>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:31:47 -0500, Dakota wrote:

>>> On 8/7/2012 10:31 PM, Sid9 wrote:

>>>> "Robert A. Leffingwell" <R...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:jvslr7$e6a$1@dont-email.me...

>>>>> "Alvin York" <alviny...@webtv.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news:12223-5021C779-262@storefull-3253.bay.webtv.net...
>>>>>> Harry Reid , a fellow Mormon who also sits high in the Mormon
>>>>>> Church, is
>>>>>> now making aggressive assertions that Mitt Romney will not not show
>>>>>> his
>>>>>> taxes because he did not pay any taxes for 10 years.

>>>>>> The accusations being made are on authority according to Harry Reid
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> Nancy Pelosi. They seem to have been leaked by a whistle blower but
>>>>>> no one knows the source as yet.

>>>>> FWIW, here's my guess who the whistle blower is.  It's McCain or
>>>>> someone working or had worked for McCain.  Romney was on McCain's VP
>>>>> short list and was probably asked to show his tax returns which
>>>>> caused an immediate rejection.  It had to be one bad scene if McCain
>>>>> needed to resort to Palin.

>>>>> Personally, I don't think Romney would get involved with tax fraud
>>>>> or tax evasion.  OTOH he's a secretive LBO guy and LBO guys tend to
>>>>> windup in jail, get companies to go Ch. 11 or end up getting barred
>>>>> from the investment industry as in Paul Bilzarian, Victor Posner,
>>>>> Robert Campeau and Saul Steinberg.

>>>>> The world of leveraged buy-outs is a seemy business and it most
>>>>> likely shows up prominently in the tax returns. Unlike a real job
>>>>> creator who creates value with new things and/or new processes, the
>>>>> LBO guy works in a zero sum game.  For him, i.e., Romney, to make
>>>>> money, some poor shnook on the assembly line had to lose something
>>>>> like his money, his job or his pension.

>>>> Crappy campaign planning, too.
>>>> He should have anticipated this and planned for it. Instead he looks
>>>> like an incompetent amateur.

>>> Romney's never before been faced a problem he couldn't make disappear
>>> by ordering some lackey to deal with it or, as a last resort, by
>>> writing a check. Mitt's never spend a day in the real world in his
>>> life and it shows.

>> He was governor of Mass for X years...  He must have dealt with a lot
>> of things then.  Obama is the guy who came into the White House with no
>> experience as a political executive...

>> Although no doubt the Chicago cauldron has some advantages for some
>> things..  Al Capone came out of there, who provided excellent liquor
>> services for people at a time when they wouldn't be otherwise
>> available..

>> Chicago/Illinois - famous for Al Capone, for current  murders, and for
>> ex- demonrat governors in prison....

>> It may be the gentle Romney indeed is out of his league, I don't
>> know...

>> We shall see, as the battle ensues...

>> If Obama does win, it mgiht be we can help the economy by bringing back
>> prohibition...  This would provide many jobs in government and in very
>> private industries. (speak-softless)  All for good, for the peoples..

> What worries me about Romney is this... Could he kill a bunch of kids in
> some poor Islamic country, and then smile about it?

> Obama may be better at this...

> Point is, there might be one bad guy among 100 kids.  We need to git the
> bad guy.. Too bad for the kids, is the idea... Can Romney do that?

> Can Romney kill a bunch of women, like Obama? And smile about it?

> A bunch of old people?

> I do not know.... at this point.  Romney has not had his Sista-Soljah
> moment, for me yet...

> Obama shows the cool demeanor of a psychopath, and I think this is what
> we need today in a President.