Mitt may have squeaked out a win in Michigan (mostly due to stupid statements by Santorum), but as the POTUS reminded U.S. autoworkers on Tuesday, Feb 28:
The home stadium of the Detroit Lions is Ford Field, named for the Ford Family, of course. It holds about 65,000 people. Mitt Romney had the NERVE to come to Detroit, but knew he couldn't fill the stadium, so his advance team (LOL!) tried to hide most of the empty seats so that Mitt could speak to *only* 1200 and it would look like there were a lot of people at his event.
NOT! There were MORE protesters than attendees at the event. Members of the UAW used American-made cars to spell out Mitt's "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" headlining 2008 New York Times editorial. Mitt thinks we here in Michigan will forget. We haven't forgotten.
For some context, here is Barack Obama in Denver in August 2008 at the Denver Stadium:
Maybe Mitt should have included some of Michigan's trees in the audience--after all, our trees ARE the "right height"! Yes, he said it again!
The Obama2012 team has come out with a GREAT commercial about how President Obama and the Democrats saved the U.S. auto industry when Mitt Romney and the Congressional Republicans wanted to destroy it.
So, 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Willard Mitt Romney DARES to show his face in Michigan again? Just a quick reminder about how Mittens and his Republican buddies REALLY feel about Detroit, about Michigan, and about the U.S. auto industry.
Another quick reminder that it was the Democratic President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the Democratic Congressional leaders from Michigan that LOANED GM and Chrysler the funds they needed to re-group. Ford, although it did not take any government loan, also benefitted, as did all of the ancillary auto-related businesses, because if GM and Chrysler had gone down, all of the interrelated suppliers and OEMs would have irreparably suffered also.
Go away, Mitt. We don't want you in Michigan.
WE WILL NOT FORGET, no matter how many glasses of Vernor's you drink.
Perennial Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a native of Michigan and son of former Michigan governor George Romney, famously said in December 2008: "Let Detroit go bankrupt." He was referring to the then-on-the-brink U.S. auto industry. He didn't care about the tens of thousands of direct and indirect jobs that would be lost. He didn't care about the lost manufacturing base of the American auto industry. He didn't care about Detroit.
Of course, AFTER President Barack Obama and the Michigan Democratic Congressional leaders, including John Conyers, Debbie Stabenow, Carl Levin, and Sander Levin, as well as former Democratic Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm led a government-sponsored loan (not 'bailout") program, the U.S. auto industry is doing better than ever. All of the big three are reporting repeated quarterly profits, tens of thousands of saved and/or new jobs, exciting new car models, and additional investments in plants and R&D, Mr. Romney said saving the auto industry was "his idea" all along.
No, Mitt, it was not. You are famous for wanting to throw ordinary people and companies under the bus. You are most famous for flip-flopping.
Please help this video go viral as Mitt "comes home to Michigan" for a GOP debate in metro Detroit on Wednesday night to try to make us forget that he wanted Detroit to go bankrupt. We are NOT forgetting, Mitt. Hit the road.
In 2009, President Barack Obama and the Democrats (and Canada, too-Thanks, eh?) took the brave and bold step to LOAN the U.S. auto companies the money they needed to restructure. The Republicans, on the other hand, wanted the U.S. auto companies to FAIL. Both Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty stated in 2009 that just "writing a check" to GM and Chrysler was "the wrong thing to do" and would hasten the failure of those companies. Well, thank goodness the Republicans weren't in charge and didn't make that decision. Both GM and Chrysler are paying back their loans in full and with interest, have successfully restructured their companies, and are HIRING THOUSANDS in addition to the TENS OF THOUSANDS of jobs saved or added so far. Romney and Pawlenty want to be President and say that President Obama doesn't make "the hard decisions necessary" to be our country's leader. Oh really? Ask GM and Chrysler, and while you're at it--ask Osama bin Laden about the "hard decisions" our President has made to SAVE JOBS AND COMPANIES and KEEP US SAFE. GM and Chrysler are adding jobs and investing in new plants and R & D right here in the good ol' U.S.A. and bin Laden is fish food.
Romney and Pawlenty were wrong then, and they're wrong for America now.
Please re-tweet and Like this Video--spread the word far and wide to remind America who the REAL LEADER of America is.
