TIS - Somebody posted an article yesterday about how the GOP (or more specifically, Mittens) has lost Michigan for the fall because of the primary campaigning and Mittens giving his convoluted, confusing pretzel-evolving stance on the bailouts. (Bias of partisanship, I defy anybody to understand all that gobbledy goop.)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/26/michael-tomasky-on-the-gop-s-michigan-give-away.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Then Michigan Governor (and Mittens supporter) Rick Snyder actually stated that he supported the bailouts:
"I'm not going to go armchair quarterback it. I think there are alternative scenarios that could have worked also, but the point is, is that it's history, and the important part is it was successful, we're moving along, creating jobs."
A Republican Governor would only say that publicly if he thought it was politically toxic for him to oppose the bailouts (or be perceived as such). If his party's top elected official in that state is afraid of attacking it, I think Mittens is screwed in that state if he wins the nomination.
Of course a note of solace for the GOP: It's a blue state. They're not losing anything.
Then one of my right-wing favorites, David Frum tweeted this today:
I joined a political panel today at the Adcraft Club of Detroit, a group unsurprisingly dominated by auto industry marketing people. Time was, when there was nobody more Republican than a Detroit auto executive. If my lunch table is representative—wow, is that no longer true. They may think President Obama is too liberal, but they have zero tolerance for Romney's "managed bankruptcy" approach.
