Intro: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) claimed Tuesday in an interview that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns because he didn't pay taxes for 10 years."
Senator Harry Reid says Romney paid no taxes for ten years. (photo: Reuters)
Harry Reid: Mitt Romney Didn't Pay Taxes for 10 Years
01 August 12
enate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) claimed Tuesday in an interview that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns because he didn’t pay taxes for 10 years.
The interview, published Tuesday by The Huffington Post, includes several swipes by the Senate leader at the GOP candidate.
“His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son,” Reid said in reference to George Romney’s decision to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968.
Reid suggested that Romney’s decision to withhold tax information would bar him from ever earning Senate confirmation to a Cabinet post. Then, Reid recalled a phone call his office received about a month ago from “a person who had invested with Bain Capital,” according to The Huffington Post.
Reid said the person told him: “Harry, he didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years.”
“He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” Reid told HuffPo. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?”
Neither Reid nor his aides would identify the alleged investor, HuffPo reported.
The Romney campaign has previously denied rumors that Romney hasn’t paid taxes in a single year and he recently told ABC News that he couldn’t recall if there were years when he paid below the 13.9 percent tax rate that he paid in 2010.
In that ABC interview, Romney said he would be “happy to go back and look” at his tax records, but his campaign aides haven’t replied to several requests to clarify the former Massachusetts governor’s comments.
As for Reid’s assessment of the state of Senate races, he told HuffPo that “We feel comfortable in the Senate,” but said the growing influence of independent political groups could tip the balance of power toward the Republicans.
“Where the problem is, is this: Because of the Citizens United decision, Karl Rove and the Republicans are looking forward to a breakfast the day after the election,” Reid said. “They are going to assemble 17 angry old white men for breakfast, some of them will slobber in their food, some will have scrambled eggs, some will have oatmeal, their teeth are gone. But these 17 angry old white men will say, ‘Hey, we just bought America. Wasn’t so bad. We still have a whole lot of money left.’”
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...AND made put him in charge of the HARVARD LAW REVIEW!!!
PLEASE keep reminding us of Obama's college record! I LOVE IT!
All this and more went against our Constitution, our rights and laws of the land.
Rather than trying to change the subject of the entire thread, why don't you stick with the subject we're discussing for now, and then later, when it's relevant, bring up other subjects.
Besides, what is Mitten's policy on the NDAA or the Patriot Act? Does he plan to dismantle them?
Didn't think so.
"Guantanamo continues . . . " because the Republicans won't allow it to be closed. "We're afraid of these big bad terrorists--we don't want them in OUR prisons!"
His records are his to give out, not for Harvard!
this is just a guess,
maybe Harvard knows something you don't, and,
GASP!,
that black man actually DESERVED the honors!
Again your diverting the topic off of Mitt...why is that? Because you cant defend him, you can only start talking about Obama to distract the attention away from Mitt and his tax dodging ways LOL!
Laughable --- snide grasping at straws.
Nevertheless, it would be interesting to know how he polls, just in case the "sheeple" really live up to that name and Adelson's dollars 'addles' some brains into voting for Ronry.
Shhh!
Don't tell anyone!
Are you suggesting that the sitting President of the United States has received more death threats from conservatives than any other President in U.S. history because I "feel guilty"?
That repugs hate minorities is a poorly kept secret. Conservatives seem to think no one else has caught on to it. We all know conservatives on a personal level and know what they say when no black people are listening. Suddenly, they tone it down when they're on the internet and just rely on code words. No one's falling for it.
PLEASE! They're politely referred to as "mouth breathers".
Some respect to the president is in order when you refer to the man who has worked hard to pull the US out of the deepest mess it's ever been in. Calling President Obama "Barry" shows a total disregard for the office, hence, the reason you are off-point in this discussion? You don't care that there's a possibility that Harry Reid has been told the truth? That Romney, indeed has not paid taxes for 10 years? I feel badly for you, edge. Head in the sand, you may be the sorriest among us if Romney buys this election, for he and his cronies will wring the average American dry of everything they've gained under President Obama: out of Iraq, Bin Laden gone, closing in on getting out of Afghanistan, affordable health care, protection of children's and women's rights, overthrow of the don't-ask-don't -tell ridiculous law in the military, and more.
He's not done all perfectly, but President Obama would never hide from showing his tax returns, let alone NOT do them for any number of years.
And by the way, do you think that a person who has avoided taxes, something you and I would be landed on after WAY less than 10 years, should even be allowed to run for president??? Sir, I do not. The IRS should be after this man, and they must do it NOW. The election is three (3) VERY short months away. Get RID of Romney! He's a total embarrassment to the country.
N.
And demosntrating SUCH DISRESPECT TO THE pRES. BY CALLING HIM ' BARRY' SHOWS EXACTLY WHERE YOU are coming from..
'Mittens the Robot' make you feel good?
As the old cliche' goes, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Mitt is running for President, not Reid. Let's keep to the topic.
If, indeed, Mitt didn't pay taxes for 10 years, that's pretty astonishing for someone who "loves his country". I pay my taxes every year as do most Americans.
It's up to Romney to prove that he did pay taxes, not continue with this puppet show that "there is nothing to see". If there was nothing to see, then he wouldn't keep them secret.
Since Mitt has never served (he's from my generation and hid out in Paris during the Vietnam War using his religion to avoid being drafted because he was doing his religious duty) then surely he can at least show a willingness to pay in $$$ for the rights and protections he gets from our military, our firefighters, our police officers, and every other facet of our society. As you often see on bumper stickers, Freedom is not Free! Of course, if you're a Republifascist, you want to get everything for nothing...big tax breaks while avoiding the payment of your fair share, national security while avoiding military service, and the biggest of them all, being above the law. How many of the wealthy go to jail for things the average American goes to jail for? Life sucks for the Rich!!!
When Harry passes a tax, increases the debt ceiling, addes a ton of regulations, plunders social security to get re-elected it impacts every single American who is stuck paying the bill -- so that makes us ALL constituents.
So -- did Harry release his tax records for 10 years? Did harry work for free as a public servant or is he greedy squeezing every dime out of us he can?
Until then, I want to see his tax returns.
The purpose of setting up tax shelters is,obviously, to avoid paying taxes.
Planning on running for President, he cleaned up his act for one year, and payed 14% tax.
Like his father George said when he released 12 years of tax returns, if you just release one year it could be a fluke, so you should release multiple years to get the full picture.
The apple sure fell far from the tree. In fact, it fell in a different orchard.
If the middle class have jobs, Social Security won't have a problem now or ever. It's when all the jobs are gone that the insurance system doesn't work.
Duuude - Social security was plundered bone dry before Ryan ever came to CONgress
The "plundering" you refer to is the fact that the Trust Fund was borrowed and there are bonds owed that the wealthy who own the vast majority of them do NOT want to have to pay up!
Harry Reid doesnt need to release his tax forms Mitt R does. This is about Mitt not Harry Reid quit trying to divert the topic. Mitt more then likely doesnt pay his taxes or he would have presented them by now. Something is amiss!
Did anybody ever ask (for HR's tax returns)???
This is about Mitt not paying his taxes its not about Harry Reid...Mitt is a tax dodger and I will believe that until he presents us with his tax returns.
That's some real patriotism your guy has there with his multiple offshore accounts. He wears so many flag pins his lapel can't hold them all.
Such tax laws are outrageous and must go. The point it, is this the kind of person you want running this country?!
Mittens MADE THEM our business when he chose to run for President.
If Romney cannot be open and transparent about his financial affairs, why should anyone trust him? It is our business. What if he really did not pay any taxes for 10 years, or even 3 years? Would you vote for this guy who used all public assets that we - the public paid for - and contributed nothing while making himself a fortune? Is this the kind of mindset we want in the leader of the western world?
It's even WORSE than doing his taxes in a way that works out to him paying $0 on the billions he makes, if the contention is that Romney didn't even FILE taxes for 10 years! That's what needs to come to the forefront. Did he just use loopholes to get to $0 taxes OR did he not file for 10 years? And if he didn't, what made him think he didn't need to?
Either way, he sucks!
N.
No mystery here. He sets himself above all of us, except the men who will buy his election, if someone doesn't stop them.
Unfortunately, some states will continue to rig elections, and everything we do by just voting may be lost. So...we must, MUST get the truth out about this man in a way that gets him OUT, that does not even allow him to be put into nomination at the GOP convention.
Someone needs to be an "honest whistle blower" about this stuff.
N.
Excellent question! I know there have been comments about him supposedly depositing $30K one year that turned into $50 million a year or two later.
I would like to point out that Willard "Mitt" Romney was named for J. Willard Marriott, owner of the Marriott Hotels and also a Mormon. Mr. Marriott provided most of the money to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment for women in 1982.
That may give us some idea of how women would fare if there ever were a Romney Administration.
I owned a travel agency and handled large corporate groups. Since that time I never booked a Marriott unless the client insisted and would never stay in one.
Thanks for the info re the origin of his first name Willard. Also, I was not aware of the link with Marriott and will try to avoid giving any business to those RWNJs.
But maybe Mitt is paying off somebody in the IRS so they won't audit him?
Goes right along with the previous article I read here suggesting a new bumper sticker:
ROMNEY "KISS MY ASS"
(CENSORS-It is published in you article by Joe Lapointe so it must be allowable)
No one is allowed to ask Romney about anything he's done, who he is, his wife's horse (media blackout), his taxes, Bain Capital or a host of other pertinent information.
He is above all he surveys, though he did once approve of the height of trees in Michigan.
But Reid is better than I in this respect. He wouldn't jump to some position just because somebody (Mitt) is a big twit.
And in fact Reid doesn't jump. He reports that someone from Bain called him with the
information. Reid then says he doesn't know if the Bain guy's information is correct and continues the discussion.
Clearly, in an article like this, people should be hornswoggled. I don't nominate Reid for this honor but rather Mitt Romney and the author if he had anything to do with his article's presentation.
Otherwise, the author's editor must take the rap. It is basically dishonest for an editor to change somebody's speculation, clearly labeled as such (through direct quote in his article!) to assertion of fact.
Bad journalism, say I, and whap that person across the nose with a dead mullet.
But that leads us to a problem: nobody at the Justice Department seems willing to subpoena anything, whether it is records about Haliburton, or Romney's taxes or responsibilitie s after 1999 in his company of Bain, or anything else. It's as though the Justice Department is dead at the wheel; and they could jeopardize this election.
At the very least, if even the Justice Department would be considered too political at this point, a Special Council should be appointed to look into this matter. If there is no law stating that tax records must be produced and that employment during office of governor must be reviewed, then we are in big trouble, because they cannot prosecute something that is not a law. But they must prosecute if it is, otherwise every attack ad will only look political.
PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS RELEASED HIS TAX RETURNS.
Mittens HAS NOT. Mittens has something to hide.
Abortion and adultery are not without presence in their top ranks too.
The GOP de-regulated the banks, de-regulated the airlines, lessened EPA standards and outright ignored violations...th e list goes on. And we wonder why America is in a Depression?!
"Opps"!
Then you can move to Paraguay with Dimwits Bush, who started two wars on a lie and crippled the US economy into the bargain. Like all reactionaries, you wouldn't recognize "responsible" or "Ethical" for that matter, if it was served up to you on a platter with a parsley garnish.
Enjoy your fantasy world as an apologist for your Rethuglican, Tea-Bugger or Libertarian masters
That was classic! Very funny!
The worse he can be accused of is repeating hearsay, but unless you have access to Romney's tax records you have no grounds to call Mr. Reid a liar.
It IS time for the Dems to come out swinging. If not now, when?
Both are pure speculation and most likely BS!
Again you have no answer or defense as to why Mitt doesnt release his tax returns...all presidents do it. The only response you have is to attack a democrat, your so transparent. I wont argue about Reid or Obama this article is about Mitt possibly not paying his taxes, so lets talk about that and what excuse you have as to why Mitt wont release his tax forms from the past 10 years? Thats the topic.
YOU KNOW THAT IS A LIE!
It holds more credibility than the argument that Obama is not a U.S. citizen! That had legs for months (and still does!) Simple, end the "speculation" and show us the returns! Where's the Donald on this one???
A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture.
Read #2.
con·jec·ture
/kənˈdʒɛktʃər/ Show Spelled [kuhn-jek-cher] Show IPA noun, verb, con·jec·tured, con·jec·tur·ing.
noun
1.) the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
2.) an opinion or theory so formed or expressed; guess; speculation.
3.) Obsolete . the interpretation of signs or omens.
If you are lookin' for "Pure speculation", look no further than "Twit" R'. His whole life has been spent in speculation that was as pure as the driven slush and he can't open his gob without flip-floppin' or stickin' his shiny shoes in't!
B.T.W., if you peruse Reid's statement (also a Mormon) he did say with a degree of honesty seemingly foreign to the right; “He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” Reid told HuffPo [quote from article].
And that darling mouthpiece of the Right FOX, exists in a vacuum of speculation and downright lies without any attempt at restraint.
Away and speculate on that a-while.
This is a case of something that Romney could easily prove wrong, but he hasn't and he won't. He's the only one who can do it, but he doesn't feel we have the right to that information.
Plus, the secret is that he really does have something to hide.
I agree, I thought that too. It comes up a little lame for sure. But with the voters that we have in America, it seems to work for the GOP. "don't give a sucker an even break" has kicked the Dems in the ass all too often. I'm sick of watching the Dems push for bipartisanship, 'play by the rules' (in a forum that apparently has no rules), and be the nice guys, while the overtly, unfair, lying, hateful, racist, assholes, kick the 'nice' Democrat's ass time and again. It's like "good cop bad cop" because who REALLY LOSES? Us Americans!, AND our children, our future, our environment, our natural resources, our life. We're Romans and this is the arena. Be polite and fair and get your head caved in by a rude winner.
I know lets don't pick on the wealthy after all they are the Job creators around the world.
Where are the Job's you've created here in America Mitt?....
Otherwise, I got nothin'.
Meanwhile, it is obvious to us taxpayers that Mitt is not half the man his father was. Just what we need in the White House: Less Than Half-A-Man! Now, that would be Small Government, right?
So that's the choice this November, folks, Small Government with Less Than Half-A-Man or Inadequate Government with The Lesser Evil! PHOOEY!
If it is speculation and false, Reid should apologize, admit he is a moron and move on.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
My wife often gets so mad at someone it appears she's pissed EVERYONE including me. I ask her, and she finally summarized it. She said:
"I'm not mad AT you. I'm just mad NEAR you!"
On the other hand, you're right about too many on the left. I see it all the time where commenters get so angry they just lash out at any available target and assume that no one else is properly angry as much as they are.
Leagal, schmegal. Hasn't stood in the way of torture, illegal detention, drone murder, lying to war, slaughtering of Constitutional rights, environmental crimes, etc, etc.
And pay their taxes.
I just don't know why he settled for $700,000. From what I understand, the horse costs several million.
I can't afford that kind of "therapy".
Well, come to think of it, maybe I can, since I paid for $700,000 worth of it. I guess what I meant to say is that I can't afford to manipulate the system in such a way that I can be ON THE RECEIVING END of that kind of "therapy" at the expense of HONEST tax payers.
If Romney refuses to release any information, Reid, like the rest of us, wonders how bad it really is.
Either way, Romney, the pathological liar, is in a "put up or shut up" spot.
Romney so far has proven himself an insufferable ass and a ridiculous clown. Ask Richard M. Nixon what good "stone walling" did for him. All the Republican trolls and apologists are coming out of the woodwork in defense of Romney, and each excuse sounds weaker and more lame.
Back in the 60's I knew very few young men who were trying to "delay" the draft.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
Is Willard Romney an example of a patriotic American? The evidence:
1. He is a descendent of a family that fled to Mexico rather than to submit to U.S. polygamy laws.
2. His father was born in Mexico. How could he run for president?
3. He fled to France rather than face the draft under a curious (exclusive) deal the Mormon church cut with Selective Service for Mormon "missionaries".
4. His $100 million gifts to each son probably was done overseas to avoid U.S. gift taxes.
5. He keeps tax returns secret and may have paid NO U.S. income taxes for several years.
5. He still keeps money in secret Swiss bank accounts.
6. His investments are kept in the Cayman Islands and other foreign tax havens.
7. His company (Bain Capital) sent thousands of jobs to China, India and other foreign destinations.
8. While governor of Massachusetts he outsourced jobs to Mexico.
9. As head of the Salt Lake City Olympics he outsourced jobs to Burma.
10. His 2012 Olympic participation is in a European sport, dressage (and takes U.S. tax breaks for it).
11. He praises the Israeli and Polish socialist health care systems but wants to overturn the Affordable Health Care Act in the U.S.
In 2012 we need to elect a TRUE American.
It's not illegal for many of the rich to avoid paying taxes.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
That is enough smoke for me to call FIRE!
So d'you watch Fox or any of the major owner-media networks, read the tabloid news mag's 'n rags that pass for journalism these days?
What's YOUR sources? Really would like to know m'dahlin'.
For once I would love to read a post from a righty defending Mitt and his side...Oh thats right you dont know his side, no one does. Oh and just attacking the other side and trying to divert the conversation isnt flying, maybe if you would look into what your guy believes, instead of just going on the attack we could see you have a side. So far all I see is someone twisting the conversation because they dont really know what Mitt is doing, but blindly defending him with attacks on people that this article is not about.
Politically, of course, it is disgusting that wealthy people like Romney take advantage of this and then try to keep it secret, all the time waving the Red, White and Blue.
My, aren't you optimistic about the workings of our legal system. Even if Romney has broken the law, he can afford to stall and, if necessary, appeal forever, staying out of prison the whole time because he would be judged not to be a "flight risk."
What makes you think Willard would go to jail if he was a tax cheat? Uber-Rich people do not go to jail unless they cheat other rich people (e.g. Bernie Madoff). If everything Willard did was legal why is he hiding money in Switzerland, Cayman Islands, etc.? When Timmy G. was appointed he owed many thousands in back taxes and just paid them and then became Treasury Secretary. Same with big corporations found guilty, they just pay a small percentage fine and admit nothing and continue with their corrupt/illegal ways (Walmart).
You ask, what evidence? Romney refuses to release his tax records. That's a fact and that's evidence! If the sun refuses to show itself, then it must be night time, right?
While the birth certificate was no big deal and did not disqualify Obama from being presidents, ten years of tax avoidance is a big deal. It is at worst a felony and at least a judgment that disqualifies someone from government office.
The best thing for everyone is that Romney do the honorable thing and release his tax information and put the cards on the table. Anything less is unacceptable. However, based on his repeated dishonesty all around, we should not expect him to do so.
How sad from a man who claims he is ready to lead the nation!
And to the idiot people supporting Mitt Romney in his desire not to share any more tax returns with us., step into the wayback machine to the time when Mitt Romney wanted Ted Kennedy to release his tax records, accusing Kennedy of having something to hide! What's good for the goose is good for the gander the way I look at it! My latest cartoon is all about this, it's up now...
http://www.whatnowtoons.com
Left of Center Independent Political Cartoons since 2003
so, i guess the thumbs down mean that you wouldn't go ballistic if a republican leveled the same charges against Obama with only an anonymous source and no other evidence? Somethow don't think so...sad to see on this board how many thumbs down people get for saying anything critical of the dems...is being a mindless supporter of the dems any better than being a mindless supporter of the repubs (which is not the same thing as saying there is no difference between the two)?
"If a rethuglican had made..." unsubstantiated charges? Are you kidding me?
Remember Whitewater? Ron Brown? Troopergate? Obama's colleg records? Obama's citizenship? Obama's secret Muslim/Baptist heritage? Kerry faking the medals he received on the battlefield (we even have a name for that one, "SWIFTBOATING") ? Gore "inventing" the internet? Clinton burning American flags on British soil? Clinton doing drugs? Dukakis letting murders go with just a warning?
I'm sure I could go on and on if I gave it any more thought.
All the examples above only covered unsubstantiated accusations against Presidential candidates and sitting Presidents.
Reid isn't accusing Mittens of a crime. He's accusing him of not loving his country enough to pay any taxes. It's only a double-edged sword for Mittens IF HE DIDN'T. If he had paid anything before last year, he'd have let us know by now.
I didn't say the rethuglicans don't make unsubstantiated accusations of course they do just as Fox "News" makes it up as they go along. And, when they do, progressives go rightfully nuts. Does that mean that our own strategy is to stoop to their level? So, i'm not saying that Romney paid taxes or that he isn't hiding something by not releasing them. My point was simply that i think it is stupid for anyone to say the guy hasn't paid taxes in 10 years if there is no evidence to back up the claim. Don't see why this is seemingly such a controversial point.
What you don't understand is that it's a false equivalency. When repugs made those attacks:
1. They KNEW (know) them to be lies.
2. They were (are) intended specifically to DESTROY a person, even on a personal level.
3. They were (are) OPENLY DENIED and PROVEN WRONG, but that didn't stop them.
4. They were (are) asking for things that were (are) completely inappropriate and personal.
5. They often ask(ed) for things that were completely non-existent to prove they were wrong, knowing full well it's impossible to prove a negative.
CONT.
Now to Mittens:
1. All we're asking him to do is release his tax returns.
2. ALL other Presidential candidates do it.
3. We aren't trying to destroy him on a personal level. No one is accusing him of a crime. If he didn't pay anything for the past 10 years, it will only hurt him because of something HE DIDN'T DO, not because of our attacks.
4. He could easily prove us wrong, but doesn't think the American people deserve to know what he stands for until after he's elected.
5. Regarding #1 in the previous list, there seems to be plenty of evidence that he paid next to nothing.
6. It's NOT inappropriate to ask a Presidential candidate to show he loves his country by ACTUALLY PAYING FOR THE SERVICES HE USES.
7. Regarding #5, his tax records DO EXIST.
You act as though it's possible to win a modern election without making some sort of OFFENSE against your opponent.
Besides, t's a FALSE and TOTALLY DISHONEST "equivalency".
THAT'S WHY you're getting so many thumbs down.
Has Barak Obama explained how as a poor student he could afford a world tour when he was a student on foreign assistance ?
2. I really love it when you keep bringing up Obama's college records! It gives me the opportunity to mention that he was MAGNA CUM LAUDE at HARVARD, and that he headed the HARVARD LAW REVIEW.
I guess Harvard was in on the conspiracy before he ever entered politics, right? Hillarious!!
Has anybody asked him or them?
You're really strugglin' for rationale here mate!
Mittens isn't running against Reid. He's running for President of the United States of America against President Obama.
This article is not about Obama or Reid its about Mitt Romney not releasing his taxes, stick to topic.
So, what, maybe 30 years ago Obama was able to swing a way to travel...??? I'm sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of that particular statement? I mean, really, who gives a shit?
When I was a young man I had the opportunity to travel to Europe for the summer for a very reasonable price. I put a down stroke on a car instead. And I don't come from a rich family, either. In fact, I had to drop out of college after one semester to get a job. So what?
Does that mean the friends of mine who DID go are somehow un-American?
And YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, Democrats would attack another Democrat RELENTLESSLY about this. Democrats don't march in lock-step like the right. It's our biggest strength and it's also our biggest weakness.
So, you think asking a Pres. candidate to show his/her tax docs is ...what...illeg al? immoral? What is our problem?
Right on. Which "he" are you talking about B.T.W.? Both "Twit" and Reid are Morons -oop's Mormons.
They "tithe" a minimum of 10% of their income to the church which is what is implied by the word and to it's credit in a way, helps out other members who become needy, in a kind of cultish version of socialism,
But of course they have to fund all these pure, squeaky-clean young missionaries that pollute the planet (Twit was in France). You should see their growth rate in Hawaii, Samoa and other Pacific Island nations, where they have built these ghastly, grimly grandiose, granite or pebble-dash mini-replicas of the temple and environs that makes Salt Lake City such a aesthetically and atmospherically depressing dump to visit, in many unlikely places; their vision of Architecture being uncannily like Hitler's in it's massive, cold barren ugliness and they impose them on the locals when they get enough control of an area. See the formerly pleasant li'l city of Laie on Oahu's north shore for an example. It's truly sad.
IMO, Romney is Sarah Palin in a $5,000 suit. No amount of media or PR bullshit can obscure this disturbing, albeit predictable reality. When Palin walked on stage at the 2008 GOP Convention to wild screams and applause, and opened her attractive mouth to speak her inimitable rhetorical drivel, it didn't alter one iota the inevitable conclusion that she was a regressive lightweight who would eventually self-destruct as a VP candidate (if not as a subsequent sideshow barker and used car saleswoman), and take McCain down with her.
Romney can't hide from a similar fate. He reeks of inauthenticity, telegenic catatonia, pathological mendacity required to obscure his previous itteration as a moderate, and immensely annoying behavioral tics (the way he licks his lips after defensively responding to reporters, as if he's sucking on a garlic pickle; that stupid grin that involuntarily freezes his expression when he's on camera, no matter how serious the subject; the sense he has no intrinsic personality). Perhaps there are some few voters who don't care about this stuff, but many more do: remember JFK and Nixon? Willard is a cipher, a walking, bumbling, dangerous Bush echo chamber. Please, not again.
He feels he shouldn't have to pay taxes, just like All Wealthy Repiglicans.
Taxes are for us stupid working class people to pay.
They will soon own America, and all of us fools along with it.
There will be no Middle Class, only the Wealthy & those of us who work for them!!!!
When will Middle Class workers learn to stop helping the Rich by voting for the people (Repugs) who let them run roughshod over our once Great country?!?!
See my opus article on the Repub campaign with alot of info on Mitt's journey, Mormon's difficult relations w the feds, natural secrecy, etc.
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-golden-ring-quest-presidency-11227996.html
THE GOLDEN RING- Quest for the Presidency - Yahoo Network Repub contenders new LOCAL Republican contenders + pretenders - all too extreme? Blow by blow flips in states; Profile of Romney and his Mormon exoticism (can he ever win Repub hearts?); and Obama's problems, and supposed betrayal of the base in various suppressive acts; w long interview of fmr DNC chair + Pres. candidate Howard Dean - April-June 2012
Yahoo has some right-wing bastard editors- they've froze the hits for 3 months, ensuring I get nothing for it!!!!
If what you're implying is true, it makes Barack Hussein Obama even more amazing: A bi-racial kid with bad grades rises to be President? What's your point?
Is Reid running for President? I must have missed that.....
What can you tell me about Mitt and why he wont release his taxes, or are you blindly following him too?
I disagree with Douglas Jack, because I think he's living in a fantasy world that simply isn't realistic. I argue about this a lot with several other posters on here. I think he's a genuine liberal. Just not a realistic political strategist.
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE with you that anyone defending Mittens at this point is just blabbering on without any solid information to back it up. He's nothing more than a pre-programmed voice on a cardboard cut out. I honestly don't think HE knows what he stands for.
I, for one, am beginning to believe that it's very likely that Romney may not even have filed tax returns for those years he refuses to disclose.
I also ask the question, "If he has nothing to hide, why is he working so hard at hiding them?
Since that horse has 4 owners Did they all get to claim it too? Or just Ann? Of all the lies he tells, stupid remarks he makes, what bugs me the most is the sarcastic remarks he makes then laughs that condescending laugh. Like when Brian Williams asked him iif he was going to pick a boring white man for VP, he re plied, "you told me you weren't available". hee,hee,hee,. He whips us the bird every chance he gets.
Has McCain said anything at all about this? Has he stood up to defend the presumptive nominee of his party?
If he has, I've not heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGQsYCBXqLQ&feature=related
There is also a very long, and old, video explaining how Joseph Smith dealt with his rearrangement of the truth: The God Makers– Mormon Conspiracy. (I think the vid was produced by the Baptist Church, more bias). Anyway, the self-entitled Sir Robbed-me has learned that you can rewrite anything – even your tax returns! I'm just sayin'.
If repugs really believed in the "trickle-down" voodoo economics they spout off about they'd BE PROUD of Mitten's taxes.
The trouble, is that it's hard to see how taking money out of the country and taking jobs out of the country is good for THE AMERICAN economy.
Last one was George H.W. Bush And it just suddenly stopped right there.
I think Dan Quayle was the mold for the next Republican President, but then we were smarter and saw completly through that guy and he folded in favor of "W". Now, I wonder if we can stiil be smart enough to skip Mitt across the lake?
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