Will Mitt Drop Out?

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Howey

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Instead of releasing damning tax info?


-- Mitt Romney has been determined to resist releasing his tax returns at least since his bid for Massachusetts governor in 2002 and has been confident that he will never be forced to do so,several current and former Bain executives tell The Huffington Post. Had he thought otherwise,say the sources based on their longtime understanding of Romney,he never would have gone forward with his run for president.

Bain executives say they've been instructed to keep company and Romney-specific information completely confidential,tightening the lockdown on an already closed company.

But pressure has been building on the presumptive GOP nominee. On Tuesday,the conservative National Review added its voice to a chorus of Republicans pushing him to disclose his returns from the years before 2010.

The Obama campaign has been hammering Romney for the past few weeks over his time at Bain,which Romney claims ended in February 1999,but which documents and his own testimony show lasted much longer. The ultimate prize for the Obama campaign would be a trove of Romney's taxreturns.

So far,the intense focus on his Bain time seems to have only hardened Romney's objection to releasing more returns. He is "not enthusiastic," he told the National Review on Tuesday,about giving Democrats thousands of more pages to rifle through for material that they can "distort and lie about."

Asked about the Bain executives' observations,Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said,"Rumors on what unknown people who Mitt Romney may not have ever met muse about what someone else,also unknown,told them should not justify a story."

While Romney may personally prefer to drop out before releasing more returns, people who know him note that he doesn't always do what he wants. Torn between his longtime desire to be president and his equally strong belief that he should not be forced to release more returns,Romney may turn,as he has with so many big decisions,to strict numbers-based analysis. If he plummets in the polls and the risk of defeat presses itself on him,the sources say,his calculation could change.
 
sorry Howie.....Obama is still in charge and the economy is still fucked up......nothing you post about Romney is going to change that.....
 
Howey said:
Instead of releasing damning tax info?


-- Mitt Romney has been determined to resist releasing his tax returns at least since his bid for Massachusetts governor in 2002 and has been confident that he will never be forced to do so,several current and former Bain executives tell The Huffington Post. Had he thought otherwise,say the sources based on their longtime understanding of Romney,he never would have gone forward with his run for president.

Bain executives say they've been instructed to keep company and Romney-specific information completely confidential,tightening the lockdown on an already closed company.

But pressure has been building on the presumptive GOP nominee. On Tuesday,the conservative National Review added its voice to a chorus of Republicans pushing him to disclose his returns from the years before 2010.

The Obama campaign has been hammering Romney for the past few weeks over his time at Bain,which Romney claims ended in February 1999,but which documents and his own testimony show lasted much longer. The ultimate prize for the Obama campaign would be a trove of Romney's taxreturns.

So far,the intense focus on his Bain time seems to have only hardened Romney's objection to releasing more returns. He is "not enthusiastic," he told the National Review on Tuesday,about giving Democrats thousands of more pages to rifle through for material that they can "distort and lie about."

Asked about the Bain executives' observations,Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said,"Rumors on what unknown people who Mitt Romney may not have ever met muse about what someone else,also unknown,told them should not justify a story."

While Romney may personally prefer to drop out before releasing more returns, people who know him note that he doesn't always do what he wants. Torn between his longtime desire to be president and his equally strong belief that he should not be forced to release more returns,Romney may turn,as he has with so many big decisions,to strict numbers-based analysis. If he plummets in the polls and the risk of defeat presses itself on him,the sources say,his calculation could change.
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There's supposed to be no such thing as a dumb question Howey.....if that's so than this borders on the silly. Mitt Romney would french fry his own mother in peanut oil (as would just about any politician) to get one extra vote to become President. Drop out? What have you been smoking? LOL
 
Derp Derp said:
There's supposed to be no such thing as a dumb question Howey.....if that's so than this borders on the silly. Mitt Romney would french fry his own mother in peanut oil (as would just about any politician) to get one extra vote to become President. Drop out? What have you been smoking? LOL
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I'm merely relaying the question.

It was folks with Bain who brought it up. More...
While Romney may personally prefer to drop out before releasing more returns, people who know him note that he doesn't always do what he wants. Torn between his longtime desire to be president and his equally strong belief that he should not be forced to release more returns, Romney may turn, as he has with so many big decisions, to strict numbers-based analysis. If he plummets in the polls and the risk of defeat presses itself on him, the sources say, his calculation could change.

A variety of possible explanations for Romney's refusal to release the returns have flowed into the information vacuum. The Obama campaign has floated the notion that maybe he paid no taxes at all in some years. Others have wondered if he was part of the Swiss tax evasion scandal of 2009. Underlying the resistance, sources close to him say, is Romney's belief that voters simply don't have a right to see what should be private financial information.

If the scrutiny that Romney's 2010 taxes have already undergone is any indication, his fears are well placed. The filing indicated a Swiss bank account -- unprecedented for a presidential candidate -- which added to the image of a wealthy man unfamiliar with ordinary people's limitations. Bain filings show that several of its companies set up shop in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, places known as tax havens.
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Can you explain this?


Romney told the National Review that the Cayman Islands company was set up to allow foreign corporations to invest in the United States without paying U.S. taxes.
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Damning...
 
Today's liberals are sure lazy....Relying on only their own echo chamber, propaganda news outlets to try and pressure their opponent to give them something about him to pick apart....Brother! :rolleyes:

I can't wait til you losers bite the dust in November...HAHAHAHAHA!
 
Gatorman said:
No, but considering his campaign is self imposed failing he'll probably ship his gig to China.
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Yeah, great. How much money do you say he's got? They'll soon have that off him! He'll be on stamps when he returns to the US!
 
Howey said:
Instead of releasing damning tax info?


-- Mitt Romney has been determined to resist releasing his tax returns at least since his bid for Massachusetts governor in 2002 and has been confident that he will never be forced to do so,several current and former Bain executives tell The Huffington Post. Had he thought otherwise,say the sources based on their longtime understanding of Romney,he never would have gone forward with his run for president.

Bain executives say they've been instructed to keep company and Romney-specific information completely confidential,tightening the lockdown on an already closed company.

But pressure has been building on the presumptive GOP nominee. On Tuesday,the conservative National Review added its voice to a chorus of Republicans pushing him to disclose his returns from the years before 2010.

The Obama campaign has been hammering Romney for the past few weeks over his time at Bain,which Romney claims ended in February 1999,but which documents and his own testimony show lasted much longer. The ultimate prize for the Obama campaign would be a trove of Romney's taxreturns.

So far,the intense focus on his Bain time seems to have only hardened Romney's objection to releasing more returns. He is "not enthusiastic," he told the National Review on Tuesday,about giving Democrats thousands of more pages to rifle through for material that they can "distort and lie about."

Asked about the Bain executives' observations,Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said,"Rumors on what unknown people who Mitt Romney may not have ever met muse about what someone else,also unknown,told them should not justify a story."

While Romney may personally prefer to drop out before releasing more returns, people who know him note that he doesn't always do what he wants. Torn between his longtime desire to be president and his equally strong belief that he should not be forced to release more returns,Romney may turn,as he has with so many big decisions,to strict numbers-based analysis. If he plummets in the polls and the risk of defeat presses itself on him,the sources say,his calculation could change.
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Why should he? Few Presidential candidates have released more than a couple years of returns. You mother fuckers just want ammunition for your class warfare horseshit. Romney isn't stupid...he will not fall into your sorry ass trap.

Seriously, fuck you all.
 
Xielon said:
Why should he? Few Presidential candidates have released more than a couple years of returns. You mother fuckers just want ammunition for your class warfare horseshit. Romney isn't stupid...he will not fall into your sorry ass trap.

Seriously, fuck you all.
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If I was American I would want to see his birth certificate and why has he got a foreign name and when did he arrive from space and what nationality is he, and why has the republican party chosen a man who will not admit to being black underneath?
 
Xielon said:
Why should he? Few Presidential candidates have released more than a couple years of returns. You mother fuckers just want ammunition for your class warfare horseshit. Romney isn't stupid...he will not fall into your sorry ass trap.

Seriously, fuck you all.
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No thanks, I'm taken. And you're a liar.

http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romney-and-the-tax-return-precedent/

In more than three decades, no other nominees for either party have released fewer than five years’ worth of returns. Romney’s own father released a dozen years’ worth when he ran for the GOP nomination in 1968.
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Maybe he doesn't want the mormon church to know exactly how much money he has because he hasn't paid his full 10%.

Obviously he's hiding something... what's he building in there...

 
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