Mitt Romney mounts the "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake!" defense
Mitt Romney
offers a weak defense of his administration's
methodical destruction of all emails sent by himself or his staff during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts:
Well, I think in government we should follow the law. And there has never been an administration that has provided to the opposition research team, or to the public, electronic communications. So ours would have been the first.
Of course, Romney is also the first governor of Massachusetts to seek the presidency since email became commonplace, so whatever he decided to do, his administration would have been the first, so that's a bogus defense. And, more to the point, can you imagine how paranoid and self-absorbed Mitt Romney must be to not realize that public records have value far beyond being fodder for his political opponents?