Young man. Maybe it’s his Ronald Reagan moment, opening him up for the future.
If McInsane doesn’t tap him, I hope Romney spends the next four years DOING conservatism, if his heart is really changed. Build his sorely-lacking cred.
THEN maybe he can run to replace President Clinton or President Obama.
When Mc**** (Lent!) was campaigning here before our primary, he was gloom and doom--like we need more of that. We have the worst economy of all 50 states. Third in foreclosures, after having led the nation in foreclosures the previous two years. Housing values are down 15-20%. Top that off with a state income tax increase in November. Average unemployment at 8%, as high as 15% in Detroit. What did McCain tell us?
"Your manufacturing jobs are gone, and they're not coming back." He didn't mean that as if to say "...unless you elect me"--he meant, quite simply, that we can expect to continue circling the drain forever. He made no suggestions about how we can fix this mess, how he, as president, could help us. Nothing! And he had the support of most MI elected officials!!!
What really irks me is that he is just plain wrong. Our manufacturing jobs aren't lost forever. Our state still has the workforce (now idle), still has the infrastructure, still has outstanding geography for manufacturing. "Right to Work" legislation will bring the jobs back. Maybe not all of them, but many of them. More importantly, it would stem the tide of job loss. And what does our now-GOP nominee tell us? Those jobs are gone forever. I don't expect candidates to be intimately aware of every situation in every state, but for a nominee to emphatically assert something so horrible--and so horribly WRONG--inexcuseable.
He's wrong for my state. He's wrong for the country. I sure wish Mitt would come home!