Rachel Maddow Pushes Discredited Romney Tax Return Conspiracy Theory…From 2002
- Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:29pm by
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On last night’s Rachel Maddow show, the famously geeky Maddow made a tantalizing tease.
“We have found some tape in the archives that may take this fight in a whole new direction as of tomorrow,” Maddow said coyly. “We have got that tape that I think nobody has seen in at least a decade, and we’ve got that story as our lead tomorrow night. We’ve got that incredible tape for you tomorrow night.”
Intriguing stuff, and it certainly intrigued us enough to tune into Maddow’s show right at 9 PM tonight to see just what she had gotten. And like any good pundit, Maddow teased her material in fine form, even going so far as to condemn Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his intemperate remarks about Romney “not paying taxes for 10 years.” This speculation, Maddow said, was unbecoming, before going for a segue into her evidence against Romney.
The results were deeply disappointing. Specifically, Maddow went after Romney using two different sets of video evidence (as well as an article) from Romney’s 2002 Gubernatorial campaign in Massachusetts. Maddow’s argument, similarly, was two-fold – firstly, that Romney had done exactly what Reid is doing now back when Romney ran in 2002, by questioning the decision by then-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shannon O‘Brien not to release her husband’s tax returns. Maddow has since posted this snippet of the article in question on her blog:
One day after balking at releasing his own tax returns, Republican Mitt Romney‘s campaign yesterday accused Democrat Shannon O’Brien of covering up her husband’s past lobbying work, including his ties to failed energy giant Enron.
“Her hands aren’t clean,” said Romney deputy campaign manager Eric Fehrnstrom of O‘Brien’s release of her tax return but not the filings of her husband, longtime lobbyist R. Emmett Hayes. “She can’t claim to be disclosing anything until she discloses the returns of her husband, the Enron lobbyist. Under Shannon O’Brien, the state Pension Board lost millions by buying Enron stock when it was collapsing – what is she hiding?”
Now, Maddow’s point – that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander – would be well-taken, but for one crucial distinction. That is that unlike Harry Reid, Romney’s attack, as detailed above, was not based on wild speculation. O‘Brien’s husband, Mr. Hayes, was a well-known lobbyist for a company that was under investigation for one of the worst financial scandals in recent history. Thus, given that there was evidence of his proximity to a crime – a crime that was alleged to have occurred not just by one unidentified source, but by the United States Government – the question about his returns might be considered slightly more valid than demanding Romney’s returns based on nothing but hearsay from a former unnamed colleague. Moreover, asking the question of what this someone’s tax returns might be hiding is a very different concept than pulling unproven hypotheses out of thin air about that peron filing them at all. So Maddow’s comparison is, put charitably, one of apples-to-oranges.
But moreover, the brief clip that Maddow played of Romney pointing out that O‘Brien’s husband hadn’t released his returns in a September 24, 2002 GOP debate was, as she herself later inadvertently showed, out of context. Romney did not, in fact, call on O‘Brien’s husband to release his tax returns out of the blue, but instead to make a point about the value of privacy in response to a question about his (Romney’s) own tax returns. So really, Romney was agreeing with Maddow’s framing, that what was good for the goose was good for the gander, and that if he should be free from suspicion, a known lobbyist for Enron should be free from suspicion. Listening comprehension appears to have hit a new low at MSNBC.
But Maddow wasn’t finished. In fact, she hadn’t even really gotten started. She had a bigger item to push, you see, and wanted to make sure we all heard it. Specifically, Maddow charged Romney with lying about his residency in Massachusetts in 2002, and waiting right up until days before the election to admit that the “lie” in question was a “lie” and re-file his tax returns, retroactively making him a citizen of Massachusetts.
Quite a revelation. And if Romney really did wait until days before the election reveal this apparent “lie,” then it should be cause for concern. In fact, you’d expect the issue of his residency to come up in the gubernatorial debates of the time, wouldn’t you? Yet mysteriously, it doesn’t.
Why? Because Romney’s residency did not, in fact, take until right before the election to resolve. Rather, it was resolved in June of 2002. From a Boston Globe article dated June 7, 2002:
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Mitt Romney contradicted his previous public statements yesterday, and said for the first time that he did not file Massachusetts income tax returns for 1999 and 2000 as a resident of this state.
At a news conference, Romney said that he filed as a part-year resident for 1999 and a nonresident for 2000. He amended those returns, claiming Massachusetts resident status, on April 2, a week after he announced he was running for governor of Massachusetts and four days before the state Republican convention that endorsed his candidacy.[...]
Earlier in the week, he rejected a request by the Globe for copies of his returns with financial information redacted, but his residential status visible. A Romney spokesman insisted at that time the GOP candidate had filed his returns as a Massachusetts resident, but told the Globe reporter, “You’re going to have to take my word for it.”
The chief counsel for the state Democratic party says the chances are “better-than-50-50” that the party will file a challenge to Romney’s residency today. The threats of a challenge brought scorn from Romney.
“Go ahead and make my day,” he said at the press conference. “It’s a high-stakes game for someone to challenge me on the basis of residency.”
And as it turns out, that high stakes game was played. The Democrats did, in fact, challenge Romney’s residency, claiming that he’d intentionally lied about living in Massachusetts, when his primary place of living had really been in Utah. Like Reid, Obama and Maddow today, they banked on it either knocking Romney out of contention or damaging him irrecoverably.
His uncontested march to the Republican nomination soon hit a roadblock when the Massachusetts Democratic Party challenged his candidacy, contending Romney’s three years in Utah disqualified him because the Massachusetts Constitution requires seven years of residency before the election.
Initially, Romney’s campaign insisted that he had filed his federal income taxes as a resident of Massachusetts. But soon after, he acknowledged he had filed as a Utah resident for two years and had amended those tax returns after announcing his candidacy to show Massachusetts as his home.[...]
Over three days in June, the state Ballot Law Commission heard evidence about his tax returns and the fact that the Romneys’ Utah home had been classified as his “primary residence,” giving him an $18,000 property-tax break each of three years.
Romney attributed the mistakes to his accountant and the local tax assessor, who under oath acknowledged the error and after the commission proceedings sent him a new bill to recoup $54,587.
If the tax filings suggested Romney was hedging his political bets, the evidence also showed he always maintained his Belmont voting address – choosing George W. Bush over John McCain in the 2000 Republican presidential primary, he recently said – and had returned for special occasions while in Utah, maintaining ties to Bay State boards and organizations.
“He never severed his ties to Massachusetts,“ and ”his testimony was credible in all respects,” the board concluded in a unanimous, 41-page decision.
The assault on Romney brought him sympathy, and he accused Democrats of “ridiculous, dirty politics.”
This is the big, scary lie that Maddow claims Romney committed regarding his tax returns? If so, he should “lie” like this more often – it apparently gets him voter sympathy and makes official government institutions exonerate him unanimously.
Which brings us to the point Maddow was trying to make with this story: That Romney’s behavior now is exactly like his behavior then, and since he “lied” then, we should believe he’s “lying” now.
This doesn’t follow logically, but for the sake of irony, let’s take her at her word. If 2002 parallels 2012 the way Maddow believes, then it would seem that since Romney was the target of an unfair inquisition surrounding his taxes in 2002, only to be totally exonerated of any wrongdoing and get voter sympathy, it would follow logically that he is also the target of an unfair inquisition surrounding his taxes now, and that he will be totally exonerated of any wrongdoing and get voter sympathy as a result of that inquisition now, as well.
Congratulations, Ms. Maddow, you have just made a very strong argument for the Democratic party to drop this subject.
UPDATE: Mediaite flags a third part of Maddow’s attack on Romney, pointing out that Romney vacillated on the issue of releasing his tax returns in 2002, saying he’d be willing to do it if Ted Kennedy, at the time his last serious political opponent, was willing to release his:
Rachel Maddow took a look into Mitt Romney‘s political past tonight to explain just how Romney has gone back-and-forth on the issue of releasing tax returns, from his failed 1994 bid to unseat Ted Kennedy to his successful run for Massachusetts governor in 2002 to the current presidential race. She highlighted an offer Romney made in 1994 to release his returns after Kennedy did, an offer which an advisor said was still valid eight years later, and wondered if the offer was still on the table.[...]
Maddow highlighted a quote by Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom in 2002, after Romney said he would not release his tax returns, in which Fehrnstrom said of the 1994 deal with Kennedy: “We’ve been waiting eight years and the offer still stands.” Maddow tried to make some sense of this logic.
“That was the only condition under which Romney would release his tax returns? His opponent releasing her tax returns wasn’t enough, all his Democratic opponents releasing their tax returns wasn’t enough, getting caught lying about his tax returns in relation to his Massachusetts residency wasn’t enough, but eight years after he ran against Ted Kennedy for Senate, when he was running in a totally different race, to which Ted Kennedy was totally irrelevant, the release of Ted Kennedy’s tax returns would be the trigger for Mitt Romney to release his returns? Why?”
Watch Maddow’s segment here:
This segment appeared pointless to respond to at the time, simply because Maddow highlighting a rather odd 10-year-old request seems entirely too petty to even comment on, and besides, it is highly unlikely that Romney holds a grudge against the now dead Senator Kennedy 18 years after that past race. However, to quickly use Maddow’s legalistic style of thinking, even if the offer were “still open,” it would be only for the tax returns prior to 2002 (when the offer was made), and what exactly would the Democrats expect to learn from tax returns that originate from years when Romney was drawing a salary at Bain Capital, which would be taxed, regardless of offshore accounts or other investments?
Either way, it hardly matters. In all likelihood, the “deal” is off the table, a fact about which Maddow et al should not attempt to complain. After all, it’s not as though other Presidential candidates have abandoned promises they made in past campaigns or anything.



















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Verceofreason
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:20pmYe olde “The mistakes were his accountants”
Report Post »I know you wus followink awduhs.
Puddle Duck
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:21amGrasping at pitiful straws…. this stupidity (from the left) is backfiring (and badly I might add)
The reason nothing will stick to Romney is simply because there is nothing the guy has done in his life that will give the Dems a cheap, easy victory and it’s driving them crazy trying to spin jack squat into a major scandal.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:31amRomney isn’t going to show his tax returns. Give it up Rachel. If Romney released his tax returns he’d lose the election. Romney, and Bain, made money for themselves and their investors by using every loophole, every secret overseas account in Switzerland, the Caymans, or wherever, every tax dodge they could. How could Romney possibly have 10 million bucks in an IRA?
There is one thing you can be sure of. Romney will not release his tax returns. He’d lose the election if he did.
Report Post »Crazy-Horse
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:48amMr JZS
Report Post »Maybe you would like your info posted for all the world to see? OK?
jzs
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:16amCrazy-Horse, interesting that your username is taken from a great native American leader who fought to hold on to the homeland of his people. Are you making a joke or something with your username?
You don’t seem to be aware of the fact that the googles and the internets make posts like yours and mine available to anyone in the world.
Report Post »Crazy-Horse
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:25amMr JZS
Oh goodie. So I have your permission to post your info here? After all, I’m just “a great native American leader who fought to hold on to the homeland of his people”
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:35amjzs,
Report Post »do ya think GE does the same? When they don’t pay taxes? You and your gutless looney lefts, seem to think your the only ones paying taxes. You keep complaining abour Bain and Romney making money but yet you never say anything about them losing millions! Yes, I believe 80% of the companies bought by Bain, were made Better! And it was bain who invested the money into the Businesses to make them better! Yet you complain about the ones they invested in and couldn’t make profits on! So what did they do when they invested money, and couldn’t salvage or bring the company out of Financial Problems, they sold them off! SO your complaining that Romney invested, lost money, and the sold those companiess off to make some money back? Oh thats right, you want to spread the wealth with obama, and the father of all lies! Right? OR tax him to death, right? Morron, Keep taxing the rich and the rich will stop investing, stop making money, or just move to a different country, but isn’t that what you and your father of all lies want? Yep, bring down the Economy, downsize the military, and the whole country is his! But as long as you and obama make people dependent on the Govt. they’ll follow you over the Cliff because they dont see the strings attached to you and your father. So you live high on the hog and everyone else lives off the Garbage. obama gets all the money and you he kicks to the curb!.. Keep believing your Lying father. He has some coolade for you to drink
sillyfreshness
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:41amThe Bolsheviks (Dems) are really going to keep pushing this whole “Romney is a felon on the run” notion. Our “chosen people” ran Marxist Media is right there co-conspiring with our government to get Romney arrested. Expect an arrest of Romney in October to cancel the election and the communist coup will be complete. Wait and see.
Report Post »RIGS
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:46amAnother MSNBC moron telling lies as usual. RACHEL MADCOW speaking from her utter.
Report Post »Crazy-Horse
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:12amMr JZS
I’m waiting for your answer. Tick tock tick tock.
Report Post »kegbuna
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:38amCrazy Horse what is your point in posting his information? For one thing, I’m fairly certain that intimidating another user by posting their personal info in the comments section is a violation of terms. Also, it just goes to show that when you lose the argument, you resort to some thuggish tactics. While I doubt anyone would do anything with that information, the snide nature of your threat is what makes it so vile. Between you and Hawkeye I don’t know who gives conservatives a worse name.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:17amIt’s real simple, release the returns when Obama unseals ALL his records….especially the ones that have him listed as a foreign born student, and his tuition being paid by communists, along with his failing grades,and his medical records detailing his drug abuse and his HIV status……..PERIOD.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:28amOnce again JZS you really must stop sniffing model glue. I, like Romney, am forced to rely on my team of CPA’s to prepare my taxes for me. Since our tax code was designed along good, solid Communist principles, it is far to onerous for anyone not a specialist to learn. Last I heard it was approaching 100,000 pages.
Report Post »Unlike your taxes, that you can put onto the back of a small napkin, my last years tax return was well over eighty pages thick. And, just so I will really tick you off, after taking every legal deduction, once again, my fair share of taxes was zero, zip, Nada, nothing!
And, for the fourth year in a row, it passed the IRS audit also.
Am I targeted? With my beliefs, what do you think?
And frankly, that was the way our dear politicians have designed things! Or perhaps I should say, the way your wonderful Progressive Politicians have designed things.
I know that brainwashing is exceptionally difficult to overcome, but try learning some real facts. Perhaps read a real history book or two, not some socialist trash designed to maintain your brain washing.
yubba
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:34amYou get em Crazy horse, these liberal moles in here can’t stand the fact they are loosing, they say you give conservatives a bad name, oh contrair, these guys give us americans a bad name. So if Mittens hasn’t paid taxes, then tell me you liberaltards why hasn’t the IRS done something about it, and you talk about loopholes no such thing, it‘s the tax code for everyone to use it’s only fair I thought you liberals were about fairness or is that a lie too. So get you some Chic fil a an enjoy the American dream, proof people, if you don‘t have any I’d keep my mouth shout, it makes you look stupid.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:35amSo let’s try a little math with the thinking……Romney is supposed to release tax returns for the past ten years, if as is indicated by the articles that he realesed 2 years of tax returns in 2002 for his race as governor and he released 2 years of tax returns for his run in the subsequent elections he entered, I would think that the 10 years since 2002 and 2012 would produce 10 years of tax returns already produced….
Can the left not find them because they aren’t in a google searchable format?
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:37amShe has to fill her shows time slot up with something. Or just pull out her wallet and show pictures of her girlfriend.
Report Post »DoomsdayProphet
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:59amJZS it is no ones business what someone makes. “income tax is voluntary” So everyone in America who has their money stolen from them before they see their check. Well they are doing it voluntarily even though that money would do them way more good than it does the government. You see hypocrite the problem with the lefts argument is, it is not tradition nor is it a standard of being president…Unlike having 2 American parents with at least 1 generation passed naturalization to become president of the united states. Unlike the fact that where you are born means nothing and who you’re parents are and their citizenship status means EVERYTHING. Sorry, but your boy really isn’t eligible and I am not a birther….I am a Natural Born Citizen TRUTHER. Because my argument is TRUTH and based in a factual and easily found manner. Read the eligibility clause in the constitution. The Same one Barrack used to say somehow McCain was eligible to be president….like there was any doubt. It was HE who is not eligible and EVEN HE knows that to be fact. Thanks for playing the game
Report Post »CaChoo
Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:17amAnd none of Obamas classmates or professors can seem to remember him…..where are his high school and college sweethearts ? Who paid for his school ? Did he claim he was foreign born ? What were his grades, why did he relinquish his law license ??? Whywere three of his gay lovers murdered ? What madrasa did he study at in Indonesia ? Did he ever have a real job ? He listened to rev wright for twenty years, was married by him , and had his daughters baptized in that hate filled Chicago church, but remembers nothing…..THANK YOU MEDIA, FOR ASKINGTHESE QUESTIONS…..I’m glad Romneys a wealthy business man….it’s exactly what we need……..
1654American
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:20amCongress created the tax code and all of legal deductions, aka ‘loopholes’. Why are people vilifying a citizen or a business who files their tax returns that take full advantage of the allowable deductions/loopholes? This is the purpose of the profession of accounting. Neither is it illegal for citizens or businesses to have bank accounts in foriegn countries, as long as it is properly reported. Stop the lie about Romney’s SECRET Swiss and Cayman Island bank accounts. They were listed on his disclosed tax return this is why everyone knows about them, I’m guessing. Over 60% of our career federal politicians are multi-millionaires. It should be more of a concern to the media how politicians make millions as public servants!
Report Post »TheCenturion
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:27amhaven’t posted in awhile, but I couldn’t resist this opportunity.
To FOX NEWS – PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE invite Mz. Madcow to host the 2012 election returns in November, because it will be a great pleasure to watch her have a total meltdown when the TEA Party ousts Obama and the libs from power.
BTW, Rachel, I’m having Chik Filet today, have a nice day.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:45amMSNBC is a joke. Why pay any attention to these high-school-like people.
Report Post »Mountain Mama Martha
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:57amStupid, his accountant ADMITTED it was. Get your head out of your arse and learn to read.
Report Post »mersey
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:24pmCome on you staff at The Blaze! Who’s going to read an article this long about Rachel MadCow? I lost interest after the first paragraph.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:45pmI don’t care how much of a Romney supporter you are this has to scare you a bit. You don‘t know what’s in those returns that he refuses to release. McCain knows and he’s not denying what Harry Reid says. If I were a Republican I would sure want to know before the convention. I can assure you if President Obama didn’t release his this board would ne all over him. Go Rachel !!
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:29pmJZS: Where income taxes are concerned, if the loophole is there why wouldn’t you use it?
Report Post »Paydert33
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:43pm@1654AMERICAN….Your Post is fantastic. All these dem morons complaining about how Romney paid….15% in taxes? Look at charlie hoarse-rangel. How much does he owe from his on-purpose-hidden-property-oh-I-forgot-I-had-the-property taxes. These yo-yo’s write the tax code. So, let me get this straight….they write the tax code, and only the dems can use the tax code? Romney is entitled to use the tax code, but he has to say…..”oh, I’m a Republican, so I can’t use or take the deductions of which I am entitled by the tax code, only the low-life dems can do that, so just for the heck of it, I will pay millions more to satisfy low-life’s like whats-her-face-madcow”. Even then, the marxist, socilaist, a-holes wouldn’t be satisfied.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:09pmCrazy-Horse, “post my info?” Sure, knock yourself out. Whatever blows up your skirt.
historyguy48, your post sent my BS detector into overdrive. Here is someone who claims to be rich, and says the tax code is “communist” although they pay no taxes. Actually whenever anyone here uses the word “communist” or “Marxist” in any context is enough to show they are full of crap.
Regardless, let me give you some advice your “team of CPAs” won’t tell you. Don’t run for President. And if you do, don’t release your income taxes. Also, stop complaining about people who don’t pay taxes.
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:23pm@VERCEOFREASON / JZS /…. Awe shucks. You guys got us. LOL. He‘s followed the letter of the law by disclosing what’s required, and if he hasn’t then I hope he gets his just desserts. We know more about Mitt Romney this election cycle than anyone did about Barak “I kIlled Osama Bin Laden” Obama during the ‘08 cycle. BTW, Good job pulling the wool over the sheeple’s eyes. The only ones who knew the truth about Odumbo was his marxist handlers. You know, the Chicago thugs. Oh, BTW did you see what happened in Texas this last week. Wait till November when the Tea Party rocks the HOUSE.
SOL
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:24pmMost people I know, Dems & Repubs would rather see a real birt certificate and Obamas college transcrpts. We get the fact Romney is very, very rich and doesn’t have to steal from us taxpayers to get richer.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:11pm@TURKEY13
You saw a real birth certificate AND Obama showed his 10years of tax history as is STANDARD PRACTICE. But Romney refuses to.
Just more of that undue elitism from the far right. They think they are better than everyone else and don’t have to play by the unspoken rules. I don’t want a leader that is that stuck up and piggish.
Obama ‘12
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:16pmKEEP IT UP DOPEY DEMS…. WE know that GOV ROMNEY has released over 700 pages of tax returns, his 2010 and filled out numerous forms…ALL that are required, and will release his 2011 when completed in Aug. and get this you goons: REID never released his, Piglosi won’t release hers and yes, I know they aren’t running for President, but they have done MORE HARM to the USA than ALL of the Senators and Congress people in all of our American History!
WHY the hell should MITT release his tax returns for every con-artist, crook, criminal and the rest of the Obama’s staff ghouls to pick apart? THE ISSUE is not MITT ROMNEY’S TAXES…the ISSUE is that ONE-WORLD-DICATATOR-WANNA-BE-COMMUNIST in the WH . GOOD try, Thugs but no Cigar…speaking of cigar’s …no matter how many Convention Speeches Fmr. Pres.Clinton Makes!!!
Report Post »PS Madcow is just pathetic…It’s no wonder that her station has lost hundreds of thousands of viewers!
Realist4U
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:17pmYou’re expecting someone like Maddow to be able to distinguish between “a li” and “the truth,” when he/she can’t distinguish what sex she is?
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:56pmMy Momma said, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Thanks, Mom, I do try to remember this, but I can’t follow all your advice when I dislike idiots like Madcow. They are usually full of **** and I can’t sit by and see the likes of him/her say hateful things about my candidate.
Now, if they would tell the truth about obama and his lifestyle, his friends, his dirty deeds, but they won’t. The truth isn’t in these liberal folk, lie lie lie to hid his dirty dealings to harm America.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:11pmThe one thing that nobody seems to think about is the fact that Mitt Romney’s father,George Romney, set the precedent for candidates releasing tax returns by releasing 12 years worth when he ran for the Republican nomination, and said that ALL who run for the nomination of President should do the same. If anyone should honor the late George Romney’s request, it should be his son! If he is not willing to show honor to his deceased fathers memory, then what he has to hide is probably really bad.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:41pmMaddow, Sgt “I know nothing” Ed Schultz, Larry and the rest of the gang are past masters of presenting only the parts of the story to suit their agenda. You cannot believe anything they say as they use omission of facts in the commission of lying.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:28pmthis Bain and Romney Tax Return BS ??? Let’s do some
Report Post »Stories on O‘Blamer’s Broken promises to the AMERICAN
people, the wasted money spent on green energy, the high
cost of food and gas, the corruption and cronyism..the only
time we hear Obama’s name mentioned is when Chris
Matthews gets a hard-on just thinking about the POTUS..
MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:58pm@West Coast Patriot
Report Post »Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:11pm
The one thing that nobody seems to think about is the fact that Mitt Romney’s father,George Romney, set the precedent for candidates releasing tax returns by releasing 12 years worth when he ran for the Republican nomination, and said that ALL who run for the nomination of President should do the same. If anyone should honor the late George Romney’s request, it should be his son! If he is not willing to show honor to his deceased fathers memory, then what he has to hide is probably really bad.
With all that being said: How about we have all of the Obama’s Records being displayed
for all to see….How he got into Occidental College, Transcripts from Harvard, Columbia.
his affiliation with ACORN, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Blago, CHICAGO POLITICS at it’s
finest……and all the GOOD THINGS MO did at University of Chicago Hospital for a
$300,000 a year job ????/
West Coast Patriot
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:34pmMIBUGNU2, I agree with you. Why don’t we have Congressmen that will file impeachment charges on Obama? Sheriff Joe has made some progress, but even he does not have enough evidence to charge Obama. I wish it were simpler than it is to get the real evidence against him. If it could be proven that he was not eligible to be POTUS, we could have all laws that he signed become moot immediately. But that has nothing to do with tax returns. Obama did release 11 years, I am just saying it hurts Romney more by not following his own fathers request. If he has nothing to hide, he should just lay this to rest and honor his fathers wishes.
With that said, I wish everyone would wake up to the fact that if Romney becomes the nominee, Obama will have four more years to drive our country into the ground. Romney does not have the base to defeat him. Obama does still have a base, and Democrats will do like the Republicans and hold their nose, but they will hold it for Obama. Libertarians, a large part of Independents, will not vote for Romney, they will vote Johnson or write in Paul’s name. This will cause Obama to get another four. If Republicans want Obama out so bad, they should be voting for the only one left that would bring all these voting blocks to the Republican Party, Ron Paul.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:35pmQuestion? Did Maddow take the wife to the Chick Fil A KISS-IN yesterday?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:38pmhistoryguy48 says that while your tax return can be put on the back of an envelope, his requires a “team of CPAs” to put together and weighs in at over 80 pages. And he pays no taxes at all.
Most of you probably pay Federal income taxes, although less than Romney. But not historyguy. He’s rich. As Leona Helmsley said, “Only the little people pay taxes.” That would be you and me. But historyguy, if you take him at his word, pays none.
Now I know paying no taxes like historyguy is endearing to many of you and is the goal of patriots like you. For people like you the ultimate act of patriotism is paying zero taxes and letting other people carry the load. But do you think the average American is going to vote for Romney for supporting the idea that the richest, like historyguy, should get a big tax break, and pay for that by increasing your taxes? They‘re telling you that’s patriotism, and sadly, many of you are buying it.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:50pmjzs
You are pathetic. What have been the recent stories about Switzerland & banking? that the IRS was going to get the records of around 4,000 Americans. If Romney had his money in Switzerland & was not paying taxes on the interest (if he had accounts there), then the IRS would already have him in their sites.
I plan to have a Swiss account & want to hold money denominated in Swiss Francs to avoid having my wealth drained away when Washington cronies tell the Fed to inflate the money supply.
Report Post »I will pay taxes on the interest, but I will protect myself from the machination of crass politicians.
000degrees
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:08amj….you talk about user names??????? Pretty ironic….
Report Post »Partyof1
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:18amWhy does the Blaze continue to highlite what Maddow, Chris Matthews, Bill Maher and other low viewership shows have to say? Nobody is watching those shows and nobody would know they had a show if the Blaze did’nt give them so much credit. MSNBC isn’t even carried on Dish Network.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 10:31am.
Hey Rachel!
Since you can find a tape from 2002,
maybe you can find Obama’s grades from kindergarten too?
Oh, that’s too big a secret?
Report Post »Trowerpower
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:47am@jzs. What do think Ovommits chance would be if he released his College records? Zero.
Report Post »Boogie Mann
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:52amDoes anyone remember what Maddow’s employer did to Richard Jewel in the aftermath of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta? NBC destroyed the reputation of Mr. Jewel who was completely exonerated of any involvement in the bombing. Tom Brokaw of NBC went so far as to say, “The speculation is that the FBI is close to making the case. They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well.” Jewel died in 2007 from heart failure at the age of 44 with NBC, no doubt, being a contributing factor. From top-to-bottom NBC is infested with people in the Brokaw mold. Their sole intent is to destroy the reputations and character of those people they target. Maddow is but one example of their vicious hate mongering.
Report Post »onteo
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:16pmC’mon Mitt offer the same to Obama. Release ur tax returns when he releases his transcripts. And how about Mr Reid how bout u relaesing yours. Hypocrite
Report Post »RWCT
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:19pmShe still has a show? HMM, viewership was down to her family members from what I have heard.
Report Post »sheffie
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 7:44pmIs that a boy or girl?
Report Post »RSHLUVER
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:24pmI heard a rumor that Rachel Maddow was really a guy. Now I know I have no proof but the charge has been made. It’s up to her/him to prove it.
Report Post »jst1425
Posted on August 6, 2012 at 5:20amWhy ask those [Democrats/left wingnuts] to stop…?
Report Post »I think the republicans / conservatives should just let them all keep on talking!
Then they will become (by default) the republicans and conservatives best ally! I say just let them keep flapping their gums! Let them keep digging their own holes!
They are so busy making up issues that don’t exist (who said manufacturing is dead in America…LOL), they just don’t know when to shut up…it’s so funny if you stop and think about it.
Then all the republicans and conservatives need to do is shine light on the huge lack of credibility being spewed about by the Democrats and left wingnuts.
It should be very easy for even the “uninformed” American public to see the unbelievable lack of credibility the Democrats and left wingnuts are willing to demonstrate as their standard to live up to.
road2freedom
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:19pm@mr.goodvibe That’s funny s#$t. I don’t care who you are. It‘s great to be an American where you can make fun of anyone and won’t be shot. wait………a….moment….is that a drone I see……
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:19pm(compelling story)
Rachel Maddow DER DERPEE DERP! But Mitt Romney TEETLEE DERP! DA DERP! PERDEEDER PEE DERP! Maddow DER DOOPER DERP… but DERDEEPEEPEEDERP DA DERP Romney!
(zinger)
Congratulations, Ms. Maddow, DERPEE DERP DEE DERP TEETEEDULEE DERP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxYA6duF-9E
Report Post »Do The Right Thing
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:27pmHuh?
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:37pmEXACTLY, Do The Right Thing. It’s nonsense. Gibberish. FAKE-liberal vs. FAKE-conservative. Theater. A distraction.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:40pmOk…
Mr. Insane….
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:43pmIt is now quite apparent that you recieved the placebo in the drug trial. I suggest you make an appointment ASAP with your shrink to rectify the chemical imbalance in your head.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:08pmme thinks he had his head up ron pauls you no what
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:20pmC‘mon y’all…thats a SouthPark reference! “Rob Schneider is a ….”
Funny episode, and pretty much encapsulates what Madcow was saying here, kind of like Miss Othmar speaking (SURELY somebody has heard of ‘Charlie Brown’ ?!?!)
;)
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:19pmSt Kosys, the Paul bashers on here do not click on links as they are afraid of truths, so they did not see the South Park video before bashing. They want to stay blind so that when they vote for progressive socialist Romney, they will feel good, until the MSM announces that Obama has reached 270 electoral votes and wins another four. Ostriches.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:25amWCP is a bone.
Report Post »Thumper78
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:18pmWhy do I feel the people who are so worried how much money Romney made and his tax returns, are the same people who feel Obama doesn’t need to release college transcripts?Or discuss how he’s taken every precaution possible to make sure they are not released. Could it be because he obtained student loans by declaring he was a citizen of another country???
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:31pmThe point is that no president or presidential candidate has ever released college transcripts. The same cannot be said about tax returns. The birther issue has already been solved. By bringing it up you are making yourself look stupid and underminding your other political positions.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:41pmAnd the birther issue is solved by how? exposing a HI law that says anyone living and paying taxes in HI for ONE YEAR can register the birth of their children in HI. Surely you know that was the conclusion and the reason HI would not release the paper copy…cause that’s exactly what mama did. She went on down to the ol town hall and got a backdated BC for the little Kenyan. What’s done is done. After a time all his constitutional busting directives will be null and void and the dems will all be pointing fingers at each other.
You’re such a dope.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:00amThere is no proof whatsoever that that is what Obama’s mother did. All the evidence says Obama was born in the US.
Report Post »68Patriot
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:46amDUMBERLICK’EM, the point was that Obama obtained student loans by stating he was a citizen of another country. What does that have to do with the birther issue? C’mon. This poser has been a liar his whole life. Just because he can read a TelePrompTer and sounds really cool (and sometimes black when politically expedient) giving a speech doesn’t mean he should be running this country. He was doing fine failing as a community organizer in Chicago before voting present in the Senate. How’s Chicago doing since he left? Imagine what this country is gonna look like after 4 more years of this non-patriotic Socialist…
68
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:47amYa the birther issue is solved. It’s not like his social security number is wrong for Hawaii..oh wait it is. Well it’s not like he said on his little resume pamphlet that he was born in Kenya…oh wait he did…it’s not like his grandma said she watched him
Report Post »Being born in Kenya…,oh wait she did, but if you questions any of this you’re racist and stupid!
dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:07amOnce again, not true. There is absolutely no evidence that Obama got financial aid by saying he was from another country. I believe Rombey paid his taxes, and there is more evidence that Obama is a natural citizen than there is that Romney doesn’t have anything to hide in his tax returns.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:22amhttp://www.obamaconspiracy.org/bookmarks/fact-checking-and-debunking/the-debunkers-guide-to-obama-conspiracy-theories/#birthcertificate
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:19pmObama is an American citizen. No Doubt. Under the assumptions made by the “Arpaio
Posse” Don Ho may not even be a citizen. Romney’s tax returns are a MUST. This will
not go-away. There are so many questions about his financial dealings and that is
supposed to be his strong point. Below is a link to all the tax returns by candidates
going back to FDR
PS: Happy Birthday Mr President !!
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:28pmSorry for the above post….hard to read….don’t know what happened ??
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:54pmdubberlykm – George Bush released his college transcripts. Sorry, you were wrong about that one.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:02pmBush did NOT release his transcripts. Like with Gore, his college records were leaked illegally.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:06pmCollege Transcripts of George W. Bush Show C Average | Edu in …
Report Post »George W. Bush’s college transcripts from Yale University, which he has released openly, reveal that he was a solid C student who never received an A while he was in …
http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2008/10/college-transcripts-of... – Cached
dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:18pmI am incredibly disappointed by both sides on this issue. Reid made a wildly ridiculous claim about Romney that undermined his own party and made him look stupid. I‘m also incredibly troubled that the right has taken one man’s stupid comments and is using them to attack Obama and liberals. Many of the comments I’ve read on this article are rude and quite disheartening. Whatever happened to respectful debate? Attacking Maddow for being a lesbian is horrible and makes you look stupid. And just like less intelligent conservatives are using Reid and Maddow’s comments to attack all liberals, less intelligent liberals are going to take your bigoted, disrespectful comments and assume most conservatives are like that. Also, the difference between 2002 and 2012 is that releasing years of tax returns for a presidential election is MUCH more common than for gubernatorial elections. But as one who thinks voters should have as much information about candidates as possible, I think Romney and his 2002 opponent should have been more transparent.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:32pmAh lets see.. TS, and ah TS…and TS. We don’t care what you think. And you don’t need to keep switching IDs to make it appear you are different people.
Obama had all the charm and charisma to have been well remembered and followed for eons…he totally went Marxist on us and he’s gonna be remembered for the treasonous pig he is. He deserves everything history is going to say about him and his chicago gangsters.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:47pmTake heart dubberlykm, you are dealing with the bad apples around here. many more people read them but are too normal to become ‘one of them’. keep trying, we need more rational thought around here
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:49pmDUBBERLYKM is disappointed. Poor, tender, fragile soul.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:53pmI don’t understand. What does TS mean? And do you think I’m some other commenter who has changed accounts? Because that’s not true. And that’s an unfounded accusation, just like those made by Reid or Maddow. Also, it’s hard to take anyone who thinks Obama is a Marxist seriously. He is a moderate and not even close to having communist ideologies.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:56pmJesus was disappointed by his disciples. Poor, tender, fragile soul.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:40amWow Obama is a moderate ? who knew LOL… Talk about delusional. Tell me was Obamas mentor, Frank M Davis a card carrying blue dog Dem as well…what about his so called father ….his mother wasn’t exactly a moderate either. Lets see now he was surrounded throughout his life by hard core communists, he has radical leftists in cabinet posts, appointed radicals as Czars, talks about seeking out Marxists and communists throughout his academic career and he is a moderate ? His policies, talk and grasp on economics scream Marxist…there is nothing in this man that is remotely close to moderate. He makes Carter look like a right winger ( much to Carters relief I’ll bet).
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:57amMitt Romney is basically another John Corzine who probably didn’t pay any taxes and stole money from customers.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:05amdubber…chairman ocommie is a moderate???…best be getting back to kool-aid..bath-salts does a lemming BAD…
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:12amPresidents throughout the 20th century have appointed czars, including Richard Nixon. Bush appointed 33 czars. Which czars are Marxist? Also what policies have been pushed for or implemented that are Marxist? Obamacare was based on a Republican plan. Obama is giving tax cuts to businesses. He is not trying to forcefully take over the government to implement a socialist economy.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:29amIf you go to a liberal news site, you’ll see tons of comments about how Obama has betrayed his party by leaning so much to the right and compromising with Congress.
Report Post »Mountain Mama Martha
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:11pmLet’s see, Obama released two years of his tax reports. I see your point!! Obama only has to release TWO years, but Romney has to release TEN. Sounds fair to me. Romney did release his college information. All he did in college, grades etc. are on the net too. NOBODY except the ones that received the TWO MILLION DOLLARS from Obama know doodly-squat about him. Even in his OWN book he admits to lying!!! He’s been a liar, cheat, deceiver from day one and is still going strong at it. Obama opens his mouth…lies automatically spew out.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:29pmNot true. Obama released 12 years of tax returns. And neither Romney nor Obama have released college transcripts.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:32pmMountain Mama: why say Romney’s college info is readily available online when that is completely untrue? Don‘t say lies spew out of Obama’s mouth everytime he talks of you’re going to throw around lies yourself.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:34pmdubberlykm – The Shared Agendas of George Soros and Barack Obama …
Report Post »… the communist Frank Marshall Davis; he sought out Marxist … The list, of course, could go on and on. George Soros … proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of …
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276 – Cached
woodyl1011fl
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:56pmReid, Pelosi, Wasserman and other democrats have proven how vacuous the mind of a democrat is, when they open their mouths and wag their vile tongues and it damages their Fascist Marxist totalitarian democrat party at any time so much the better. The only institution more vile, corrupt, that embraces evil with such passion, practices deception more than the democrat party is their propaganda media arm also known as the self-proclaimed main stream media. Maddow is just another irrational Marxist liberal living in NYC that bastion of mindless sheeples.
Report Post »redriverattackdog
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:16pmGlenn Beck is one cruel bastard. You know he assigns watching the Rachael Maddow show to the college interns that tick him off. Glenn you also need to think about the huge ratings boost you are giving the show. By having your staff watch this Rachael guy’s show you are doubling his ratings.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:14pmPoor madcow, all five of her viewers are mentally challenged – so they cannot help but believe what she feeds them. We wonder what she is going to do for a job shortly because msnbc is on its death throes.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:13pmWho the heck is Rachel Maddow? Sounds like just another ****-for-brains liberal to me.
DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:07amShe‘s Anderson Cooper’s fraternal twin sister. It was a very confusing birth, and things got really mixed up.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:30amRonny Reagan Jr aka Rachael Madcow … … his father would be so ashamed (well that’s what Harry Reid said)
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:12pmOH NO!!!!!!!! FAKE-liberal “attacks” FAKE-conservative!?!?!?!?!?! Circle the wagons! Protect our “conservative” from their “liberal”!!!!!!!! NO, DON’T THINK! DON’T ASK WHY!!!!!! JUST DO IT! DO IT!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!! NOW!!!!!!! Freedom ain’t free, boy! Deeze colors don’t run!!! Gitterdun!!!!!!
Americans are not… falling for this… right?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:52amYeah…… vote for the palestinian loving neolib.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:07pm“We have found some tape in the archives that may take this fight in a whole new direction as of tomorrow,”
I am sure the three people who watch her show will be demanding “answers” as well. Poor Mitt appears to be on the ropes right now. What can he do other than save his money for a campaign push after he is officially nominated?
(sarcasm off), Mitt is in the catbird’s seat and holds cards that can make Obama look like Urkel playing a street thug. We can only wait and watch how this unfolds.
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:05pmWhy would FAKE-liberal Maddow rip FAKE-conservative Romney on taxes, when there’s SO, SO MUCH MORE?!?!?!
Barack Obama – Dream Amnesty
Mitt Romney – Dream Amnesty
Ron Paul – NO DREAM AMNESTY
Barack Obama – Executive ordered sodomite/lesbian marriage
Mitt Romney – Executive ordered sodomite/lesbian marriage
Ron Paul – Get government OUT of marriage
Barack Obama – TARP (that ignited the Tea Party)
Mitt Romney – TARP (that ignited the Tea Party)
Ron Paul – Warned and warned and warned and warned AGAINST TARP
Barack Obama – Signed NDAA
Mitt Romney – Would sign NDAA
Ron Paul – REPEAL NDAA
Barack Obama – PRIVATE Federal Reserve
Mitt Romney – PRIVATE Federal Reserve
Ron Paul – END THE FED.
Barack Obama – Isolationist foreign policy of UNCONSTITUTIONAL welfare/warfare
Mitt Romney – Isolationist foreign policy of UNCONSTITUTIONAL welfare/warfare
Ron Paul – American, Constitutional nonintervention
Barack Obama – UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act.
Mitt Romney – UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act.
Ron Paul – Fourth Amendment
Barack Obama – Gungrabber (Endorsed handgun ban and limiting gun purchases)
Mitt Romney – Gungrabber (Gun Control flip-flopper who SUPPORTED Brady)
Ron Paul – Second Amendment – Introduced legislation to repeal the “Brady Bill” and the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban.”
Obama – Collectivist “healthcare.” (Obamacare)
Report Post »Romney – Collectivist “healthcare.” (Romneycare)
Ron Paul – American free-market healthcare
MODEL82A1
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:13pmRon Paul: RADICAL Leftist who has conned a very, very small group of ignorant, uninformed followers into believing that he is not only a “Constitution Conservative”, but the ONLY true “Constitution Conservative” politician in America.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:21pmIf you Ron Paul’ers plus the other fella still in it pull a Ross Perot neither they nor anyone with the same name will ever hold public office again. We‘re probably going to have to start a 3rd party if we cannot force out the rhino’s in the next 2. No way any of that can happen if Obama gets in there a second time.
There was a time we could simply stop buying china’s crap and build back up quickly. We’ve been reduced to being the last 60% of china’s supply line. I’m not sure we can actually come back without a major (MAJOR) reset/defaults/depression. If bHO gets back in there the door closes and it’s every man for himself.
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:41pmWell, BaltimoreJoe, you’d better make sure Ron Paul is nominated in Tampa, cuz if the LEFTIST gop CHEAT-nominates Romney, THEY WILL HAVE JUST REELECTED OBAMA – using the SAME SCAM they used to ELECT HIM in the first place.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:37amMODEL82A1 I noticed that The Tea Party is doing fine without Kook Paul and his Bots. All mouth NeoLib Paul is done and his so called revolution was a joke.
Report Post »Bigrod58
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:54amRON PAUL for PRESIDENT!! – OOPS Ron Paul could’t make it until the Convention. He LOST. He is a has been. You can like him all you want . But he is the past. He will never run for president again. Time to move on folks.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:02pmMadcow can KMA….where are Obamas transcripts you idiot liberal!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:02pmBecky and theBlze, dishonest as ever, fail to mention that some of those connections to Mass that Romney listed were his business ties to Bane, during the same period he has now claimed tht he has retro-actively retired from. Romney is caught in a lie, he either lied than or is lying now. I doubt Romney even knows what the truth is any more. His taxes are only the tip of his iceburg of dishonesty. What does he have to hide, what is so bad that he refuses to follow the example of father.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:05pm“41 record months of Unemployment over 8% – And currently rising. GDP “Growth” of 1.5% – and currently falling. Record numbers of Americans on Food Stamps and S.S. Disability. “Budget” deficits of over $1 Trillion per year in every year of Obama’s Presidency, Nation Debt exploded from @$10.6 Trillion to @$16 Trillion during Obama’s Presidency…”
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:06pmThe Lonely Guy….he’s back.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:08pmLeaders lead and don’t kow-tow to every stupid tactic from Rules for Radicals.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:12pmI’d like to see Romney standing in front of a computer terminal inputting Baracks social security number into the Federal id-check system and show the world it comes back as fradulant..then head on down to the national archives and whiz through 10years of CONTNU O U S immigration forms…then missing a whole weeks worth the same week Obama snuck in here…then whiz through the next 10 years of CONTINUOUS forms..then head on over to Havaaad and ask the admissions folks for Obama’s transcripts..oops, then head on over to speak with the FBI agent that infiltrated Bill Ahres org, then to the several ICE agents that blew the lid on Fast and Furious… get the point.
Obama is out in nov. He will be lucky to escape jail when the J is put back into the DOJ. Do you know how many mid to high level agency folks are totally pissed at his antics. They’ll be writing books for two centuries.
Tell em to kiss you butt mitt.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:13pmIf you are going to insist on putting out the lies over and over and over in hopes someone believes you, at least back up what you are claiming instead of reporting the old and tired rhetoric others before you have worn out. You have not a clue as to what you are talking about because those talking points you refer to have already been discredited. Grow up and become a mature person one of these days – it will make you feel good about yourself.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
CK1911
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:15am“hey mom, the meatloaf! i never know what she’s doing back there”
Report Post »RWCT
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:51pmWhy don’t you do your job as Dem leader in the Senate instead of postng on here, you old fool!
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:01pmwhatever keeps theblazers entertained and distracted i guess
Report Post »Paul
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:44pmThat would be you…
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:00pmLesbians are always pushing discredited tax return conspiracies. I swear they all do it. Cropped hair, short fingernails and discredited tax return conspiracies.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:13pmYeah, only this is another example of Romney changing the past to fit the present, like retro-actively retiring from a company, even though his name still appeared on SEC filings. Than again do the Romney tax returns proved that he has lied about Bane and when he left them. He demnads blind trust, yet does nothing to earn that trust. His record is one of dishonesty. He has already been caught lying in ads that he paid for.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:19pmI can’t tell if you are trolling or not. If not, you are a very rude person and are doing nothing to further whatever cause you may have.
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:23pmENCINOM, you’d be better off reading Harry Potter books. There’s less fiction in them than that crap you read. You’re a hater, with no soul.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:34pmCalling someone a hater with no soul after calling parents of liberals black-hearted, cold, and drug addicted is a little ridiculous. Do you not see how stupid you sound?
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:37pmDUBBERLYKM, you’re a humorless rube. You wouldn’t know a joke if it slapped you in your chubby face.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:26amAgain, I am amazed at how much you are adding to the conversation. With each comment I respect you more and more.
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:39amI was especially humored by the ‘short fingernails’ comment. Thanks for the laugh.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:34amDEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Report Post »Birkenstocks.
Cropped hair, short fingernails, Birkenstocks and discredited tax return conspiracies.
OhSnappage
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:59pmIs this Maddow guy still employed? How about a real investigation to report on? Like how does a political tabloid commentator that does bias hit pieces get a pass on ethics and false accusations with no evidence of facts yet is able to maintain a job and high salary?
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:22pmYou see it on all sides. Instead of attacking just one side for their tactics, we need to try and change the way we communicate and debate each other. Things have become so partisan that each side nitpicks and tries to find ways to put each other down instead of trying to find common ground so that we can fix this nation!
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:31pmDUBBERLYKM – go away, your annoying.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:55pmI‘m annoying because I’m calling for respectful discourse? How is that a bad thing?
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:03amDUBBERLYKM – you‘re annoying because you’re a fraud with an account you just created tonight.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:13amYes, I just created an account tonight. You have not had your account forever, so at one time in your life your account was just a few hours old, too. Just like with every single account on this site. I got an account after seeing a comment on a NYTimes article in which someone defended Reid by using Maddow’s comments. What she said didn’t ring true to me, so I looked it up. This website was one of the few that had an article about what Maddow had said, so I decided to read it. After seeing some of the comments, I decided to make an account so that I could respond to some of the rudeness I was seeing.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:15amAlso, how am I a fraud? I don’t understand why you would call me that.
Report Post »CK1911
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:18am“if i had a son…..” oh screw it i can‘t even pretend that i’d want my kid to look like him, uh..her. somewhere, the east german team is missing one of it’s players.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:33amI don’t think Maddow looks like a man. Are you saying that because she is a lesbian? That’s a little offensive a very uncalled-for.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:26amOooh, it’s offended! Get used to it.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:28amYes, I am a little offended. I am gay and have dealt with a lot of stupid comments, especially since I am not as masculine as people think I should be (because I am a lesbian). I have heard “jokes” where people say I‘ll discover my straight side if I’m raped by men. I’ve also had my femininity attacked because I like women. Making offensive jokes doesn’t help your cause and makes people angry, which leads to stupid Chick-fil-A protests.
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:18pmGONZ! “It puts the lotion on it’s skin”….. Buffalo Bob
DOUBLELICKEM! You gotta be smokin crack!
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:56pmI hope the Left keeps this line of attack up all the way to November 6th. And I hope Romney response to every question about it with something like, “41 record months of Unemployment over 8% – And currently rising. GDP “Growth” of 1.5% – and currently falling. Record numbers of Americans on Food Stamps and S.S. Disability. “Budget” deficits of over $1 Trillion per year in every year of Obama’s Presidency, Nation Debt exploded from @$10.6 Trillion to @$16 Trillion during Obama’s Presidency…” Next question, please.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:48amHiring is increasing at a faster rate than it was under Bush. The deficit is increasing at the lowest rate in at least 50 years. We had a surplus before Bush’s tax cuts. Economists say that Obama‘s stimulus added jobs but it wasn’t a big enough stimulus. Congress is blocking job creation bills.
Report Post »Bigrod58
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:03pm99.9% of the people that want to see 10 years of his taxes would not have a clue as to what his taxes actually said. Of the subset of people that could read and understand his taxes 99.9% are Tax Accountants and 99% of those will vote for him anyway. All the rest are Dems and Paul Bots (same thing really) . !00% of those only want to try to embarrass Romney. So I guess you are right, he won’t provide those taxes. But he will win, no problem (Paul Bots be damned). Sit back and watch.
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:59pmDOUBLELICKEM! Really? You have got to be smokin crack!
Report Post »Deeli
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 10:47amdubberlykm: “Hiring is increasing at a faster rate than it was under Bush. The deficit is increasing at the lowest rate in at least 50 years. We had a surplus before Bush’s tax cuts. Economists say that Obama‘s stimulus added jobs but it wasn’t a big enough stimulus. Congress is blocking job creation bills.”
How many worms were in the bottle of tequila that you drank and ate ???
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:51pmIf you taped feathers to her arms, would she lift off?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:21pmWait a second. He wrote off $77,000 in his tax return because of a HORSE?
For those of you who have children, go look at how much tax relief you got for each of your dependents. Was it $77,000 per kid? No of course it wasn’t. Maybe 1/15 of that amount or a bit more.
Mitt Romney’s horse is worth 20 times more than your kid and mine. I guess when you’re rich enough even your animals are worth more than our children. Maybe if you bought a horse instead of having a child, you too could get a $77,000 tax break. Children are nice, but if you have a teenager in particular, wouldn’t you rather have the $77,000 tax break? I’m with you on that. That would really reduce my taxes in a meaningful way.
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:28pmJZS – John Kerry and Theresa Heinz are worth four times what Mitt Romney is, and neither of them earned a penny of it. She married Heinz, and Kerry married her. They’re vampires. Romney made his money like a man. Did you spend your days trashing Kerry? Like all liberals, you’re a vulgar hypocrite.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:50pmJZS, there you go again. I am delving into aerodynamics of feathers and wings and you go off in left field cherry picking data points to make some sort of point. How about if you see a rich person, ask yourself what can you do to become wealthy, not what you can do to smear them. You can then pay lots of taxes and help others not as smart as you. Of course it takes a lot of risk, but as smart as you are, success is almost guaranteed.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:17amKerry released 20 years of tax returns.
Why won’t Romney release his? Why won’t he prove show his papers? Why is his horse worth more than your kid?
Sure, you guys aren’t worth much. You‘re losers and you’re not job creators and you don’t even have a horse that you can get a $77,000 tax break for. But seriously is Romney’s horse worth more than your child? The tax break you get for having a dependent is probably two or three thousand bucks. Romney’s horse gives him a tax break of $77,000. His horse is worth 15 times more than your kid. But that’s okay, because he’s a rich.
In any case, you know why Romney won’t release his tax returns. We already know he paid less taxes than you in 2010. You really don’t want to hear that he paid no taxes for the ten years prior do you?
Come on. You hate Romney and you know it. Spare me.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:36amDidn’t his horse, Rafalca, represent the US in the Olympics?
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:39amWait horses can’t be athletes, lol never mind.
Still, remember the Romney dog cage fiasco? It seems like there’s no happy medium for Romney. Either he’s a cruel owner, or an obsessive keeper.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:48amJZS, people’s kids are “are worth less” than Kerry’s dock space tax as well. yet Kerry docked his boat to save taxes, not kids. Please spare me the sanctimonious BS. If you must criticize wealth, make some first.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:04amJZS – The facts are that Romney only took a $50 tax deduction for the horse. All the rest was considered to be “maintenance” costs, which are not tax deductible. Gee, Romney got a $50 tax deduction for the horse, how shocking!
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:29amJZS – I wish I could say ‘nice try’ but I can’t. Once again you disappoint like-minded allies with your irrelevant dribble. Kerry released HIS tax returns, but not Theresa’s – that’s where 95% of their money hides, and a whole lot of it is in off shore accounts. They keep their money separate for political purposes – a dishonest shell game.
Report Post »Bigrod58
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:34amJXS – Is Romney following the law? Can you prove he is not? He takes deductions allowed by Congress. He provides tax returns required by Congress. End of story.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:23amThe point isn’t whether Romney followed the law. He was audited, so he didn’t do anything illegal. Voters want to see Romney‘s finances because he isn’t revealing how he made much of his money. He is running on the fact that he would be a better president because of how he made his money. Also, many of the tax deductions he probably used are newly legal, so voters can see how these tax cuts are affecting Romney and see if they’re worth cutting taxes even more for the top 2% while letting the 360 billion dollars we’d lose in revenue come from the rest of the population.
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:35amA no-partisan tax group (that received approval from Romney after looking at Rick Perry) has said that Romney’s tax plan would cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and raise taxes on the middle class.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120803/NEWS02/708039714
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:16pmJZS, how pathetic to value kids the same as the deduction. My kids happen to be priceless, thank you.
Report Post »bbhouston
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:51pmDesperation from the left……Grasping at straws. Romney’s a good man and that leaves the libs lost.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:04pmRomney has a history of dishonesty, what is he hiding in those tax returns and why hasn’t Fox News demanded that he be vetted?
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:12pmLiberals are all so dirty and criminal, they just assume everyone is just like them. It’s all they know. They inherit it from their black-hearted, drug-addled, soulless parents.
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:19pm@ Encino
Report Post »I wouldn’t release more than the standard 2 years to these idiots either. All they have done is beat the “he’s rich” drum. Nothing in his returns is illegal, but lets make it sound illegal – “offshore accounts, etc.”. I would tell them to pound sand too. “And back to the economy and Obama’s failed policies” – HE”S RICH GET OVER IT!
dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:20amI think people are focusing on Romney’s income because he made it from his business practices, and Romney has repeatedly said he would be a better president BECAUSE of his experience as a businessman. So I don’t find it strange that voters are interested in his income. Of course, many liberals have taken it too far. This whole 99% vs the 1% is ridiculous, because it further divides our country. Other liberals aren’t happy with Romney because he says he knows about job creation, when a good chunk of the companies he invested in lost their workers and went bankrupt, after paying Bain a lot of money of course. But private equity is risky, and I don‘t know if we can fully blame Romney for these businesses’ failures.
Report Post »68Patriot
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:31amENCINOM, if you are angry about some propaganda saying Romney is lying then you must really be pissed off at your boy Obama, right?
You should stand from on that principal and just stay home on November 6th.
68
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:13pmENCINOM, Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! When will anybody ever vet 0bama! What a hoot.
Report Post »What could he be hiding? I’m almost positive that he has had a personal audit of his taxes annually starting sometime shortly after 21 January 2009. Along with anybody else who ran against him in ‘08.
bbhouston
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:05pmRomney hasn’t been vetted?? Enci…..you’re an idiot!! We know so much more about Romney than we do BHO. Use a little common sense and some of the grey matter God bestowed upon you. It’s laughable that we know less about Mitt Romney than BHO. The problem the left has is that Mitt doesn’t have any dirt in his background. The left has to make stuff up….so desparate that Reid has to lie from the senate floor. Cannot wait for November!!! I expect you Enci will not be heard from after then…..Your parents are going to kick you out !!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:50pmGEEZE whats next?
Report Post »Dig up some old Romney dog that was accused of being poisoned by arsenic? LMAO
Madcow and MSM are desperate to dig up ANYTHING on Romney.
Jonny Stewart should take a vacation and just let the MSM take over his show.
SHEER COMEDIC CRAP.
OMG 2012
Calm Voice of Reason
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:45pmAlmost like she said his birth certificate was fake or something…
Report Post »dubberlykm
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:19amYeah these comments are saying the left is “grasping at straws” while in the same breath accusing Obama of not being a natural born citizen, even though no credible conservative thinks he isn’t.
Report Post »Magnum1
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:44pmMSNBC should thank The Blaze and other conservative news sources for the exposure. Most people wouldn‘t even know who Rachel Maddow was if if wasn’t for Fox News, Rush, Hannity, and Beck.
MSNBC must be taxpayer-subsidized – how else can they stay on the air?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:53pmFor their staying on the air: Soros probably.
In the case of Maddow, this does once again show the absolute bankruptcy of the left and of the progressives. Romney has withstood this kind of attack before, but if he can stand against it at the level Reid and the others are going after him, we will have a wonderful President in Romney.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:09amMSNBC has a very loyal, yet small audience that are just enough to keep them in business.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:39pmHow did she have time to dig that up when she was supposed to be at Chick FIl A? Something smells like fish here.
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:54pmoh, that’s soo bad…and satisfying at the same time.
Report Post »IMPrepared
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 10:22amHold on… THAT”‘S A GIRL?! Ewww…. I thought it was a guy with a hormone imbalance.
Report Post »Hey B’more! A big GO Ravens! from here in Carroll Co. HON
normbal
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:38pmJust doing her job, what Lord Obeyme and his master George Soros tells her to do, no more, no less.
Report Post »saynototheo
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 10:36pmI can‘t wait to see their faces when Romney releases his taxes and he’s clean
Report Post »BaltimoreJoe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:01pmhe better not… they’re already lying about what he did release. If he‘s going to be president he can’t cow tow to such low lives. Best is to just ignore them completely. Let Allen West and the cast retort to them. Glenn had plenty enough to say about it, so did everyone else. He should get onto the economy, the middle east going to muslim brotherhood, $12.2T spend rate for fed/state/local in 2012 (see usdebtclock.org). That’s $40k ($39.915) for every single 312M U.S. citizens… digging the ol mortgage calculator out the three of them suck out the equivelant of a 3.5% mortgage on a $680,000 home…for you, me, baby boo, grandma…every single one of us. Fed alone extrapolates to $6.2T for 2012…that’s still > $1M mortgage for each family of 4. And it’s not enough.
He ought to show up somewhere with a stack of 40,000 one dollar bills to make the point!
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:13pmI hope he doesn’t.
It would bug the left to no end.
It’s not like that half colored fella Barry has been honest about his past.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:38pmI got a call from a guy who used to work at Bawny Fwanks Brawful, he told me that Harry Reid was thier most valued and frequent customer, now I don’t know if this is true but it must be if Harry will not release all of his finacial records from the last twenty years. Why would this anonymous caller tell me this if it was’nt?
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