Mitt Romney has brought all this attention about his tax returns on himself. If he had just released them when he became the presumptive nominee, it might have been a one day or one week story. The way he has stonewalled makes people even more curious. This was not a story when Senators John McCain or John Kerry released their returns.

Romney also got caught up in a big kerfuffel over his taxes when he ran for governor, since he had claimed on his taxes he was living in Utah, but had to convince the MA Elections Commission that he was living in MA for seven consecutive years.