Like the Dish, William Galston thinks Romney must address his Bain tenure head on and in detail:
His campaign is wrestling with (some reports suggest divided over) how best to respond. There’s an understandable reluctance to open up to public scrutiny the nearly one hundred deals in which he participated as the head of Bain Capital. But there’s really no choice. Romney has to present a counter-narrative, and he can’t do that without talking about individual cases. If he doesn’t release details on his own terms, they’ll dribble out anyway, prolonging the pain. And besides, in a public culture now suffused with anti-elite suspicion, a rich man running for president can’t just say "Trust me"—especially if the skills that enabled him to become rich are the heart of the case he’s making for replacing an incumbent president.
Reihan says this isn't as easy as it sounds:
Mitt Romney can’t simply force Bain Capital to divulge details that may or may not be governed by non-disclosure agreements, etc., and the details may or may not be available (not just not readily available). But the folk understanding of the world is that Romney could snap his fingers and get the firm he founded to do his bidding.
The Dish 