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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Watch Mitt Romney Flounder in Last Night's Debate

Posted by on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:10 AM

The presidential debate last night was a shitshow from start to finish, with the crowd booing the fact that Mitt Romney's dad was born in Mexico, giving a standing ovation to Newt Gingrich's racism and booing Juan Williams for being black. Also shitty? Mitt Romney's weird response to whether he would release his tax returns. The best part of that is in the video below:

Here's the mind-boggling transcript from Fox News of the whole exchange:

EVANS: Governor Romney, Speaker Gingrich, Senator Santorum and now vocally tonight Senator Perry — Governor Perry — are calling for you to release your tax records. The Obama campaign is asking for the same thing. Governor, will you release your income tax records?

ROMNEY: You know, I looked at what has been done in campaigns in the past with Senator McCain and President George W. Bush and others. They have tended to release tax records in April or tax season. I hadn’t planned on releasing tax records because the law requires us to release all of our assets, all the things we own. That I have already released. It’s a pretty full disclosure. But, you know, if that’s been the tradition and I’m not opposed to doing that, time will tell. But I anticipate that most likely I am going to get asked to do that around the April time period and I’ll keep that open.

EVANS: Governor, you will plan then to release your income tax records around April?

ROMNEY: I think I’ve heard enough from folks saying, look, let’s see your tax records. I have nothing in them that suggests there’s any problem and I’m happy to do so. I sort of feel like we are showing a lot of exposure at this point. And if I become our nominee, and what’s happened in history is people have released them in about April of the coming year and that’s probably what I would do.

Sounds like a yes? With a whole lot of no folded in for good measure? Anyway, I won't believe it until his tax records are in front of me.

 

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Sounds like he's going to release them in April, after he's beaten the rest of the lot.
Posted by six shooter on January 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM
AmyC 2
the exposure comment is the weirdest part of the whole weird answer. it's only "exposure" if there's stuff in there you don't want people to see. otherwise it's "transparency" or "honesty" or whatever. just doesn't seem like the sort of thing a candidate would want to say about his own campaign.
Posted by AmyC on January 17, 2012 at 10:29 AM
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Yeah, but will they be officially certified, long-form copies of his tax records?!
Posted by Mike in Olympia on January 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM
4
He very clearly said to his "on-the-fence" supporters that he didn't want to argue his personal finances with the rest of the morons on the stage.

"Hey fellas, there's some stuff in my tax returns I haven't had time to clear up yet. Give my team of very honest accountants some time to make donations and write off some shit."

Like any of you would let Ron Paul go through your personal info.
Posted by six shooter on January 17, 2012 at 10:37 AM
MrBaker 5
Is Mitt Romney an anchor baby?
Posted by MrBaker http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ on January 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM
biffp 6
Sounds like the type job creating promises company owners got from Bain Capital.
Posted by biffp on January 17, 2012 at 12:18 PM

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