Will Romney face GOP’s ‘October Surprise’?

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http://galesburgplanet.com/posts/16805

Ballplayer/philosopher Yogi Berra famously warned, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Repub­lican pres­i­dential candidate Mitt Romney might heed that advice.

GOP extremists, who’ve never embraced Mass­a­chu­setts’ former governor, could sabotage Romney’s nomi­nation because of damaging infor­mation in Romney’s still-secret tax returns, which have been an issue since the primaries.

Chicago Demo­c­ratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel told ABC News, “He has only released one year. To the McCain campaign he released 23 years. He’s telling the people, ‘I’m not going to give you what I gave John McCain’s people in 2008.’ And when he gave them 23 years, John McCain’s campaign looked at it and went, ‘Let’s go with Sarah Palin.’ So whatever’s in there is far worse than just the first year.”

In down­state Illinois, area Repub­lican Congressmen who support Romney, U.S. Reps. Aaron Schock (Peoria) and Bobby Schilling (Moline) haven’t weighed in. Schock has not been commenting on the tax returns, and Schilling did not reply to a request for a statement

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. We can only hope, LOL!

[KurtNYC]

2. Has any candidate been replaced after the convention, ever ?

Romney is the guy.

Barring a stroke, or foot tapping in an airport bathroom, Romney is the candidate who will lose to Obama on Nov 6.

[NYC_SKP]

3. "Let's Go With Sarah Palin!"

Oooooh, that's BAD!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Romney would be better off releasing the returns now, rather than risking being forced

to release them near to the election. But, it's clear that repubs understand that there is something damaging in them, probably in the 2009 returns, hence their drumbeat to compare the tax returns to Obama school transcripts.