Even Republicans are now begging Mitt Romney to put out his tax returns and “take the hit for a day or two.” And Romney is flat-out refusing. That’s what this new Obama ad is all about.
Here’s some of the text of that ad:
Romney admits that over the last two years he’s paid less than 15 percent in taxes on $43 million in income. Makes you wonder if some years he paid any taxes at all. We don’t know because Romney has released just one full year of his tax returns. And won’t release anything before 2010…What is Mitt Romney hiding?
This isn’t a deliciously brilliant ad like the one that appeared over the weekend, but it’s a solid attack ad. And as a graduate of Glenn Beck University, I have to note that this Obama ad steals a page from Glenn’s I’m-just-asking-questions-here school of inquiry. That’s a smart move in this case.
I can’t imagine that the Romney campaign hasn’t run the public-relations calculations on these tax returns. And if they’ve run the calculations and they’re stonewalling on releasing the returns, that means that whatever is in these returns is a campaign-ending issue. So now they’re betting that the imagination of the American public isn’t as terrible as the truth of what’s in these returns. That’s a risky bet.
It seems like a pretty effective line of attack in making undecided (read: stupid) voters question Romney’s candidacy, but are we really going to post every campaign ad between now and November?
I’m lazy – does anyone know if SLOG readers eat this shit up or something?
WHY IS PC ALLOWED TO SHIT IN OUR EYES ABOUT THIS TEN TIMES A WEEK?
GOOD LORD, I WOULD RATHER GO DOWN ON ANN ROMNEY THAN READ THIS GARBAGE UNTIL NOVEMBER.
Like most here, I detest Rmoney but seriously…. Paul Constant and his Slog posts are smug, obnoxious and tiresome.
Did Paul Constant rape and murder a girl in 1990? If not, why hasn’t he released his police record? What’s he hiding?
Nobody said you had to push the “play” button.
Romney is either the dumbest, the most cynical, or the most arrogant politician we’ve seen in a long time. Or maybe he’s all three.
How is the public supposed to “vet” a candidate without knowing how he made his money? Would “run-the-government-like-a-business” Romney takeover a company without looking at the books first? I doubt it.
Its called due diligence.
When Romney was in charge of the Salt Lake City Olympics, he openly said he took ONE MILLION DOLLAR$ from the Department of Education and funneled it into the Olympic coffers so HI$ bottom line would look good. Peter Ueberooth didn’t use a DIME of federal funds for the LA Olympics… Peter was a man of honor….