| Romney/Ryan In Attack Mode |
| Aug-16-2012 |
| Keywords: romney, ryan, campaign, romney, 13% taxes, obama, reid |
The Romeny/Ryan team spent much of the day firing back at Democrats and their chief rival President Obama.
Paul Ryan took on the Obama campaign directly over Vice President Biden's "back in chains" comment, calling them the mark of a "desperate" campaign.
In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Radio, Ryan maintained the assault launched by Romney a week earlier.
"You know, these are the kinds of things you say when you're desperate in a campaign," Ryan said of Biden's comments. "I think you're going to hear more of these things as we go on because they have a terrible record and can't run on it so they're going to kind of sink this campaign to these low levels to distract people.
"To try and you know, stoke the emotions of fear and envy, and it's just not going to work. People are going to see through this. We've gone from hope and change to anger and division and blame and attack and I think people are going to see through this," he said.
For his part, Romney addressed his biggest foe in the Senate, Harry Reid, who asserted a Bain Capital source told him that Romney hadn't paid taxes in a decade.
"I did go back and look at my taxes," Romney said during a news conference at a South Carolina airport. "And over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 (percent) or something like that."
The response follows months of calls for him to release his returns. However, he decided to release only two years, claiming the more years he releases, the "more ammunition" his opponents will have to use against him.
Romney feeling confident he's dispelled Reid's accusations is now waiting for the senator to divulge his source, if such a source actually exists.
"I'm sure waiting for Harry to put up who it was that told him what he says they told him," Romney challenged. "I don't believe it for a minute, by the way." |
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