Posted on 03/31/2009 10:16:27 AM PDT by MaestroLC
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.
"If the parties want to do it voluntarily — and apparently, at this stage, it's looking like they haven't been able to — then you're going to have to have that kind of a club to be able to have these companies restructure their excessive costs," he asserted.
Watch a video of the interview below:
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Mitt can run in 2012, but I will not support him.
Unsurprising, Mitt promised millions himself when campaining in Michigan.
He’s a socialist like the rest.
Agreed, the field for 2012 just narrowed.
LOL. Where are our Romney-bot friends? I would have thought one of them might have posted this story.
Thank heavens we didn’t vote for him.
“Agreed, the field for 2012 just narrowed.”
Ditto. Why do these guys feel the need to suck up to Barak Mugabe and his angry wife?
Romney is another McCain. He will never be elected. Republicans can’t stand him, he’s a Socialist. Period!
Bush refused to cut spending, so look where we are. Which Republican talks about balancing the budget and living within our means? Nobody, so we are screwed. Just a bunch of cowards, waiting for the Commies to fail.
They’ll be along earning their paychecks soon enough.
Sure he is. The "backbone" to assert unconstitutional powers over private industry in his blatant power grab.
Romney is a fool like so many others in the Republican Party.
Governor Mitch Daniels (R-IN) in 2012!
This thread should be interesting.
*asbestos, on*
bump
He may be facing Obama, but he will not get my vote.
We need to renounce the GOP. We have one party in DC now and both have bought into the NWO.
bkmk
How do you spell RINO?
R-O-M-N-E-Y
His dad was the eunuch governor of Michigan when I was a boy.
Just what we need, another Republican falling all over himself to praise the enemy.
Mitch is a RINO and a nanny stater.
Well, that’s it for his run for Pres.
McCain wasn’t right on much, but he was right when he said the jobs would never come back in the auto industry, and Mitt like a fool sat there and promised they would.
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