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‘Don’t Let It Fester’: Romney’s Tax Return Delay Could Bode Badly [six-month extension]
WTMA The Big Talker ^ | April 15, 2012

Posted on 04/15/2012 1:42:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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Ed Gillespie defends Mitt Romney.........."The former Republican National Committee chairman, who recently joined the Romney presidential campaign as a senior adviser, also defended Romney for not releasing decades worth of tax records, saying, “This is a classic attempt by the Obama campaign to try to distract” from more important issues.

“He has complied with all of the disclosure laws; he is going over and above the requirements of the disclosure laws … in releasing two years of tax returns,” Gillespie said.

Gillespie denied reports that he’s heading up Romney’s search committee for a vice presidential nominee.

“I saw that report about my heading up the vice presidential search committee. It was news to me, and I don’t, as far as I know, it’s not accurate,” Gillespie said.".......

1 posted on 04/15/2012 1:42:57 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

How can Obama demand anybody release anything? Where are his college transcripts, etc?


2 posted on 04/15/2012 1:44:29 PM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
When you file for an extension you must pay anything you owe *at that time*...so he's not delaying *payment*.He certainly can release how much he paid.
3 posted on 04/15/2012 1:45:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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“Republicans call Romney tax return squabble a distraction”

....Arizona Sen. John McCain, who endorsed Romney in January, said releasing a decade’s worth of personal tax information wasn’t necessary for a presidential candidate. Democrats often point out Romney disclosed several years of returns to McCain’s own presidential campaign in 2008 during the vice presidential vetting process.

“He gave that to me and it was confidential, and so did a lot of other people,” McCain said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”

“We agreed with everybody we considered that would remain confidential. John Kerry only introduced two years, Mitt Romney did, I did, two years is sufficient. And frankly, I’m not sure that’s the key issue Americans are worried about,” McCain said.

Priebus also pointed to presidential campaigns of the past, saying Romney would eventually follow the same precedent.

“The type of the rigorous financial disclosure requirements when running for president are so expansive and vast that if you were to look at what John Kerry, John McCain, all of these other presidential candidates have revealed, Mitt Romney is going to do the same thing,” Priebus said.....

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/15/republicans-call-romney-tax-return-squabble-a-distraction/

TICK-TOCK....


4 posted on 04/15/2012 1:47:51 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Gay State Conservative

I don’t care how much Mitt makes. I do care that the “most electable” candidate — the businessman — the turnaround king and the “clean” outsider isn’t going to put this out there, allowing it to become a distraction. Like he didn’t KNOW it would be?


5 posted on 04/15/2012 1:51:17 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: bamagirl1944

Yep, need to see his passport, his college thesis, his college records..I want to know what grade he got on Constitution 101.


6 posted on 04/15/2012 1:54:02 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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"...Democrats often point out Romney disclosed several years of returns to McCain’s own presidential campaign in 2008 during the vice presidential vetting process.

“He gave that to me and it was confidential, and so did a lot of other people,” McCain said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”

“We agreed with everybody we considered that would remain confidential. John Kerry only introduced two years, Mitt Romney did, I did, two years is sufficient. And frankly, I’m not sure that’s the key issue Americans are worried about,” McCain said."

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I guess those are the "club" rules -- they can look but we can't.

7 posted on 04/15/2012 1:54:02 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: bamagirl1944

All Romney has to say is that he will release his tax returns when Obama releases his transcripts from college...i guarantee...the demand for tax release will disappear


8 posted on 04/15/2012 1:54:16 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This issue would hurt Romney in a campaign against Obama, no matter how Gillespie, Madden, McCain, and Priebus try to spin it.


9 posted on 04/15/2012 1:54:16 PM PDT by ngat
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To: bamagirl1944

All Romney has to say is that he will release his tax returns when Obama releases his transcripts from college...i guarantee...the demand for tax release will disappear


10 posted on 04/15/2012 1:54:28 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: ngat

Exactly. And we’re supposed to cast our lot with this kind of boneheadedness?


11 posted on 04/15/2012 1:57:09 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: bamagirl1944

Where are his college transcripts, etc?

Where’s the jerk Romney’s transcripts? I never saw them.


12 posted on 04/15/2012 1:59:39 PM PDT by napscoordinator (VOTE FOR NEWT!!!!)
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All Romney has to say is that he will release his tax returns when Obama releases his transcripts from college...i guarantee...the demand for tax release will disappear

No it won't. The media will ignore the transcripts and ask for Mitt's returns and use this photo for emphasis while speculating about off-shore accounts and 14% tax rates.


13 posted on 04/15/2012 2:00:35 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Romney should tell Zero, “I’ll release more tax returns when you release your education records.”


14 posted on 04/15/2012 2:03:01 PM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let’s forget about all of Obama’s past as a private citizen.

Let’s start with his public life only.

When will Obama release records from his 2 years as a Illinois State Senator?

Hillary tried to get them so it’s politically correct and liberally acceptable to ask.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6821.html

Obama records requests prove fruitless

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) dodged questions Sunday about releasing papers from his eight years as an Illinois state senator, and his campaign has not answered records requests from the state’s two largest newspapers.


15 posted on 04/15/2012 2:03:09 PM PDT by KSanders (Hope and Change is now Class and Gender warfare)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He’s rich, we know it.

Almost as much as Kerry is via Kerry’s wife.


16 posted on 04/15/2012 2:11:22 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

We also know Mitt has received 4,595,908 popular votes and Santorum, Gingrich and Paul have a total of 6,684,884 popular votes.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/republican_vote_count.html


17 posted on 04/15/2012 2:16:51 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sadly in this case the popular vote doesn’t matter.


18 posted on 04/15/2012 2:22:46 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

lol

So much for Romney learning lessons.

*sigh*

This is going to be a disaster.


19 posted on 04/15/2012 2:31:39 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Go Newt!)
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To: driftdiver

And it doesn’t matter that Mitt is rich. It matters that his refusal to disclose his tax returns is causing a democrat talking point.


20 posted on 04/15/2012 2:32:11 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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