Crisp: Put Reid's accusation on Romney taxes in context  I'm
guessing that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid isn't actually
a "dirty liar," which is what Republican National Committee
chairman Reince Priebus called him last week on national
television.  That is to say, I suspect it's more likely that
someone actually did tell Reid that Mitt Romney hasn't paid any
taxes for 10 years than that Reid just made the story up.  Reid
says that his informant was a Bain Capital investor, and in the
ultracompetitive world of high finance in which Bain investors
operate — at least the kind privileged to talk on the phone with
the Senate majority leader — it's probably not hard to find one
rich man who's willing to say something bad about another.  I'm
guessing that's what happened. This isn't to say that the
allegation is actually true. Nor am I interested in defending
the propriety of Reid's allegation, with its scant, anonymous
evidence and no proof.  But surely Reid's questionable comment
calls for a little context: