Mitt Romney: “I’ll take a lot of credit” for auto industry comeback

During an interview with an Ohio TV station on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ran a victory lap for the revival of the U.S. auto industry, saying "I'll take a lot of credit" for the comeback of General Motors and Chrysler. It's too bad for Romney that Al Gore invented the Internet so we could keep track of what actually happened.

The latest line to emerge from the Romney camp over the past few days goes like this: Mitt Romney said in 2008 the companies should go through bankruptcy. A few months later, President Barack Obama put Chrysler, then GM, into quickie bankruptcies. Therefore, it was Romney's idea Obama followed all along.

Here's the full quote from an interview with WEWS-TV: