If you were running for President...?

[kentuck]

...and you had a Swiss bank account and a tax shelter in Bermuda and money hidden in trusts all over the place, wouldn't you try to clean up that mess before you ran for the Presidency?

What type of person would keep all this accounts, as if everything was OK with such accounts, and try to conceal anything that might be politically damaging?

If you find it hard to imagine such a person, think of Mitt Romney. The laws are not made for him. They are made for other folks. Remember when we thought Bebe Rebozo was a crook for being a bagman for Richard Nixon. This is worse.

[MineralMan]

1. If I had all that stuff, I wouldn't run for President

in the first place. But, then, I'm not a power-hungry asshole, so I don't have that stuff, and I'm still not running for President.

[kentuck]

3. But if you were 65 years old and thinking of mortality...

and what you were going to do with all your wealth once you were gone, wouldn't you like the estate taxes (death taxes) to be really low and would that be incentive enough to run for the Presidency, along with the power and prestige of being the leader of the free world...?

[MineralMan]

5. Well, I'm 66 and more than aware of my mortality.

Never gave any of that stuff a thought, though. But, then, I don't have an estate that amounts to much, and not offspring, so no worries on that account either.

[kentuck]

6. I don't have an estate either, MineralMan but...

Romney does and he has a lot of offspring he would like to share it with when he goes, in my opinion. This is just my guess.

[MineralMan]

8. Nah. I think it's a pure power play, and

I think it's a result of Romney's narcissism. I don't think it's about money at all. It's feeding an already over-inflated ego.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Hubris trumps common sense or human decency.

[Politicalboi]

4. Because laws are "quirks"

For the rich. Rmoney feels it's nobody's business, and I think he is looking at the big picture.
The first Mormon to be President.

[NNN0LHI]

7. His entire life has been nothing but wealth & opulence. He thought everyone had Swiss Bank accounts

That alone makes him too out of touch and unqualified to be president.

Don

[Edweird]

9. If I were running for President I would hope someone would get me psychiatric care

because I would have to have lost my mind to do so.

[rustydog]

10. What type of person? The type who firmly believes it does not matter

to the Americans and Corporations he is courting. They live the same lifestyle and have similar tax-dodge strategies...that is the status quo for their America.
the Republican party and it's mouthpieces: Limpballs, Malkin, Beckkk, Hannity etc are spoutingoff to the stupids, the Republican electorate who are bigoted, ignorant and unhappy.

Rawmoney does not believe he has to explain himself to us commoners. he is offended when he is challenged by the little folk he claims to be part of...

[spanone]

11. maybe he knows that with all the voter suppression laws in effect, he doesn't have to hide anything

[Johonny]

12. I would certainly have a one word catch phrase ready to explain these

Bush was much better at deflecting obvious conflicts than Romney. "Got Wood".

I is hard to imagine you could be running for president for 6 years and not yet have ready made answers to completely obvious questions. Romney is a terrible candidate.