**Romney Strategy - Dismissing Voter Concerns 'With a Condescending Wave of the Hand'

Chessmaster or Pawn: Readers on the Romney Strategy - James Fallows - The Atlantic 

Transparency and honesty are vital traits for our elected leaders. Past candidates have done, and had to do, much better.

"- Another reader says it's more about the psychology of being rich (a point Matthew Dowd also made on the radio show just now):

A couple major theories behind Romney's tax return intransigence seem to have developed on your blog and elsewhere: 1) there is something politically debilitating in those returns, and 2) he is playing some triple bank shot long game to embarrass his enemies in the process of overstepping. 

Despite the high likelihood of Option 1, these theories both ignore the more primal and fundamental reason- which is that Mr. Willard Romney just doesn't think he should have to release this stuff. 

Like many Captains of the Universe, Romney has an absolutely huge sense of entitlement. He is just dripping with condescension when he answers questions about this stuff.  He has always been brittle when his record has been questioned, even when it was done with kid gloves by fellow republicans....

I know the "campaign" is probably in full pushback mode, but I wonder if Mitt, personally, really even understands how important this is.  He behaves in every way like it is something he can dismiss with a wave of the hand... At the end of the day, Romney is the one deciding on the direction of this campaign.  And right now I think we see that he just doesn't think is anyone's business..."