"How does one make $240,000,000 a year and be this stupid? "
First off....you can be totally stupid and make lots of money. Look at Herman Cain!
However, Romney is NOT stupid.
Remember this truism......most people think our leaders are kind of dumb, but they have our best interest at heart. Reality is this: they are NOT dumb, and they do NOT have our best interest at heart. They seek to help their friends, that is all...and so the question you should ask is who are Romney's friends?
We know the answer there...the teabaggers, and the wealthy. Everyone else will be told to stuff it.
Look, Romney is installing a CAR ELEVATOR in his garage! My GOD, if a Democrat was doing that, the right wing media would already have a full time show dedicated to it and a half dozen books in print. It seems so STUPID for Romney to do this before the election. Why would he do it?
Simple. He doesn't care, and knows that the people who matter (teabaggers and the wealthy) are not going to care.
So here we have him making a flat out LIE. He was against the bailout which ALLOWED the "managed bankruptcy." So he just lies!
Yes, this is a LIE, it isn't spin or anything other than a flat out LIE.
Now, we CAN assume Romney isn't stupid, so why would he LIE like this?
He knows it doesn't matter. The right wing media will simply report it, and the uninformed will think "Gosh, I didn't know Romney saved GM! Whatta great guy!
Anyway, Romney will NEVER face the Al Gore media, where he was portrayed as a serial liar (falsely, by the way, but the right wing media wanted their monkey Bush, and the media consolidation profited the media very nicely during the Reign of the Ape). Romney can LIE all he wants.
Matter of fact, here is a prediction: the media will turn Romney's lies into an asset. Either it will be a "gosh what a loveable guy who tells tall tales like Uncle Joe used to" or maybe "hey, he changes his mind and we need a CEO who can be flexible like that!"
Either way, the right wing media is NOT going to say "This creep is a LIAR!"
So Romney will go on spouting lies, the uninformed will believe his lies, Obama will go on trying to be Mr. Niceguy while the Republicans lie about him and try to crash the economy while the lapdog media ignores the fact the Republicans are doing so.
A Romney administration WOULD be Bush 2. He has offered nothing more than the same failed Bush policies. That is the truth...and it is the truth the right wing media will go to any length to hide.