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The romney campaign, very much on the defense about the governors taxes. something tells me this is not the last time well talk about governor romneys taxes, unfortunately. >> someone made an argument on the sunday morning shows, and tax return stuff, more of an obsession, an obsession of folks like us, not so much john q. six pack. i saved you for the last. your must read is my favorite. what is it, why? >> a fantastic piece on the front page of "the washington," the frankous nature of these pa...

Republicans and conservatives said great, thats what we want. the reason thats so is because its the base on both sides saying that. both bases see hay to be made out of ryan. the question is how does he play to the middle. >> what i want to know, and i ask you guys this and sam, you know, i have said this before, what is the plan? mitt romney has not seemed to have had a plan for any of the major sort of planks and pieces of his candidacy, whether thats the tax return stuff or the well stuff or...

Know, i like her personally. i know her a little bit and i like her personally but i will say shes always been known as a dealmaker. it would be interesting to see what those returns say but i really believe that the whole clamor for mitt romneys tax returns has died down. people are getting tired of it. theyre looking at all of the things that our president has not released and i think frankly thats starting to come to the floor and theyre saying wait a minute, we better not keep pushing this t...

For obama. look, democrats usually win this question, but if youre romney, you cant be losing it by double digits. yes, hes winning the economy question but not by double digits so he either needs to win the economy question by double digits or close that gap here. so look, hes got -- he is winning the default argument right now against the president. he is not yet winning an argument on behalf of mitt romney yet. thats a finite thing to explain. >> chris, do you think this shows some impact of ...

Far worse than the attacks for not releasing them. thats where we are today. >> keith boykin, how do you think this tax return stuff plays out? >> i think its going to get bigger than just tax returns. people are going to ask other questions about his finances. how do you get $101 million in an i.r.a., for example, if you have a limit of $5,000 or $6,000 you can contribute? that doesnt make any sense. people are going to ask questions about why are you listed as ceo and managing director of bain...