Mitt Romney tried to ding John McCain because McCain has said some jobs “are not coming back” to Michigan. But as a factual matter, McCain is right and Romney is wrong about trying to save jobs in Michigan and elsewhere.  The reason the U.S. created far more jobs in the 1980s and 1990s than Europe was that didn’t stop companies from eliminating thousands of jobs.  Job destruction is critical to an economy that creates new jobs and new industries.  This is probably just a semantic difference between Romney and McCain here, but McCain’s “straight talk” (as he called it) makes more economic sense here.