Richard Trumka President, AFL-CIO: Game Changer in Ohio: Cars

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-trumka/mitt-romney-auto-bailout_b_2048880.html

This election may come down to cars. That's right, cars.

Nothing illustrates the choice between the two presidential candidates better than the 2009 rescue of the auto industry. And, despite Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's efforts to distort the contrast with patently dishonest claims and a new TV and radio ad, the auto rescue may turn out to be the deciding factor in the presidential election.

Romney can't seem to Etch-a-Sketch that now-famous op-ed headline -- "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

Let's break down what that meant: Here was a millionaire whose idea of remaking America's automakers was liquidation. It was a call for those companies to gut pay and benefits and shed pensions. That's what Mitt Romney believed in. His goal was to "turn around" the industry by killing good jobs.

FULL story at link.

[BlueStreak]

1. What the hell was the Romney campaign thinking with that Jeep crap?

I mean, #1 it was a big lie (that's never stopped Romney before)

#2, Romney is the guy who has made hundreds of millions of dollars outsourcing to China.

#3, even if Jeep did go that route, (moving some jobs from Ohio to China) which they aren't doing, that doesn't change the fact that the auto industry rescue was a great success.

I just don't think these pe0ple are very smart. Republicans have ALWAYS had the advantage of lots and lots of money to spend on advertising, PLUS a very compliant media that almost always carries water for them. That doesn't make them smart. In fact, it probably rewards those who are not much smarter than a stack of bricks, but have low enough ethics to use all that money to their advantage. Look at the Swift boat deal for example. That wasn't brilliant advertising. it was just a really crass, unethical, disgusting lie repeated over and over and over.