religious sense, and
being from a strict, orderly religious background makes one believe
in certainty, righteousness. Politics is not really the place for
righteousness because you must tolerate a lot of ambiguity and
compromise and negotiation in politics.

I suspect Mitt is far better off, and probably happier, in a certain corporate
world focused on profits and control than he was ever in politics.
At times he had a look of confusion on the campaign trail as things
didn't go the way he expected them to, and from all of this
petty analysis I'm doing I just don't think he was a very good choice
as a presidential candidate. And his elitist view of the 47% did not help.
His religious background made him want to do right, but that helping mode
was simply incompatible with profitability, a strict religious demeanor,
and the front man role he was occupying.

To complicate, he was a corporate raider, the Robber Barons of our day.
That made him a lightning rod for the tag of class warfare. The GOP just
didn't understand it: they railed and railed against Obama and "Class Warfare!"
but they they immediately nominated a poster child for the same charge.
Blatant hypocrisy which is sometimes the most virulent when it is subconscious
in the public's mind.

Mitt is probably a great guy to know personally, to have a beer with, but he
just didn't fit as a presidential candidate.