It seems that every time a study is critical of their tax and health care proposals, the Romney-Ryan campaign says the study is wrong because "such an analysis would require additional, more detailed policy specifications than are currently available." Yet the campaign keeps refusing to make the specifications available.
The Romney-Ryan campaign have painted them selves into a corner here, and we can only hope that the President hammers that fact home tomorrow night.
RR have only themselves to blame, because all the available explanations for their failure to be specific, along with their continued stonewalling about policy details, just make them look bad.
There are three plausible explanations for the Romney-Ryan campaign's behavior.
1. Ryan's Explanation: They can't make the specifics public, because politicians would get locked into positions during the campaign and wouldn't be able to work things out after the election. In other words, Ryan (1) does not think the voters are intelligent enough to understand the specifics; and (2) does not trust his colleagues to do what they tell the voters they will do once they are elected.
2. The "incompetence" explanation: Romney-Ryan are so incompetent that they haven't done any studies and are just pulling numbers out of the air. After all, they had plenty of time to commission studies of their plans before they proposed them. They should have had good studies available when they announced the plans.
3. The "Slick-Mitt" explanation: Romney-Ryan know their proposals will benefit ultra-rich Americans and hurt middle, moderate, and low income families. But they don't care because the policies they want to implement their Libertarian views.
Of course, there may be some perfectly innocent explanation for The Romney campaign's behavior in discussing their tax and health plans. Maybe, Seamus, the golden retriever, ate all the papers.