I’m failing to recall the specific quote, but it goes something like:

“I don’t believe he’s a pedophile. I just want to make him defend it in public.”

For that matter, Romney’s got a problem Heinlein threw into one of his books.

A political opponent has a weakness - something he’s done or an aspect that’s undesirable, that he’d rather have buried. Exaggerate it for the press. The opponent will most frequently fall for this and fight to defend it with the truth even though that truth is unpalatable.

So Romney has a tax rate that’s half that of the middle class or about 90% of the voters. Reid says “It was zero some years.”

Romney’s got a quandary: leave it stand, or remind everyone of the ugly that really exists.

And eventually, provided he’s shown to be wrong, Reid can ‘apologize’ - reminding everyone AGAIN of 15%.