If I’m understanding this right the Romney campaign has decided that the economy isn’t going to do it. So they’re shifting toward a campaign centered on cocaine, Tony Rezko, Reverend Wright, etc.

In other news, Romney team threatens to slip on a banana peel if Obama doesn’t back off on the tax return stuff.

How many different things has Team Romney tried this week to change the conversation away from Bain and taxes? Count ’em.

Some county Republican Party orgs in Tennessee are mutinying against Republican Gov. Bill Haslam for hiring a Muslim, not appreciating the threat of Sharia and not firing gay state employees. Real pretty.

In a taped radio interview aired tonight Mitt Romney rejected calls from fellow Republicans that he release his full history of tax returns. “Oh, I think people in my party just say, ‘Look, this is a non-issue, just release the returns and it will all go away.’ My experience is that the Democratic Party these days has approached taxes in a very different way than in the past.” Read More

Over the last hour or so we’ve seen The National Review and Rick Perry tell Mitt Romney to go ahead and release his tax returns. So by tomorrow morning Mitt needing to release more tax returns may be part of the 2012 GOP platform.

But if he does, how many? Read More

Shorter McCain: In reporting exactly what I said, media are taking me out of context.

New Google Street View of Ernest Shackleton’s hut, among other Antarctica landmarks.

Mitt Romney personally picks up the “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” canard and runs with it.

McCain says he didn’t pass over Romney for Veep because of anything to do with taxes. It was because “Sarah Palin was the better candidate.”

Benjy Sarlin explains the the whole “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that” canard.