Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney just can’t stop proving how out of touch he is with the 99%.

The latest example: In a conference call Wednesday with Wisconsin voters, he related what he called “the most humorous” story about his connections to the state. Romney’s father, as president of American Motors, shut down a Michigan auto factory, shipping production to a Wisconsin facility. The really funny part, in Romney’s eyes, was his father’s antics in hoping Michiganders wouldn’t remember the shutdown when he ran for governor there. (Read more here and here.)

Hey—what could be funnier than wiping out jobs by closing a factory?

But in a recent get-a-clue attempt, Romney apparently has decided to nix plans, at least temporarily, for the car elevator at his beachfront La Jolla, Calif., place, which he’s making fabulous with a big-ticket renovation (with the help of a lobbyist he hired to help take care of those pesky permitting tasks).

Remember, Romney can really use a fancy garage. Although he opposed the support that kept the U.S. auto industry alive, he boasted in Detroit that he drives not one but two American-made vehicles, and his wife, Ann, drives "a couple of Cadillacs."