Republican Party Chairman:Americans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Are The New Birthers

[maddezmom]

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus compared the overwhelming majority of Americans — including a growing number of Republicans — calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns to birthers, who sill claim that President Obama was born in Kenya.

“It’s ridiculous,” Priebus said Friday morning on CNN’s Starting Point, when asked to respond to polls showing that 63 percent of the public thinks Romney should release more tax returns. “I’m not spending any more time talking about this issue,” the Chairman informed the hosts, who then pressed him about Donald Trump’s role and the GOP convention.

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[bemildred]

1. I guess name-calling is all they have. nt

[chelsea0011]

2. And watch the media grab onto this new RW talking point

no matter how silly the comparison is.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. "I'm not spending any more time talking about this issue"

That doesn't mean a thing, Rinse.

It is not going away just because you stick your finger in your ears and yell "la-la-la-la-la"

[BeyondGeography]

4. R-False Equvialencies

Just rebrand your piece of crap party already.

[sofa king]

5. The length of the snake still twists...

... not knowing that its head has already been severed.

People, are you registered to vote? Because this is the year we get to break off compassionate conservatism in the Republicans' tailpipes. We'll never get another chance like this, and it depends entirely upon all of us coming out to stick it to The Man on election day.

Confirm your registration today AND VOTE!

[Johonny]

6. So in response please have a Republican governor verify the tax documents then

release a short form of the document then release the long forms of the documents and then if I still don't believe it will be the exact thing. Cause in the whole birther thing the actual proof that it was false was actually addressed no matter how silly it was, here... nothing. Please release the documents and put the tax rumors into silly land or else stop crying.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I think it is time for Americans to see Prince Pee's tax returns.

I'm sure there are some issues of tax evasion on Prince Pee's part.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. So the GOPers are thus admitting that the birthers are nuts?

By arguing that the demand for Mittens' tax returns is just as ridiculous as the demand for Obama's birth certificate, aren't they saying that their own birther contingent, which apparently includes several members of Congress, is a pack of loonies?

That's gonna get some folks excited...

[surrealAmerican]

16. Just what I was thinking.

This ought to piss off his "base".

[The Blue Flower]

27. ditto

he just called the birthers nuts

[1-Old-Man]

9. Reminder: Obama released his official document, the certificate. Romney has not.

[LynneSin]

13. The birthers demanded the long form after the legal document proved he was born in the USA

It would be like Romney releasing his tax forms then we demand that we see the pay stubs from past years.

[yellowcanine]

10. “I’m not spending any more time talking about this issue,” (Fingers in ears and shouts, "La, La, La,

La, La, La....." (we really need a smily for this).

[maddezmom]

11. it would be a great smilie, found this pic tho

[LynneSin]

12. Except that Obama released his legal version of his birth certificate

The long version that everyone kept clamouring for isn't the legal document but even that was released.

[KharmaTrain]

14. Rheinhold Loves Them Dogwhistles...

The rushpublicans are desperate to get the birfer meme into this campaign. It's no longer the birth certificate, it's college records or dental records or who know what rabbit hole these dead-enders want to head down. While discredited, there are still those whose inner racist just can't help but glam onto the "Kenyan" thing. Many are Paulbots who are a wildcard in this year's election few talk about and are about to make the Rmoney coronation into a circus. Methinks Rheinhold is trying to cut them off at the pass by trying this distraction...less talk about taxes and more dogwhistles to the racists and biggots.

He also hopes by tying the tax questions to the birfer noise he hopes to diminish the question. He knows Chicken Noodle Nuze loves the "all sides do it" meme and are too lazy to fact check so that his spin goes unquestioned and it fits perfectly into the false equivelency memes the corporate media thrive on.

[mick063]

15. Once again

The RNC chair is doing our job for us. Pointing out how ridiculous the birther "issue" is while reminding everyone of a tax cover up that Mitt would just as soon go away.

[gollygee]

17. Has there been any presidential candidate this secretive since Nixon?

He obviously has something to hide. The birth certificate was released.

[hifiguy]

18. Bullshit.

Even Richard Nixon released far more tax returns than Mittwit. It's standard operating procedure for anyone seeking the presidency.

Rince Peenus is a lying weasel. Which puts him in the company of all the other Repigs.

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. RNC Throws Birthers Under The Bus.

By insulting Democrats Republicans create a new schism amongst their base.

I'm loving it!

[JoePhilly]

22. That's the funniest part about it ... the RNC thinks calling Dems "birthers" is a slur.

I bet there are plenty of dumb struck birthers right about now.

[Gold Metal Flake]

23. LOL! Indeed! "wha? Wait, Hannity TOLD me to be a birther!"

Thoughtless teabaggers drifting aimlessly, their minds in stall unable to determine who to hate.

I guess Fox News needs one of these:



Zip, zap, new instructions.





"Just sit in front of the TV."





"Birther is now a bad thing."



"AHHHHHH!"

[JoePhilly]

26. lol!!

[Greybnk48]

20. Sauce for the goose...

I don't find merit in this analogy, but if there was any credence to it, so what?

[HopeHoops]

21. How about "auditors"?

[DefenseLawyer]

24. Wasn't he on the Sopranos?

Oh no, that was Big Pussy. My bad.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. You know, insulting your own elected party members and your voting base, isn't usually wise.

I get all the reasons these two things are not similar. Beyond all that, though, there's the blaring insult this is to their elected party members who kept this meme alive, and their voting block who believed them.

What type of message do they expect this to send to their birther party members?

[malaise]

28. Obfuscation won't work this time you ReTHUG fucker

Release the tax returns

[louis-t]

29. Ah, yes, but his BC was already available while birthers screamed.

Then he got special permission to release the original. They still screamed. It would be like Obama releasing only the name of the hospital he was born in and saying "I'm not telling you any more." False equivalence again.