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Mitt Romney Paid More Taxes Than Required, Raising Rate to 14.1 Percent
Via his campaign: “He was in the unique position of having made a commitment to the public that his tax rate would be above 13%. He directed his preparers to ensure that he is consistent with that statement.”
Interestingly, he told ABC News in July that he would not pay more in taxes “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.”
And in January he said, “I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. I don’t think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes.”
Is he disqualifying himself?
MITT ROMNEY: No one can say my plan is going to raise taxes on middle-income people, because principle number one is keep the burden down on middle-income taxpayers.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Is $100,000 middle income?
MITT ROMNEY: No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less.
Mitt Romney’s interview with ABC News, defining the middle class
No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.
Hackers hold Mitt Romney's allegedly stolen tax returns for ransom - Daily Dot
Mitt Romney’s tax returns are reportedly in the hands of a team of hackers who are planning on releasing them publicly at the end of the month unless a ransom is paid.
Mormons For Obama Launch Their Own “Missionary Effort”
Harry Reid rallies a minority with in a minority. “I wish Mitt Romney would stop talking about his religion!”
CHARLOTTE, NC — Several dozen Mormon Democrats packed the second floor meeting room of a Holiday Inn here Tuesday for an event that was part political rally and part support session: an address from the modern icon of Latter-day Saint liberalism: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Via BuzzFeed
Obama Campaign Shreds ‘Lies’ in Ryan Speech
“There’s no delicate way to say this. Last night, Paul Ryan lied. Repeatedly, knowingly and brazenly,” deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter told reporters today.
abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/obama-campaign-shreds-lies-in-ryan-speech/
The Mormon Card
Via Daily Beast
“The Obama White House may not make Mormonism an issue directly, but that doesn’t mean that the incumbent won’t benefit from the coverage that Romney’s religion will inevitably receive. And it’s possible that Romney would stand to gain if he spoke more directly and in more detail about a worldview that’s clearly at the heart of his identity, and that provides one of the most authentic and deeply-felt influences on his often inauthentic-seeming personality. In one form or another, there will be plenty of attempts to define Romney’s religion for him, and he might be better off doing his own defining first.”
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FOX NEWS SUGGESTS President Obama’s appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is somehow denigrating the office of the presidency. For instance, today on Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson said that it’s “nutso” for Obama to go on “these comedy shows” because it “lowers the status of the office.” – Obama Lowered “The Status Of The Office”? Bush Appeared On Deal Or No Deal
- 9 presidential pols on late-night TV – 6. George W. Bush drew both laughs and groans on “Late Show with David Letterman” on March 1, 2000, when he told his host, who had recently undergone heart bypass surgery, “It’s about time you had the heart to invite me.” 8. Al Gore read a “Top 10” list of rejected Gore-Lieberman campaign slogans on the Sept. 14, 2000, episode of “Late Show with David Letterman.” No. 9: “Remember, America, I gave you the Internet, and I can take it away!” 9. Mitt Romney also used Letterman’s “Top 10” segment to jab himself on Dec. 20, 2011. The No. 1 thing Romney would like to say to the American people? “It’s a hairpiece.”
BREAKING: NBC News confirms that Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential campaign on Tuesday, May 1st in Washington, DC.
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The hint Santorum refuses to take
Three more primary defeats strengthen Rick Santorum’s conviction that he’s the next Reagan
Via Salon
Why I love my homestate.
Looks like Mitt Romney's pissed off about Etch A Sketches tonight.
A Rick Santorum spokeswoman was handing out Etch A Sketches before a Mitt Romney town hall Wednesday in Arbutus, Md., furthering the goading of the GOP front runner after a gaffe by his campaign earlier in the day.
And it apparently worked. After the event, Romney shot back at reporters who quizzed him about it.
“I’m not doing a press conference right now, OK?” a testy Romney said, grabbing a reporter’s tape recorder. He then hastily called a media avail and took one question.
Did he shake the tape recorder like an Etch A Sketch, hoping he’d remove the question from the recording?
That’s a big lava lamp, congratulations.
