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Bill Kristol, author of You Should Invade Iraq, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? and You Should Pick Sarah Palin, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? has some advice for Team Butthurt, also known as the Romney camp, about their man’s taxey returney problem:
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Sunday called on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to follow in his father’s footsteps and release more than just one or two years of tax returns.
“He should release the tax returns tomorrow,” the neoconservative pundit told Fox News’ Brit Hume. “It’s crazy. You’ve got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns.”
“Take the hit for a day or two,” Kristol recommended. “He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back in forth, which I do think he’s on the margin of losing.”
They should listen to him. What could possibly go wrong?
So far no word from Romney communications director, Wile E. Coyote.
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They must wake up in a cold sweat every morning over at the Romney campaign. To know that you’ve tied yourself to a candidate that may actually have committed a felony, is so completely insincere and unable to connect with voters on even the most basic level. That is now known to have committed the sin of outsourcing jobs to china.(how many times have we seen wingnuts lose their minds over that?)
Any bets on how long before we start to see the rats fleeing the ussBain. We can call it “The Wreck of the Willard Mitt Romney”.
Releasing bunches of tax returns is also a George Will recommendation.
A Will/Kristol joint. What could go wrong?
if you’ve lost kristol it means the corporate wing has their man in office already and they’re trying not to spoil a good thing, all the while looking like they are against the man in office
My current theory, worth what you paid for it, is that Rmoney lies to his campaign operatives, every single one, just as easily as he lies to the press and the American people. It’s actually his first nature.
As such, and because they’ve learned this about their candidate, his entire campaign staff knows they are flying blind on this entire issue, because Mitt hasn’t leveled with anybody. That’s how you get idiotic things out there like Ed Rollins “Mitt resigned in 1999, but in 2002 retroactively.”
No one knows what happened. And Mitt ain’t telling.
Well, since the McCain campaign apparently did see his tax returns, and chose Wasilla Barbie instead, they must know what he’s done and how bad it would be if it came out.
mccain picked wh0 kristol told him to pick, now kristol is undermining the mutt torturere’s campaign
hmmmm
who could have predicted?
I guess I shouldn’t expect anything approaching integrity from right-wing paid political operatives. Even Steve Schmitt didn’t leave McCain after he named Palin as his running mate.
I just couldn’t do it. I would have to really believe in a candidate to work for them. I don’t think they could pay me enough to turn my back on my principles. But I’m a liberal. Which means I have a conscience.
It sometimes makes for a lonely existence, though.
If Bill Kristol says he should release his tax returns, wouldn’t this mean the best thing Romney could do is to *not* release his tax returns? That’s usually the way it is with Bill…
What could go wrong? Hmmmm…boy, whether that means rMoney should follow the adviice dependson where you’re standing, doesn’t it?
He releases the returns: they’re full of barely legal,.001% tax avoidance strategies, investments in outsourcing companies in China, luxuries of the dressage horse-loss-kind that I can’t even imagine (and actually, I like watching dressage, and appreciate the skill…but dressage riders shouldn’t run for president and pretend to be just like everybody else, only more “successful.”).
Mitt’s standing in the polls drops by twenty points…
Hmmm. Did something go wrong? From Mitty’s point of view, yes. From my point of view…not so much.
Well yeah, but see my (incomplete) argument at 7…it might be “best” for him not to, but in the grand scheme of things, the result might be best for all of us.
OTOH, not releasing any more returns and continuing to stonewall, dismiss the issue as unimportant…well, that’s not doing the opposition any harm, either…
Rock. Hard place. I just wish Mitt were there in, say, late October.
Book Salon up with Martin Hickman’s Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain hosted by spocko
I don’t suppose it’s ever occured to greater wingnuttia that Kristol has the accuracy rate of a Magic 8 Ball.
Although in this case he’s absolutely right. But it’s pure dumb luck. Like a chicken predicting the Super Bowl point spread.
“They must wake up in a cold sweat every morning over at the Romney campaign. To know that you’ve tied yourself to a candidate that may actually have committed a felony, is so completely insincere and unable to connect with voters on even the most basic level. That is now known to have committed the sin of outsourcing jobs to china.(how many times have we seen wingnuts lose their minds over that?)”
All they have to do is check with John Dean and see how Mitchell and Haldeman and Ehrlichman handled the strain of a similar candidate…..
Yikes! My two most reliable sources (chickens/Magic 8 Balls) shot down in one fell swoop!
No wonder I don’t have a dressage pony or two!
GWPDA@13: have your read Family of Secrets?
The reason Romney won’t release his 2010 state tax return is because he claimed New Hampshire residency in 2010 and NH doesn’t have a state income tax. The problem is that he voted in 2010 in Massachusetts in the Scott Brown/Martha Coakley race, and thus should have filed a 2010 Massachusetts state tax return…which he didn’t. Turns out the only voter fraud in America is being perpetrated by the Republicans.
I’d imagine that, this weekend, there are a lot of rich old guys facepalming, asking if the check had cleared yet followed by telling someone to get the Koch brothers on the fucking phone right fucking now!
That the Right is piling on Romney to release his damaging tax returns tells you that they think Obama is the better man to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Amen brother!
Santorum/Bachmann (Frothy/Deepthroat) 2012!!!
They know what they are doing. It’s pretty clear.
How is a man who is worth a quarter of a billion dollars going to decimate the social safety net without an outcry?
And make no mistake that’s coming to the country you and I live in very soon.
I’m sorry, ‘Ready’, but the position of Site Scold is already taken. Perhaps you could send in your application to HQ/HR and they’ll hold onto it for the next vacancy?
Can you explain what you mean by Site Scold?
Thanks
Apparently the House Republicans haven’t gotten The Memo from The Right. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be opposing all things Obummer.
“the Koch brothers on the fucking phone right fucking now!”
Or someone impersonating them. Fooled Scott Walker after all!
I want to say that guys that made that much money wouldn’t be as stupid and gullible as that crooked faced, crooked ass bastard son of a bitch but then again if they gave money to anything to try to elect Rmoney….
Which flavor?
1) Two humans/corporations plus a canine currently occupy the Hall Monitor/Site Scold positions. All self-appointed, except the canine (you’re a good doggy aren’t you? yes, yes you are! yes, what? huh? Oh…)
2) Obummer-sucks Trolls/Ragers-Against-the-Obvious*
You’re welcome to apply for either position, but for Type 2 you really gotta up your game to avoid mockery…
*Word!
if that’s the case you are actually making, then it’s fair to say you represent the cognitive dissonant
and quite nicely too!
though I can’t limit this board to just one like you seem to prefer, this board abounds with those you represent so keep at it
carry on *word!
Are you aware of any internet traditions?
Hey Paultards, the Romney meltdown is a huge opening for Ron.
Why isn’t he jumping on it?
Also, too:
Apparently the reason CEOs deserve 200x more pay then everyone else is because of their retroactive super powers.
Psssst, Romney’s people monitor this “board” so ixnay on the grand strategy-nay otherwise it’s Ron Paul for the lot o’ us…
Romney’s next political office: Mayor of Kolob City.
The lack of awareness of irony in this post is delicious.
If Kristol is trotting out the Republican bigwigs must be a little worrried, as early as it is.
Uhm, Kurt, the blog does in fact have an official ‘Site Scold’.
GWPDA was actually passing on HR info.
The position was created several months ago. Probably missed that?
Take Bloody Bill Kristol’s advice. Please.
Oh pleasepleaseplease….take the advice of the man is wrong about everything.
That was pure genius.
Official? Really?!? Damn, I hereby throw my hat in the ring for Under Assistant West Coast Site Scold. I’ll take the irony and alchemize it into depleted uraniumy. Promise.
Uhm, resumes should go directly to HR.
That might just work!
Current site scolds rep East Coast (Savannah) and Texas and San Diego.
You’d be reporting directly to a basset hound….
As somebody named Daniel Ellard said over on TPM, if there’s something in your tax returns that makes Sarah Palin look like a better person for the job, maybe you’re in the wrong line of work.
test
Oh shit!
On what?
Thanks to glibertarians this one’s not an easy sell.
No fair! You didn’t tell us beforehand. I would have paid attention and not gotten so wasted if I had known there was going to be a test. I sure hope it’s an open blog one.
in case this is too far beyond your field of scope;
we do better with anyone but our own quaterback we find out is determined the other team score as many points as possible
a hard concept to figure out when you are representing the cognitive dissonant, most everyone else has it down pat…work on it, you might get there
The beatings will continue until…well….they will just continue.
Two things:
Is this an epic rope a dope being performed by mittbot, his campaign, KKKarl Rove and the rw Village Punditry? In this example, the tax returns are clean and the trap is set for the thing to blow up in the faces of the WH reelection team.
mittbot was not properly vetted and simply can not release his tax returns and can not straightforwardly address the Bain issues. Media may have something to say as to whether mittbots campaign is in serious trouble or not. The pendulum is set to swing back in favor of mittbot for a day of two. Regardless, this campaign looks about as flatfooted as the gop 2008 disaster. Will the party think once again that in order to distract from the Bain Pain that a crazy VP pick is in order? Who knows.
Hoping Obama releases another tidbit if Bain Pain associated skullfucking today. Just to keep the opposition on its toes.
But it isn’t really a matter of dirty tax returns. Rmoney has stated several times he left Bain in 1999. SEC filings say differently.
If Mitt Romney hadn’t experimented on himself with that “retroactive retirement” retro-virus he would have been lying to either the SEC or everybody in the United States.
The Bush Mafia WANTS Mittens to lose.
Jethro can’t run against an incumbent Republican in 2016.
Everyone’s a comedian…
{motivation for the ‘test’ – which you all FAILED! – was a comment on another TBogg post that kept getting eaten. Swapping the imbedded single link with its goo.gl-shortened version apparently got around the problem… whatever it was}
Oh, and on the actual topic of this post, I’m intrigued by Dogpaddle’s point, which I’ve seen discussed elsewhere. The Masters of Our Universe don’t think twice about a little bit of voter fraud. Those rules are for the Little People, not the Ann Coulters and Charlie Whites – and Rmoneys – who rule our world.
But in a year when a blatant state-by-state nationwide campaign to disenfranchise so many of the aforementioned Little People is underway, it might be just a teensie inconvenient to be outed as having resided in one state (NH) for the tax advantages, while voting in an adjacent state (MA). Bad optics and all that, even after factoring in the IOKIYAR thing.
Nah, I get you’re head-over-heels for that dreamy Willard fella…
CognitiveDissonant.Bitchez.GetSome!
Brilliant–or, at least, it is to me, since unlike Partridge I can’t see what’s right in front of me. Great fucking point, TP.
Every one of Romney’s campaign workers must, at some point, have had this revelation. Or are they genetically predisposed to be oblivious of it, since who with half a brain, half a heart, and a little courage, would work for Romney in the first place?
Really? You know this or you’re guessing? Mind you, I like it either way.
Hey, people gotta eat, and abandoning a political ship makes you an iffy political employee later.
if that’s what you “get” then you’re even more out of touch then I even imagined or feared, I actually thought you understood what you were talking about, I see I have sadly over estimated…uggg, I do that on the tbogg board quite a bit
I also see you like having the last word so go ahead and give it yet another go, since you’ve exhausted my patience you will have it
bye
Most of his introductory interview was pretty strong, but he really messed up the dismount – it will likely cost him with the judges.
You’re just the latest in a long line of Obomber-Sucks/Anyone-is-Better* thread-hijacking clowns to visit this “board” in the past couple of months.
In case you missed the other 8 dozen, or so, like-minded people you didn’t miss much. They’ve all been boring and tedious, tedious and boring and dull (unlike UgluksFlea@54 who shows some imagination).
* A vote for your dreamy sparkle pony candidate is a vote for Mittens.
…..The Beltway it’s said
never gives up its dead
when the pains of November come early.
(Apologies to Gordon Lightfoot.)
I’ll second that. After all, rMoney’s tax returns will invariably disclose more investment loopholes than a trip to a certified financial planner! And right now, I could use some FREE! retirement investment strategies that would allow me to support a fleet of dressage ponies–besides robbing a bank, I mean.