Harry Reid: "Bain source says Romney paid no taxes for 10 years"

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Fern

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We don't really have much real-world experience with Romney to see how he handles himself, how he runs an organization, and how he deals with difficult situations. Just this campaign so far.

Seriously?

The guy's been a governor and ran an Olympics.

Fern
 

piasabird

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This is like saying they say no one knows or saw where the president was born.

Or you I heard them say harry reed likes to wear ladies lingere.

What is the point of totally unbelievable horse puckey?

What you gonna do if Romney takes a page out of O'Bamma's trick book and posts his personal tax returns two days before the election?
 

piasabird

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How much experience did the president have before he took office? Answer is that he had less experience than Romney.
 

Bitek

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Just a bump to remind Romney and the baggers this hasn't been forgotten. We'll get back to this as soon as R/R have a pause in their flailing over Medicare.
 

PJABBER

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Has Obama released his Columbia University records yet???

We've been waiting for these since before the last election.

What is he trying to hide?
 

UberNeuman

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You and me make two! :cool:

I ask a honest question, yet you're unable to be honest....

\please... type up another story for your threads, and I'll keep laughing my ass off on how much life you've wasted in doing so.......
 

PJABBER

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I ask a honest question, yet you're unable to be honest....

\please... type up another story for your threads, and I'll keep laughing my ass off on how much life you've wasted in doing so.......

No matter how or how long it takes, we wind up in the same place.

\Life Wasted... to one, is spent well to another.
 

OneOfTheseDays

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Again Republicans and Neo-Conservatives, you've lost all rights to be called conservatives anymore b/c you're not, cannot answer a simple question.

If Romney truly has nothing to hide, why not release his tax returns? I love this debate because I win every time against my Republican friends. There literally is no way to answer my question other than the obvious...he's hiding something he doesn't want anyone to see.

This talk about Obama's fucking academic transcripts is a joke. We've never required that from any of our candidates nor have any willingly provided it. It was beneath him to even release his BC, but he caved to the racists in the GOP. This thread proves how unhinged the GOP is today with posters like Fern, PJABBER, cybrsage, etc. They're are all lunatics.
 

PJABBER

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I don't know about you guys, but I was driving into work about a week ago and the guy on the radio was saying that Harry Reid has a llama that he keeps in his office.

The llama's name is Mabel.

And she wears lipstick.

Now, why would Harry Reid keep a llama in his office?

One that wears lipstick.

Do you think he is hiding something?
 

CallMeJoe

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I don't know about you guys, but I was driving into work about a week ago and the guy on the radio was saying that Harry Reid has a llama that he keeps in his office.
The llama's name is Mabel.
And she wears lipstick.
Now, why would Harry Reid keep a llama in his office?
One that wears lipstick.
Do you think he is hiding something?
You need to stop these vile attacks on Sarah Palin!
 

PJABBER

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You need to stop these vile attacks on Sarah Palin!

The llama's name is Mabel, not Sarah.

She wears lipstick.

She is in Harry Reid's office.

I don't know why he keeps her there.

Do you think he has two there?

Maybe he's hiding something?
 

Bitek

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Again Republicans and Neo-Conservatives, you've lost all rights to be called conservatives anymore b/c you're not, cannot answer a simple question.

If Romney truly has nothing to hide, why not release his tax returns? I love this debate because I win every time against my Republican friends. There literally is no way to answer my question other than the obvious...he's hiding something he doesn't want anyone to see.

This talk about Obama's fucking academic transcripts is a joke. We've never required that from any of our candidates nor have any willingly provided it. It was beneath him to even release his BC, but he caved to the racists in the GOP. This thread proves how unhinged the GOP is today with posters like Fern, PJABBER, cybrsage, etc. They're are all lunatics.

IDK, maybe he got a D in Spanish class and that will hurt him in the latino vote.

¿Qué esconde el Sr. Obama? ¿No sabes donde esta la biblioteca?
 

OneOfTheseDays

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Who the hell cares what Romney claims?

The fact that he won't show his returns is all you need to know.

Romney is without question the most dishonest politician to ever run for President in our lifetime. There is absolutely no way he ever gets elected. Not a chance. His campaign thus far has been a series of missteps and if this is any indication of how he'd manage the country it doesn't bode well.

Contrast this to Obama who has remained calm, cool, collected, and on point. His campaign is never unhinged and rarely makes political gaffes or missteps. Once the debates start and Obama can actually provide a counter point to Romney's outright lies this thing is all over.
 

mshan

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His and his wife's words are always very carefully parsed.

They always say "taxes", never "in federal income taxes".

Personally, I think they are blatantly lying now, because if proof emerges backing up Reid's assertions, Romney might not even last to RNC convention, and they know that.



(And if his campaign apparatus is this utterly inept and incompetent, it is truly scary to think what is administration would look like)
 
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cybrsage

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Romney is now claiming he's paid "at least" 13% the last 10 years.
And when he means at least, he means barely 13%. Must be nice....

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/...xes-false-but-won-t-release-records-1.3909501

Just like with the loonie birthers, the loonie returners will not be satisfied with this. They will cry and gnash their teeth in anger and hate that Romney is not doing what they demand he does. Meanwhile, they give a pass to Reid for making up the lie.
 

Hugo Drax

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This whole thing smells of Watergate. Seriously if he has nothing to hide, just release them. No one will be surprised that he paid less than 99% of the population and the story blows over.

The reason I suspect he is refusing is fear of exposing any criminal tax evasion. Why else would he let this story run and continue to run because he is refusing to release the returns.
 

cybrsage

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:D And Hugo Drax shows himself to be a loonie returner, using the "he must be hiding something" conspiracy theory reason. That is the same thing the birthers said when Obama refused to show his long form birth certificate. Romney is not showing the returns because they do not matter and it is something to keep the libs busy with so they waste their energy on something unimportant instead of doing something important...you know, the same reason Obama used.
 

chucky2

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I doubt he has criminal evasion, he's rich enough no need to risk it. What's probably in there is his tax rate is very low, and that to get a rate that low, his world class accountants used literally every loophole, every trick, to get his rate that low. Which is exactly what every other person in the US does, except, they don't have world class tax folks handling their expenses/taxes, they have themselves (who are drooling idiots compared to the pros) and the local H&R Block type person (who likely isn't massively above the drooling idiots they're doing taxes for).

This should surprise basically no one, but, will of course be spun by non-partisian transperent no-spin 100% truthful Dem's as the absolute End Of The World (as Rep's would do to Dem's in the same situation), thereby going with the Throw Enough BS In The Air, Some Will Stick election strategery.

POTUS elections are almost as entertaining as reading delusion threads here... :D
 

OrByte

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Ann Romney doesn't even know how much money is in her account(s)

“We’ve had a blind trust for, how many years? We don’t even know what’s in there. We’ve had a blind trust since before Mitt was governor, you know, 2002 forward. And so you know, I’ll be curious to see what’s in there, too.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ann-romney-tax-return-defense-20120816,0,7222787.story

yeah...maybe they did do their taxes..maybe they just lost'em?