It looks like President Obama‘s strong debate performance has gotten into more than just Mitt Romney‘s head. In an interview with North Carolina radio host Bill Lumaye, Romney son and alleged de facto campaign honcho Tagg Romney said watching President Obama call his dad out over his lies made him “wanna rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him,” restrained only by a cadre of armed agents, and the knowledge that “this is just the nature of the process.”

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What is it like for you to hear the President of the United States call your dad a liar?” Lumaye asked, which isn’t really true. President Obama hasn’t called Romney a “liar,” even though he ought to.

“You want to jump out of your seat, and you wanna rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him,” the eldest Romney son replied, “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 this is just the nature of the process.”

Right, the process. Romney lies, and the President calls him out on it. Simple, when it works.

It’s very unusual for a presidential candidate’s son to admit violent impulses toward a sitting President in public, but that’s really just the natural extension of the new Romney family strategy, isn’t it?

Tagg also told Lumaye that his dad gets “terrified” before debates, then walked that back to a case of butterflies.

Here’s the audio, from The Bill Lumaye Show:

(h/t McKay Coppins)

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Tags: Barack Obama, debate, Mitt Romney