What is in those tax returns?

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo)

At a January debate, CNN’s John King asked Mitt Romney —
since your own father released 12 years of tax returns
back when he was running for the Republican nomination,
why don’t you do the same?

“Will you follow your father’s example?”

“Maybe.”

On ABC last night, we heard Diane Sawyer ask again:

“Why not release 12 years, as your father did?”

“Well, the president is going to try and do everything
possible to divert from the attention being focused on the
record as president. He wants to be able to get all the
details on each year and how much money I made this year
and that year. I’m not going to get into that.”

He seems to be saying there’s something in those returns
that could cost him the election.

We know the Democrats want to make him look bad, but how
bad could his tax returns make him look? Worse than
finding out that Bill Clinton deducted $2 for his used
underwear donations?

Come on! It must be his 15 percent tax rate. He’s probably
never paid more than 15 percent, and he thinks that’ll
tick us off.

See, I don’t think so.

I don’t think we want to judge him. We want to copy him!
If a Boy Scout like Mitt Romney can figure out how to get
a 15 percent rate legally; why should we all have to wait
for some pie in the sky tax reform, which we know is never
going to happen – if there are legal ways to cut our
taxes right now? Could we at least get the name of your
accountant?

It’s just strange that a guy running to be the most
powerful man in the world would be spooked by his own tax
returns. Although, actually I don’t think the president is
the most powerful man in the world anymore. I think
that’s Ryan Seacrest.