"No one is going to listen to Romney until he comes clean."

[babylonsister]

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/3/164141/1397

A Philosophical Question

by BooMan
Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 at 04:41:41 PM EST

If a tree falls in the forest and Mitt Romney still hasn't released his tax returns, does it make a sound? Is there any message at all that Romney can communicate until he stops the din of people braying for his tax returns? The charge is "out there." For ten years, Mitt Romney paid nothing at all in taxes. If it isn't true, then Romney has the easiest slam-dunk in history. He can make Harry Reid look like either a gullible fool or a complete liar. How could an honest Republican politician pass up such a golden opportunity to defend his honor while blasting the reputation of one of Washington's most powerful Democrats? What is in those tax returns that is so damaging to Romney's chances that he'd saddle himself with this controversy rather than humiliating his accusers?

Pretty soon, Romney is going to announce his running mate. We'll chew that over for 72 hours or so, and then we'll go right back to asking Romney to release his tax returns. We'll want to know how many years of tax returns Romney saw from his running mate and why we can't see those, too. Romney gave 23 years of tax returns to John McCain. And McCain chose Palin.

No one is going to listen to Romney until he comes clean.

[MADem]

1. Powerful statement, worth repeating early and OFTEN! nt

[HubertHeaver]

2. Do any of the potential running mates really want to be tainted by Romney?

[KaryninMiami]

4. Absolutely. They can still win.

Many still believe this will all eventually "blow over" and after a nice lift following the VP announcement, things will be back to campaign as usual. And they are all counting on the mult-million+++ unlimited funds that will soon be unleashed against Obama which I'm sure they are confident will swing everything back their way.

And don't think for a minute they are not convinced they can win this- and frankly, they still can.

[gateley]

7. He got away with it in MA, he feels he can get away with it now. And he's probably right. :-( nt

[w4rma]

3. Why would the results of releasing his tax returns result in Reid

being *either* a complete liar or a gullible fool? If Romney releases his tax returns, then it will be *because* Reid forced him to have to do it.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Methinks you missed the "if" component of the statement...

IF Romney has nothing to hide, then releasing his tax returns would make Reid look like a fool/partisan liar...whatever.

Really, really big if there.

[annabanana]

6. Bingo Bango Bongo! . "How could an honest Republican politician pass up such a golden opportunity"

Indeed! You don't have to have been paying attention to know this is the case. Every fiber in every Repub body KNOWS that if Romney had the goods he'd throw them out there and destroy Harry.

[yourout]

8. Very simple.....he can't release them. It would be worse than not winning the Election.

#1. Releasing them would all but guarantee defeat.

#2. Releasing them would do untold damage to every Republican talking point relative to taxation. People would actually start seeing how badly the system is gamed to the rich and could leave the Dems in power for the next 20 years.

He may amend his returns and fork over a bunch of money in hopes he can cover his ass but....

....we will NEVER see the actual returns he has filed as of today.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Couldn't agree more!