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kpete

(71,900 posts)
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:44 AM Aug 2012

Reince Priebus: Harry Reid Is A 'Dirty Liar' (Repukes just a little worried?)

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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus waded into the Harry Reid-Mitt Romney tax drama on Sunday, calling the Senate majority leader a "dirty liar" for his accusation that Romney didn't pay any taxes for a decade.

"As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road. I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar," Priebus told ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos. "If that’s on the agenda, I’m not going go there. This is just a made-up issue."

"You're saying youre not going to go down that road?" Stephanopoulos responded. "You just called him a dirty liar. You stand by that -- you think Harry Reid is a dirty liar?"

"I just said it," Priebus said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/reince-priebus-harry-reid_n_1743825.html?utm_hp_ref=mitt-romney

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Reince Priebus: Harry Reid Is A 'Dirty Liar' (Repukes just a little worried?) (Original Post) kpete Aug 2012 OP
Repubs REALLY shouldn't talk about "liars" . It just reminds everyone annabanana Aug 2012 #1
Or about Nixon (and Ron Nessen's coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #4
Hopefully, Romney's whopper about military voting backfires badly on him. Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2012 #13
IOW Botany Aug 2012 #2
How does he know that? kentuck Aug 2012 #3
He's just projecting. GoCubsGo Aug 2012 #7
Yes... CJCRANE Aug 2012 #9
I don't think any Republican has seen Romney's returns... kentuck Aug 2012 #20
Romney OWNS the "dirty liar" tag Jessy169 Aug 2012 #30
They can't process reality, they only know what is in their heads. siligut Aug 2012 #45
I think they go off the assumption that Willard pays taxes on gas, shoes, etc. Kurovski Aug 2012 #27
Yup. stevedeshazer Aug 2012 #65
Howdy, Steve! Kurovski Aug 2012 #66
We're Thinking Alike DallasNE Aug 2012 #59
That's hilarious! Tell Mitt to release his tax returns, and PROVE that Harry is a MADem Aug 2012 #5
He's a jerk! A REAL poopie head! Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #6
Wow, that's catty! CJCRANE Aug 2012 #8
Bwaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha malaise Aug 2012 #10
By god you're right, mr. penis, Harry Reid IS a dirty liar -and you know how to prove it? tularetom Aug 2012 #11
hahahahaha. . good! . . .n/t annabanana Aug 2012 #15
Hee hee! Canuckistanian Aug 2012 #24
Priebus I expect to be an idiot, but Stephanpolous pissed me off royally. Skidmore Aug 2012 #12
Trying to change the argument from Reid v Romney to Priebus v Reid Motown_Johnny Aug 2012 #14
Priebus doesn't have a good record of telling the truth. LiberalFighter Aug 2012 #16
'I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar' meaning he can't provide the returns, either! freshwest Aug 2012 #17
8/27/12 - 8/30/12 siligut Aug 2012 #43
I wonder if the men behind the curtain, the brothers Koch will make an apperance. freshwest Aug 2012 #54
That is the gist of it, they are being conned siligut Aug 2012 #67
Let me ProSense Aug 2012 #18
Well, to lie is Mitt... freshwest Aug 2012 #68
Show us the last 10 years of your taxes... penndragon69 Aug 2012 #19
+1 Faygo Kid Aug 2012 #21
He knows that his boy is a felon. zellie Aug 2012 #22
So release the tax forms, like every other candidate does. *shrug* Marr Aug 2012 #23
Harry Reid needs only a two-word response to that. Brigid Aug 2012 #25
McCain hasn't stepped up to defend Romney. tdb63 Aug 2012 #26
McCain defended Mittens on tax returns the same night he compared him to Submariner Aug 2012 #28
Not Really DallasNE Aug 2012 #60
Nor as far as I know has Romney denied it himself. n/t A Simple Game Aug 2012 #31
Romney is relying on Reagan's 11th Commandment... kentuck Aug 2012 #33
neither have donquijoterocket Aug 2012 #62
They have to keep ratcheting up the heated rhetoric cause they got nuthin else nt BootinUp Aug 2012 #29
Reincelstiltskin!! Jumping through the floor MjolnirTime Aug 2012 #32
Please repeat after me ... bayareaboy Aug 2012 #34
Rinse Previously, puts on his hip boots because he knows its deep... Historic NY Aug 2012 #35
Dirty Harry sez "Make my day". n/t flamingdem Aug 2012 #36
I've got two words for you, Priebus: neeksgeek Aug 2012 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author AlbertCat Aug 2012 #38
SOME PEOPLE SAY..... AlbertCat Aug 2012 #39
Hey, Rinse Penis--then PROVE it. Arkana Aug 2012 #40
ROFL SoapBox Aug 2012 #49
The name Reince Priebus The Wizard Aug 2012 #41
Priebus is a dirty liar if he can't support calling Reid one gulliver Aug 2012 #42
Priebus we know Romney paid taxes..............we all pay them Smilo Aug 2012 #44
says someone who will never have to account for lying about the supposed lie. Festivito Aug 2012 #46
But the brilliance is that Harry Reid...DIDN'T say that. alphafemale Aug 2012 #47
Isn't the simple follow up question, how do you know he is lying Johonny Aug 2012 #48
Can you JUST imagine, if this was reversed??? SoapBox Aug 2012 #50
Well would ya look at that ProfessionalLeftist Aug 2012 #51
Harry Reid is no dummy vlyons Aug 2012 #52
The A-holes sure don't like it aint_no_life_nowhere Aug 2012 #53
Hey reincie, prove it xxqqqzme Aug 2012 #55
Prove that it's a lie, Reince Priebus. JDPriestly Aug 2012 #56
prove it reince....release the tax returns, romney spanone Aug 2012 #57
You know how to prove it Aerows Aug 2012 #58
If they get to question the legality of Obama's birth certificate... Initech Aug 2012 #61
What Goes Around Comes Around DallasNE Aug 2012 #64
So he knows exactly what's in Romney's tax returns? Kablooie Aug 2012 #63

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
1. Repubs REALLY shouldn't talk about "liars" . It just reminds everyone
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:46 AM
Aug 2012

how badly Romney lies.. (and how often.)

Botany

(70,291 posts)
2. IOW
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:47 AM
Aug 2012

Last edited Sun Aug 5, 2012, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)

I can't talk about Mitt's problems so I will talk about Harry Reid.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
3. How does he know that?
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:48 AM
Aug 2012

He says that with such authority. Has he seen Mitt Romney's returns? Otherwise, he is talking out of his ass. Have you seen his returns, Mr. Priebus? I will ask you since I doubt very much that the reporter would ask you such a simple question.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
7. He's just projecting.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:54 AM
Aug 2012

You know how republicans like to project their own faults and misdeeds on others. And, I'm sure he has seen Mitt the Twit's tax returns. That's why he's trying to deflect this whole thing onto Harry Reid.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
9. Yes...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:56 AM
Aug 2012

I always think it's projection when people use that kind of physical language, it's often an expression of conservative self-loathing IMO.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
20. I don't think any Republican has seen Romney's returns...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:22 AM
Aug 2012

And I don't think he showed them to John McCain in the last election either. I haven't heard McCain say anything about how many years of returns he had seen??

Jessy169

(602 posts)
30. Romney OWNS the "dirty liar" tag
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:56 AM
Aug 2012

My first and only impression when reading this post was, here go the Republicans again, projecting their own faults onto others -- Harry Reid in this case. But you beat me to it... No problem -- fact is, Romney and the Republicans have the "dirty (rotton) liar" act perfected. Pathetic.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
45. They can't process reality, they only know what is in their heads.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:59 PM
Aug 2012

That the truth exists or that any politicians actually want to do what they are elected for is beyond these guys.

"I think this president has a problem with the American dream," Priebus said. "That he would trot out Harry Reid and try to divide this country and spread this division and hatred, it's ridiculous, it's wrong, it's untrue."


We know you are, but what are we?

Kurovski

(34,655 posts)
27. I think they go off the assumption that Willard pays taxes on gas, shoes, etc.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:47 AM
Aug 2012

In my experience those are the ways people say the things they do with a straight face, how they convince themselves they aren't filthy little turd-eating dirtbags themselves.

DallasNE

(7,392 posts)
59. We're Thinking Alike
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:56 PM
Aug 2012

Here is what I posted on Thinkprogress on this interview.

This clown has not seen Romney's tax returns so he is in no position to make such rotten charges. Besides, when someone stoops this low it is usually an attempt to cover up the fact that the story has a great deal of merit. Note that Romney has only said that he has paid lots of taxes every year but stopped short of saying he paid lots of income taxes. Besides, Romney has a history of tax issues. He has been audited a number of times and he had to re-file his 1999 and 2000 Massachusetts income taxes to change his status from non-resident to resident in order to be eligible to run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002 so we know that Romney has tax issues; we just don't know the extent of those tax issues. To date Romney has not release a complete set of federal tax returns for any single year. Some required forms were not included in the data he released for 2010 involving his Swiss bank account. Romney needs to come clean rather than have his people calling others a "dirty liar" when there is no proof to support that smear. Romney needs to man up and stop whining too because his side is responsible for far more of the stuff he claims than is the other side and this attack is exhibit A.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
5. That's hilarious! Tell Mitt to release his tax returns, and PROVE that Harry is a
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:52 AM
Aug 2012

dirty liar...!!!

Waaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

Rinse Weewee is having a melt-down, it would appear!

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
8. Wow, that's catty!
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:54 AM
Aug 2012

What is this, a schoolyard slanging match?

I can just imagine Priebus pouting as he said it.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
11. By god you're right, mr. penis, Harry Reid IS a dirty liar -and you know how to prove it?
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:58 AM
Aug 2012

Get romney to release those tax returns. That'll show that dirty liar Harry Reid.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
12. Priebus I expect to be an idiot, but Stephanpolous pissed me off royally.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:59 AM
Aug 2012

That man sits there and consistently hammers on the President and never once did he ask Priebus or any other rightwing representatve on that program about why it is okay to give Congress a pass on how they have not worked over the past few years. Also, is Jonathan Karl on Romney's payroll as a spokesperson? Senior Political Correspondent, my hiney.

LiberalFighter

(50,496 posts)
16. Priebus doesn't have a good record of telling the truth.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:08 AM
Aug 2012

I'm wondering if Priebus had any income that he didn't pay any taxes and how much it was.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
17. 'I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar' meaning he can't provide the returns, either!
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:11 AM
Aug 2012

Tricky Mitt hasn't even been nominated in the GOP convention yet...

When is the insane clown posse circus in Tampa going to start, anyway?

Next week?

siligut

(12,272 posts)
43. 8/27/12 - 8/30/12
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:52 PM
Aug 2012

In Tampa. Can't wait, between Ron Paul and Mitt's Gaffes, lies and taxes, it should be a riot.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
54. I wonder if the men behind the curtain, the brothers Koch will make an apperance.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:32 PM
Aug 2012

Maybe even Grover will come over LOL.

Since the Koches fund the standard GOP. and more directly, their driftnet to catch their opposition within the GOP, the Koch-owned Libertarian Teahajdists and their former candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket, Ron Paul, this might ignite an fission reaction inside the convention.

If the Paulbots ever realize they've been played by the Koch brothers with their corporate money, as founders of the John Birch Society, and have been co-opted by Alex Jones with the Liberty & Freedom Patriot conspiracy theorist, they've lost their 'Revolution.'

If the Teahajdists realize their Tea Party Express is run by the same Libertarian corporatists who took their jobs, brought in illegal immigrants, fight against their having a job with low-paid visa imported workers, and outsourced their work with the US Chamber of Commerce, taking in foreign, non-patriot, anti-American big money, it'll be an implosion of epic proportions.

Please, Lord, please, let it all come out!


They might even bring in the guillotine themselves if they see their heroes in a different light as Thom Hartmann details here:

Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned


Multigenerational political influence by a very narrow special interest group is rare, but we're seeing it played out right now in front of us. A billionaire family - the Kochs - have gone from influencing my father's generation, to my generation, to my kids' generation - and very few Americans realize it. Daddy Koch - Fred - made his first millions palling around with Joe Stalin in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. As the fascists rose to power in Europe in the 1930s, he was an enthusiastic supporter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who invented the word "fascist," meaning essentially the takeover of democratic governments by big business interests. Mussolini went so far as to dissolve the Italian parliament, and replace elected politicians with representatives of each district's largest corporations. Fred Koch and Mussolini both particularly hated the trade unionists and their sometimes allies, the communists. So after Mussolini, along with his ally Hitler, lost World War II against America, Fred Koch brought the anti-communist pro-business-running-goverment - what some would call "facist" - torch to America big time, helping start the John Birch Society.

Two of their biggest efforts are pretty well known. After the Supreme Court ruled, in 1954, in the Brown versus Board of Education case, that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, the John Birch Society put up billboards all across America calling for the impeachment of the Chief Justice of the Court, Earl Warren. Daddy Fred Koch was very concerned about the integration of our schools - in fact, he wrote, "The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America." With JFK's election, Fred Koch's John Birch Society went off again - this time against JFK. Using rhetoric not that different from the "secret Muslim" plots the Tea Party promotes about Obama, in a 1963 speech Fred said that " infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the President is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.”

When JFK was scheduled to come to Dallas that year, the JBS distributed flyers saying, "Wanted, for Treason" all around the town two days before his arrival. On the day JFK was assassinated, large ads ran in the Dallas newspapers attacking Kennedy as being soft on Castro, among other things. That was my dad's generation. Daddy Koch died, and his sons Charles and David took over the family business of promoting the business and billionaire takeover of our American government.

They're doing it with a two-pronged attack. For people over forty, they're funding the Tea Party through a variety of groups, most notably Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks. And for people under forty, they're funding Libertarian think tanks, like the Charles Koch Foundation (which was renamed as the Cato Institute), and the Reason Foundation, where David Koch is a trustee, which happily embraces a new generation of young people with the idea that "freedom" means the "freedom" to buy politicians and the "freedom" to pollute. For the young people, of course, the Libertarians throw in the "freedom" to smoke dope and hire a hooker, but those are just bones being cynically tossed to young potheads and young protoge's of Dick Morris.

But the Koch's have been inside the Libertarian movement from its beginning - 32 years ago this year, David Koch was the Libertarian Party's official candidate for Vice President of the United States. It's really pretty incredible, but it's all true. The main agenda of the Koch's John Birch Society was to enhance the power and control of our government by big business and billionaires, while fighting organized labor and people like me who were protesting the Vietnam War. The main agenda of the Koch's Tea Party is to get millionaires elected to Congress and have them cut taxes and regulations for Koch Industries and other polluting corporations, while fighting organized labor and people like me who were protesting the Iraq War.

And the main agenda of the Koch's Libertarians - again, funded and trained by the Koch Brothers - is to keep intact the power of big money over our government, cut taxes and regulations on billionaires and polluting industries, while fighting organized labor and people like me who are protesting the corporate takeover of the United States of America. Three generations of Americans, all duped by the same billionaire family. Three generations buying into the idea that "what's best for industry and billionaires is best for America" - and that government is our "enemy" rather than something that our nation's founders fought and died to create for all of "We The People" And, increasingly, it's not just the Koch family. The Walton family - whose combined wealth is greater than 40 percent of all Americans - funded a covert campaign to rename the estate tax as the "death tax" and lobbied so hard they got the estate tax eliminated entirely in 2010.

Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out yesterday that - so far - we know of 26 billionaires - worth over $146 billion - who have already "invested" or committed to invest over $561 million dollars in this election cycle - most of it to defeat Democrats who want to raise their taxes. The good news is that young people are waking up and realizing that the Libertarian hustle the billionaires are feeding them is just that - a hustle. Just like Tea Partiers are waking up to their having been had by billionaires who want to privatize their Social Security. Hopefully, soon, America will regain its sanity and we'll go back to viewing cranky billionaires the way my Dad's generation did - as Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower did - when Eisenhower referred to their ilk as "small in number and stupid" They're not stupid any more, and if we really value American traditions, we really must push back on this kind of power and influence in American politics. Go to move to amend.org.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/101744227

I do hope Thom will be able to cover the convention and bring this information to bear. Until then, the GOP lurkers can read DU and weep bitter tears over having been so thoroughly conned.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
67. That is the gist of it, they are being conned
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 07:06 PM
Aug 2012

Thank you for a very informative post. I agree, some very sophisticated manipulation is being perpetrated against the interests of the American people. And the people who are being used to the ends of these manipulators will have hurt themselves as well, imagine the pain to the spirit when and if that is finally realized.

What Hartman says is spot-on. These groups are thrown bones that meet their heart's delight, while the rest of the plan is blurred over with a rosy glow.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
18. Let me
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:12 AM
Aug 2012

get this straight.

RNC PR BS is calling Reid a "dirty liar" the day after Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for President, used military service members as props in a despicable lie: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021074034

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
23. So release the tax forms, like every other candidate does. *shrug*
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:28 AM
Aug 2012

I don't get it. If Reid is a liar, why not prove it, publicly, by just meeting that minimum requirement that no other presidential candidate in recent years has had a problem with?

tdb63

(73 posts)
26. McCain hasn't stepped up to defend Romney.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:37 AM
Aug 2012

The fact that McCain has seen the returns and hasn't stepped up to defend Mitt is telling. McCain would not stand by and let someone be smeared if he knew different. Plus, Romney hasn't said, "ask MCCain, he knows the truth." Very telling.

DallasNE

(7,392 posts)
60. Not Really
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:02 PM
Aug 2012

McCain only said that there was nothing in Romney's tax returns to "disqualify" him as VP. That bar is set so low that even legally paying no federal income taxes for several years would not disqualify him; only be an albatross on the campaign.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
33. Romney is relying on Reagan's 11th Commandment...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:12 PM
Aug 2012

Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. McCain knows a lot. He could tell.

donquijoterocket

(488 posts)
62. neither have
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:04 PM
Aug 2012

Very many other of the Republican loud voices. the most you'll hear is a halfhearted attack on Harry Reid, but virtually never a positive defense of the Mittster and his obscurantism on his tax situation. They know they've got nothing and a nothing presumptive candidate as well. McCain would stand by if he thought doing anything else might cost him an iota of the political capital he thinks he's got built up on his maverick, man of integrity, war hero reputation. Look no further than his reaction, or lack thereof, when Bush/Rove attacked him through his adopted daughter in the South Carolina primary 2000. Been me I'd have looked one of the two up preferably Rove and gelded them.

bayareaboy

(793 posts)
34. Please repeat after me ...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:17 PM
Aug 2012

All RePUGs lie if they have to

Some lie just for the sport of a lie if it is good or bad tale. they don't care.

Rinse Penis and Mit Man are two of the big liars in American History!

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
35. Rinse Previously, puts on his hip boots because he knows its deep...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:18 PM
Aug 2012

Why don't you prove Harry Reid is a liar instead of calling him one...why because you can't. You can't even assert that you were shown Romney's returns.

Response to kpete (Original post)

The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
41. The name Reince Priebus
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:34 PM
Aug 2012

was taken from a concentration camp guard. Some say Reince Priebus has no birth certificate from any government agency and is possibly an alien from Remulak or Tralfamadore. What is Reince Priebus hiding? The American people have the right to know if Reince Priebus is human or if Reince Priebus is named after a concentration camp guard. Reince Priebus must show the American people his papers. If Reince Priebus can't produce his papers he must be deported.

gulliver

(13,142 posts)
42. Priebus is a dirty liar if he can't support calling Reid one
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:37 PM
Aug 2012

Priebus didn't say he had proof. He didn't say he "thought" Reid was a liar. Priebus directly called Reid a liar, apparently out of thin air. Stephenopoulos blew it by not making Priebus back up his name calling then and there.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
44. Priebus we know Romney paid taxes..............we all pay them
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:57 PM
Aug 2012

but did Romney pay any income taxes? That is the real question and one we want answering.

As for insulting Harry Reid - it seems to be the cry on the right to call anyone, who gets close to the truth, a liar.

If Romney is not hiding something, then he will have no problem in showing us his income taxes - right Priebus?

Festivito

(13,452 posts)
46. says someone who will never have to account for lying about the supposed lie.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:00 PM
Aug 2012

Harry said: "THE WORD IS OUT" Romney paid no taxes.

Oh, Rm might have paid some SS and MCare taxes. It would be INACCURATE to say he paid none.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
47. But the brilliance is that Harry Reid...DIDN'T say that.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:02 PM
Aug 2012

He said that he was TOLD this.

Using that FOX News tactic of Some People Say.

Also playing off the idiocy they were using of the Birth Certificate. Well played Harry Well played.

Johonny

(20,683 posts)
48. Isn't the simple follow up question, how do you know he is lying
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:09 PM
Aug 2012

have you seen the returns?

Sunday political shows have been reduced to school yard name calling. Why watch them?

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
50. Can you JUST imagine, if this was reversed???
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:17 PM
Aug 2012

...if Harry called "Rinse Penis" (I just love that name for him!) a dirty little liar?

OH...the outrage!

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
52. Harry Reid is no dummy
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:17 PM
Aug 2012

It's my observation that a) he's a quiet soft spoken man, b) he can count votes, c) that if he didn't have the facts, he's way to careful to go out on a dangerous no-win tree limb, d) he knows a thing or 2 about politics. Release the tax returns already!

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
53. The A-holes sure don't like it
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:21 PM
Aug 2012

CNN was up in arms this morning over Harry Reid but not about Romney's stonewalling. I'm loving it and CNN can go fuck themselves with a rusty piece of barbed wire.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
56. Prove that it's a lie, Reince Priebus.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:36 PM
Aug 2012

Let us, the people, look at the Romney's tax returns. It's simple. Or did he not even bother to file?????

What is Romney hiding?

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
58. You know how to prove it
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 01:49 PM
Aug 2012

Release the tax records. Then we can all collectively flame Harry Reid.

I'll be the first in line if they show that Romney paid a normal amount of taxes every year for ten years.

Of course, if you have a $100 million IRA, nobody in their right mind believes you paid adequate taxes and kept your returns legitimate.

I don't have to see the returns to know that with a 100 million dollar IRA Romney cheated the system, and likely broke the law.

Only a dumbass would believe that he got that huge of a return in an account that can only allow $6000 a year to bloom into 100,000,000 legitimately. Yes, that many zeroes, and the man hasn't been investing for more than 35 years in it, and before, the allowance for investment were far lower.

It would take a complete ignoramus that hasn't invested in their life to think that you can do these things under the tax code without documentation - and without getting caught. Mitt Romney has gotten caught on this fact alone, and the longer the delay of the tax records, the more he hangs himself with questions about the IRA.

Initech

(99,913 posts)
61. If they get to question the legality of Obama's birth certificate...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:03 PM
Aug 2012

We get to do the same for Mitt Romney's tax returns. They're imploding, and it's gonna be fun to watch.

DallasNE

(7,392 posts)
64. What Goes Around Comes Around
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:33 PM
Aug 2012

The first thing Obama did was to post a copy of his birth certificate. It turned out to be a certified copy and not the original long form that it was produced from. The Republican Governor of Hawaii would not cooperate with Obama's request for a copy of the long form. When a Democrat was elected Governor there was cooperation and Obama produced the long form birth certificate. That is what transparency looks like.

Fast forward to Romney's federal income tax returns. Just the opposite has happened. I had no issue with Obama being asked to produce a copy of his birth certificate since his father was not an American so it was a legitimate question. Obama had nothing to hide so he cooperated all of the way. Obviously, Romney has something to hide otherwise he would have followed the Obama example and released the data. That is what every other candidate for President has done since the 1970's, including Ross Perot who was much more wealthy than Romney. Just release the damn tax returns Romney, like 21 prominent Republicans have called upon Romney to do.

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