Comments on: Memo to Mitt: Release your damn tax returns

By: bryan mcclellan

bryan mcclellan — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:48:55 +0000

I find evolution to be a mind boggling experience when politically applied.
Last time I looked men will get kicked in their privates to be, famous.

Next up on the merry go round the black guy the south couldn’t swallow -vs- too mitty, as in not Walters shadow ?

Whether we like it or not the rest of the world has gone Pro.
Ketchup and fast turtles, we are only an underwear away.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:42:05 +0000

Dunno if it’s his church..

I think Jon Huntsman would have made a much better GOP candidate and I don’t think he would have had a problem releasing his tax returns.

By: woody188

woody188 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:24:28 +0000

Maybe, or maybe it’s a strategy to keep Obama’s people hammering that point instead of finding new dirt. hen they will release the prior returns within the last month of the campaign or so, leaving no wind in Obama’s sails and no time to start a new controversy. See…it was nothing all along, just a political attack from a corrupt Administration that maintains political hit lists and a real assassination list.

We can postulate it any way we want. I enjoy that immensely.

By: Nevada Ned

Nevada Ned — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:00:33 +0000

There must be something damaging in his unreleased tax returns, damaging enough that Romney is stonewalling. There must be something even more damaging than the political consequences of not releasing the tax returns.

By: The Commoner

The Commoner — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:49:17 +0000

Romney should agree to release more tax returns when Obama agrees to release his college transcripts and application records. If there is a transparency gap here it belongs to Obama, not Romney.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:25:24 +0000

I’m still of the opinion that the reason he really doesn’t want to release them is religious. His church has a carefully defined tithe, as a percentage of income, and they’re going to look at them and start doing math… J.

PS – As an aside, if as President 10% of his salary goes straight to a church, that might violate some separation clauses. J.

By: Sandy Price

Sandy Price — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:04:50 +0000

Doug, if Romney asked the Prophet in Salt Lake City about his returns, he would do exactly what the Prophet told him to do. He is not able to decide things for himself. He ran his state in the same way.

By: Sandy Price

Sandy Price — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:01:03 +0000

Romney seems to be unable to think for himself. That could come from his church. LDS think in terms of tribes who use their numbers to change the world they live in. There is no discussion or debate among Mormons. They may be easily swayed away from the church because there is no rational base to the church. The church was formed byuneducated immigrants in the new world. They are a simple people who closed up their brains to let nothing else in. I was raised in this church and only learned about it when they tried to baptize me. I ran like hell out of the temple.

By: Jim B.

Jim B. — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:43:56 +0000

Seems like a case of “Ruminating Rom”…and while he’s pondering, and thinking, and cogitating when really action is required, he slips lower and lower in the estimation of many people.

Jon Stewart on the Daily Show said it’s not that the Rom is rich that bothers most people, it’s that he keeps on whining about the poor getting more than their fair share, when the Rom is one of many who have gorged themselves on largesse from the federal teat via tax laws and loopholes that have favored the rich in this country (since the 1970s).

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:03:59 +0000

Nailed it Doug. Mitt shouldn’t have left this to fester. It only makes us wonder what happened before 2010. And if he can’t disclose something as silly as a tax return, what kind of transparency can we expect from an Administration run by him?

And shame on his campaign. Hard to believe the best political hucksters money can buy just sat around and decided to let this ride. Doh!