Why Won't Romney Release More Tax Returns (The New Yorker)

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17. Premise is wrong. Not releasing could be a deliberate strategy

to deflect attention from his corporatist, elitist past that's already in plain view.

I believe this tax return issue can be intentionally left to fester, inflate, and become the focus of everything financial having to do with Romney. If the stupid tax returns can come to represent a nation's doubts about an arrogant out-of-touch corporatist then the GOP will have succeeded in rolling all the legitimate and complex angst about undemocratic corporatism into one giant ball...only to be knocked down all at once when tax returns are released showing nothing new.

Romney is only one corporatist and the tax returns are only a small (IMO) component of why Romney isn't fit for office...but the GOP has a long history of boiling down complex positions into one fragment than can then be made gray, confused, unclear, and dismissed. The whole issue of W's frat boy first 40 years went away when it was alleged that the document Rather used could have been forged.

If the returns were that bad, he would never have been allowed to run...especially since McCain's campaign saw them in '08. I'm saying this is much ado about nothing and that dem leaders should continue to make the easy overall case that the last thing we need for president is an car-collecting, arrogant, horse-riding, lying, out-of-touch, tea-partying corporatist who believes that America's strength is directly related to CEO pay....that austerity combined with trickle-down should start tomorrow...that 40 million people should lose health care access so that taxes can be lowered for the 1%....that historically low taxes and historically high debt are unrelated...on and on. Easy.

Obama should say he doesn't care about the tax returns...there's enough of a record to make this an easy vote for Americans.