In a taped radio interview aired tonight Mitt Romney rejected calls from fellow Republicans that he release his full history of tax returns. “Oh, I think people in my party just say, ‘Look, this is a non-issue, just release the returns and it will all go away.’ My experience is that the Democratic Party these days has approached taxes in a very different way than in the past.” Read More
Over the last hour or so we’ve seen The National Review and Rick Perry tell Mitt Romney to go ahead and release his tax returns. So by tomorrow morning Mitt needing to release more tax returns may be part of the 2012 GOP platform.
But if he does, how many? Read More
Shorter McCain: In reporting exactly what I said, media are taking me out of context.
New Google Street View of Ernest Shackleton’s hut, among other Antarctica landmarks.
Mitt Romney personally picks up the “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” canard and runs with it.
McCain says he didn’t pass over Romney for Veep because of anything to do with taxes. It was because “Sarah Palin was the better candidate.”
Benjy Sarlin explains the the whole “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” canard.
John Sununu in his usual form this morning, going on Fox to say that President Obama “spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something” and separately telling reporters, “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”