Can you even fucking imagine that if back in 2008, the Democratic candidate for President had been found to have offshore tax shelters and un-taxed business accounts in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands .... oh my! ... what a hell storm of outrage and fury would have been mustered up!! .... and then make that candidate a black guy to boot!!!! Hoo-wee! The Teabaggers would have been marching up to Obama's then Chicago residence with pitchforks, torches and, undoubtedly, a few nooses in their hands.
Oh my, oh dear-oh my . . . ROFLMAO.
Hell - even some of the more mainstream conservatives are now questioning what Willard Romney is hiding in his tax returns:
It’s a bad sign for Mitt Romney when conservatives begin to question why the presumptive Republican nominee won’t release more of his tax returns. But on Sunday, that’s what happened. Conservative analysts joined Democrats in wondering whether Romney is just being impolitic in not releasing several years worth of returns — or whether he’s trying to hide something.
Democrats have been calling on Mitt Romney to release more than one year of his tax returns with a series of web videos and public statements. So far, he has released his 2010 returns and an estimate of his 2011 returns.
To politicos across the ideological spectrum, Romney’s unwillingness to release anything beyond these two years raises the question: if it’s worth the bad press to keep the tax returns private, they must contain something worse.
“The cost of not releasing the returns are clear,” said conservative columnist George Will, on ABC’s “This Week.” “Therefore, he must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them.”
On the ABC roundtable, Republican strategist Matthew Dowd had a similar take.
“There’s obviously something there, because if there was nothing there, he would say, ‘Have at it,’” Dowd said. “So there’s obviously something there that compromises what he said in the past about something.”
“Many of these politicians think, ‘I can do this. I can get away with this. I don’t need to do this, because I’m going to say something and I don’t have to do this,’” Dowd said. “If he had 20 years of ‘great, clean, everything’s fine,’ it’d all be out there, but it’s arrogance.”
In the last week, several Republicans have advised Romney to release his returns. That list includes former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former RNC chairman Michael Steele and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who called for “total transparency” and said he releases all his tax returns. On “Fox News Sunday,” the Weekly Standard’s editor Bill Kristol added his voice to the list as well, calling for Romney to “release the tax returns tomorrow” and “take the hit for a day or two.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/conservative-romney-taxes-returns-hiding-something.php
The Gadfly is not naive though - this info may sway a few fence sitting independent voters to go against Romney, but believe me, the faithful rubes and their Tea-bagger friends will simply whistle Dixie while looking the other way and lie to themselves that "everybody does it," or convince themselves that more accessible healthcare for more uninsured Americans (the ACA reform - aka Obamacare) is much more evil than some modern day robber baron like Romney, who's business track record of destroying smaller companies, jobs and communities is the personification of what is at the root of America's economic destruction. In their blind and zealous hatred of Obama, they would gladly destroy what remnants there are of the ideals and concepts that made this country the greatest representative democracy and most powerful economic engine in history.
The Gadfly has stated it before, maybe we need somebody like Romney to win, and let the Teathuglicans have their way with Congress as well. A deep and painful depression like the one in the 1920's-1930's on the conservatives watch might just be the magic tonic needed to wake people up as to who's interests Willard Romney, the GOP and their corporate sugar daddies truly represent.
----TFG
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