Mitt Romney and the car industry: A Detroiter in his own mind | The Economist
What’s amazing to me is that Mitt Romney seems like a combination of the worst aspects of Al Gore and John Kerry. Stretching the truth & exaggerating, seeming to change his position daily, being wooden/mechanical and unlikable, and being filthy rich, out of touch, & part of a political dynasty. He can’t even be the moderate that he really is in that party.
So Mr Romney must find a way to re-write history, lest he fall further behind Rick Santorum in his state of birth. Mr Santorum didn’t support the auto bail-out either, but he evinces a genuine compassion for blue-collar workers. And he didn’t pen an op-ed predicting, ”If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.” That’s a difficult statement to walk back.
