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<\/p>\nRUSH: This Harry Reid and income tax avoidance of Mitt Romney is a classic example. Let\u2019s go back. Here\u2019s Harry Reid yesterday morning on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n
REID: If a person coming before this body wanted to be a cabinet officer, he couldn\u2019t be if he did the same refusal Mitt Romney does about tax returns. So the word\u2019s out that he hasn\u2019t paid any taxes for ten years. Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The word isn\u2019t out that he hasn\u2019t paid any taxes. Harry Reid is the only guy saying so. And he says somebody called him that used to work at Bain. He won\u2019t identify who it is. He\u2019s making a fool of himself, as it turns out. I think this is actually gonna end up helping Romney because it\u2019s allowing Romney to go on offense about this, about not revealing the returns because Harry Reid\u2019s making it obvious what it\u2019s all about. Harry Reid doesn\u2019t even care. If it\u2019s true that Romney weren\u2019t paying taxes, Harry Reid doesn\u2019t care about that. <\/p>\n
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That\u2019s not what this is about. What this is about is Romney\u2019s a rich guy, and he doesn\u2019t have to live like you do. Romney\u2019s a rich guy, and he gets deals. Romney\u2019s a rich guy, and he lives in a way that you\u2019ll never be allowed to and he won\u2019t let you because he doesn\u2019t like you. Mitt Romney\u2019s one of these guys that got rich by taking everything from you. And that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying. He\u2019s talking to his audience of brain-dead, mind fried, little wandering shreds of human debris. That\u2019s who he\u2019s talking to. <\/p>\n
He can\u2019t prove it, but now the allegation\u2019s out there. He put it there. Now it\u2019s up to Romney to disapprove it? What Harry Reid was hoping was the media would pick this up, start demanding that Romney — because what they really want is for Romney to release his tax returns, because they want to then pore through them and find anything they can that they are convinced they could make average people think was Romney skirting the edge of the law or doing something they couldn\u2019t do. <\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s whole history, his whole electoral history, is to find dirt on opponents or make it up and run them out of the race before the election. That\u2019s the Axelrod-Obama modus operandi. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do. They\u2019re dealing here with Mr. Clean. In fact, let\u2019s go to The Forehead. This is good. Sound bite number five. This is The Forehead giving up the game last night on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who said to The Forehead, “Can you defend Harry Reid on this? Can you seriously defend Harry Reid telling us that Romney hasn\u2019t paid taxes for ten years \u2019cause of some mystery man on the phone?”<\/p>\n
BEGALA: You watch me. This guy has a long, incredible history of tax avoidance. Shell corporation in Bermuda. Cayman Islands, Switzerland bank accounts, a blocker corporation in Bermuda, whatever that is. Freshman philosophy. When you\u2019re confronted with something, you have limited information, you choose the simplest, most obvious choice. What do you think it is, Anderson? Do you think he\u2019s secretly, like, owns the Bunny Ranch Brothel? I don\u2019t. He\u2019s a man of extraordinary personal morality, impeccable personal moral character. So I don\u2019t think he\u2019s like secretly owning inner-city liquor stores that sell to children. No. I think — I\u2019m just trying to show, it\u2019s the most logical explanation.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They admit Romney is a man of extraordinary personal morality. That makes him a threat, number one. Impeccable personal moral character, and yet they\u2019re gonna accuse him of tax avoidance. (imitating interview) “Paul, are you sure?” <\/p>\n