Romney’s Tax Plan Would Save Him Millions — But Not As Much As Gingrich’s Would

By CommodityHQ: By Jared Cummans

By Simon Johnson The conventional wisdom in American presidential politics is that once a candidate has secured a party’s nomination, he tends to move away from articulating the views of the party faithful toward the political center. This makes sense as a way to win votes in the general election, and there has been a presumption that Mitt Romney will head in that direction.

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.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called a disappointing U.S.