- Campaign Videos (June 2012) « Romney for President
Romney for President
"Father's Day" +
3:36 web video from June 17, 2012.
[Music]
Ben Romney: “My dad didn’t have a
playful side—I’m just kidding.”
Tagg Romney: “He was a goofball. He
loved to horse around.”
Matt Romney: “A lot of times he just got
confused for one of the boys.”
Ben Romney: “Oh my
gosh. My dad has legendary pranks.”
Matt Romney:
“He’d be smelling this butter it’s like ‘This butter turned. Smell how
awful this is.’ And you’d go in and smell it and he’d put your nose in
it.”
Josh Romney:
“Just a while ago he did it to my son. ‘Wyatt, you got to smell this.’
And Wyatt smelled and got the whole plate of whipped cream in the face.
And Wyatt was totally shocked—didn’t think Papa would ever do something
like that.”
Craig Romney: “Josh
had a really good one. He hates to be scared—hates it. We had this
typical basement—unfinished, low ceilings, and kind of dark and scary.
And it has one of those lights where you have to walk for about five
feet and there’s a light on the string and you pull the light. Josh
heard my dad coming down the stairs and he was down there so he turned
off the light and kind of hid in the corner. As my dad went to go grab
the light switch, he grabbed his arm. Josh grabbed my dad’s arm and
just scared the pants off of him.”
Matt Romney: “And Josh said, ‘It’s me!
It’s me!’ He goes, ‘I know!’”
Josh Romney:
“And then he looks for the light, turns it on, looks at me and goes,
‘Was it worth it?’ And I’m laughing and going, ‘I think so.’ By the
end, he’s kind of on top of me, wrestling me. My mom would always
threaten us; say ‘You got to stop scaring your dad. He’s going to have
a heart attack one of these days.’”
Craig Romney:
“Matt likes to call him ‘The Great Entertainer.’ So, like, whenever
people are around he wants to make sure people are having a good time.
‘You need a soft drink? You need something to eat? You guys okay? You
having fun? Like, he wants to make sure everyone’s having a good time
and he seems to take that approach with everything in life.”
Ben Romney:
“Every Saturday morning, my dad, coming in, waking us up and saying
‘Okay, it’s time to get out in the yard. Do some work.’ And so we’d all
go out together and do some yard work.”
Tagg Romney: “He is up at the crack of
dawn, doing a project, fixing the boiler.”
Ben Romney: “He wanted to spend it
with his family and he wanted to spend it making an impression on his
family.”
Josh Romney: “He loves to help people
and he does it in a very unassuming, very anonymous way.”
Tagg Romney:
“He’d find out someone in the community had run out of money to heat
their home. It was Christmastime. So he loaded us in the car. We went
outside and we chopped the firewood, loaded up in the car and drove it
down so it would get her through the end of the month.
Josh Romney:
“I remember my dad going over and shoveling their walkway when it
snowed—a nice family that my dad really cared for, for a long time.”
Ben Romney: “That was something that
was very important to him and something that it was important for him
to teach us as well.”
Tagg Romney: “It’s
just a part of who
he is and I think it’s been a part of who he is for a long time.”
TEXT:
“To
all the dads, Happy Father’s Day”
TEXT: “Happy Father’s Day,
Dad! Love, the boys”
Notes: Same approach as "#Mother'sDay." Compare "Happy Father's Day from First Lady Michelle Obama."