Tagg Romney Wanted to 'Take a Swing' at Obama during Debate

There was no doubt that Tuesday's presidential debate between President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney was heated.

From Romney's "binders full of women" to Obama's "my pension isn't big as yours comment," the debate has had political experts calling it one of the best presidential debate ever.

In what is now being called a joke, Romney eldest son Tagg in an interview with North Carolina radio host Bill LuMaye said the heated debate made him want to get physical with the president for calling Mitt a liar.

"Jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him," he said. "But you know you can't do that because, well, first because there's a lot of Secret Service between you and him, but also because that's the nature of the process. You know they're going to try to do anything they can do to make my dad into something he's not. We signed up for it, we've got to kind of sit there and take our punches, and send them the other way."

In the debate, the president did not call Romney a liar.

On Thursday's episode of ABC's "The View," Tagg's brother Josh tried to soften the tone of the comments.

"That brother has slugged me a couple of times," Josh Romney said. "I'm sure President Obama has nothing to worry about."

Romney's campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said Tagg was "joking about how frustrating this process can be for family."

In an article on Thursday, Salon.com's David Sirota said Tagg "has surpassed even Bush, becoming not just an image of White Privilege, but an example of how that privilege quietly operates in too much of America."

"If that's not enough proof that this episode is a profound example of the pervasiveness of White Privilege, then simply go through the mental exercise of switching the races," Sirota said. "Ask yourself: Would the media reaction be similarly muted if a young black male relative of Obama appeared on a radio show and publicly fantasized about violently bludgeoning Mitt Romney? No, it would be the opposite. It would be a multi-day, above-the-fold, 100-point-typeface story initially fueled by Drudge, Fox News and right-wing radio hosts, and then pervading the network news shows. We'd soon see headlines about security beefing up around Romney and his entourage, as staid 'Face the Nation' and 'Meet the Press' panels - populated by mostly white faces, of course - paternalistically lamented the 'race issue' in America."