in michigan, the next big race where mitt romney grew up, where his dad was governor and where he really, really needs a win, rick santorum in the new poll out today by the detroit news, rick santorum is beating mr. romney in michigan. part of the problem in michigan is that mr. romney undermine his greatest asset in the state with his dad having been both a governor and car company auto executive there and undermine that asset with a famous op-ed that let detroit go bankrupt that if gm, ford and chrysler get bailout from the federal government "you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye." mr. romney wrote the auto industry's demise would be guaranteed by bailout. now in another op-ed, this one in "the detroit news" mr. romney is trying to sort of defend and sort of walk back the whole let detroit go bankrupt thing. he's now saying that he still thinks it would have been right to let the auto industry in america go bankrupt. he also says that mr. obama saving the industry in the short-term actually made things much worse than they would have been for detroit.