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VIDEO: Romney backs Obama auto decision, praising 'backbone'
The Hill ^ | 3/31/09 | staff

Posted on 04/01/2009 12:53:10 PM PDT by pissant

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) backed the plan for GM and Chrysler put forth yesterday by President Obama, the candidate Romney may face in the 2012 presidential election.

"I think a lot of people expected the president just to cave, write a check, and just hope for the better," Romney said Tuesday morning on CNN. "I think he's expressing some backbone on this."

Romney grew up in Michigan, where his father was governor and, at one time, chairman of a now-defunct auto company. The former 2008 presidential candidate, though, was also sure to tout his own calls for bankruptcy last year, when Chrysler and GM first approached the government seeking support.

"That's something I think he should have said months ago," Romney claimed. "There were a number of us who said bankruptcy or a bankruptcy-like process was something that was needed to get GM and Chrysler on their feet again."

Romney, who won the Michigan Republican primary during the 2008 nominating process, called for the use of the "club" of bankruptcy to force the restructuring of the state's native industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at briefingroom.thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: larrysinclairslover; mitt; nonconservative; obama; rino; rinoromney; rinos; romneytruthfile
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1 posted on 04/01/2009 12:53:11 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Need more be said about the Republican party.


2 posted on 04/01/2009 12:54:58 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: pissant

Unfortunately this WAS NOT an April Fools joke.


3 posted on 04/01/2009 12:55:20 PM PDT by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: pissant

Mitt Romney is the perfect conservative, haven’t you been told that already, get with the program...


4 posted on 04/01/2009 12:56:17 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: pissant

And this my friends is exactly why Sarah Palin wants NOTHING to do with the GOP..and I don’t blame her one bit. This is their guy, the GOP wants Romney, they adore him, and as far as I am concerned they can have him, they didn’t learn their lesson with McCain, and they won’t learn their lesson with Romney


5 posted on 04/01/2009 12:56:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: pissant

Socialist!


6 posted on 04/01/2009 12:56:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: pissant

Donkeys and Rinos living together. Mass hysteria!


7 posted on 04/01/2009 12:57:02 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: pissant

No backbones, don’t want to make waves...where are men with balls?


8 posted on 04/01/2009 12:57:24 PM PDT by lesko
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To: GOP_Lady; nmh

RIIIIIIINO!


9 posted on 04/01/2009 12:57:53 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: pissant

No surprise here.


10 posted on 04/01/2009 12:58:03 PM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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To: pissant

This just shows the GOP field was pretty weak last year.


11 posted on 04/01/2009 12:58:30 PM PDT by stevem
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To: pissant

Reason 101 why I don’t trust venture capitalists, hedge fund artists, and their buddies like Obama.


12 posted on 04/01/2009 12:58:52 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Buckley, Brooks, Parker - You supported Obama, so shut up and take your screwing)
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To: pissant

he’s talking about bankruptcy for GM...I thought we all agreed on that.


13 posted on 04/01/2009 12:59:07 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: pissant

That should be the end of Romney in the GOP


15 posted on 04/01/2009 12:59:30 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
But he is beautiful, handsome and smart, you have to love him, support him, vote for him, hug him...

Any man that gorgeous has to be a great Conservative, he just has to be....

(Sigh...)


16 posted on 04/01/2009 12:59:44 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: pissant

Oh Freaking GOD.

Every single time I try to find a GOP statesman with some backbone, I find this crap.

We need principled statesmen with some real backbone - instead its the same old thing all over again.
They go back and we get boned.

And he wants me to vote for him why?


17 posted on 04/01/2009 1:00:00 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: ari-freedom

Not when Obama is going to do the bankruptcy instead of a bankruptcy court and Obama is going to appoint their Board of Directors.


18 posted on 04/01/2009 1:00:33 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Yeah, good luck with that..

Romney is their “face amn”...


19 posted on 04/01/2009 1:00:42 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: GeronL

“That should be the end of Romney in the GOP”

No, actually, he fits right in. This just seals the deal.


20 posted on 04/01/2009 1:01:29 PM PDT by papasmurf (Trow da' bum out!)
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