When MoveOn.org and The National Review have matching headlines and hashtags, you know you've lost the argument.
In an op-ed published Tuesday bluntly titled "Release The Returns," editors at the conservative-leaning outlet stressed the importance of Romney sucking it up and getting the information out publicly in order to "move on.
"Romney may feel impatience with requirements that the political culture imposes on a presidential candidate that he feels are pointless (and inconvenient). But he’s a politician running for the highest office in the land, and his current posture is probably unsustainable. In all likelihood, he won’t be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and is a departure from campaign conventions. The only question is whether he releases more returns now, or later — after playing more defense on the issue and sustaining more hits. There will surely be a press feeding frenzy over new returns, but better to weather it in the middle of July.
If he releases more returns, Romney will be in a better position to resist the inevitable demands for even more disclosures. More important, he will be in a better position to pivot his campaign to what should be its focus — telling a story, through a series of detailed, substantive speeches, about where he wants to take the country. It is to President Obama’s advantage to fight the election out over tactics and minutiae. By drawing out the argument over the returns, Romney is playing into the president’s hands. He should release them, respond to any attacks they bring, and move on."
The editors found themselves an unlikely ally, the progressive political action group MoveOn.org. Both organizations have joined the chorus arguing Romney should release his taxes ASAP.
MoveOn plans to launch a new TV ad on Wednesday, which will air in the swing state of Ohio, hitting Romney over his personal tax secrecy. The website also demands "he's got to come clean about it sometime if he expects to get citizens' votes." It urges people to "join the campaign by tweeting #ReleaseTheReturns @MittRomney"and sharing with friends on Facebook.
A new PPP poll says 56 percent of Americans think Romney should release 12 years of tax returns.
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Who gives a flying xxxx what George Soros thinks of IRS releases. This guy who made his billions shorting stock of US company and organizing conspiracies of others to manipulate those stocks with short attacks until it broke companies and thousands either lost their jobs are lost the good pay and benefits stuctures never did anybody any good in this country. I wouldn't be surprised to see it come out at some future time that Bain Capital actually got in there and helped to turnaround some of those broken companies that Soros and his cabal of international financiers attacked. Soros even was behind short attacks on the US dollar in some of his insidious campaigns, driving the price of commodities higher and higher therefore, and causing hardhip for US citizens living on limited budgets, like our senior citizens. There is nothing this guy puts his name and money behind that is of any good for our country.
As to the National Review, well, we already knew what Bill Kristol thought about the issue: he's just peeved because Romney hasn't given him a role as the great conservative voice in his campaign.
This campaign is going to focus on the economy of 2012, and the failed policies of Barrack Obama from 2009 to 2012 that got it into the awful shaped it is in today. There is nothing about 1999 to 2002 that we need to know or discuss....Other than the fact that Mitt Romney did an outstsanding job (taking no salary) working to save the Winter Olympics in an excellant turnaround operation that got waste, graft, and corruption out of its finances, and that we should learn our lessons from the dot.com bubble and federal reserve policies that pushed up financial assets past the point of reality based finance, and that the terrorists still could hurt us at home as they did on 9/11/2001 unless we continue to put a world of hurt on them in their homes, and that the Bush tax cuts (of 2001 and 2003) need to be extended. Oh yes, and that George Soros of Move On is not a friend of the US Citizen by his financial manipulations during those years.
In mitt bain romney's case, income taxes could be a serious problem.
On page 105 of Lee Iacocca's autobiography, Henry Ford II confided to Iacocca that he was worried that for the first time in six years he had to pay income taxes and his tax bill was as steep as $11,000.
I'm sure mitt Bain romney's tax returns will drop jaws all over this country if his tax returns are ever released to the public.
I think it would be seriously stupid at this point for Mitt Romney to release more tax returns and I believe he should stand his ground. It is becoming evident to me that he has a lot more to loose by doing so than to gain. It is not a secret that Romney is a very wealthy businessman but the Obama camp and the press, such as Lawrence O'Donnell are simply on a witch hunt over this issue. I believe the republicans pushing for the tax returns release are being a bit naive about the outcome of doing so. The American public at large doesn't understand the tax code in this country to the extent that corporations understand it. And for many, "Profit" is more like a four letter word. But more importantly, in addressing this particular issue, it doesn't matter what or how legitimate or LEGAL these past returns turn out to be, no one in Obama's camp or those groveling on Obama's coat tails have any intention of taking this information and claiming that all is well in the Romney tax camp, next case. This is about looking for something to make an issue about and most likely making an issue out of points that shouldn't be issues. This has been pattern so far by Obama and supporters, so why would Romney want to feed more fuel to the fire. Those who would publicly state before hand that he must have a secret in those returns and that is why he doesn't want them released are simply morons or they have no integrity. And that is about at polite and I can be to them.
It seem to everyone that Mitt Romney have proven he will walk away from everything his father and mother have stood for and fought for in their lifetime in order to become president. Mitt Romney have said himself in 1994 that he supported women right to choose by the things that his mother and other women’s had to endure when he ran against Senator Kennedy. He also said in 1994 a blind trust can be manipulated by the people who have it and it may not be worth the paper it is written on. Mitt Romney’s own father stood up for the principles over politics and cost him a chance to be president by standing up for civil rights and stood against the republican party and set a new standard for all candidates about taxes over 60 years ago that other candidates in both in parties have followed to this day and Mitt Romney is willing to break that standard that his father laid out years ago. So then Mitt Romney is saying to the voters and especially to the media that they do not deserve the truth about his taxes because the cannot handle the truth about his taxes. The same taxes that he was willing to give over 20 years of it to John McCain just 4 years ago that he is daring the media that they would not see it now so that is the challenge the media must take because if not other candidates will try to do the same long after Mitt Romney is gone. People who are running for Governor, Congress, Senators, and others will use this new standard for not showing their taxes in the future. If the media do not meet this new challenge about not releasing at least 12 years like other candidates before him, it will be their failure not Mitt Romney’s or even Obama’s”.
P.S. Even though I and others never met George Romney and got to understand what him and his wife fought for we all can say today that “Mitt Romney is definitely is not no George Romney“.
It seem to everyone that Mitt Romney have proven he will walk away from everything his father and mother have stood for and fought for in their lifetime in order to become president. Mitt Romney have said himself in 1994 that he supported women right to choose by the things that his mother and other women’s had to endure when he ran against Senator Kennedy. He also said in 1994 a blind trust can be manipulated by the people who have it and it may not be worth the paper it is written on. Mitt Romney’s own father stood up for the principles over politics and cost him a chance to be president by standing up for civil rights and stood against the republican party and set a new standard for all candidates about taxes over 60 years ago that other candidates in both in parties have followed to this day and Mitt Romney is willing to break that standard that his father laid out years ago. So then Mitt Romney is saying to the voters and especially to the media that they do not deserve the truth about his taxes because the cannot handle the truth about his taxes. The same taxes that he was willing to give over 20 years of it to John McCain just 4 years ago that he is daring the media that they would not see it now so that is the challenge the media must take because if not other candidates will try to do the same long after Mitt Romney is gone. People who are running for Governor, Congress, Senators, and others will use this new standard for not showing their taxes in the future. If the media do not meet this new challenge about not releasing at least 12 years like other candidates before him, it will be their failure not Mitt Romney’s or even Obama’s”.
P.S. Even though I and others never met George Romney and got to understand what him and his wife fought for we all can say today that “Mitt Romney is definitely is not no George Romney“.