There are so many ironies about Mitt Romney and his candidacy-starting with the fact that he passed Obamacare before he promised to repeal and replace it. However, talk about calling the kettle black?
Who exactly needs to put up or shut up? So Romney is demanding that Reid give the name of the Bain insider he says he spoke to while Mr. Romney has no plans to release his tax returns. Yeah that makes sense. Here is Reid's great answer to Romney's ridiculous attempt to act as if the burden of truth is on Reid rather than himself. Who again is it that is asking the American people to elect him to the highest office in the land?
“There is a controversy because the Republican presidential nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, refuses to release his tax returns. As I said before, I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has not paid taxes for ten years. People who make as much money as Mitt Romney have many tricks at their disposal to avoid paying taxes. We already know that Romney has exploited many of these loopholes, stashing his money in secret, overseas accounts in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
“Last weekend, Governor Romney promised that he would check his tax returns and let the American people know whether he ever paid a rate lower than 13.9 percent. One day later, his campaign raced to say he had no intention of putting out any further information."
“When it comes to answering the legitimate questions the American people have about whether he avoided paying his fair share in taxes or why he opened a Swiss bank account, Romney has shut up. But as a presidential candidate, it’s his obligation to put up, and release several years’ worth of tax returns just like nominees of both parties have done for decades."
“It’s clear Romney is hiding something, and the American people deserve to know what it is. Whatever Romney’s hiding probably speaks volumes about how he would approach issues that directly impact middle-class families, like tax reform and the economy. When you are running for president, you should be an open book."
“I understand Romney is concerned that many people, Democrats and Republicans, have been calling on him to release his tax returns. He has so far refused. There is only one thing he can do to clear this up, and that’s release his tax returns.”
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/reid-source-on-romney-tax-returns-extremely-credible?ref=fpb
What's great is that, yet again, Romney looks pathetic and weak. It's like that Newsweek magazine that spoke of Romney's "wimp factor."
It's great that he has been drawn into a public pissing contest with Harry Reid, who is not in this election. the wheels of the Romney campaign are spinning around wildly with no ability to start moving again. However you look at it, arguing with Harry Reid isn't going to get it started again.
What makes him look wimpy is that he's always demanding apologies-itself a position of weakness in American politics-and even better, not getting them. Now he's demanding that Harry Reid take that back! It's not going to happen, anymore than Stephanie Cutter apologized-what she did do was suggest that Mitt "put his big boy pants on'-or the Washington Post apologized, or the Boston Globe apologized.
Romney ought to stop demanding apologies, and most importantly. of course, release his taxes.
Meanwhile, I reiterate, Jon Stewart should shut his mouth with his false equivalence between what Harry Reid and the Democrats are doing and the kind Tea Party-Andrew Breitbart style attacks Democrats suffered during the Clinton years, and were directed at the President. For those who can't see the difference, let's listen to No More Mr. Nice Blog-a shoutout to my buddy Nanute for introducing No More to me:
"Mitt Romney continues to be the target of a low, unsourced, unfounded attack from Harry Reid. I feel really, really bad about that."
"No, actually, I don't."
"Poor Mitt. Logic tells us that Reid couldn't possibly have heard this from multiple sources, so he's just blowing smoke. And yet, even if it's a lie, Reid's put Romney on the spot, because what he's saying sounds plausible to a lot of people."...In an interview published Tuesday, Reid said an investor in Bain Capital, the former private equity firm of the Republican presidential candidate, told him in a phone call that Romney had paid zero taxes....
On Wednesday, Reid stuck to his story, and broadened it.
"I am not basing this on some figment of my imagination," Reid said in a telephone call with Nevada reporters. "I have had a number of people tell me that."
Asked to elaborate on his sources, Reid declined. "No, that's the best you're going to get from me."
...A Romney spokesman said Reid's charge was baseless and below the belt....
" Y'know, it's a bit like saying that the current president is a secret Muslim socialist who lied about his U.S. birth and has a fake Social Security number and is secretly plotting to take away all privately owned guns if he's reelected, either before or after he finishes the job of deliberately destroying American capitalism. It's also a bit like saying that the previous Democratic president was a drug dealing serial murderer and rapist whose lesbian wife had her male lover killed when she wasn't hanging sex toys on the White House Christmas tree."
"It's almost like that. The difference is that Romney's not facing an ever-expanding list of accusations, most of them truly grotesque and preposterous, many of them of a felonious or treasonous nature, spread by multiple prominent rumormongers over the course of years, and believed in every particular by roughly a third of the country. Hell, what he's being charged with isn't even illegal.
"But still, welcome to our world, Mitt. Now you have a vague sense of how Democrats feel all the time."
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/
For Democrats like me, we remember that although the GOP is ready to coronate Bill Clinton these days, at the time every single day of his Presidency was under siege with allegations from day one. Then we have all the crazy accusations against President Obama about birth certificates, Kenya, Bill Ayers, pot smoking and pushing a girl in junior high.
Of course, Reid's speculations really are plausible. How do we know he didn't go 10 years without paying taxes? There really is no way to know until Mitt Romney releases his tax returns! Hope I'm not too subtle.
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