After the terrible two weeks that Willard Mitt Romney has had, we cats hate to pile on — but pile on we must.
On top of all the bad headlines we're seeing for Willard these days — the carping from anonymous Republicans, the withering media criticism, Obama's lead in the national polls, the new 11-point gap in Pennsylvania, and now, China — there's one topic that's still out there like a hanging chad.
Where are the tax returns? Romney promised a paltry two years, 2010 and 2011, and he's only released one.
Ed Gillespie said last month that Willard would make his 2011 returns public by October 15. Why? Not because he's being proactive about it, because it's inexcusably late, but because that's the deadline for the extension he was given by the IRS. What a profile in courage. It makes us think that there's a 50-50 chance that, hoping we'll just forget about it, he never releases them at all.
Clandestine tax returns, no specifics on policy, and a crippling inability to share a philosophy, a world view or even a sense of self: Romney is the most secretive Republican candidate since Richard Nixon. Why is he even in politics?
We cats will say it again: American voters should be able to see as many years of Willard's returns as his father produced of his own: twelve. We will not forget. We'll help keep up the drumbeat. And we never want to hear the phrase "you people" again.
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