According to First Look, Ann Romney actually did force Mitt to run...

[Revolutionary Girl]

I never bought into the whole "Queen Ann" meme, but wow...apparently she pretty much herded him into it even though according to Tagg he never really wanted to.

Her:

"I was the first one to say this time, you have to do this again. Yes it was going to be painful, yes it was going to be hard, yes we might fail, but we HAD to go forward."

.....

[cali]

1. oh what bullshit.

I don't buy it for a fucking nanosecond. He wanted it and bad. this is just an attempt to make him look noble. it's dogshit.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I also call bullshit, but I don't see how it could make him look noble.

[unblock]

2. "tell me again how my country needs me?" "again? ugh, yeah, they need you" "ok, you convinced me!"

[JHB]

3. I think Jeff in Milwaukee put it best in another thread:

"Romney is retroactively NOT running for president..."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=267327


Once again, they don't see the implications of their own statements: if Mitt's really so easily pushed into such a high-level endeavor as running for president... then he has no business being president. If you want to know what can happen when an occupier of the Oval Office abdicates responsibility to advisors, look no further than the one who went by "Dubya".

Ann's input may have been the last little bit that made the decision go one way or the other, but but he was at least nearly all the way there on his own, or else it wouldn't even have been a consideration.

This isn't just putting lipstick on a pig, it's full blown plastic surgery.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Ann Romney is a few things that I don't respect, however

she ISN'T Lady Macbeth.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Of course not, Macbeth actually became King.

That's about the only difference I see. Ann failed to reach her goal, Lady M succeeded in reaching hers.