{"id":4796,"date":"2012-05-09T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2012-05-09T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:04:08","slug":"romney-in-2008-let-detroit-go-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-in-2008-let-detroit-go-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney in 2008: &quot;Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after he said the bailout guaranteed the end of Detroit, Romney takes credit. A man of such character and foresight!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/19\/opinion\/19romney.html?_r=1\">Let Detroit Go Bankrupt &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<h6>By MITT ROMNEY   <br \/>Published: November 18, 2008 <\/h6>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/19\/opinion\/19romney.html?_r=1\">Let Detroit Go Bankrupt &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/08\/mitt-romney-auto-industry_n_1498520.html\">Mitt Romney: &#8216;I&#8217;ll Take A Lot Of Credit&#8217; For Auto Industry Recovery<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite his 2008 call to &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/19\/opinion\/19romney.html\">let Detroit go bankrupt<\/a>,&quot; presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that he would &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsnet5.com\/dpp\/news\/political\/Mitt-Romney-says-manufacturing-can-come-back-to-Ohio-and-explains-how\">take a lot of credit<\/a>&quot; for his impact on the U.S. automobile industry&#8217;s comeback.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/08\/mitt-romney-auto-industry_n_1498520.html\">Mitt Romney: &#8216;I&#8217;ll Take A Lot Of Credit&#8217; For Auto Industry Recovery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after he said the bailout guaranteed the end of Detroit, Romney takes credit. A man of such character and foresight! Let Detroit Go Bankrupt &#8211; NYTimes.com By MITT ROMNEY Published: November 18, 2008 IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-in-2008-let-detroit-go-bankrupt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romney in 2008: &quot;Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.&quot;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}