If Romney breaks under pressure to release his tax returns and/or explain

[Frustratedlady]

his offshore investments/company(s), and it comes out he evaded income taxes or did something that looks illegal, what happens at the convention?

Do they vote him in with the hope they can prove the rumors wrong?

Does Ron Paul gain delegate votes to win the nomination?

Does someone like Jeb Bush step forward to save the day?

I ask, because this seems to be growing legs. Even if they don't have time to prove it or can substantiate a strong suspicion there is something Romney doesn't want us to know, the Republicans will be nervous and hesitant in supporting a possible loser/crook.

At least with Mitt, we know what we've got. Can we be asking for something that will give us another Bush to fight or are the Dems timing it right to trap him in the nomination before any shenanigans surface or are announced?

[LiberalFighter]

1. There is a lot more to it then we know. More to come.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. My preference would be that this simmers until a change is too late -

would rather have either the newly-damaged Mittens, or if they do a quick change, have it be so late that there is no time to settle things down. A slowly cornered Mitt would be best, I think......

[Marie Marie]

4. Brilliant.

Let the stench of his bullshit envelope him so that the Repubs can't even hold their noses to vote for him. I want this over-privileged, tax-dodging twit to lose BIG!

[handmade34]

3. I think he could be forced to step aside

and I don't see that as a positive for us

[applegrove]

5. Romney's tax return will be a okay. It will be legal. It may be generous to the poor. He knew he was

going to be running for President when he did his taxes. This holding it back is just to excite Democrats into calling him a cheat and make them look foolish. Thankfully they are now calling out his lack of transparency which he is very guilty of.

[magical thyme]

13. he is too cheap to do anything generous for the poor...even to help his campaign

Once a cheapskate, always a cheapskate.

His wife was too cheap to retire one of the horses that helped her so much with her ms, of whom she claims to be "fond" and that she crippled by forcing him to perform even as his hoof deteriorated. They just drugged him up and pawned him off on an unsuspectingly client for $125K. They could have retired that poor horse on less than their pocket change and maybe even used him as another tax deduction for their horse "business." When they were caught, they could have apologized, said they didn't realize the trainer was drugging the horse and refunded the buyer's money. Instead, they just lawyered up and called $125K in fraud "frivolous."

That was in 2010 when he knew he was running. Do you honestly think they'd give away any money to people whom they've never met?

It doesn't matter if the loopholes are "legal." The fact is they are unavailable to all but the 1%, who have no real need for them, only greed. When people see tax exemptions for hobbies that are larger by far than their annual salaries, they'll be rightly pissed. When they see a 1%er paying little to no taxes, they'll be pissed. That's what they want to hide.

That they're the true freeloader welfare queens driving around in cadillacs that Faux is always whining about.

[Pilotguy]

6. If he has nothing to hide...

...he would have released them by now. And why the extension of his 2011 tax return? You want to be president of the United States but you can't file you're taxes on time?

[Skittles]

7. I got an extension for my 2011 return

sh** happens - I don't know what happened to him but I got one and I am not some tax-evading rich fuck

[Pilotguy]

8. Are you a candidate for the presidency of the United States?

I understand that people do file extensions for a variety of reasons but if you're running for president don't you think it would be wise to file on time?

[Skittles]

9. I have no doubt that fucker is hiding something

but I'm just saying it is not UNUSUAL to get a tax extension

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Romney.

Too Big To Tax.

[Rosanna Lopez]

11. Brokered convention talk again?

Where does this idea keep coming from on this board that the Republicans would change their nominee half-way through the election? It just doesn't happen. Or at least it hasn't happened in modern times during my lifetime.

Romney is their man and it ain't going to be anyone else.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

12. Any releasing or explaining would be 100% on Romney's timetable.

Since Romney has programmed himself his whole life to try to top his father's political accomplishments, he MUST wait until after the convention to do anything that might scuttle his chances. So discussions of alternate-candidate scenarios at the convention are IMO moot.