Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging

[ProSense]

Romney Suggests Releasing Additional Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging

By Igor Volsky

Mitt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.

At least eight Republicans have urged Romney to publicize the records and put the issue behind him, but the candidate is sticking to his guns. The public will see just two years of returns and no more, Romney said, before appearing to admit that the records may contain something politically damaging:

ROMNEY: The Obama people keep on wanting more and more and more. More things to pick through, more things for their opposition research to try make a mountain out of and to distort and to be dishonest about. We’re going to put out two years of tax returns.

Watch it:

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/16/519241/romney-suggests-releasing-additional-tax-returns-could-be-politically-damaging/

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[WI_DEM]

1. the more Romney talks the deeper the hole he digs.

[warrior1]

2. #whatismitthiding

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Oh boy

they are going to haul him off the stage and get that VP pick out here quick.

[malaise]

4. Translation - my tax returns are toxic

ROMNEY: The Obama people keep on wanting more and more and more. More things to pick through, more things for their opposition research to try make a mountain out of and to distort and to be dishonest about. We’re going to put out two years of tax returns.

[nc4bo]

5. That faucet needs more than a washer..

Lawd this is delish.

[malaise]

6. Hahahahahaha

I'm lovin' it

[corkhead]

8. What's in them must be worse than what our imaginations can conjure

[malaise]

9. Yep

Looks that way

[reformist2]

7. The crazy thing is he's been running for 5 years...his tax returns ought to be squeaky clean!

Just goes to show, he loves making money more than becoming president.

[MADem]

10. WhoopWhoopWhoopWHOOOP--there it is! Greed over common sense! nt

[justabob]

12. really!

I was just thinking about that... This guy has known he was going to run for public office and HAS been running or in office for the last effing DECADE, twice for president. Why is his paperwork STILL such a mess? He had to know it was going to come up sometime.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. My guess is he did some really sneaky stuff just after he failed in 2008

Given he wasn't that successful in the primary that year, maybe his initial reaction had been "I'll never win the nomination - why bother running again? I'll just get as much money as I can by moving it to <insert tax havens here>". And then he looked at the likely 2012 runners, and thought "the only ones saying they might run are a bunch of loons - I'll run after all". It took him until 2010 to make his return look half-decent, so that's as far back as he thinks he can go now.

[Avalux]

11. Hey Asshole - if you've got nothing to hide, what's the problem???

Actually, not releasing them is only choice he has, since those returns will sink him.

[SunsetDreams]

14. That's an understatement

if it wasn't politically damaging, he would release them.

[ProSense]

15. Stating the obvious. n/t