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"But his choice of location suggests that he should do his homework on basic American history."

Honestly this is the root of the problem.
Basic American history is not about Jews.
I grew up in Detroit, like Romney did. Loved the Henry Ford Museum growing up, still do. Learned all about Henry Ford and the Model-T, mass production, all that.
That Henry Ford got some sort of medal or other from Adolph Hitler I didn't know until this very morning on this thread.
Never heard it before, and I was a history major from Annapolis, not an uneducated idiot.

Jews see the world through the prism of Jewish history, which is perfectly fine. I tend to see the world through the perspective of military history and French history. But tidbits about so-and-so's anti-Semitism are not "basic American history". They are tidbits that nobody knew, or could know, and about which nobody cares either, except Jews.

I didn't know that about Henry Ford until this morning. Do I now think less of the man? No, not really. I simply do not CARE. My world, and Mitt Romney's world, does not rotate around Jewish sensitivities. If Jews are going to come out of the woodwork and scream at a boy raised in Michigan for declaring his candidacy at the absolute favorite musemum of any boy raised in Michigan doesn't make me rethink my whole ethos, my love for the Henry Ford Museum, or my respect for Henry Ford as the father of American Mass Production. It doesn't make me think Romney should have spent ANY time worrying about this sort of hyper-sensitivity by modern Jews over a museum named after a man who died, what? Over a half-century ago?

The world does not revolve around Jews.
The American political world does not revolve around Jews.
That Henry Ford was an anti-Semite is an interesting tidbit, but it is not "basic American history". It's not even tertiary American history. Hillary Clinton screamed "f--ing Jew!" at somebody while she was married to the top political in the world. That is on a par with Henry Ford's anti-Semitism of 75 years ago, and SHE'S alive and running for President.

Romney has nothing to apologize for, and shouldn't. Henry Ford Museum is the PERFECT place for a Michigan boy to declare his candidacy. If Jews are hypersensitive about it, tough. Nobody cares but the Jews, and they're going to vote for the woman who screamed "f--ing Jew" anyway.

Jewish complaints about Romney at the Henry Ford Museum sounds to me like the whining of people with an exaggerated sense of their own self-importance in this country. That Henry Ford was an anti-Semite is an irrelevant detail of history. He was a great American who put the world on wheels and made America the first industrial power. That is what matters, especially in Michigan. The whining about him and his museum doesn't reflect badly on Romney, it reflects badly on Jews.

"Jewish complaints about Romney at the Henry Ford Museum sounds to me like the whining of people with an exaggerated sense of their own self-importance in this country."

To the extent that it is whining, you are right, but IMO the attack on Romney is simply a political ploy, an attempted attack more than it is an example of whining.

As to the exaggerated sense of self importance, one notes that there is a little truth in that perception, since Jewish influence on society, as Mark Twain once famously noted, is always out of proportion to the numbers of Jews, due to their tendency to "overachieve."