Romney Was Against His Own Idea, Only Makes Sense in GOP Fantasy World

This is just classic Republicanism.

Mitt Romney, probably the GOP lead contender for 2012, is now saying it was his idea first to bailout the auto industry.

Via a spokesman for Romney's perennial campaign:

"...the president’s plan was modeled after one Mr. Romney advocated in 2008. “Mitt Romney had the idea first,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, citing the Times opinion article.

“You have to acknowledge that. He was advocating for a course of action that eventually the Obama administration adopted.”

That's odd. As Think Progress makes note, in 2009 Romney said the federal bailout of the auto industry would destroy the industry and exclaimed it would be a huge mistake. He even wrote an op-ed entitled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."  So either Romney was against his own idea before he was for it or ever thunk it, or he's doing the usual Republican revisionist mucky muck.

When things are good, it's always because of Republican ideas. Even though nothing in history squares with that notion, Republicans simply rewrite history so they can pretend they have been right all along.