Its good to hear honesty

From a Reuters blog on Tuesday:

"John McCain has a curious recipe for success in Ohio: tell voters their jobs aren’t coming back, and embrace the free trade pacts that are despised here. It’s an approach that led to defeat last month in Michigan, another Rust Belt state that has seen manufacturing jobs disappear. Now that the Republican nomination is all but assured, McCain hasn’t changed his tune."

One of my biggest problems with Romney was that I felt he indulged in some protectionist rhetoric with some of the stuff he said to Michigan. He became known for saying that he'd "fight for every job." I don't even know what that means exactly. To me, he was saying that he would do things to keep the jobs from leaving. I wish he'd have said something closer to what McCain said/is saying. Instead of telling them we'll work to prevent their jobs from leaving, we should encourage them to find other jobs and/or get more education and more skills. That isn't an easy or comforting way to address the problem, but that is what needs to happen.