Romney Is Screwing Up On Taxes Again, Says Former Bush White House Speechwriter

[Tx4obama]

Marc Thiessen, a former White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush, wrote in his column Monday that Mitt Romney is giving the Obama campaign ammunition for their "secrecy" attacks on him by not releasing tax returns prior to 2010.

"Whatever is in his earlier tax returns, Romney is better off releasing them and enduring some more bad press than giving Team Obama more fodder for its 'what is Mitt hiding' campaign," Thiessen wrote in the Washington Post.

"On taxes, it is simply inexplicable why the Romney campaign still cannot get a handle on an issue they should have seen coming years ago. Did they learn nothing from the tax-return debacle he went through during the South Carolina primary? Romney had a double-digit lead until he fumbled the tax issue in not one, but two, Republican debates. His evasive answers, and refusal to commit to releasing his returns, drew boos from the GOP crowd and helped Newt Gingrich win an upset victory."

"Even Republicans are starting to ask: What could possibly be in his old tax returns that is worse than creating the impression he has something to hide?"

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/romney-taxes-bush-white-house_n_1429647.html?ref=politics

[Mutiny In Heaven]

1. Well

One suspects that the returns are toxic.

There's really no other reason for his evasiveness, unless he bizarrely expects to get some kind of boost for releasing them late, having paid a proper amount of tax.

Surely he cannot be that foolish.