Mittens is not just barely tolerated but is roundly despised by many of the people whose job it is to sell him. - If you have any belief in any kind of God, pray to Him, Her or It that Mittens is still hiding his tax returns when he and Obama step on stage for the first debate

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Huffington Post
(Dukakis + Kerry) x Nixon = Romney
By Paul Slansky
Writer; Contributor to The New YorkerAugust 3, 2012


(Dukakis + Kerry) x Nixon = Romney

Some excerpts :

It would be nice to see Obama govern with a fraction of the ruthlessness he campaigns with. And who gets to whip them out on the table? Wussy Harry Reid.

Even Jon Stewart took Mitt Romney to task, but Reid, despite that savage scolding, is channeling LBJ's brutality, however bland the presentation -- who knows, maybe he read the Caro -- and is doubling down on the claim, indisputable by anyone but Mittens himself, that the presumptive Republican nominee for president "hasn't paid any taxes for ten years." And, of course, being the quintessentially terrible candidate that he is, he plays right into it by continuing to refuse to provide the very information that could prove his accusers to be scurrilous liars. Now, why on earth would he do that, unless ...?

Of course, there can be no other ending than the release of his tax returns. The beauty of it is that the longer he stonewalls, the more solidified becomes the notion, loudly and repeatedly trumpeted, that he's hiding something, and the weaker he'll look when he finally and inevitably capitulates and releases them, by which time the media-fueled certainty that they must be damaging will have the public primed to see them negatively. And they will not disappoint.

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