In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, Ann Romney introduces Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and her son Tagg, in Novi, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Today’s Boston Herald makes it sound like Ann Romney wants her son Tagg to get into politics. “Ann Romney floated Tagg’s name yesterday on Boston Herald Radio,” the tabloid reports, “saying the father of six and partner at the Newbury Street-based Solamere Capital is ‘obviously’ the only one of her sons she’d ever see jumping into the political fray — though she advises all her sons, ‘Not now, guys.’”

Actually, Ann Romney didn’t float Tagg’s name yesterday. The Herald Radio hosts did. And despite their persistence, Ann Romney said pretty forcefully that she doesn’t see Tagg getting into politics any time soon. Let’s go to the transcript! (You can hear the audio at 5:18.)

HERALD RADIO: I guess Tagg, I know, he’d expressed [sic] running for Senate last year. I’m wondering if another Romney will run for office in Massachusetts?

ANN ROMNEY: Oh, you know … my advice to my sons has always been, um, don’t get involved [laughs] in politics yourselves. Help your dad, that’s fine, but oh, it’s such a strain on family. And I think all of my boys are now in their place where they have young children at home, and they need to be at home, and they need to be supporting their wives. You know, there’s a time and a place for everything. So that’s always been my advice, is not now, guys! Maybe someday in the future, that would be fine.

HERALD RADIO: OK. So, you think maybe another Romney would run in Massachusetts at some point?

ANN ROMNEY: I don’t know. I’ve only got one son living there now, you know. My boys have kind of moved west, which has been amazing … I could see only one son, obviously, ever being involved, and that would be Tagg [EDITOR’S NOTE: He’s the only one who still lives here!]. He’s a great kid: very smart, very sensitive, very tender. He’s just a wonderful husband and father. He’s got six young kids, and he has young baby twins. So I think his wife would have an opinion about this too.

And that was it.

Now, the Herald does find a few GOP sources who are willing to say that, if Tagg ever decides to hop into politics, he’s got qualities that would serve him well. But the biggest name — Romney consigliere Eric Fehrnstrom — clearly agrees with Ann Romney that it’s not happening in the near future.

“[M]y sense right now,” Fehrnstrom says, “is that Tagg is focused on building a business and on his growing family.”

This isn’t the first time the Herald has stirred the Romney-dynasty pot, and it likely won’t be the last. But let’s all give Ann Romney a break and recognize that — a year after her husband suffered the second-worst-ever home-state loss by a presidential candidate — she’s not trying to pass the torch to Tagg.