The economy has easily been the most discussed issue on the campaign trail in Michigan. Mitt Romney, a onetime successful businessman, has taken aim at John McCain for saying many of the state’s lost jobs aren't likely to return, and that workers need to be re-trained for far different positions in new industries.
"I want to bring Michigan back," Romney said Monday. "I'm not willing to sit back and say, 'Too bad for Michigan. Too bad for the car industry. Too bad for the people who've lost their jobs; they're gone forever.'"
Translation: "I'm not willing to tell you the truth, because the truth kind of sucks. I would rather claim that I am going to do the impossible. This somehow makes me a better person than John McCain."
I think Mitt Romney's entire platform can be summed up as follows:
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I have no idea what I'm going to do as president. It's not my job to have a clue. I will leave it up to my advisers to make plans, then I will decide which plan is best. Multiple-choice decisions are the extent of my abilities.
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My opponents' plans suck. Here are some absurdly-spinned reasons why.