Some folks think that Michigan may be in play this November. Particularly because Michigan is the birthstate of Mitt, and his father was a former Governor back in the day. Those who think Michigan is in play this fall can shove it where the sun don't shine. And I ain't talking about Seattle. I'm here to tell you right now that Michigan will be in the Democratic column not just this fall, but for years to come.
Let's not forget the Op-Ed that Mitt Romney wrote in the New York Times shortly after the 2008 Elections. The Op-Ed titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". Here the first paragrapgh from the Op-Ed:
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.The most telling in this piece is where he talks about "manage bankruptcy"
The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.People who would had gotten fired if the Republicans had their way, would not had been guaranteed their jobs back nor pensions they bust ass for years and years to receive. This is the ruthless economic ideology that Republicans have, corporations and profits over working folks. Ever since then he's been flip-flopping like he usually does. At one point he said "Obama took his advice" regarding the auto-industry. Then in today's Detroit News he wote a blasphemous piece where claims he's a "son of Detroit". He described the bailout as crony capitalism, and Detroit would be better off.
This was crony capitalism on a grand scale. The president tells us that without his intervention things in Detroit would be worse. I believe that without his intervention things there would be better.No wonder why Detroit's "favorite son" is losing in Michigan to Rick Santourum.
If it wasn't for President Obama and the Democrats in congress the American auto-industry would have been no more, and the State of Michigan would have fell off a cliff. That state would have cease to exist. Not only Michigan would have suffer, but the country would have suffer a Great Depression, beyond your wildest imagination. It would be impossible to comprehend the thought, nor articulate in the English language. It would had made the first Great Depression look like a flea on a dog's ass. Saving the American auto-industry was one of the best things President Obama did for this country. Most importantly it's probably the single best vote ever made by the two Senators from Michigan, Carl Levin & Debbie Stabenow. Along with most of the Michigan delegation. Just this past month week reports stated that Michigan had one of the best turn around in the Nation since the recession, still having a long way to go.
While Republicans talk about how we shouldn't have government intervention, or government at all. The only government intervening they like is in the bedroom, and a women's womb. We see that the auto-industry is roaring back. GM and Chrysler have been making record profits. In last years Super Bowl between the Packers and Steelers everybody was talking about this ad featuring Eminem, most likely one of the best of Super Bowl ad's of all time.
You don't have to be from Michigan to feel moved by that ad. For a city that has been through the worst of times, for a state that has seen it's greatest days seem like a distant memory, and for a region that has been bleeding for decades, they all relate to that ad. Republicans can't stand that the auto industry is doing so well. Not only did they hates last years ad with Eminem, but they hated this years with Clint Eastwood.
In that ad there's a quote that stick out like a swell thumb when describing the City of Detroit. "What does a town that's been to hell and back know about the finer things in life?"
I don't think, and I refuse to think that Michigan would vote the Republican ticket this fall with Mitt Romney, and whoever is his VP choice. I refuse to think they would vote for the party that advocated policies that would had let not just the City of Detroit, but the State of Michigan to go to hell and never come back!
The people of Michigan would be forever grateful for what President Obama did for that state. As far as I'm concerned Romney doesn't have a chance in Michigan.