[Zhang Fei]

GWB supported the auto bailout because he understood the Electoral College and down ticket effects from the effect on the Rust Belt states. He won OH in 2000 and 2004. Romney should have said nothing or kept a low profile. Instead, he had to grandstand and pen a newspaper editorial. GWB’s gaffes were mainly mispronunciations of words or malapropisms. Romney alienated big chunks of the population with mentions of 47% and his two Cadillacs. Romney’s are the kinds of mistakes experienced pols don’t make.

[tartar1000]

Agree wholeheartedly. Romney made a huge mistake penning that op-ed. It killed him in the rust-belt. He may have even captured MIchigan but too many blunders like that cost him bigtime!

[taildragger]

Instead GM will not be spun off in the next 4 years, and maybe the next British Leyland, Chrysler? Hah! I wish I could share the conversation I had the other day with someone in that culture, it maybe equally FUBAR'd as GM.

So he spoke the truth, tangentially about the rule of law and how it was destroyed by this bankruptcy and he looses OH? No, the question should be why is OH and MI as dumb as a box of rocks. Beam me up Scotty we have an uninformed electorate...