The Democratic Party really needs a high profile goof ball like Donald Trump.  Someone who could whip up a frenzy over Romney's refusal to reveal all his tax returns.  How about calling them the "returners"?   If squabbles over Obama's birth certificate generated so much hysteria on the Republican right imagine what demanding Romney's tax returns could do to wake up drowsy Democrats.  The "birthers" won a victory of sorts since Obama did release a birth certificate which Trump and his followers doubted anyway.  Most Americans gave a collective yawn and hoped Trump would get lost and go back to promoting himself in other ways.  But tax returns are not birth certificates. It has become expected that candidates for high office demonstrate their fiscal purity by proving they did their civic duty and paid their taxes and did not make obscene quantities of money with little effort (like raking in huge salaries, bonuses and dividends).  Here is Romney's dilemma: The collective mentality in this case is not a partisan thing. All the public wants to know. The more he refuses to produce his tax returns, the more doubts he raises in the public mind that he is hiding something.  So the Democrats need someone to lead the "returners" and make sure they force the issue and get Romney to come clean.   Maybe they could find someone who Trump or Romney fired.

Sideblog:  Today’s Raser’s Edge Dumb Ass Award goes to the anonymous person or persons on the United States Olympic Committee who said:  “Hey I got an idea.  Why don’t we have Ralph Lauren design our uniforms and save a hell of a lot of money by making them in China.”