In an op-ed in today’s Detroit News, Mitt Romney doubled down on his opposition to President Obama’s auto company bailouts.
“I am a son of Detroit,” Romney’s piece begins. “Cars got in my bones early. And not just any cars, American cars.”
Romney is suddenly facing a competitive race in Michigan with a resurgent Rick Santorum, but is still dogged by his vociferous dismissal of Obama’s attempts to save the auto companies in 2009.
From the Detroit News:
Three years ago, in the midst of an economic crisis, a newly elected President Barack Obama stepped in with a bailout for the auto industry. The indisputable good news is that Chrysler and General Motors are still in business. The equally indisputable bad news is that all the defects in President Obama’s management of the American economy are evident in what he did.
Instead of doing the right thing and standing up to union bosses,Obama rewarded them.
