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.
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Need more be said about the Republican party.
Unfortunately this WAS NOT an April Fools joke.
Mitt Romney is the perfect conservative, haven’t you been told that already, get with the program...
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
Socialist!
Donkeys and Rinos living together. Mass hysteria!
No backbones, don’t want to make waves...where are men with balls?
RIIIIIIINO!
No surprise here.
This just shows the GOP field was pretty weak last year.
Reason 101 why I don’t trust venture capitalists, hedge fund artists, and their buddies like Obama.
he’s talking about bankruptcy for GM...I thought we all agreed on that.
That should be the end of Romney in the GOP
Any man that gorgeous has to be a great Conservative, he just has to be....
(Sigh...)
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?
Not when Obama is going to do the bankruptcy instead of a bankruptcy court and Obama is going to appoint their Board of Directors.
Yeah, good luck with that..
Romney is their “face amn”...
“That should be the end of Romney in the GOP”
No, actually, he fits right in. This just seals the deal.
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