Our national debt is skyrocketing, the economy is languishing, entitlements face insolvency and the Obama campaign and the legacy media are following the Obama campaign’s lead in asking about Mitt Romney’s tax returns.
I might just take those folks seriously if they were asking about the Justice Department’s failure to produce about 92% of the documents the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has requested from the Department of Justice (related to the Fast and Furious scandal). Or if they had inquired into the documents Mr. Obama has kept under lock and key.
Once again, Charles Krauthammer get it:
(H/t: National Review’s the Corner.)
Let’s be real here. The Obama campaign only wants Mr. Romney to release his tax returns so they can pore through them and find little details (AKA shiny objects) to dangle in front of the eyes of a compliant media; they want to keep the focus on Mr. Romney’s wealth and investments rather than on Mr. Obama’s record — and the parlous state of our nation’s finances — and turn our eyes away from the worst economic recovery since the last time a Democratic president sought to “fix” a downturn with increased federal spending.
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RELATED: “The only way”, writes Conn Carroll in the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential, “to shut Team Obama down on this issue is to say ‘no’ and stick to it“:
As the existing Bain attacks show, Team Obama will twist any factoid Romney gives them into a new attack ad. I don’t know what is in Romney’s tax return, but if the professionals that run Romney’s campaign think Obama will distort something in them, I am inclined to believe them.
There’s probably nothing in them that has any real significance. But then again, the folks they’d have digging through them wouldn’t really know what they were looking at anyway.
Think about it, I don’t know about your tax return, but ours runs about 20 pages & there is nothing in them like the investments, or properties, or write offs that someone in Romney’s financial bracket could normally be expected to have. So, you’d have jokers that are neither tax attornies, CPAs or even bookkeepers digging through them…
They’d be making up stuff about which they got lost on in the first 6 pages, and we already know these folks don’t care if what they are saying/writing is lies.
Too bad Romney can’t get away with telling them what I would ~ That they are too stupid to understand it anyway…
Re: Fast & Furious docs: Remember the Good Old Days of 4 to 10 years ago, when liberals thought the people had a right to know what their Government was doing.
“If you have no record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.” – Barack Obama, 2008
Exactly V the K, I think that should be the stinger at the end of EVERY ad about the economy and what Obama’s done to it.
Why isn’t Romney on the offensive – about, say, Obama’s college records?
The election will come down to two things:
1) Whether Romney is, like Reagan was, a good guy who believes in himself, and runs the national conversation accordingly.
2) Whether the American people would prefer to be distracted and deceived (by Obama).
The second is not in Romney’s control. I hope the first is.
Krauthammer is right: give Team Sleaze 3 years of returns, they’ll want 6…and it will NEVER STOP. Cliché as it sounds, even the clueless dumbass in the White House knows he can’t run on his record, so this campaign will be about everything and anything else he can use as a distraction. Sadly, in a society where Justin Bieber gets more press than the corruption at the top levels of our government it might be enough to win.
How just don’t see how the Romney tax returns and “Bain” are issues that will sway the moderate Centrists needed to win the 2012 Electoral College.
That their son is living in their basement after getting an expensive college degree, that they get.
Romney should announce a schedule: he will release one year’s return for the Fast and Furious docs, another for Obama’s college records, etc.
Obama, being the worst president in American history and the biggest a-hole to ever occupy the Whitehouse should be easy to defeat. If Romney would just go on the offensive (he doesn’t have to lie about anything, unlike “Obama the a-hole”) and point out unemployment, healthcare, foodstamps, cover-ups, and just ask the question, “Are you better of today than 4 years ago?” and bring up the general malaise and outlook of the country, he should win it easily.
AZ Mo in NYC – and here lies the problem. He is doing some/all/more than you are asking for him to do. The problem is that you don’t know it or see it. He made a very good aggressive speach yesterday. But, you did not see it anywhere in the MSM. Even on FOX they showed a 30 sec. sound bite.
A couple of buds last week were lamenting over the same issue – I finally was able to convince them that if they watch ABCNBCCBSCNN – they will see nothing but biased support for Obama. That is exactly what MSM wants – for us conservatives to get frustrated, throw up our hands, and tune out and not show up in November because we are told it is a “lost cause.”
One last point. The American public has an attention span of a gnat. Things don’t heat up till after labor day. Romney ain’t stupid. He knows this and will plan accordingly. But, Obama is forced to spend lots of money now, lie through his teeth JUST to keep his pathetic base energized, and “shoot his wad” now just to stay even. Oh, and the “cornered rat” Obama is going to make July and August attack mode look like an ice cream social compared to what he will be doing in September and October.
Stay strong, and don’t let the bastards get you down. He IS beatable!!!
And another thing: Isn’t it racist and religious bigotry for the Obama campaign to demand to see Romney’s tax returns? This wouldn’t happen if Romney were, say, Christian or Muslim and attended Rev. Wright’s church. It seems like a pretty clear case of Mormon hatred, the same religious group that was chased across the country, persecuted, hated, and many Mormons slaughtered for their religiuos beliefs. It’s the same anti-Mormon undercurrent that has plagued this country throughout history. Or is it because he hates all white people that he is attacking Romney? Why doesn’t Barrack Hussein Obama release his college records, his tax returns for every year before he became president, or the Fast and Furious documents?