Comments on: On Mitt Romney’s Taxes

By: casini

casini — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:10:04 +0000

Romney should tell them to go pound sand and treat this issue the way Obama has treated his school’s transcripts, his phantom trip to Pakistan with an unknown passport, his Rezko real estate deal, and his associations with Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi.
When Obama comes clean on all the above, then Romney should say he’ll consider it.

By: fightnright

fightnright — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:31:21 +0000

I give you high fives littlehouse for your response, but as I said in my comment t’other day, I am so frustrated by the Dem’s fifth column daily setting the *terms* of the debate.

A little more noise and fury please, Mitt & Co., to help replace the keywords from ‘tax returns’, ‘Bain’, ‘millionaires and billionaires’ and ‘vulture capitalists’ to ‘Fast and Furious’, ‘Obamacare pricetag’, ‘exploding debt’, ‘rising unemployment’, and ‘bankrupt US cities’.

(although Mitt’s latest ad is tops, and there is positive movement in the latest polls to our side, so he must be doing something right to overcome that media handicap =) )

By: kipling

kipling — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:13:28 +0000

I caught this one yesterday. The MSM will completely prostate themselves to get Obama re-elected.

I agree completely that we need to devise a way to keep the media accountable. Barring members of the press who willing lie would be a good start.

By: littlehouse18

littlehouse18 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:47:57 +0000

and other scandals that reflect on Obama’s betrayal of the public trust. These are part of the record of his administration and very rightfully should be part of the debate.

By: rightlane1111

rightlane1111 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:07:20 +0000

I believe I heard on Rush yesterday that President Reagan only released two years of tax returns. HOWEVER….

What Sheriff Joe announced and his proof should enrage us all. Over $1 million spent to hide his past. Romney does not have to go the birther route…but I want to know about his SS # from a dead man that was born in the late 1800′s with no surviving relatives. SS #’s are important these days….I can’t get my license without it (which BTW IS FACIAL RECOGNITION PHOTOS..will comment on that later).

While Obama is calling Romney a felon…isn’t there a legitimate question about identity theft? Obama with his Alinsky tactics…repeats and repeats until people believe that Romney is a felon…and besides…HE’S RICH…something Obama set in motion the day he was sworn in.

Romney is not playing a kindergarten game…he’s playing with Chicago style politics…worse than what we have in DC.

The more Romney caves into Obama…the weaker he appears. We all know he is “playing” to the Indies…however, it’s time to show that he can put on his big boy pants and go after Obama.

Obama wants to talk about $$$ Romney made, Romney needs to ask…show me the original.

There are so many unanswered questions about this guy…and yet…we are not “permitted” to ask them. Excuse me…there’s enough evidence here that somebody ought to be asking some questions of His majesty.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-18/arizona-sheriff-obama-birth/56296272/1

By: writescribe

writescribe — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:57:31 +0000

This school records salivation is ludicrous. Think back to one’s own school records – the only thin mine showed is that I was a mediocre student. Look, I know we’re all supposed to be cheerleaders for our guy at least to some extent, but with all due respect the insistence on getting decades-old school records resembles more self-reinforcing group-think than rational thought.

If Romney doesn’t want to release the returns, don’t release them and take whatever comes your way. However, tying the returns to a quid-pro-quo exchange for (likely useless) school records belittles Romney and his campaign.

By: elenchus

elenchus — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:36:56 +0000

On the other hand I paid taxes in 2009 on my only income that year which was unemployment. Working people don’t get tax breaks.

By: elenchus

elenchus — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:23:13 +0000

lol

By: despondent1

despondent1 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:04:14 +0000

Mitt Romney could offer the following: “I will release my tax returns as soon as President Obama un-seals his college entrance records at Harvard, the Harvard Law Review articles Obama authored, the Columbia college entrance records, all of his college transcripts, the immigration records from the port of Hawaii that are missing from the 60 day period immediately prior to and after his supposed his birth in Hawaii, and the real birth certificate – now that it’s been clearly established (by Sheriff Joe Arpaio) that the one posted by the White House was clearly a fraud.”

Let the Washington Post chew on that one and demand that Obama release those records. Romney needs to change the game. Let Obama dance to the beat of Romney’s frontal assault for awhile.

By: fightnright

fightnright — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:42:33 +0000

the way they use the birther controversy?

As we get closer to election crunch time, the media wing of the Dem party would love to make another headline-dominating distraction out of Repubs looking for mud in the zerO’s academy years, anything other than the economy and jobs.

And if the school records show nothing of significance, we hand the enemy another airtime triumph.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:36:26 +0000

Barack Obama will not in a million turn over those documents. As Dick Morris so rightly pointed out, “four months before an election, a President doesn’t assert the priviledge to protect his perogative, he does it to save his skin.” Issa will have to sue Obama in court to get those documents and that will go all the way to the Supreme’s which won’t happen in 4 months. It is my belief those documents proved that the highest levels of the Obama administration knew and approved of a scheme to provide guns to Mexican Drug Cartels and what the objectives were. No way, Obama turns those over for Mitt Romney’s taxes – NO WAY. That is what we get politically, Obama publically refusing to share the information with the electorate i.e. not being transparent.

By: writescribe

writescribe — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:32:40 +0000

katem on this one. Romney should have been pressed harder during the primaries for more disclosure regarding his tax returns and finances. Yes, there was some back-and-forth on it at the time, but it quickly quieted down when Romney shot back with the “stop attacking capitalism” defense.

Let me be clear: I support capitalism and free markets unequivocally. However, this issue is one that could have been mitigated (it would have been difficult to defuse altogether) during the primaries if Gingrich and/or Perry would have pressed it more vigorously. In this limited respect, the primary process didn’t fully do its job, i.e. screen the candidate, fully vet an issue so it does not become or becomes less of a problem during the general election.

By: hayekwasright

hayekwasright — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:30:45 +0000

I lay no real hopes on the release of school records or what may be found therein. However, they seem to have worked awfully hard to hide something there. The point is: offering tax records for school records takes camp Romney away from running for cover and puts them back on offense.

By: hayekwasright

hayekwasright — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:22:35 +0000

It properly should come out anyway as a matter of due process (not that that has been working correctly lately). But using it s a bargaining chip cedes the ground of it being something they can properly choose or choose not to release.

By: Vegas_Rick

Vegas_Rick — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:49:33 +0000

Perhaps if Erick, right wing blogs and gutless “Conservative” politicians had Romney’s back on this instead of reinforcing the lefty narrative that there MUST be something to hide, he would feel a little more comfortable sticking to his guns.

I hope he does.

He’s rich, so what? Get over it already.

By: acat

acat — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:59:02 +0000

Most voters don’t care about school records or tax returns, unless there’s something really strange/wrong in ‘em.

Obama’s school records will not be an “october surprise”. Neither will Romney’s taxes.

The point isn’t to get the school records, the point is to reinforce the hypocritical nature of the Obama administration.

Mew

By: teaforme2012

teaforme2012 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:53:00 +0000

I hope we aren’t pinning on hopes on “devastating” school records. This is turning into a clown show. Hopefully, Romney is smart enough to figure out some way to end this nightmare rather than demanding Obama’s transcripts.

By: teaforme2012

teaforme2012 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:47:39 +0000

The Bloomberg story is accurate. I paid no taxes in 2009 precisely for those reasons. This is one of the things that concerns some of my friends in the NY banking world, no matter where they stand politically: the lack of revenue from losses and carried interest. There’s an abundance of very wealthy people who paid no income taxes, and Romney is nowhere near the worst, since he released his 2010 return.

I’d like to see Romney get out front of this issue and point to needed reforms, once the public learns that in the height of the recession, when Americans were struggling, the super wealthy were paying no taxes at all. There’s no reason he can’t try to pin this on Obama.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:41:48 +0000

Here is a link to the interview.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:41:23 +0000

looked Robin Roberts in the eye and said (by the way Ann Romney having stared down cancer and MS isn't scared by Chicago thugs or media crack addicts).