One thing the response to Harry Reid's smear of Mitt Romney has shown is that the Romney campaign has a different attitude than most Republicans of the recent past. In the past, when Democrats threw out a charge, the Republican response was to be defensive, act apologetic, and back down. How that would've played out is that Mitt Romney would've released all his tax returns and apologized for not releasing them sooner.
Instead, Mitt Romney's response so far has been to call Harry Reid a liar and tell him to shut up. That's a much more aggressive response than we're used to, and it's a good sign. In politics, you're either on offense or on defense, and you can't score points on defense. This was an attempt to make Mitt Romney play defense. So far, he hasn't fallen for it.
Flashback: Questions Harry Reid Won't Answer, Part I
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