I wonder how you set up a Swiss bank account. More, I wonder why you set up a Swiss bank account.

Actually, since there is absolutely no good or honest reason why anyone on the straight and narrow would have a Swiss bank account except to hide money, the “why” is actually easy enough. There was something fishy going on. Having a Swiss bank account as did Mitt Romney is as crooked a project as having one in the Cayman Islands, with the drug money launderers, organized criminals and their disorganized cousins at the top of Republican Party political spectrum.

The question isn’t even how much do you have to invest to make $20 million a year so much as where that orginal money-bloat came from. Bain and its predatory zombie capitalism. Invested in George Bush’s shriveled capital gains tax giveaway scam for the very, very, very rich, Romney doesn’t have to pay much at all compared to honest working people, and does that legally enough.

So why the Swiss bank account? Can you come up with a reason why a zillionaire rolling in gargantuan amounts of money who doesn’t even have to pay much taxes on it then needs to join the slippery types — the oily sheiks, the tottering dictators, the druglords — in Zurich? Or the Caymans?

If he were being taxed fairly, you might imagine he would be offended and might slyly try to slip some of his boodle out of sight; but he was not taxed at anything near the rate as a taxi driver or teacher or soldier — or an “historian” or President of the United States. If his money was all on the up-and-up, why hide it? Is he some wild, romantic, sparky sort of guy given to the flashy gesture? Mitt Romney? Come on.

Because he is rich, the Republicans will not raise even an eyebrow at his money hijinks — even his competitors. When the Grand Old Party is reduced to Daddy Warbucks, Boss Tweed, Torquemada  and Daffy Uncle Charlie, you could hardly expect any more than that.

But maybe the rest of us might wonder why Mitt Romney needs to park his money secretly offshore. If it walks like a duck …