Romney: Obama Taking Over General Motors Shows “Backbone”
That’s not exactly the sort of thing you want to hear from the man who would be the conservative movements hope for victory in 2012.
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.”
I’ll grant that Romney’s comments are…ambiguous. But even so, there’s no room for someone who is supposed to be a proponent of limited government to be ambiguous about this.
Romney says that he feels bankruptcy is the answer for GM. Well, why does the government need to be involved GM filing bankruptcy? Why do the taxpayers need to be paying to administer that? Why couldn’t we have saved ourselves billions in bailouts and just let GM file bankruptcy on its own?
Obama doesn’t get that. And apparently Romney doesn’t either. Which is yet another reason why Romney has no business being at the forefront of the conservative movement.
