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The GOP Establishment Couldn't be More Wrong on Romney's Tax Returns
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | July 18, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 07/18/2012 12:00:31 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/18/2012 12:00:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
If Rush were running for office I'd like to know about his tax filings.

Doesn't matter why either. Fact is a dude running for public office is asking me for my vote. I don't just give it away!

If he's running for President he will have the privilege of calling up IRS and asking for my last lebenteengazillion tax filings and looking them over. It's a simple courtesy to inform us before hand.

Or, if he thinks that is just wrong, then he can go get another job or something.

There's nothing personal in this either. If Jesus were running for President I'd want to see his tax files.

2 posted on 07/18/2012 12:11:49 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin

>>We’re in a war here with no rules. We’re in a political war with no rules, where truth and being reasonable and taking the high road doesn’t get you anything, with the other side. Taking the high road and trying to reason with these people is not gonna get their respect.

I’ve been saying this since 2000. We need to get down in the mud with these progressives, choke ‘em out, and kick ‘em in the nutz every chance we get. They wrote the rules. Its time they started being on the receiving end. Being “respectful” when fighting a rabid enemy is not a good strategy.


3 posted on 07/18/2012 12:11:53 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Kaslin

Absolutely right.

Don’t lose our leverage, until Zer0 rescinds his EO sequestering all his past records. We don’t want Zer0 to release more records, we want the schools, Soc Sec, DOD, Hawaii, to have the ability to release real records untouched (up) by Zer0 and his crooks.

After Zer0 opens his kimona, Romney will release his older tax returns.


4 posted on 07/18/2012 12:13:00 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Noob1999

How can Obama’s lack of transparency be an issue
when Milt Romnety shows the same problem.

JUST LIKE TARP.

JUST LIKE OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE.

It is idiotic not to release and demand that Obama follow
the same with HIS records (except Romney protects him, too).


5 posted on 07/18/2012 12:14:52 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Bryanw92

Romney’s father started the deal of revealing tax returns.


6 posted on 07/18/2012 12:16:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin; All
George Will, Bill Kristol, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan, David
Brooks, and many of the NROL “intellectuals” are among the over-educated nitwits who gave us Obama in the first place. Now they're telling Romney what to do to keep him. It's just like Bill Bennet in 2000 telling George Bush to answer all questions about his (Bush's) alleged cocaine use. Instead, Bush did the right thing and said he'd only answer direct allegations, thereby killing the whole issue.

Romney's in a far better position that Bush. He can and should say he'll reveal his tax returns if, and only if, Obama reveals all of his heretofore hidden academic, Illinois bar, medical, immigration, and legislative records, and drops the stonewall on the Fast and Furious subpoenas, revealing all of those records. That will force the media either to carry the issue back to Obama or drop it. If the MSM and Obama don't drop the tax return demands, then Obama will have a really hard time explaining why he won't release the records Romney has demanded.

7 posted on 07/18/2012 12:24:23 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: muawiyah

I agree.

Also, there are a LOT of undecideds and independents, and this *WILL* matter to them.

A person who can’t be honest and competent WRT their taxes does not deserve to be president.

But then I fear Willard more than Obama in some ways; with Obama we conservatives are not going to let our guard down, with Willard the crucial few RINOs have cover for things like taxes and supreme court votes. Just my .02


8 posted on 07/18/2012 12:27:07 PM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: muawiyah
Romney should release his old tax returns and other similar products, college records. Do this at a press conference, and calling on Obama to release all of his records from his past, college, visa, etc. It would be a nice coup.

If not, the media will drag this out.

9 posted on 07/18/2012 12:32:21 PM PDT by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: muawiyah

IF he releases, not saying he should, he should release to an independent3rd party and then issue the challenge to Obummer - release your school applications, transcripts, etc and then, when verified, my tax returns will be released


10 posted on 07/18/2012 12:33:19 PM PDT by jupiterbob
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To: Theoria

Not just the media. Guy has enough money to have had his taxes filed correctly. If he screwed up .................... well, let’s just say that shows he’s not a wise steward.


11 posted on 07/18/2012 12:35:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Diogenesis
Good point. Why is it Romney is now covering up for Obama on things we probably ought to know.

Just how bad is it over there in Obamaland? What did he do? Who is he really?

And, again, why is Romney running cover for him?

12 posted on 07/18/2012 12:38:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I don’t care who started it. The enemy is Obama and his legions of braindead zombies. You don’t let the enemy choose the battleground, and the weapons, and let him fight dirty while you politely stand in a corner waiting for the bell. This isn’t an election. This is the political maneuvering that preceeds a civil war. If Romney doesn’t win and then betray us, we’ll never be able to admit that the entire government and two-party system is the enemy of the Constitution and a sizable portion of the people will continue to fool themselves into believing that things will get better if “our” party wins.


13 posted on 07/18/2012 1:01:36 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92

Mitt Romney 2003-2007 = No Government check and 10% tything plus others.
Barack Obama 2003-2007 = Government check for voting present. Bupkis for charity

They want Mitt’s returns because they want to make Foreign Investments sound like a felony.


14 posted on 07/18/2012 1:11:54 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: muawiyah
Our country is going off of a cliff and you are worried about some offshore accounts that are in a BLIND TRUST!!

FOOLISH to the MAX....or did you fall for the "FELON" lie??? A BIG LIE is easier to be;iev than a small one if one has a small mind.

15 posted on 07/18/2012 1:13:59 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: massgopguy
They want Mitt’s returns because they want to make Foreign Investments sound like a felony.

No, it's even more innocuous than that. They want to make it about "rich people things" like horses. They really don't care about potential tax issues, they want to poke at the lifestyle.

Just like the Obamabots here.

16 posted on 07/18/2012 2:17:53 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: Noob1999

Rush says, “I love these guys. This is really hard. National Review was crucially important to my conservative education. As you all know, one of the biggest thrills of my life was to have been able to meet William F. Buckley Jr. And sometimes they do things over there that I just don’t understand, and yesterday they had this big editorial where they join the chorus with the Democrats demanding that Romney release all of his tax returns back to the day he was born, probably before.”

Rush, I hate to break it to you, but Buckley died about 5 years ago. Rush, today’s National Review wouldn’t do much to educate you in conservativism. It might educate you on how to capitulate.


17 posted on 07/18/2012 2:20:18 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative (Kyle Smith)
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To: Ann Archy
His own father thought a candidate for President should reveal everything.

Who am I to step between a man and his dad.

18 posted on 07/18/2012 2:22:02 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Hey Bub....we weren’t ready to go over a CLIFF then, now WERE we???? Foolish people look at bright shiny objects when the BOMB is ready to hit us!!


19 posted on 07/18/2012 2:35:13 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
You are insulting Romney's father.

Besides that you are forgetting what it was like 40 years back living constantly in the shadow of the Soviet Threat to rain nuclear missiles down all of us.

Even then the candidates were revealing their taxes.

Now, final hit on your thesis ~ Geithner ~ he fessed up, and we found out what a bunch of dunderheads Obama had recruited. We need to have some idea that Romney is better at this ~ no sense going from a President with gold brickers to a gold bricking President!

20 posted on 07/18/2012 2:42:37 PM PDT by muawiyah
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