“Why is it only Christian conservatives who get thrown under the bus by their fellow Republicans but not narcissistic, liberal New England RINOs who spend half of their campaign making excuses for not releasing their tax returns, with no possible perceived benefit to the party or the campaign for doing so?”
Big difference in one candidate creating a fatal eternal soundbite “legitimate rape” and a rich candidate not wanting to release his tax returns to accomodate a opponent’s fishing expedition.The electorate does not understand reason for the former but does understand the reason for the latter There is no equivalence here.This guy
should have enough sense to throw himself under the bus and get off the stage now rather than forcing others to do it for him.
If by understand the reason for the latter, you mean, they'll assume that Romney did some skullduggery on his taxes, might be a felon, etc. The bizarre reluctance to release one's tax returns when there can't POSSIBLY be any reason not to UNLESS there's something awful in there is indefensible. This is why Romney got SCARRED AND CHARRED in the South Carolina primary. Just see how he answered the tax return question in the debate when he got booed and then got trounced by Newt in the primary. Romney wants to be President where he'll never have privacy again, so why does he insist on being so private about the tax returns?
That is a FAR more serious problem than a simply verbal gaffe of a word or two that every politician makes and become more or less forgotten after a few weeks as people look to more serious issues. Romney's not releasing the tax returns creates a "fear of the unknown" factor which has a life of its own.