Will Tax Issue Mortally wound Romeny?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iejCicOmYYo

Boom.  Reince  just "caterpillared" (ended) yet another fake issue engineered by the dems.  Boy is it refreshing to hear the truth. 

Romney ain't going to end this petty issue by having his operatives attack the messenger, no matter how richly the messenger may deserve to be attacked.  The only way he can end this is to do as his father did, and release twelve years worth of tax returns.  Unfortunately for him, for that to be effective, he needed to do that last year before it became an issue.

Instead, Romney's sense of inevitability has led him into a preventable blunder.

[AmericanNation]

we've hit the tipping point where dems now look bad bringing it up.  If they push it, than they enter backlash territory.   

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

we've hit the tipping point where dems now look bad bringing it up.

To you, maybe.

[AmericanNation]

we've hit the tipping point where dems now look bad bringing it up.

To you, maybe.

no, I've always thought it was stupid because it is.  I'm talking about it's effect on everyone.  Small ball looks un-presidential.  Distracting from real issues looks weak and desperate.  Romney will release his returns from this last year (like he said he would) and then what will the dems say?  We need ten more!! the last 2 aren't good enough!!  It would maybe be something if Obama was transparent himself, but he isn't.  Hypocrisy looks bad too.       

[Sbane]

The average American is more concerned about their own taxes than Romneys'.

If true then they'll vote against Romney's tax plan which will raise the taxes of an average American if it truly is revenue neutral as he claims.

This right here. The tax issue by itself won't hurt him. It juxtaposed with his tax plan, makes things go from bad to worse. The tax issue is defining Romney and his tax plan reinforces it.

[Likely Voter]

The average American is more concerned about their own taxes than Romneys'.

If true then they'll vote against Romney's tax plan which will raise the taxes of an average American if it truly is revenue neutral as he claims.

This right here. The tax issue by itself won't hurt him. It juxtaposed with his tax plan, makes things go from bad to worse. The tax issue is defining Romney and his tax plan reinforces it.

Bingo. Probably the only policy difference that most Americans understand between Romney and Obama is that Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich and Romney wants to lower them. And raising taxes on the rich is popular with Dems and Indies (and even some Pubs). And Mitt Romney is Exhibit A for why the rich should pay more taxes.


All this debate is doing is reinforcing the notion that Romney is ultra rich and is getting a great deal on his tax rate, so much so he doesn't even want people to see how great a deal he is getting. He is therefore losing the ability to ever make the argument against raising taxes on the rich. It just look like he is trying to protect himself and his fellow ultra-rich.