I had this kind of dumb, tinfoil-hattish idea

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

which you may all feel free to laugh at if you wish. But I got to wondering where Mittens got the name "Taggart" for his first son. It's quite unusual, and the other sons have conventional names: Josh (the one with the scary eyes), Matt, Craig and Ben. Tagg was born much too soon for Mittens to have picked up child-naming ideas from Sarah Palin. So then I remembered that the heroine of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was named Dagny Taggart.

It's probably just coincidence.

[tanyev]

1. I had that idea already, too.

Who knows?

[BainsBane]

2. I wouldn't put that in a tin foil hat category

It's a possibility. Or perhaps there is someone in the family tree with that name.

[Kalidurga]

3. I don't believe in coincidences...well not ones like this...

I was wondering why his name sounded familiar. I am not a fan of Ayn Rand. Even if her writing was great which it isn't, her plots are horrid and even worse her characters don't act like people. Oh any way. I think you are onto something, not that it will matter much.

[JI7]

4. i think he was named after some family or friend

i think they talked about it on some show . why he had an unusual name while the others were more common.

at least that's the story they gave.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Tagg told that story on Friday:

"People ask me all the time is Tagg your real name. Unfortunately it is," Romney, Mitt Romney's oldest son, told a crowd of a little more than 100 people clustered around him in a parking lot here Friday afternoon.

"It's short for Taggart. I wish I could tell you I was named after Dagny Taggart, in Atlas Shrugged. I was not. My parents actually knew someone in college. They didn't even know them that well. His name was Tagg Taggart, they liked it, and they stuck me with it," Romney told the crowd, which laughed and cheered.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/tagg-romney-fairy-tale_n_1989809.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. He actually WANTED to have been named after Dagny Taggart?

[malaise]

5. Makes sense

No tin foil needed