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Hahaha: Boston Herald hypocritical editorial defends Romney against "the politics of slime"
The politics of slime
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
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Now, it’s worth noting that the inevitable demand for Romney to release more of his returns is coming from a man who has served in the Senate since 1987 but never released his own tax returns. A man who, in a long-forgotten campaign back in 1974, demanded that his opponent’s siblings — including his sister, a nun — release their tax returns.
But the credibility of Reid or his story hardly matter. The attack dog for the Obama campaign was simply doing his best to sink his canines into Romney’s leg, to keep the issue of the candidate’s wealth front-and-center.
And if there were any doubt that Reid’s efforts were being coordinated with the Obama campaign, the president’s surrogates on Sunday eliminated it. On cue, both campaign adviser David Axelrod and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, told different networks that Romney could clear this issue up in “10 seconds,” naturally by releasing more of his returns.
There’s no question Romney has enabled Team Obama in its petty politics by refusing to release more than two years of returns. But given Reid’s credibility problems, on this issue he comes across more like an attack poodle.
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view/20220807the_politics_of_slime
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
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Now, it’s worth noting that the inevitable demand for Romney to release more of his returns is coming from a man who has served in the Senate since 1987 but never released his own tax returns. A man who, in a long-forgotten campaign back in 1974, demanded that his opponent’s siblings — including his sister, a nun — release their tax returns.
But the credibility of Reid or his story hardly matter. The attack dog for the Obama campaign was simply doing his best to sink his canines into Romney’s leg, to keep the issue of the candidate’s wealth front-and-center.
And if there were any doubt that Reid’s efforts were being coordinated with the Obama campaign, the president’s surrogates on Sunday eliminated it. On cue, both campaign adviser David Axelrod and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, told different networks that Romney could clear this issue up in “10 seconds,” naturally by releasing more of his returns.
There’s no question Romney has enabled Team Obama in its petty politics by refusing to release more than two years of returns. But given Reid’s credibility problems, on this issue he comes across more like an attack poodle.
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view/20220807the_politics_of_slime
Mitt is trapped.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021073742
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So what do they do?
Easy: they PRoject ("given Reid's credibility problems"
and ignore the 10-seconds solution offered graciously to them.
This is getting fun!
