A question and a proposal: What 50 questions must Romney be asked and answer?

[ohgeewhiz]

What 50 questions must Romney be asked? Asked by reporters, asked by citizens, asked in the fall debates, asked by major figures at times when a major group of Americans are watching, listening.

What question or questions do you think the American press and news media MUST ASK him?

Please feel free to list them here in this thread. Then perhaps suggest who should get your questions or this entire list of questions. CNN? Fox News? CBS-ABC-NBC? NY Times and Washington Post, etc.? all of the above? How do you suggest we get the questions to the questioners? Mass emailing? Facebook page?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Do you favor the pending let's-send-more-American-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreement?

[bluedigger]

2. What was your greatest failure in business and what did you learn from it? n/t

[onethatcares]

3. why do you feel

placing your money in offshore bank accounts in order to avoid taxes in someway helps the U.S.of A.?

[Motown_Johnny]

4. If Pres. Bush's economic policies did not lead to the collapse that followed them

and Pres. Obama's economic policies did not lead to the recovery that followed them, then why is the main justification for your candidacy the importance of having your economic policies enacted?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. Followup: You say you have "a 59-point economic plan". What are the top

5 points? Have any of your "59 points" been "scored" by independent economists to estimate their effects on employment and growth, the way the Congressional Budget Office and other independent economists have scored President Obama's Recovery Act and American Jobs Act?

Or are your proposals too vague to be scored--mere political hot air?

[Motown_Johnny]

7. I was going for a logic loop that might cause a feedback and make smoke come out of his ears.

Now Gov. Romney, listen carefully.

If a president's economic policies don't influence the economy, why should we vote for you based on your economic policies?

It would be fun to catch a liar in the opposite of "The Liar Paradox". A "Truth Paradox" if you will.


Illogical! Illogical! Please Explain, please Explain!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

8. I was going for specificity--exactly what ARE his policies? Your question

is a great lead-in for a such a followup, IMO.

It's not easy to wiggle out of a simple request to state exactly what his policies ARE and what experts expect them to accomplish.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Tax rates you pay and have paid: Do you enjoy "carried interest" tax rates

of 10 percent on any of the income you still receive from Bain Capital? Please explain why you think it is just for you to pay a lower nominal tax rate on that income than the vast majority of American workers pay on their hard-won earnings.

Also, when John McCain was considering you for his Vice President nominee four years ago, did you give him more that 20 years of past tax returns? If being considered for Vice President required such disclosure then, please explain why running for President should not require at least as much disclosure NOW? When will you release all the tax returns you gave to John McCain plus all the subsequent returns until 2011?

[ohgeewhiz]

9. Some good ones here so far, adding my own:

What exactly would your replacement health insurance model look like, since Romneycare looks almost exactly like Obamacare? When will the American voters be able to see your plan BEFORE the election?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. Immigration: You promised to veto the 'Dream Act'. Would you immediately

reverse President Obama's policy of renewable 2-year reprieves from deportation for law-abiding young Americans brought here as children through no fault of their own? Would you suddenly upend the lives and life plans of a million young Anericans while you sought a "permanent solution" for these particular political scapegoats you have singled out?

[Ship of Fools]

11. Cool questions. But you know what he'll be asked, of course:

Do you now regret transporting your dog on your car roof, and why?

[HopeHoops]

12. "Who cut your hair?"

[justiceischeap]

13. How much does your faith inform your policies?

Then I would ask the following follow-up question if he answers in any way in the affirmative to that question....

If you are elected president and the prophet of your church told you that you had to do something, would you askew your faith and ignore the prophet's words?

[Kalidurga]

14. How many pensions did you steal to line your bank account with millions?

Why did you decide to become a politician rather than a barber?

Did you have your car detailed after Seamus shat all over it?

How many times did you commit voter fraud? IE the time you said you were living in an unfinished basement so you could vote in Mass.

How many women did you stalk and pull over when you were pretending to be a police officer?

Why is it punishment for rich people to pay taxes, but it is the duty of the middle class to pay taxes at a higher rate than rich people?

Do you resent RomneyCare no being called ObamaCare when that idea came from a conservative "think tank".

When you say you want to create jobs, is that here or in China?

Which fork do you use to eat humble pie?

Do you think that public servants should be allowed to send private emails on tax payer paid time?

If you didn't want private emails to be culled from hard drives, why did you not pay for those taxpayer paid for computers yourself and replace them?

Why does a car need an elevator?

Do you favor capitol punishment for corporations that commit capitol crimes?

When a vulture capitalist takes over a corporation why is it legal for that company to incur debt on the raided company to fill it's coffers first and rebuild the company maybe you know if there is enough money left over?

When you lose to Obama, will you just go away for good, so we never have to hear your name again?

[ohgeewhiz]

15. Some pretty funny but perceptive questions there! Thanks !

All of them very cutting and accurate, too!

[Tennessee Gal]

16. Why have you not released your tax records?

To date, you have only released the past two years. Do you intend to release more prior to the election?

In April, the Obama campaign re-released more than a decade of the president's tax records.

Have you avoided U.S. taxes by investing millions in tax havens?

[ohgeewhiz]

17. Dozens of wonderful questions so far

Let's come together to find a plan to get these questions to be the 50 or so questions Romney cannot answer and that millions of Americans are asking.

That should be a reason to make sure a few million people fail to show up to vote for him in November. No answers, no vote.