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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Party Chairman:Americans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Are The New Birthers
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus compared the overwhelming majority of Americans including a growing number of Republicans calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns to birthers, who sill claim that President Obama was born in Kenya.
Its ridiculous, Priebus said Friday morning on CNNs Starting Point, when asked to respond to polls showing that 63 percent of the public thinks Romney should release more tax returns. Im not spending any more time talking about this issue, the Chairman informed the hosts, who then pressed him about Donald Trumps role and the GOP convention.
more:http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/10/670421/republican-party-chairman-americans-who-want-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns-are-the-new-birthers/
bemildred
(90,061 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)no matter how silly the comparison is.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)That doesn't mean a thing, Rinse.
It is not going away just because you stick your finger in your ears and yell "la-la-la-la-la"
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)Just rebrand your piece of crap party already.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)... not knowing that its head has already been severed.
People, are you registered to vote? Because this is the year we get to break off compassionate conservatism in the Republicans' tailpipes. We'll never get another chance like this, and it depends entirely upon all of us coming out to stick it to The Man on election day.
Confirm your registration today AND VOTE!
Johonny
(20,833 posts)release a short form of the document then release the long forms of the documents and then if I still don't believe it will be the exact thing. Cause in the whole birther thing the actual proof that it was false was actually addressed no matter how silly it was, here... nothing. Please release the documents and put the tax rumors into silly land or else stop crying.
LiberalFighter
(50,880 posts)I'm sure there are some issues of tax evasion on Prince Pee's part.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,670 posts)By arguing that the demand for Mittens' tax returns is just as ridiculous as the demand for Obama's birth certificate, aren't they saying that their own birther contingent, which apparently includes several members of Congress, is a pack of loonies?
That's gonna get some folks excited...
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)This ought to piss off his "base".
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)he just called the birthers nuts
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)It would be like Romney releasing his tax forms then we demand that we see the pay stubs from past years.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)La, La, La....." (we really need a smily for this).
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)The long version that everyone kept clamouring for isn't the legal document but even that was released.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)The rushpublicans are desperate to get the birfer meme into this campaign. It's no longer the birth certificate, it's college records or dental records or who know what rabbit hole these dead-enders want to head down. While discredited, there are still those whose inner racist just can't help but glam onto the "Kenyan" thing. Many are Paulbots who are a wildcard in this year's election few talk about and are about to make the Rmoney coronation into a circus. Methinks Rheinhold is trying to cut them off at the pass by trying this distraction...less talk about taxes and more dogwhistles to the racists and biggots.
He also hopes by tying the tax questions to the birfer noise he hopes to diminish the question. He knows Chicken Noodle Nuze loves the "all sides do it" meme and are too lazy to fact check so that his spin goes unquestioned and it fits perfectly into the false equivelency memes the corporate media thrive on.
mick063
(2,424 posts)The RNC chair is doing our job for us. Pointing out how ridiculous the birther "issue" is while reminding everyone of a tax cover up that Mitt would just as soon go away.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)He obviously has something to hide. The birth certificate was released.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Even Richard Nixon released far more tax returns than Mittwit. It's standard operating procedure for anyone seeking the presidency.
Rince Peenus is a lying weasel. Which puts him in the company of all the other Repigs.
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)By insulting Democrats Republicans create a new schism amongst their base.
I'm loving it!
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I bet there are plenty of dumb struck birthers right about now.
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)Thoughtless teabaggers drifting aimlessly, their minds in stall unable to determine who to hate.
I guess Fox News needs one of these:
Zip, zap, new instructions.
"Just sit in front of the TV."
"Birther is now a bad thing."
"AHHHHHH!"
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)I don't find merit in this analogy, but if there was any credence to it, so what?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Oh no, that was Big Pussy. My bad.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)I get all the reasons these two things are not similar. Beyond all that, though, there's the blaring insult this is to their elected party members who kept this meme alive, and their voting block who believed them.
What type of message do they expect this to send to their birther party members?
malaise
(268,918 posts)Release the tax returns
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Then he got special permission to release the original. They still screamed. It would be like Obama releasing only the name of the hospital he was born in and saying "I'm not telling you any more." False equivalence again.