The man who picked Sarah Palin after vetting Mitt Romney is once again vouching for Romney's secret tax returns,
this time to Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun and KSNV TV in Harry Reid's home state:
Arizona Sen. John McCain said today that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is wrong about his assertion that Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years, saying his team that vetted the presumptive GOP nominee in 2008 found no such thing. [...] "Nothing in his tax returns showed that he did not pay taxes," McCain said during an interview taped for "Face to Face" that will air Tuesday evening.
Given that McCain's team looked at 23 years of tax records, it would be virtually impossible for Romney to have paid no taxes, so McCain's comments don't really shed much light on the situation. Plus, McCain wouldn't have seen Romney's 2008 or 2009 tax returns, both of which Romney is keeping secret. And despite what McCain said, we still don't know why Romney is hiding them. But for those of us who want to know the answer, it was awfully nice of McCain to keep the question alive.