Reporter: What do you have to say about Reids statement you are hiding something?
Romney: (low chuckle) “Oh that’s just Harry being Harry”
“Meanwhile, speaking of goalpost-moving, the meme du jour on the left as I write this is that, by paying more than he owed, Romney’s disqualified from the presidency by his own standards. He told an ABC reporter in July, “I don’t pay more than are legally due and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don’t think I’d be qualified to become president. I’d think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.”
They dropped obamacare on us and said they had to pass the freaking bill to find out what was in it.
Does anyone buy this sh1t from THESE @ssholes anymore!?!
I think Reid’s flipping out because he got played by Romney in a rope-a-dope/briar-patch sense. And knows it.
Romney gives 30% of his income to charity, paying 14% in taxes. That’s 44% of his income going out the door, and that IS the story here.
The release yesterday was deliberately timed to get the information into the news for the Friday evening news cycle in a way that would limit editorializing and prevent a quick response from the Obama Campaign - which will carry it into and through the weekend.
Reid’s initial attacks worked to Romney’s advantage - putting focus on the issue and allowing Romney to blow the accusations out of the water at a time/place of his own choosing.
If people go back through my postings here they’ll find that I’m not a big Romney fan, but I’ve wanted to give the guy a fair shake - especially from a campaign mechanics standpoint. What he and his campaign did yesterday was ... impressive. It’ll be more so if they can sustain and build the charitable-giving aspect of the narrative into next week, because it shows the fecklessness and emphasis on government handouts/dependency of the Democrats.