This Romney quote will haunt him in the “rust belt”. He can’t win around here, which means he is done before he even starts.

“It would have been best had the auto companies gone through the bankruptcy process without having taken $17 billion from government.”

In 2009, that would have meant liquidation. No one else at that time could have or would have taken on that role. For a guy who spent his career as a vulture capitalist, he knew that. This was just one more example of Mitt saying dumb shit just to appease the idiot base.