Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has said that he won’t release any more tax returns because doing so would only provide ammunition for his opponents. Hmm. Sounds sort of like taking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to answer questions on the grounds that it might incriminate you.
Apparently this “you shall get no details” approach to his taxes will now be applied to the rest of the messaging and information he will deliver during his campaign. I always thought that the Romney campaign was being very vague and that eventually it would start including details in communications. Apparently I was mistaken. We will get no details until after the election, according to a couple of Romney-Ryan campaign advisors. As for Romney, the American voting public is supposed to “trust him” that he did actually pay at least 13% in taxes every year, for example, and providing documentation of this would constitute giving too much ammunition — I mean — information.
If given a choice, I will always vote for someone who says he will achieve completely unrealistic things without explaining how he thinks he’s going to make those unrealistic things happen. This is because I love surprises and hate being a well-informed voting citizen. I love surprises. And if you like surprises too, then Romney-Ryan is the team for you.
Who needs information, facts and truth when you can pick your president based on his fairy tales?
For example, Romney has said that he’ll create 250,000 jobs each month in the four years of his term, if elected, and this is something that Ryan repeated in his first week on the stump for the Romney-Ryan pair. Of course neither has said how they’re going to create all these jobs. Maybe their plan is to put a powerful demand-creating pharmaceutical (Demandital) in the water supply. This powerful pharmaceutical will cause consumers, businesses and government (well, not government, as it won’t have money to spend on anything but defense and a couple of interstate highways in need of repair, which it will hire Ryan Construction to take care of, as the Eisenhower administration hired Ryan Construction to build many miles of the Interstate Highway System) to go out and buy everything in sight, and to do this every two months.
This massive surge in demand for goods and services would create the need for massive plant expansions and hiring in order to replace and reproduce all that everyone would run out and buy every two months. Imagine the boom in the warehouse industry because everything that had been purchased would have to be stored somewhere. I’m sure that’s how they’ll create the 250,000 jobs a month for 48 straight months that they’re promising.
The Brothers Grimm wrote many fairy tales. Given the Romney-Ryan campaign’s strategy not to provide details because they might invite criticism, but to only spin fairy tales, grim is the word.