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

[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?”

[Joe Boucher]

Some police officer in Las Vegas told me that Harry Reid is big time in to the Vegas Mob and that he likes sex with underage boys.
Come onnnn, what kind of crap is this???

[muawiyah]

Few things come between a rich guy and his money except for the IRS, and if you're a Mormon, the church with its hand out expecting that 10% tithe.

Mitt is probably going to learn from this that NOT revealing 12 years of his taxes is going to leave him little time to do so when the Democrats do that just 3 days before the election.

Not enough time for "catch up" explanations ~ and they'll still get that 10%.

[Ann Archy]

Yes, SOME Freepers are IGNORANT and HATE ROMNEY!! WHO in thir right mind would believe ANYTING that Reid said????? NO ONE in their right mind.

[Ann Archy]

Yes, SOME Freepers are IGNORANT and HATE ROMNEY!! WHO in thir right mind would believe ANYTING that Reid said????? NO ONE in their right mind.

[Ann Archy]

right.....and they also told me that Harry is GAY.

[Ann Archy]

right.....and they also told me that Harry is GAY.

[Sea Parrot]

The he/she/it AllahPundit is mad as a mercury sniffing hatter.

[mountainlion]

Thinking you should expand the scope of this abomination is a serious problem and not at all Conservative in essence.
???????

What is wrong with expanding the scope of people in office showing their tax records??

[muawiyah]

YOU SAID: "There are several sources that say that half of the people in the USA not only do not pay taxes"

I responded to you about that.

Now, should Mitt reveal his taxes?

Of course. I have no problem with a that. He wants our votes ~ we want our pound of flesh out of him first! The only question is just how married to his money is he.

[muawiyah]

Some Freepers are very intelligent and find Romney to be deficient in the sort of ethics necessary to make a decent President.

We've already had too many of the other kind so we need a change ~ he ain't it!

[True Grit]

I was thinking more along the lines of a cob and turpentine.

[mountainlion]

I have a bit different point of view. I wonder how RHINO he is.

[Joe 6-pack]

I guy I know told me Harry Reid likes fat little Chinese boys and proctologists with fat hairy knuckles.

[Bender2]

Re: 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.

Then he said, "And, Harry, so help me God... Romney stole a whole hand full of Bain Capital Bic pins. Just put them in his pocket and walked out of the office!"

I was so shocked, I almost missed what he said them. "Listen, Harry, Romney does not... wash his hands after going to the bathroom. He just zips up and leaves!"

Now we all know what a tragedy this is and I shook hands--- This hand... matter of fact, with Romney years ago at the Olympics.

Let me get this straight. Romney doesn't wash after #1 and you shook hands with him? With the hand... you pick your nose with?

The very... exact one!

And there is nothing we can do to punish Romney for such filth... Is there nothing?

Let me... think--

Okay, I got it... We cut off Romney's right hand as it is called for in the Democrat Party edition of the Koran--

Don;t ya just love honest journalism... that gets the story hot off the trail?

[muawiyah]

Whatever ~ listening to Levin this evening he got a call from a lady who said Romney actually approved of the law passed just today that removed 200 executive positions from Senate approval.

Apparently that's one of Mark's hotspots but otherwise he's been a regular knee-jerk MIttbot as far as I've been able to determine.

[null and void]

Hiding his sources and the list?

Wasn’t that a signature Joe McCarthy move?

[null and void]

I heard Reid is a Pedophile.

I have proof he's screwing all our children...

[Qbert]

Flashback: Senator Harry Reid Claims that Paying Taxes is “Voluntary”...

http://voices.yahoo.com/senator-harry-reid-claims-paying-taxes-voluntary-5645656.html

[Kaslin]

They don’t realize that because of their hatred for Governor Romney that they have fallen for the lies of the lamestream media who is pro 0bama and anti Romney