Romney Advisor To Harry Reid Over Allegations He Paid No Taxes: 'Have You No Sense Of Decency, Sir?'

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Mitt Romney's senior campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom appeared on Fox News Channel on Thursday to respond to allegations made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in which he claims that a Bain Capital investor told him that Romney had paid no taxes for a decade. 'Have you no sense of decency, sir,' asked Fehrnstrom, echoing U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welsh during the infamous investigations by Sen. Joe McCarthy into Communist Party activity in the United States in the 1950s.

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On Tuesday, the Huffington Post published an interview with Sen. Reid in which he related the allegation that Romney had paid nothing in taxes for ten years ' though Reid added that he could not confirm the allegations. Reid further posited that Romney's father, the late governor or Michigan George Romney, would be embarrassed by his son not releasing more than two years of tax returns.

Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer asked Fehrnstrom if Reid's allegations were simply an effort to generate headlines and tar Romney with the specter of guilt by implication or if there was something serious behind the charges because they are coming from such a respected source.

'I don't think there is anything behind it. He hasn't produced any evidence,' said Fehrnstrom. 'I'm telling you speaking on behalf of the governor that those charges are untrue, they are baseless and there is nothing to back them up.'

'This reminds me of the McCarthy hearings back in the 1950s,' he added.

Hemmer said that these allegations do not come from a 'political hack' or a campaign operative for the Obama team but the U.S. Senate Majority Leader. 'That's why this is so sad, Bill,' Fehrnstrom replied.

Watch the segment below via Fox News Channel:

h/t Huffington Post

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• Stop whining and release yor TAX RETURNS, Mitt.

• HA! Republicans and decency. Oh the irony'

• Is there anything more pathetic than seeing a Republican whine about hardball politics ?

• If Reid had no decency he would be asking where Romney's long form birth certificate is.  Instead he's asking Mitt to do what every president for the past 50 years has done and release his tax returns. 

  Democrats have finally made use of the Karl Rove/Lee Atwater playbook'keep it up please!

  Repubs sure do hate when Dems play by their rules

•  So the people calling people socialist, Marxist, Stalinist and communist are now accusing others of McCarthyism? Priceless.

• Funny Joseph Welch's line would come up in this circumstance from the Romney camp.  Where was this guy and where was Mitt Romney when Michele Bachmann attacked Hilary Clinton's advisor?  Oh ' wait ' that's different?

• Decency?  Surprised the words could flow from his mouth'.Simple solution, release the Tax Returns and make Harry Reid look like a big, fat, liar'..No?

• Just when I thought Republicans couldn't get any more ridiculous and hypocritical.

  Which is something I've said on no less than a dozen occasions over the past two years.