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Tough-talking Taggart Romney, the oldest son of the Republican presidential nominee would have us believe he is some kind of "bad dude."

After the second presidential candidates debate Tagg told a North Carolina radio interviewer that his instinct during one of the sharp exchanges was to "jump out of your seat" and "rush down to the debate stage and take a swing" at President Obama.

Excuse me. He would "take a swing" at the President of the United States? Does the Secret Service know about this threat against the president?

The younger Romney quickly indicated he wasn't speaking literally about striking the president. "You know you can't do that,'' he continued, "because, well, first because there's a lot of Secret Service between you and him, but also because this is the nature of the process."

So, let me get this straight. This young man said the first thing he thought about when deciding not to commit assault and battery against the head of state of his own country, was his worry about the security officers protecting the president, who would not let him get away with such a felony? Well, why didn't he just shout out "You lie," as did South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson during a presidential State of the Union address in 2009?

I've got a better idea for how any of the five Romney sons [who share a tax-free $100 million IRA given them by their dad], might work off their raging testosterone. If Tagg would like to "swing" on somebody, why doesn't he join the U.S. Marine Corps? Soon enough after basic training and OCS he could swing away at the Taliban or any of this country's declared enemies, rather than at the officials who are supposed to be on his "same side."

But no, military service – particularly not in time of conflict – is not a male Romney family trait. According to Tagg's momma, Miss Ann Romney, speaking recently on ABC's "The View" said that her husband Mitt Romney serving as a Mormon missionary in Paris, France, in the late 1960s was like the service – and, lives of more than 58,000 Americans – given by members of the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Mrs. Romney also included her five sons in that same claim of equal service.

Even though there was no Agent Orange, nor were there any Viet Cong for Mitt to have to contend with in Paris, it must have been pretty rough service there, don't you think? After all, Gov. Romney told a group of veterans recently: "I want a military so strong, no one wants to test it." I guess he feels that the U.S. military has been pretty strong without any Romney men in uniform up until now, it can get along nicely for another four or eight years without them as well.

Gov. Romney must reason that any slack in the military ranks can and should be picked up by the 47 percent of Americans who don't take personal responsibility for their own lives, who don't pay taxes, and who will vote for President Obama, regardless.

Tough-talking Tagg Romney, the oldest of the Romney litter is the heir to the family dynasty. Tough-talking Tagg, obviously must not be shamed by any comparison with the example of England's Prince Harry, an heir to the centuries-old British Throne. Prince Harry is a helicopter pilot, serving in combat in Afghanistan, at this very hour. Vice President Joe Biden's son Beau is a major in the Delaware Army National Guard and served a tour of duty in Iraq beginning in 2008.

Obviously, neither Tough-talking Tagg Romney, nor his momma Miss Ann, nor his daddy have ever read about Presidents John F. Kennedy, or George H.W. Bush, both of whom were wounded in combat. No. Their religious missionary service is equal to the blood-and-tears-service of those who put on the uniform and risk their lives for this country's gun-slinging foreign policy, a policy which Gov. Romney wants to continue and expand.

No, Tough-talking Tagg Romney, according to Truth Out.org is now serving his country in another way: "Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere ... [Tagg and his family] holds a majority share ... in Hart Intercivic, a company that owns the notoriously faulty electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States."

In other words, a candidate for the presidency, and his brother, wife and son, have a straight-line financial interest in the voting machines that could decide this fall's election. These machines cannot be monitored by the public. But they will help decide the winner of the presidential election.

Tough-talking Tagg doesn't just talk-the-talk. He walks-the-walk.

A Dead Campaign Which Refuses to Die - 

Back in early August, one observer remarked that July had been Willard Mitt Romney's "worst month ever." Not so.

The GOP presidential nominee then went off to Europe to prove that he was a foreign affairs heavyweight, by his conduct on the world stage. The former leader of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics then proceeded to insult England, this country's closest ally, by predicting lax security might tarnish the outcome of the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games. Both the British Prime Minister and the Mayor of London gave their guest a tongue lashing to his face.

Romney then proceeded to Israel, where – while trying to patronize Israelis in order to curry potential favor with Jewish voters back home – he insulted the Palestinian people by declaring that superior Jewish culture, and not billions of dollars worth of foreign and military aid, billions more in guaranteed loans which will never have to be repaid, along with even more billions in contributions from Jewish Americans, is why Israelis are wealthy and why their lazy Arab neighbors are not so wealthy.

From there he hastened on to Poland, where one of his aides managed to insult the Poles. In his three overseas stops, the Romney campaign managed three major league gaffes. So much for Mitt's non-existent foreign policy gravitas.

Then, the candidate named as his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan [R-Wis.], a staunchly conservative so-called "deficit hawk," who proceeded to give the campaign a couple of black eyes after a succession of untruthful statements, including one whopper in which he claimed to have run a world-class sub-three hour marathon. His actual best recorded time was more than four hours.

Then, in late August, the Republican National Convention met in Tampa, Fla., and it was lackluster. The Romney campaign got absolutely no post-convention "bounce," or improved ratings after the convention. In fact, First Lady Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention the following week got more repeat viewers according to an online tracking service, than all the Republican speakers combined.

Following that convention, President Barack Obama got a healthy 5 percent bounce in most national opinion polls, as well as healthy leads in key Electoral College "battleground" states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan, which the Republican nominee must win, if he is to become the next president.

And then, and then, Romney took his foot out of his mouth and promptly began to walk on his own tongue when the infamous "47 percent" video was released, wherein Romney declared to a group of wealthy donors who paid $50,000 each to dine with him that 47 percent of the U.S. population, "are with [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them." Talk about someone who resembles Thurston Howell III, the millionaire on TV's "Gilligan's Island."

And even though Romney said himself that his point in that video had not been "elegantly stated," and although his running mate upbraided his boss, calling the statement a "misstep," there are still some Republicans who denounce the president's re-election campaign for waging what the GOP calls "class warfare."

But what beats the band in all of this is that the lifeless Romney campaign is still given a "puncher's chance" of throwing a lucky punch and knocking out the incumbent, who has so far committed no unforced errors such as Romney has done.

In this contest, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney is as a zombie, unable to be killed, because like a vampire, his campaign is already dead. As in mythology, the only way to permanently dispose of a vampire is to drive a wooden stake through his heart.

So now, the presidential debates are Mitt's last, best hope for overtaking President Obama's otherwise seemingly insurmountable lead.

Yet if Gov. Romney is held accountable for only revealing two years worth of tax returns, for example, will his support erode even further?

In the tax returns he's released his vulture capitalistic ways have been revealed, such as only divesting stock in a Chinese government oil company, and other Chinese properties just last year, while he scolds the president – all of whose investments are in U.S. Treasury Bonds and domestic American companies – for not getting tough enough with China over trade policy.

On top of all his other numerous and readily apparent flaws, Gov. Romney is also clearly a hypocrite who will say anything to knock out the president.

A hypocritical vampire, I might add, who will only go away on Dec. 9 – not Nov. 6 Election Day – the day the Electoral College officially chooses the winner of the 2012 presidential race. On second thought, we might have to wait until Jan. 20, 2013, Inauguration Day, to know that a wooden stake has in fact been driven through the heart of the un-dead, vampire presidential campaign of Willard Thurston Howell Mitt Romney, the millionaire.