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(cont.) Romney upsets Republicans by not releasing his tax returns:

LOL, you beauty .. without success i looked for a list yesterday, a huge thank you to, sideeki, HuffPo, and tbogg ..

"Then Dana Bash reports that Reid’s source is a credible person. ..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/harry-reid-romney-tax-source-_n_1735729.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012 ..
A tsunami of shit is waiting to be lost."
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Scroll down in the HuffPo link above to the slideshow

Republicans To Mittens: Release The Returns

1. Ron Paul
"Politically, I think that would help him," Paul said in a interview with Politico. "In the scheme of things politically, you know, it looks like releasing tax returns is what the people want." .. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78599.html#ixzz20w7ycTBE

2. Richard Lugar
"I have no idea on why he has restricted the number to this point," Lugar said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57474352/pressure-mounts-on-mitt-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns/?tag=socsh

3. George Will
"I don't know why... he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest," Will said on ABC's "This Week." "He's done nothing illegal, nothing unseemly, nothing improper, but lots that's impolitic."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/george-will-mitt-romney-bain_n_1674513.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+HP/Politics+(Politics+on+The+Huffington+Post)

4. Bill Kristol
"He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy," Kristol said on "Fox News Sunday." "You gotta release six, eight, 10 years of back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two." .. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/mitt-romney-tax-returns_n_1674325.html

5. Robert Bentley
"I just believe in total transparency," Bentley told ABC News. "In fact, I was asked today that question -- do you think that Governor Romney should release his tax returns? And I said I do. I said, I release my tax returns. I may be the only public official in Alabama that does, but I release mine every year and I just believe that people should release their tax returns. And if you get them out and just get past that, it just makes it so much easier."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/gop-governor-calls-on-mitt-romney-to-release-additional-tax-returns-and-show-he-has-nothing-to-hide/

6. Haley Barbour
When asked on "The Situation Room" if Romney should release more returns, Barbour said,
"I would. But should it be an issue in the campaign? I don't think it amounts to diddly."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/barbour-romney-should-release-more-tax-returns-20120710

7. Michael Steele
"If there's nothing there, there's no 'there' there, don't create a there,'" Steele said on MSNBC.

8. David Frum
"Tax returns the next problem. Releasing returns under pressure: more weakness, more pain," Frum tweeted.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/224509505973661696

See also:

More Republicans fed up with Romney and the GOP

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad had harsh words for Romney’s anti-wind position, which would affect the state’s 7,000 wind jobs:

“It needs to be continued, not forever, but it does need to be continued for a while and the result is it’s
been a very good thing for Iowa in terms of 20 percent of our energy is now generated by wind,” Branstad said.

“We have a lot of farmers that receive rent from having wind turbines on their property and we have a lot of jobs associated with it.” [...]

Branstad blamed “confusion” in the Romney campaign for Romney’s stand against the tax break for wind energy production. [...]

“They don’t understand,” Branstad said. “You’ve got a bunch of people that have put that website together that
are bunch of east coast people that need to get out here in the real world to find out what’s really going on.”
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for that one and for this one .. bits ..

Republican Congressman Blasts GOP: Party Caters To ‘Extremes,’ Is ‘Incapable Of Governing’

Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) is fed up with the GOP.

Hanna singled out Michele Bachmann’s “suggestion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin be investigated to see if she has ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood” as an example of a party that has gone off the rails.

The Syaracuse Post-Standard has the story:

“I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in this moment in history,” he told The Post-Standard editorial board.

…“We render ourselves incapable of governing when all we do is take severe sides…” he said. “If all people do is go down there and join a team, and the team is invested in winning and you have something that looks very similar to the shirts and the skins, there’s not a lot of value there.”

…“I would say that the friends I have in the Democratic Party
I find … much more congenial — a little less anger,” he said.

BuzzFeed reports that Hanna is not alone and “moderate members of the House GOP conference feel that Boehner, who has struggled with an often raucous and openly defiant right wing, has forced them to go along with conservative demands but has provided them little in return.”

This isn’t the first time that Hanna, who was first elected to Congress in 2010, has been critical of the Republican party. At at women’s rights rally in March he advised the crowd to “contribute your money to people who speak out on your behalf, because the other side — my side — has a lot of it.”
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/30/611651/republican-congressman-blasts-gop-party-caters-to-extremes-is-incapable-of-governing/ .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=78017426&txt2find=hanna

lastly ..

Republicans Urge Romney Focus on Jobs After Troubled Trip .. bits ..

John Weaver, who advised the party’s 2008 nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain, said the flare-ups that consumed Romney’s trip reflected a broader problem: With the candidate eschewing risk and offering little detail about what he’d do as president, his campaign is being defined by small things.

“He comes across sometimes as if he’s Gulliver and he’s tied down by all the Lilliputians when he could actually stand up and exert some strength -- he just seems to be tied down by a lot of little things,” said Weaver, who advised Romney’s Republican primary rival former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman Jr. “If they were a little bolder, a little more specific and took some chances -- I don’t consider them chances, but I know they see them that way -- I think he could win.”

[...]

Tax Returns

“Maintaining the secrecy creates the impression, justly or not, that there is something there to hide,” concluded a July 26 editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader, a newspaper influential in Republican politics. “No escaping that reality. The impression is there. And it will cost Romney votes he cannot afford to lose.”

[...]

‘Shake Your Head’

Karl Rove, former political adviser to President George W.Bush, commenting on Romney’s
Olympics security remark during a July 27 Fox News interview, said: “You have to shake your head.”
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Sooooooo? .. ok .. Lack of Romney's Progress to Now .. consider one incomplete list ..

1. Russia's Medvedev .. 'we have moved on' ..
2. Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr .. 'misrepresented'
3. the Slovak foreign minister, and deputy prime
minister, Miroslav Lajcak, “People have moved on”
4. David Cameron, "Of course it's easier if you
hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."
5. leader of the opposition Labour party, Ed Miliband .. Romney's, "Mr. Leader"
6. MI6
7. London mayor, Boris Johnson, "...there's a guy called,
Mitt Romney, who wants to know whether we're ready..."
8. many other people in the UK
9. Netanyahu .. Romney's 'good friend'? .. wha??? ..
10. Saeb Erekat, senior aide to Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, "It is a racist statement and this man
doesn't realize that the Palestinian economy cannot reach
its potential because there is an Israeli occupation..."
11. Palestinians in general
12. Ron Paul .. release tax returns ..
13. Richard Lugar
14. George Will
15. Bill Kristol
16. Robert Bentley
17. Haley Barbour
18. Michael Steele
19. David Frum
20. Iowa Governor, Terry Branstad,
“They don’t understand,” [...] bunch of east
coast people that need to get out here in the
real world to find out what’s really going on.”
21. Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY), fed up with the GOP,
“I would say that the friends I have in the Democratic
Party I find … much more congenial — a little less anger,”
22. John Weaver, adviser of Senator John McCain in 2008,
"He [Romney] comes across sometimes as if he’s Gulliver..."
23. the New Hampshire Union Leader, a newspaper influential in Republican
politics .. 'secrecy creates the impression Romney has something to hide'.
24. Karl Rove, “You have to shake your head.”
25. an ever increasing number of American voters

What do all those people have in common? .. yup, and more to come
as more of we "you people" see hurricane Romney fade into silence ..

"There is more to life than just what can you get

it's not give me, gimme gimme [...] you don't have to be macho all the time .."

Sorry, Mitt, too late for you.