It’s time for Harry Reid to apologize for lying about Mitt Romney’s tax records
In a Friday night document dump Mitt Romney released his 2011 tax return. In addition to this tax return he also released a letter from auditors at Price Waterhouse Cooper which apparently proves he did indeed pay taxes for the years 1990-2009 in direct contradiction with Harry Reid’s baseless claim that he did not.
Harry Reid twice made the accusation that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years and he claimed he had a source at Bain that told him. Of course the IRS never had a problem with Romney’s taxes but that didn’t stop Reid from smearing the presidential candidate.
Harry Reid then took to the floor of the Senate and made the claim again saying, “the word is out that he hasn’t paid any taxes for ten years.” Harry Reid neglected the point that he was the one who put the word out there in the first place. Harry Reid then had the hubris to declare it wasn’t up to him to prove the accusations were true because he was the accuser, but rather it was up to Mitt Romney to prove they weren’t because he was the accused. A classic case of guilty until proven innocent.
By releasing this letter Mitt Romney has proven that he paid his taxes and he has shown everyone who is paying attention that Harry Reid is nothing but a liar. Harry Reid owes Mitt Romney an apology, but he owes him one from the Senate floor because if he is man enough to smear Romney on the Senate floor he should be man enough to admit he lied and apologize to Mitt Romney on the Senate floor as well.
America's Watchtower 
Reid has no integrety. He is a disgrace to the Morman church.
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He sure is! The man is a disgrace!
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Reid is a liar, Ol’ floppy ears is a liar, that stray from a cattle drive, Hillary, is a liar. And guess what, no matter how offensive, illegal, unconstitutional or immoral the offense it doesn’t cost them a single vote. The idiocy of the voters is as reliable as this trio’s propensity for arrogance and prevarication.
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Unfortunately you are right, the voters don’t seem to care that they are being lied to. The end justifies them means I guess.
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Reblogged this on Freedom Is Just Another Word….
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Thanks for another reblog.
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Alright, the desperation is showing. The only way Reid’s remarks can be characterized as lies is if he knew he was wrong from the get-go and was deliberately trying to mislead. I see no evidence of that.
In addition, Governor Romney may have done some creative accounting, winding up with a negligible taxable income, and paid 20% of that. In such a case, of course Reid would technically be wrong, but he’d have gotten the spirit of the thing right.
Meantime, you fellows are confronted with a candidate who suddenly looks very reluctant to wage the kind of competent campaign necessary to win. He’s locking his wife away somewhere so she can’t make any more trouble. I almost feel sorry for him – and you. There’s been something else almost every day. Like how he overpaid his taxes to get the amount up above 14%, even though he earlier said that if he paid more than was legally due, he shouldn’t be President. I even read a column online yesterday that suggested that Romney had already accomplished all he needed to – he avenged his father and won the nomination. Winning means four years – or potentially eight – of the same kind of headaches his party has imposed on President Obama and the Democrats. And in spades. And as the party’s choice for 2012, win or lose, his moneymaking future is assured – he’ll command top dollar on the lecture circuit for as long as he cares to, and of course he owns a large fortune.
The truth is, though, that with a little more than 6 weeks left, a LOT can change. Joe Biden may say something not just humorously inappropriate, but damagingly so. Or public opinion could sway back in the Governor’s favor for any number of reasons, legitimate or otherwise. Who knows? Just because the RR campaign seems to have stopped telling some of the big lies it was becoming infamous for, they may come up with some new lies closer to election day – and the public’s been known to be swayed by lies initially, before the truth came out.
Anyway, I’d still like to see a few more, at least, of Governor Romney’s tax returns, from a time when he wasn’t so certain they’d be closely scrutinized. I think that’d tell us a lot more about his character than the returns he filed when he knew everyone would be analyzing them.
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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You sound like you believe there are still undecided voters out there. You don’t actually believe that do you?
And uh…tough to defend Harry Reid. Gallant effort though.
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Sorry, but I see no desperation here. Even if Harry Reid didn’t knowingly lie, he still owes Mitt Romney an apology. He was the one who was not telling the truth, even if he didn’t know it.
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You are right about that Larry and I think he knew the IRS would have come down on Romney if he hadn’t paid taxes so I still believe he knew what he said was a lie.
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Harry Reid had no proof of his accusation and he just threw them out there to smear Romney and it worked. In my opinion he made it all up and lied about Romney’s returns
As far as Romney’s campaign goes, I always worried he didn’t have what it would take to go after Obama hard and defeat him and I think we are seeing that. Romney was a flawed candidate from the beginning and I get the feeling he thinks he can “run out the clock” as long as the economy stays bad and that is a mistake.
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As you can see from TGY’s comment, the left isn’t accepting Romney’s release of his tax returns as enough. They still want him to do more. No surprise there, as we knew nothing he does would be enough. I even have a commenter at Political Realities who is trying to make an issue of why Romney held his father up as a role model, and then refuses to follow through by releasing everything. That same commenter also accused Romney of hiding behind PriceWaterhouseCooper and questioning his use of the firm because they have been involved in scandals before.
Point of fact, that can not be denied, nothing Romney does is going to be enough. The left is going to find a way to question him, no matter what the issue.
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I saw that comment Larry, and you are right about how it shows us no matter what Romney does it will not be enough. The furor over his tax returns has died down, I’m not sure why he brought it back up again.
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The only rational part if TGY’s comment is the same contention most rational conservatives share: Romney is a pussy, his campaign is a flop and he doesn’t have the balls to stand up to four years of the left beating the crap out of him on a daily basis.
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And this is something we were afraid of all along, isn’t it?
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Romney promised to release his 2011 returns already, and the longer he waited, the more pressure there’d be to live up to his promise. Perhaps he and his advisors thought that since last week was so terrible anyway, it made sense to release the tax return at the same time, which included an overpayment of taxes which he earlier claimed would disqualify him from the Presidency. The part that’s most difficult to understand, though, is why he left the overpayment out in plain sight – with top-tier accountants, he could have overpaid in such a way that not even the IRS would easily be able to figure it out. Instead, he did it so blatantly that it was all over Facebook within an hour.
The tax issue may have died down among the Governor’s supporters, but there are plenty of people who believe that by only releasing the two most recent years of returns, when all other major candidates in recent history have released so many more, the man is signalling that he’s got something to hide.
And getting an accountant to say he paid on average 20% in years past is meaningless unless we learn the AGI on which he paid it.
These mistakes, though, aren’t illustrative of a pussy, they’re illustrative of someone who doesn’t want to win.
Take good care, and here’s to a productive and prosperous week for all!
And may God bless us all!
TGY
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If he had already promised to release his 2011 taxes then I understand why he did it now, it was puzzling to me that he would reopen this issue. I hadn’t heard hims say he would be disqualified from the presidency if he paid more taxes than required so I looked it up and it seems like he was saying that conservative voters would disqualify him if he paid more to the government than he should have, not that the act itself disqualified him.
As for not wanting to win: He has been running for president for years now, I can’t believe he doesn’t want to win, I just don’t think he knows how to win.
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