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Yesterday that amused me from @lolgop who by the way everyone should follow. hes hysterical. he said for halloween and the five days that follow, the romney campaign is dressing paul ryan up as rob portman. and then there was a story today in the a.p., apparently ryans camp is sort of leaking what his post-election plans could be, assuming there was a romney/ryan loss, saying maybe stay in the house, maybe hed be a professor and write a book. but it did make me think about how this campaign has ...

Opposed a romneyizing of paul ryan. those bolder ideas, popular for some on the conservative base definitely bold are nonetheless going to attract some criticism, as they did in this situation. and they would, i think, probably his supporters would say that you take the bad with the good. nonetheless, were seeing very little of really a chance for him to even get to that point where his ideas are being debated on their merits. hes towing the romney line and serving in a vp role. we should point ...

Shelter tax income from the government. its one thing to take the deductions youre due. its another to orient the entirety of your income streams to engineer them from the beginning to try in the most exotic fashion possible to minimize your tax liability. >> the romney line is theres not a lot of money in the cayman island but its not there to avoid taxes. >> its not possible. >> why would anything be in the cayman islands. >> ive talked to people at bain. bain says to you when they are recruit...

Its another thing to orient the entire of your income streams, to engineer them from the beginning, to try in the most exotic fashion possible to minimize your taxes. >> the romney line is yes, theres a lot of money in the cayman islands but its not to avoid taxes. >> i have talked to people at bain. bain says to you when they are recruiting you we structure these deals in ways that will minimize your tax liability. that is one of the pitches of bain, right? youre going to keep an extra 10% of y...

Return, 225 are foreign vehicles that have been created as far as we know solely for the sole purpose to shelter tax income from the government. its another thing to orient the entire of your income streams, to engineer them from the beginning, to try in the most exotic fashion possible to minimize your taxes. >> the romney line is yes, theres a lot of money in the cayman islands but its not to avoid taxes. >> i have talked to people at bain. bain says to you when they are recruiting you we stru...

The 13% fits in with the romney line which is, trust me with what im going to do with the budget and how were going to make this whole medicare and social security thing work out. were not giving the details but just trust me. >> romney could absolutely prove this case by showing the tax returns and getting it over with. >> susan, i wanted to ask you about this. john mccain has been in the news talking about, you know, the fact that joe biden has been kind of going off the charts and with his la...

To say youre so far out youre in trouble here. >> also im waiting iffer in business community. remember, the business community doesnt take this hard line of immigration that romney took to get the tea partiers on his side. >> right. i know that. >> therest a split within the republican party here. but i think bill is behind the times here. so theres no way at this point in time that romney can take the lead on this. hes already said hes not that interested in the marco rubio approach. so if he ...

Thats the romney line. hows it going to stack up against obama whos now offered to not basically go after anybody under 30 who came here under 16. >> what romney has done is put himself into a pair of cement shoes. he has taken the most extreme position you have -- im not saying its an unprincipled position. its a logical severely conservative position which is were not going to do anything about the 12 million people who are undocumented or anything about the 12 -- their kids. everyone has to g...

Rights. here you have another pretty direct statement by romney. im not on your side on immigration issues. >> to answer the question you asked -- youll get first. bill crystal, theres a bright line between those people who recognize demographic equality and those who dont. he was sitting on that interview set on fox with karl rove. another guy who recognized that republicans had to be right wit hispanics. george w. bush. this is were recognized demographic reality and those who dont. as for lat...

Papers. thats the romney line. hows it going to stack up against obama whos now offered to not basically go after anybody under 30 who came here under 16. >> what romney has done is put himself into a pair of cement shoes. he has taken the most extreme position, not on principle position, its a logical severely conservative position, which is were not going to do anything about the 12 million people here who are undocumented or their kids or anything like that. everyone has to go home and thats ...