How Romney Can Turn the Tax Return Narrative Around

Posted by in Blog, Politics on August 7, 2012 9:58 pm / 3 comments

The recent discussion of Mitt Romney’s tax returns has shown no sign of letting up. Harry Reid’s slanderous accusations aside, the Obama campaign is committed to making this a permanent issue. The truth is they have succeeded in creating a narrative that Romney is doing something wrong by not releasing more returns and the time has come for Romney to put an end to this. He can do so fairly easily with the following statement:

“Despite what some seem to believe, Americans are much more concerned about jobs and their own tax bills then my past returns. President Obama has decided to run a campaign based on distractions and diversions as a way to avoid discussing his failed record.

The false and outrageous accusations that have come from that campaign have only served one purpose – to distract Americans from trillion dollar deficits and 42 straight months of 8+ % unemployment. However, I do want to end this issue and get back to the issues that matter to Americans once and for all, so I will make the President an offer: I will release 3 more years of tax returns if this president releases the “Fast and Furious” documents that he has hidden from the American public through executive privilege.

Those documents relate to an issue Americans do actually care about – how the Department of Justice spent American tax dollars and put guns in the hands of dangerous criminals. The Department of Justice has already been caught lying to Congress on two occasions related to this investigation. The families of Brian Terry, a border agent murdered as a result of that operation, and hundreds of others deserve answers. These documents should have never been withheld from the public in the first place.

So how about it, Mr. President? Since you are so concerned with my personal tax returns, will you release those documents? And if not, what are you hiding?”

This statement would shift the issue and put the Obama administration on the defensive. More importantly, it will stop allowing the Obama campaign to distract Americans with this silly sideshow on Romney’s personal tax returns. The American people deserve an election focused on the issues that matter to them, not ridiculous conspiracy theories.

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3 Comments

  1. Russell Dee says:
    August 7, 2012 at 10:35 pm

    Why advise Mr. Romney to put out a statement? Why don’t you instead advise Mr. Romney to release his tax returns instead? I think you suspect that Mr. Romney is a crook with something to hide in his tax returns so you are trying to help him find cover instead of simply telling him to clear the air by releasing his tax returns. I think that this shows that it is OK with you if a crook becomes president just so long as he is a republican crook.

    I don’t think that Harry Reid is lying. Harry Reid is an extremely powerful senate majority leader. That makes him one of the top 4 or 5 most powerful people in the entire country. Of course a man like that is going to have friends who know a lot of things that most Americans would not know. It is totally conceivable that Reid would know someone who knows what Romney paid in taxes. Even if Romney did pay taxes maybe the person who told Harry Reid that Romney didn’t pay taxes actually misinformed Harry Reid. Look, the only way to get to the bottom of this is for Mitt Romney to release his taxes. He should release his taxes unless he has something to hide. I am starting to think that Romney has told some lies to the IRS and he is scared that if he releases his taxes then people who know the truth will see the lies that Romney told the IRS and prove that Romney’s lies to the IRS are indeed lies and then Romney could go to jail. Some people say that Romney can’t possibly have broken laws by what he reported to the IRS because Romney has surely been audited and if he broke laws then he would have gotten caught and gone to jail, but IRS staff do not know everything there is to know about Mitt Romney so Mitt Romney could have made false assertions to the IRS that the IRS does not have enough information to disprove. However, if Romney’s taxes were to become public then collectively all of the people who know all of the truths about Romney would see the falsehoods that he told to the IRS, and some of them might report to the media that some of Romney’s IRS assertions are lies. If that happened then Romney could possibly go to jail. I think that is why Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns. Romney won’t release his tax returns because he doesn’t want to give people who know Mitt Romney a chance to compare the truths they know about Romney to the assertions that Romney has made to the IRS because Romney has lied to the IRS.

    Mitt Romney will you please release your tax returns?

  2. Kate says:
    August 8, 2012 at 9:30 am

    Releasing his tax returns will not cause one, single person to vote for him but it will provide fodder for dems to further divert attention away from a failed Obama administration.
    Additionally, the above comment is rambling, unfocused, redundant, nearly incoherent, and uses 700 or so words to say, “Release your tax returns to prove wrong Harry Reid’s unsourced blatant lie. If you don’t, you must be hiding something BAD.”

    Government educated fool.

  3. Repack Rider says:
    August 8, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    If the symbolic standard of presidential honesty had not been cast in stone 40 years ago by Mitt’s own father, perhaps he would have a case for not releasing the returns. As it is, he looks like a bad son and a worse politician. This guy could not tell which way the wind was blowing if he was standing in the path of a hurricane.

    It is obviously a legitimate question to ask why the son won’t live up to his father’s standard of honesty, when every other candidate from either party has.

    If Mitt had a problem with unsupported accusations, he has had four years to address the “Birther” crazies. By failing to do so, he has surrendered any moral position on unsupported political accusations.

    Maybe in the private schools he attended, they don’t say, “What goes around comes around,” but I went to a public school.

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