Good God, you're coming up with reasons; good god, you're dragging it out.

The debate was pretty much the Gingrich and Santorum show, I thought.  Gingrich blamed the media for his being kind of a lech, which I thought was impressive.  Santorum was kind of like one of those small dogs who decided this is not your ankle's lucky day, and he went after Gingrich a bit, but the thing that's bothering me is Romney and the tax returns.

The longer he holds out on the returns, the bigger a deal it looks like. He's saying he'll release the 2010 one.  That's it.

Get real. One return isn't what the people want. They want to pore over the paperwork and see what that kind of money looks like.  There's only one cure for curiosity.  You give them what they want--and get it over with.  If Gingrich can just go around with his dirty laundry hanging out, what the hell is in those tax returns that Romney can't release them? The longer he doesn't, the longer people are going to ask. 

I'm not saying there must be something in there--but damn, either he's got something he thinks he needs to hide, or his staff has not sense of the optics of the thing. It's just painful watching a manageable issue get turned into something.  (Which is especially so after this guy has been running for POTUS for five years--he didn't know this would come up?)