Over at National Review Online, which is normally a wing-nut asylum, editor-in-chief Rich Lowry asks (7/5/12) in his "Question of the Day":
Why didn’t Mitt Romney liquidate all of his offshore accounts long ago, say, when he began to run for president the first time around in 2008?
Now, that's a very interesting question. One would think that if you wanted to be President of the United States of America, having a bunch of overseas bank accounts, such as in the Crown Colony of the Cayman Islands, for example, would seem to be inconsistent with the public image that you'd want to project so you could win the election. And just because it might be legal to do this doesn't mean it's politically smart.
I think the Mittster either (a) didn't think he had a realistic chance of getting the nomination, so he just phoned it in, in classic Fred Thompson style or (b) didn't have the slightest clue that 99.9 percent of the population doesn't have an offshore bank account and might regard it as somewhat strange to have a president who did.
What do you think? Let's help answer Rich Lowry's question.