Romney is spinning so much that he must be making the world dizzy.
Now he's taking taking credit for saving the auto industry.
Campaigning in the backyard of America's auto industry, Mitt Romney re-ignited the bailout debate by suggesting he deserves "a lot of credit" for the recent successes of the nation's largest car companies.
A bit more beyond the fleur-de-kos.
Romney really is amazing. He doesn't want Obama to take credit for the death of OBL, even though he had the wrong ideas on that (although his point was a valid position, actually). But he deserves credit for the resurgence of the American auto industry.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee told a Cleveland television station on Monday that President Barack Obama followed his lead when he ushered auto companies through a managed bankruptcy soon after taking office.
"I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet," Romney said in an interview inside a Cleveland-area auto parts maker. "So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back."
Fortunately, the article points out the dishonesty:
The course Romney advocated differed greatly from the one that was ultimately taken. GM and Chrysler went into bankruptcy on the strength of a massive bailout that Romney opposed. Neither Republican President George W. Bush nor Democratic President Barack Obama believed the automakers would have survived without that backup from taxpayers.
Romney opposed taxpayer help.
"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye," Romney wrote in a November 2008 opinion article in the New York Times. "It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed."
Even more reassuring is that the comments following the article at yahoo are very negative about Romney.
Funny that Romney never takes any credit for Obamacare - his one real bit of inspiration.
Didn't see this anywhere and thought it was worth sharing.
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