AUTO CZAR: Romney "level of flip-flopping and dissembling is truly mind-boggling”

[kpete]

With the general election in full swing, Mitt Romney is tacking to the center on the auto rescue with furious speed, with a top spokesman and then Romney himself both claiming he deserves a big “thank-you” for saving Detroit.

He doesn’t.

“I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet,” Romney told a Cleveland TV station while visiting a local auto plant Monday. “So, I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back.”

The trouble is that the people who helped craft the actual auto bailout — and not just on the Democratic side — have said Romney’s often confusing public position would likely have resulted in destruction of the industry.

“I’ve read, I think, everything Romney’s had to say on this subject, and the level of flip-flopping and dissembling is truly mind-boggling,” Steve Rattner, the “auto czar” who advised the White House on the auto rescue, told TPM. “He’s been on every side of the auto rescue at different times and said different things, so it’s hard to know what he honestly thinks.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/romneys-auto-rescue-claims-dont-hold-up.php?ref=fpa

[Nancy Waterman]

1. Romney is a patholigical liar

He says whatever he thinks people want to hear. His character should be the central issue of this
campaign. How can anyone trust this man? Neither the Right nor the Left have a clue as to what he actually would do
in office. There is no there there.

[rurallib]

2. I wish he would use the word "lie" instead of dissembling

too many Americans aren't smart enough to know what dissembling means

[arcane1]

3. Really? The federal government took orders from a former governor with no other job?

Nice try Mitt!