Why Romney Can’t Wait Out the Tax Storm

Frank Rich: “What Mitt doesn’t seem to realize is that whatever embarrassments are in his tax returns, the bigger problem is that his secrecy keeps accentuating all the mysteries in his resume: the erased hard drives he left behind when leaving office as Massachusetts governor; what exactly he did as a longtime lay official in the Mormon church; and, of course, what exactly he did and didn’t do at Bain and, for that matter, when he was there and not there. If he keeps trying to wait out the tax storm, it will keep growing — hitting a new peak when he finally releases the one additional year of tax returns he has agreed to disclose, and another when his veep pick is asked to release his or her tax returns.”

Steve Kornacki: “Maybe the calendar offers a clue about Romney’s thinking. In just over a
week, the London Olympics will kick off. If you’re going to release
more embarrassing tax returns, maybe that would be the ideal time?”