5 Responses to Romney Will Release Tax Returns

1. Robert Heiny says:

   January 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm

   I wonder what difference these data will have on actual voter behavior, other than adding to time given to such gossip on TV?
2. LPH says:

   January 22, 2012 at 12:45 pm

   
   

   Robert Heiny

   I wonder what difference these data will have on actual voter behavior, other than adding to time given to such gossip on TV?

   Voters follow. Sometimes they just follow Fox News. Sometimes they follow Rupert Murdoch’s tweets and suggestions. But many times candidates win simply because others in their campaigns convince voters that the candidate will win. In this case, there is a faction who want a contrarian in the debates against President Obama. This is the hawk faction.

   Interestingly, social conservatives convinced themselves to put aside their own beliefs about adultery in order to vote for Dr. Gingrich. His response during the Thursday night debates propelled his win in South Carolina. In the same vein, Mr. Romney is not considered a fighter, therefore, he lost the primary.

   The Romney campaign is now on its heels. It needs to respond to Dr. G before the next debates. The news of the release is to stop the chatter. In the long run – it wont matter. In the short term – it opens the chatter up to other topics.

   Regardless, Romney will need to become a fighter or risk losing the nomination.
3. Robert Heiny says:

   January 22, 2012 at 5:46 pm

   I see the word "Fighter" as metaphore in politics, not a reality. Exactly how would Mitt fight? Dr. Gingrich gets "in your face" enough that people submit to his accusations. Rick Santorum wags his finger in the air. Ron Paul says, "I disagree…" and then mixes facts and opinion from his view. Aside from presenting facts clearly, I wonder what else might Mitt will do to fight, so he doesn’t appear as a weak "me too."
4. LPH says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:48 pm

   Looks like Romney is going to fight back.

   “Over the last 15 years since he left the House, he talks about great bold movements and ideas,” he told the crowd of several hundred people gathered at a building materials company here. “Well, what’s he been doing for 15 years? He’s been working as a lobbyist, yeah, he’s been working as a lobbyist and selling influence around Washington.”

   To cap the riff, Romney brought it back to Florida’s depressed housing market, and the role Freddie Mac, for which Gingrich worked, played in the real estate crash here. And he renewed his demand that Gingrich release records of the work he did for the housing lender.

   Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71802.html#ixzz1kG1wWzPr
5. Robert Heiny says:

   January 25, 2012 at 10:24 pm

   As I understand what Gingrich said, he contracted to do something with or for Freddie Mac. He was not employed by them. He has not said anything further as of yesterday about what he or his companies did to fulfill those (4 I think) contracts.