It Reeks of Desperation

All politicians lie or say anything to get elected, but Mitt took this thing to a whole new level.

The Jeep operations aren't moving to China. Mitt is just projecting what HE would do if he owned the company.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is getting heat for wrongly claiming in an Ohio rally Thursday night that Chrysler may move all Jeep production to China.

He apparently was referring to a recent Bloomberg story about Fiat, Chrysler's majority owner, returning Jeep output to China for the first time in at least a few years.

Chrysler now builds all Jeep SUV models in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, according to Bloomberg. In the story, the reporter wrote that Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia, "referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."

Romney, however, told supporters in Defiance, Ohio, that he had read a story that Jeep "is thinking of moving all production to China" - prompting groans from the crowd. He may have been referencing conservative blogs or other stories that incorrectly concluded from the Bloomberg story that Jeep might close U.S. plants, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reported Friday.

Mitt's people really need to stay away from blogs as sources. That's what got him into trouble over his Libya remarks.