What's Buried In Mitt Romney's Tax Records?
Last night, John King asked Romney about his tax records:
First off, I loathe the question. What option does Romney have to go against his father without coming off as disrespectful? Also, I can't imagine caring less about tax records than I do right now. And I consider Romney's extreme wealth to be a feature, not a bug of his candidacy.
But why is he handling this so poorly? He's already said he'll release the records, but why does he stammer and hem and haw when answering questions about them?
That's an earnest question. I'm curious what you think is the reasoning.
Earlier this week when ABC News ran a hit piece -- and I'm not joking -- about how good of a tither Mitt Romney is to his church, I wondered if maybe his large contributions to charity were going to be a problem.
Now I'm wondering if the problem is that he really is just obscenely wealthy and he doesn't want to deal with all the questions that arise from revealing that. He's trying to shake a Thurston Howell, III, image and if he's even wealthier than we think, he's worried it will hurt him. Any other thoughts? Is Pseudodionysius right about Jimmy Hoffa being buried in them?
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Jul '10
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As a man once said, corporations are people, my friends.
Aug '10
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Mitt said on Laura Ingraham's show this morning that he wants to release all of them at once - including 2011 - in April rather than dribbling them out over time. This was probably his original plan and I think he was geniunely surprised when it became an issue now because the tradition has been for candidates to release their returns in April.
However, given the hubub the issue has caused he needs to come up with a plan B quickly or it may start to hurt him.
Sep '10
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John Talbott at the HuffPo suggests there are shennanigans going on with Mitt's retirement accounts.
Dec '10
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I see this as more evidence of Romney's timidity. He's mapped out his path to the presidency, and he's petrified that the slightest deviation from the script will derail him. Call it "rope-a-dope" or whatever you like, but it results in paralysis, much like that we've seen from Obama on so many issues. Ironically, Romney's background should make him better prepared to make course corrections than most. Perhaps his record of losing elections has blunted his CEO tendencies, but he appears unwilling or unable to risk making course corrections or taking bold actions when external events drive things in directions not foreseen when he drew up his playbook. If this is correct, it could be a real liability in both a general campaign and a potential presidency, where history has shown us that the unexpected is the rule and external events drive the moment.
Dec '11
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Mitt said on Laura Ingraham's show this morning that he wants to release all of them at once - including 2011 - in April rather than dribbling them out over time.
Utter hogwash.
Dec '10
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Nobody's Perfect: Mitt said on Laura Ingraham's show this morning that he wants to release all of them at once - including 2011 - in April rather than dribbling them out over time.
Utter hogwash. · 30 minutes ago
Agreed. When he was asked about it in Monday's debate he was obviously caught flat footed.
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The King Prawn
Nobody's Perfect: Mitt said on Laura Ingraham's show this morning that he wants to release all of them at once - including 2011 - in April rather than dribbling them out over time.
Utter hogwash. · 30 minutes ago
Agreed. When he was asked about it in Monday's debate he was obviously caught flat footed. · 4 hours ago
I truly couldn't give a hoot about his tax records even if they showed he had failed to properly pay taxes for years. I just don't care. I hope he is wealthier than everyone else in Massachusetts put together.
But it's the way he's handling the questions that is of note here. Not a big deal and certainly not something to remove him from consideration. But if you take someone like me who does *not* care about his tax records and make me think there's something bad in them, you're doing it wrong.