Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid argued that Mitt Romney’s 47 percent comments as well as his tax returns “are windows into the character, values and priorities of someone who could drive our nation’s economic policy” in an op-ed in the Las Vegas Sun Sunday.
We learn the most about someone’s character not from what he does when he knows others are watching but from what he does when he thinks they aren’t…
When he thought no one was listening, Romney accused 47 percent of Americans of not taking responsibility for their lives, painting them as lounging in government dependency — a conclusion he reached because, for various legitimate reasons, they are exempt from paying federal income taxes…
The second lesson we learned came at another time Romney thought no one was looking: He released his 2011 tax returns late on a Friday afternoon in the hopes of making the smallest news splash possible.
What was he trying to hide? Perhaps that, despite his tough talk on China, he profited from investments in a state-owned Chinese oil company and a video company known for pirating copyrighted content. Or that, despite calling Russia our “No. 1 geopolitical foe” and his fiery rhetoric against Iran, he invested in Russia’s state-owned oil giant, which does business with Iran…
Reid has been attacking Romney over his tax returns for months.
