Here's the latest "No Shit, Sherlock!" statement from Rmoney...

[Bozita]

Romney: In retrospect, 'Let Detroit Go Bankrupt' might not have been the best headline
Published: Friday, February 17, 2012, 12:05 PM Updated: Friday, February 17, 2012, 12:23 PM
By Troy Reimink | [e-mail]


In a meeting Thursday with the Detroit Free Press editorial board, Mitt Romney lashed out at critics of his now-infamous New York Times op-ed, which appeared in 2008 under the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

The GOP presidential candidate told the board that if he could do it again, he would headline the piece "How to Save Detroit."

Romney, locked in a tough primary race in his native state against a surging Rick Santorum, said critics who keep citing the piece didn't read beyond the headline and called claims he would have allowed Detroit automakers to be liquidated "so absurd."

"I can't even listen to that," he told the Free Press. "Of course I wouldn't have allowed them to be liquidated."

more...
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/romney_in_retrospect_let_detro.html

[Raven]

1. Too late Mitt. Horse left barn. n/t

[Gman]

2. Of course you don't liquidate. How stupid.

You buy and sell off the pieces at huge profits. That's exactly what he's saying now.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. What he meant for the headline was "Kill the UAW".

People on the right well understood the intent of the essay, but Romney was trying to sound like a financial intellect.

If Obama had followed Romney's advice and sent GM into a contract shedding reorganization, and the company bounced back like it has, every Republican in the country would be touting the success today and giving credit to dissolving the UAW.

Republicans built their platform on the firm belief that organized labor strangles businesses, and they hate to see a company succeed with the cooperation of hourly union workers.

[xxqqqzme]

4. Well here's a problem

"...First, their huge disadvantage in costs relative to foreign brands must be eliminated. That means new labor agreements to align pay and benefits to match those of workers at competitors like BMW, Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Furthermore, retiree benefits must be reduced so that the total burden per auto for domestic makers is not higher than that of foreign producers...."

(emphasis added)

Except the German and Japanese auto workers have government pensions and health benefits. Benefits US workers/employers are expected to provide/pay for so of course the cost is built into their US products.

Rmoney is mercury. Running all over the place, re-combining into a new shape w/ no idea as to its previous form. Slick, glossy, shape shifting and toxic!

[opihimoimoi]

5. Yup. nother rich Exploitor Stupendous wanting to Exploite us lowly Human Wreckage into working

at the System They Implemented....

[mick063]

9. cool mercury analogy.

I picture the latest "Terminator" model.

Shapeshifting into a "trustworthy" figure at will.

[Old and In the Way]

6. In other words, he didn't expect that the program would be sucessful...

and he'd have used the editorial as a "I told you so" club in the GE. Too bad, a Republican betting on the wrong side of the politics....again.

[yellowcanine]

7. "...if he could do it again, he would headline the piece "How to Save Detroit."

[yellowcanine]

8. Romney added, "And furthermore, Seamus would ride inside wrapped in a comfy blanket."

[mick063]

10. Romney = Nuetron Bomb.

Of course the nuetron bomb was designed so that we wouldn't destroy Europe in an attempt to "save it".

In other words, destroy the population with acute, quick decaying radiation, but save the infrastructure by mitigating the blast wave.

Romney's fantasy would be to drop a nuetron bomb on Detroit's unionized auto workers.

[Aristus]

11. Rmoney is lucky in at least one respect:

At least once more in the primary campaign, Frothy is going to have to defend his absurd "blah people" remark. That should take at least some of the heat off the Mittster; for a few nanoseconds, at least.