It is really infuriating when politicians insult the collective American intelligence.  This applies to any politician but Mitt Romney is becoming a grand master at it. Romney told the National Review's Robert Costa he didn't want to release any more of his tax returns because he did not want the Obama camp to get "hundreds or thousands more pages to pick through, distort and lie about."  Most Americans have a hard time just grasping the concept of tax returns running into "hundreds or thousands" of pages. I think mine was ten.  But my biggest question is how do you "distort and lie about" a tax return which was filed years ago and presumably prepared by very highly paid, brilliant tax attorneys and accountants?  We can assume that the IRS went over all those pages and found the returns satisfactory.  Tax returns are supposed to be factual, honest and with most data expressed in numbers.  On the "taxes due" line how do you distort or lie about the number?  I do not doubt that Romney is a smart man, so it amazes me that he cannot seem to figure out what is going on here.  The more he refuses, the more the American public believes he is hiding something bad. His intransigence is reinforcing in the public's mind that he knows what that bad stuff is and he is, in fact,  trying to hide it.  This is non-partisan human nature and not an evil plot against Mitt.  However, according to Romney, the Obama campaign wants him to release his tax returns so they can use them against him.  Therefore, his refusal to divulge his tax returns, like everything else, is all Obama's fault.