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GOP Polarized Over Romney's Taxes
The Martinez Report ^ | 8/5/2012 | Melvin Martinez

Posted on 08/05/2012 9:16:16 AM PDT by Melvin Martinez

A lack of consensus can destroy an organization from within. The lack of organization with the Tea Party has made it a great farce, yet as the Republican party moves further to the right, there's bound to be division between the conservatives and RINOs.

Perfect example: RNC Chair Reince Priebus on ABC's "This Week" called Harry Reid a "dirty liar" for his claims of Romney not having paid taxes for ten years.

Meanwhile, top GOP strategist Ed Rollins said on Fox News that Romney has to release more taxes, effectively succumbing to Harry Reid, but he made sure to note that Romney shouldn't respond to Reid's comments.

Rush Limbaugh has called for the FBI to investigate this (since whoever Reid's "sources" are have committed a felony,) what do you guys think? Should Romney keep stonewalling or release more taxes?

Read the article here, with the exact quotes of each mentioned person.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: harryreid; mittromney; republicans; taxes
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1 posted on 08/05/2012 9:16:27 AM PDT by Melvin Martinez
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To: Melvin Martinez

Tea Party a great farce? Tell that to Ted Cruz. Ed Rollin’s opinion matters now? LOL!


2 posted on 08/05/2012 9:18:31 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Melvin Martinez

How about Barry Soetoro releases his Kenyan report cards.


3 posted on 08/05/2012 9:21:30 AM PDT by Mister Anderson (Give them nothing, but take from them everything!)
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To: Melvin Martinez
"The lack of organization with the Tea Party has made it a great farce..."

When are these idiots going to realize that there is no "Tea Party", and that any attempts to co-op the name without accepting the ideology will fail.

Hopefully, they will see just how organized the "Tea Party" is on Election Day in November, when we come out in force and oust as many liberals and progressives as we possibly can.

The Tea Party is not a corruptible political party - it's the spirit of liberty, conservatism and Constitutionalism that lives in the hearts of free men and women.

4 posted on 08/05/2012 9:23:02 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Melvin Martinez

Romney is sort or a stealth candidate. We really don’t know his full background nor what legislation he will push for as President. All we know is ‘he won’t do what Obama did’. That may be enough for some voters but others may want something more defined than a Etch-a-Sketch.


5 posted on 08/05/2012 9:23:43 AM PDT by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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To: Melvin Martinez
The lack of organization with the Tea Party has made it a great farce, yet as the Republican party moves further to the right

Cognitive Dissonance is such a Leftwing thing. On the one hand, the Tea Party is a farce. On the other hand, some magical force is moving the Republican party further to the right. Hmmmmmmmmmm. How perplexing that both of these things be true!

Maybe -- just maybe! -- the Tea Party isn't such a farce.
And maybe -- just maybe! -- some of the GOPe pundits are running scared about losing control of the party to the Tea Party mentality.

6 posted on 08/05/2012 9:23:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
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To: DJ Frisat

How did my comment get posted in this thread???? I was replying to a different one...


7 posted on 08/05/2012 9:24:23 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Melvin Martinez

Ed Rollins is past his prime a needs to go away.....I hope Romney avoided as many taxes as is possible. The less this bunch of marxist pull in the better. Personally I don’t care if he avoids them legally are not!!!


8 posted on 08/05/2012 9:24:27 AM PDT by ontap
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Ooops. Never mind. Correct thread...


9 posted on 08/05/2012 9:25:24 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: DJ Frisat
They got a small sample on Wednesday....more to come!!!
10 posted on 08/05/2012 9:25:52 AM PDT by ontap
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To: DJ Frisat

I did it!!!


11 posted on 08/05/2012 9:27:08 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Melvin Martinez

No, the GOP is not polarized about this. The leftist press is obsessed on this non-issue, though.


12 posted on 08/05/2012 9:27:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
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To: Melvin Martinez
Romney should say that the fact that the IRS is not all over him is proof enough that he has paid all his taxes because the IRS has seven agents assigned to him exclusively to see that he does, and any suggestion by any Democrat that he hasn't is a suggestion that the IRS is either incompetent or corrupt.
13 posted on 08/05/2012 9:27:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the collectivists.)
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To: ontap

Romney should only release tax information after Obama unseals his own records: sealed under Obama Executive Order 13489. Obama has been hiding behind this executive order for every day of his administration.


14 posted on 08/05/2012 9:28:43 AM PDT by Invictus (I'll never get used to living in the USSA (ununited socialist states of america))
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To: Melvin Martinez

It is my hope that Romney does not cave to this orchestrated attack. I care a lot more about how much my taxes are than Romney’s, and obama and obamacare will see to it that nine will end up in the punitive category.

The smuck that wrote this piece is blatantly in obamas pocket.

This “disorganized” TEA Party has certainly put the hurt on the left since 2010’ and will continue to do so. There is no one person in the TEA Party for them to “Alinsky-Ize” and they’re learning that - like herding cats - demonizing them is next to impossible. They’re preaching to their own choir.


15 posted on 08/05/2012 9:29:07 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Melvin Martinez
The GOP is "polarized"? I don't think so. They are as one in the belief that this a manufactured attempt by the Dems and the "news" media to sow discord among conservatives. Blatant and obvious. Keep deluding yourselves, Dems and media.
16 posted on 08/05/2012 9:30:42 AM PDT by jeffc (Welcome to the United Socialist States of America)
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To: Melvin Martinez

I’m not concerned about Romney’s taxes in any way, shape or form.

I’m worried about the malevolent communist in the white house.


17 posted on 08/05/2012 9:31:38 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Melvin Martinez

The Tea Party ain’t a party, it’s voters who are fed up with the big-government/big-corporate criminal monopoly known as Washington, DC.


18 posted on 08/05/2012 9:31:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the collectivists.)
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To: Melvin Martinez

Must be a satire piece since no serious author could write such clueless drivel.


19 posted on 08/05/2012 9:32:58 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Melvin Martinez

Love the smell of Democrat desperation. Say any lie, write any smear, demagogue endlessly in a hysteric effort to keep the focus off Obama’s 4 year record of incompetence and corruption


20 posted on 08/05/2012 9:34:45 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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