Well lets be honest. I pulled those select quotes from Mitt's op-ed without giving the full details and context of what he was trying to say and the way I present them they're out of their original context. Read the entire piece and Mitt's calling for deep executive and management cuts, no more private jets and huge benefits for dead weight management types (ie, stuff that would play well in the rust belt.) So when you say-That's really not what Mitt's piece is saying at all. He's clearly calling for those who screwed up to pay the price and for those who can or were successful to survive. His piece is calling for survival of the strong and successful, basically a free market philosophy. That's about as American as it gets isn't?Break the back of decent paying wages to get cheaper help so a select few can prosper
The main part he seems to be wrong on is-
And even that can't be proven wrong because of his qualifier "It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed." So if team Obama is smart they'll just go with the quote "IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye." With the tag line of basically "the guy claiming to know all about business, Mr. Super Smart CEO, said this and he couldn't have been more wrong.""IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed."
Politics is a dirty sport and telling half the truth will often get you farther.