In Romney Tax Returns, Democrats Find Their "Birther" Issue ...With One Major Difference

       In their never ending quest to distract the voters from the Obama Administration's dismal performance on the economy, the Democrats have been throwing everything they can at the wall to see if something will stick. The usual suspects - Harry Reid, Nancy Peloci, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jay Carney, David Axelrod, et al - have been trotted out, hit the Sunday Morning Talk Show circuit and in well rehearsed lines, floated one trial balloon after another to try to find that "Gotcha Issue." A few have gained a bit of traction for a time but ultimately all have failed to deliver. Some topics such as Seamus the Dog and overseas investments outright backfired because the Democrat accusers didn't have enough common sense to do the due diligence to check their own vulnerability on these issues: President Obama had actually eaten dog and most of the accusers had some amount of overseas investments in their portfolios.
       Over the last several weeks, the Democrat mantra has been "Governor Romney release your tax returns." and "If you have nothing to hide, why not just release your tax returns?" In their desperation, they have even gone so far as to accuse Mr. Romney of committing a felony and also not paying any taxes for the last ten years. Absolutely no evidence of course but when Harry Reid tells us "The word is out." that should be enough for us, right? It is for his "associates" back in Vegas. Hearing all this, it began to sound vaguely familiar to me. "Where had I heard this before?" It wasn't until I saw part of an interview with that titan of intellect, Robert Gibbs, that it occurred to me. This sounds like the same argument the "birthers" were making! Gibbs said he couldn't remember anyone refusing to do something so simple and that this is easy enough to settle: just release the tax returns. Once I regained my composure after witnessing Gibbs' apparent acute attack of amnesia, I thought to myself, I bet the Democrats are seeing an equivalence between the two issues. "You demanded to see Barack Obama's birth certificate and we are demanding to see Mitt Romney's tax returns. It's the same thing." Of course, for anyone who has read and understands the Constitution, the difference couldn't be more obvious.