2012 Daytona 500 Gets an Anti-Romney Flavor: Does NASCAR Dad's Connect With Mitt for Brains

This year's Daytona 500 gets an anti-Mitt Romney flavor. During the race, a word bird--an small aircraft with a long ribbon with a message flying behind it--will provide an anti-Romney message for race fans.

With Romney's boyhood state of Michigan on the line, Detroit autoworkers may help put Santorum over the edge in what might be a crushing defeat for Romney. The bailed out with your federal tax dollars UAW is paying big bucks to have it's anti-Romney declaration heard.

In advance of this year's Daytona 500, one of America's favorite past times, UAW is taking their message to the track and to the air. With 31 of 43 cars racing tomorrow made by one America's big three auto makers, UAW will fly a plane and banner from 10:30-11:30 with Romney's dooming declaration that we should have "let Detroit go bankrupt." The banner - which will read "Mitt Romney: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" - the same message that UAW delivered outside of Romney's disastrous speech in Detroit on Friday - will fly over the famous track reminding NASCAR and its fans that no thanks to Mitt Romney the Auto Industry is back and here to stay.

Had the country taken Romney's advice, turning his back on the Auto Industry and the millions who depend on it during their darkest hour, what would have become of NASCAR? An American race ruled by European cars? Porches, BMW and Audi's circling the track? NASCAR, like baseball and the American Auto Industry itself, is an iconic part of this country and its spirit. UAW's message to Mitt Romney? Don't bet against us, don't bet against America.


Their press release is just funny. The idea the UAW is building stock cars for NASCAR is just funny. Everyone knows these cars only have a manufacturer's name on them and little more when it comes to the big three. Take for instance Penske Racing who runs Dodge Chargers and Challengers in NASCAR's two biggest series. The bodies are designed in a race shop adhering to NASCAR regulations, and Penske uses Jasper engines in their cars.

I think Mitt Romney is going to have trouble with NASCAR dads period. The haughty liberal governor of a Yankee state probably isn't going to win many fans at Southern tracks that where the Stars and Bars flies proudly. While the UAW's message may affect a few, by the time it flies the beers will be already poured and all fans will be thinking about are three important words. "Start your engines" not "let Detroit go bankrupt."