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Harry Reid: Some Bain investor who I won’t name told me Romney didn’t pay income taxes for 10 years
Hotair ^ | 07/31/2012 | AllahPundit

Posted on 07/31/2012 1:57:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Sounds solid. Mitt Romney, who's been running for political office for 20 years now, decided he'd gamble those prospects and risk time in a federal pen for tax evasion in order to save a few million dollars that he doesn't need.

And he made this decision year after year, for 10 years.

By the way, some random guy on the Internet told me Obama was born in Kenya. Now, do I know that's true? Well, I'm not certain. But let me just toss it out there.

"His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son," Reid said, in reference to George Romney's standard-setting decision to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in the late 1960s.

Saying he had "no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy," Reid sat up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further. A month or so ago, he said, a person who had invested with Bain Capital called his office.

“Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years,” Reid recounted the person as saying.

“He didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” said Reid. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?

“You guys have said his wealth is $250 million,” Reid went on. “Not a chance in the world. It’s a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don’t pay taxes for 10 years when you’re making millions and millions of dollars.”

No surprise that Reid would smear Romney so casually. He specializes in these tactics during presidential campaigns. In 2008, he made more noise about McCain’s temper being a sign of possible derangement than any other major Democrat. (He also insisted that he couldn’t stand McCain as part and parcel of the demonization effort, even though the two had been known to socialize.) He’s an unusually nasty character, even by normal political standards, when he wants to be; gratuitously accusing George Romney of being disappointed in his son is simply S.O.P. But he does have a strategy here: Pull an accusation of criminality straight out of his ass and hope it gets enough media play that Romney feels obliged to respond. Either Mitt will start to sweat and release his returns, as Democrats have demanded, in order to disprove Reid’s charge or he’ll sit tight and the smear will circulate online, with Romney’s refusal to disclose the documents taken as “proof” that Reid is right. In that respect, it’s not that different from Birtherism. It just so happens that you’ve got the Senate majority leader pushing this, not some commenter at dKos or wherever.

Exit question via Philip Klein: “How would ‘a person who had invested with Bain Capital’ know about Romney’s personal tax returns anyway?”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; bain; fakebutaccurate; harryreid; revisionisthistory; romney; smearcampaign; taxes
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone told me that Reid had a brain MR and it revealed enlarged ventricles and brain shrinkage consistent with dementia. Release the MR results!


41 posted on 07/31/2012 2:38:56 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est; zero sera dans l'enfer bientot.)
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To: SeekAndFind
And Joe Conforte says we should look at your finances, Harry. Shall we delve into that relationship?
42 posted on 07/31/2012 2:40:21 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: TexasCajun; grainbelt

That’s the only post brainbelch has ever made. You know you’re over the target when the libtards start squealing :)


43 posted on 07/31/2012 2:43:15 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: grainbelt
this is reminiscent of another crazed witch hunt....any birthers here? “why doesn’t he just show us the physical birth certificate?!?” “what is he hiding??” “he must be from kenya!!”

grainbelt Since Jul 21, 2012

Welcome to FR. Please tell us about yourself.

I smell ozone.
44 posted on 07/31/2012 2:44:01 PM PDT by PA Engineer ("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
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To: grainbelt

watch out for the kitties....


45 posted on 07/31/2012 2:44:16 PM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Romney should ignore Reid's attempt to change the subject from Obama's failures to Romney's income taxes or just laugh off the stupid attempt to smear him with vague and totally unsubstantiated allegations attributed to an unidentified person that most likely only exists in Reid's clouded mind. Few Americans have any love for grumpy old Harry Reid with his lemon-sucking face and his high, reedy voice that sounds like a whine. He would be easy to mock and dismiss by simply pointing out the amorphous quality of Reid's 'informant' and demanding that Reid provide details for his accusation. Romney could also comment that if he had actually avoided paying taxes illegally, the IRS would have found out about it by now. Say it with a smile and a chuckle, a la Reagan. It works.
46 posted on 07/31/2012 2:45:08 PM PDT by Jim Scott (Obama must be defeated)
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To: TexasCajun

Check out the born on date. We may have a lightning rider here.


47 posted on 07/31/2012 2:45:52 PM PDT by PA Engineer ("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
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To: grainbelt

I got a call yesterday from a guy who says you told him Harry Reid roams around at night in women’s underware.


48 posted on 07/31/2012 2:46:12 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: SeekAndFind

Does Harry still beat his wife?


49 posted on 07/31/2012 2:47:16 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: SeekAndFind
I would vote for Romney if he were wanted for murder!!! ABO!!!
I would vote for Al Capone over this knucklehead Obama. If I wanted to live in Cuba I would go their. Why ruin my neighbors lives voting for the Muslim Marxist.
50 posted on 07/31/2012 2:48:28 PM PDT by bramps
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To: SeekAndFind

Harry, according to my sources, you and Nancy had sex and Nancy gave birth to a boy - Debbie Wasserman Schultz.


51 posted on 07/31/2012 2:48:28 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!!)
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To: grainbelt
Noob, Your only post in 10 days and you call the Birther movement a witch hunt?
52 posted on 07/31/2012 2:49:24 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SeekAndFind

The libtard idiocy apparently has no clue to what slander is.... =.=


54 posted on 07/31/2012 2:49:29 PM PDT by cranked
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To: SeekAndFind
There are several sources that say that half of the people in the USA not only do not pay taxes but demand a middle class living off of taxpayers. Did Barry show his tax records for the last 10 years? Has John the traitor kerry shown any tax records?
55 posted on 07/31/2012 2:49:41 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years,” Reid recounted the person as saying.

Hey Harry someone that I can not name told me that you were a prostitute and a dealer in drugs.

Harry can you prove this is not a fact?

56 posted on 07/31/2012 2:50:16 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: SeekAndFind

Actually wouldn’t be surprising to me.

He may well not have taken a salary at Bain, only participating in his share of the investment profits, which would be taxed as capital gains.

Then, he may well have boasted to an investor about that as a demonstration of how he wasn’t taking their money unless he made money for them.

He may well have paid a good chunk of taxes, but at the capital gains rate—sometimes as low as 15%—rather than at the income tax rate that was up to more than twice as high.


57 posted on 07/31/2012 2:54:38 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: grainbelt

underware=underwear

Sorry, my spell checker was set on “tuppers and trolls”.


58 posted on 07/31/2012 2:54:56 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: forgotten man


Soembody who I won’t name told me that Harry Reed had sex with a gerbil.

He and Richard Gere put on Requiem for a Dream and then back up to each other and make a human Habitrail.

Too far?


59 posted on 07/31/2012 2:56:46 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Perdogg
McCain "campaign" or McCain himself?

Last thing we saw on that was about McCain looking at 20 years worth of Romney's tax returns.

60 posted on 07/31/2012 2:57:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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