3 More Liberal Newspapers Endorse Romney

- Three more left leaning newspapers which endorsed Obama in 2008 have stepped up to reality and are now endorsing Romney. Many more will follow.


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Romney picks up major endorsements from papers that supported Obama in 2008

By: John Hayward
10/19/2012 08:29 AM


Mitt Romney has lately been racking up quite a few endorsements from newspapers which had endorsed Barack Obama for President in 2008. Two in particular stand out this week: the New York Observer and the Tennessean.
The Observer is generally a center-left paper, but their endorsement of Romney was not tepid at all. Their reasons for liking him might not set conservative hearts a-flutter:

A candidate has emerged from the rough and tumble of the primaries with his dignity intact. The system has produced not a demagogue but a manager, a candidate whose experience is rooted in the pragmatism of the business world rather than the ideology of partisan politics.
That candidate is Mitt Romney.
Gov. Romney won the Republican Party’s nomination precisely because he is not an ideologue—and that is no small achievement. He persuaded enough Republican primary voters that the time has come to put aside dogma and inflexibility in favor of real-world solutions to the array of problems America faces at home and abroad.
Over the last few weeks, Mr. Romney has shown that he is a moderate to his core—he is a manager, and a listener, who believes he can restore the balance between the private and public sectors that has been a hallmark of the American economy.

They’re pretty rough on Obama, giving him credit for “strong, decisive action that helped prevent a catastrophic economic meltdown on Wall Street,” but hammering him for his class warfare obsessions – which “are not the way to unite a divided nation,” and interfere with restarting America’s stalled engines of prosperity:

The president comes to town on a Monday, takes our money, shakes our hands and tells us how much he values the CEOs and innovators of New York. And then on Tuesday, he turns around and refers to business leaders as fat cat bankers whose success was created by the sweat of others. That’s not a friend. That’s not a leader. That’s a politician.
Mitt Romney stands out because—unlike so many candidates in the past—he understands how to build businesses, create efficiencies, make tough deals and carefully consider divergent viewpoints. America needs a strong leader, a practical leader. Mr. Romney knows full well that it would be a tragic mistake to simply assume that the United States will continue to be the world’s economic powerhouse simply because that’s what we’ve been for decades. America earned its global prominence because of the nation’s culture of work and individual freedom. That’s why immigrants came here and continue to come here—not because they seek a handout, but because they want a chance to work and to create and to innovate. In today’s competitive economy, the country needs competitors, not class-war crybabies.

The lengthy endorsement goes on to discuss Romney’s agenda in detail, with an emphasis on how much it will help New Yorkers. ”This election is a true turning point for the next generation,” the Observer concludes. ”Mitt Romney is the change the nation needs. And he is the change New York needs.”
If the New York Observer’s endorsement is remarkable, the Tennessean’s is downright historic. They’re a bastion of Southern Democrats, and have not endorsed a Republican for president since 1972. The Tennessean isgrumpy about the aggravating, unsatisfying 2012 campaign, and they’re much more grudging about giving the nod to Romney. But after depositing some pox upon both houses, they do come around to endorsing him, primarily because of the economy:

The next president must be the one with the best chance to get the crushing, $16 trillion national debt under control, coupled with the more immediate need of enabling a vibrant job market.
It is because the economy is paramount that The Tennessean endorses Gov. Mitt Romney for president.
President Obama and Gov. Romney have different jobs plans. Yet, neither can actually create jobs, despite what they say in speeches and debates. Mr. Romney has the business experience that gives him better understanding of the needs of real job creators.

The Tennessean frets that awful Paul Ryan fellow might impose “austerity” upon us and “rip the social safety net,” but they’re hopeful “Romney, as president, would be a moderate influence, bringing both parties together on a debt-reduction plan that is firm but fair.”
They’ve got plenty of praise for Obama’s historic historic-ness, which is very historic and all, but conclude it’s time to get the wheels of history turning again:

Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Gov. Romney: This endorsement was not an easy decision. You owe the American people more details about how you will keep taxes low, preserve social programs and build up the military, all while reducing the debt. You must be your own man, and not kowtow to special interests whose millions helped propel you to the Republican nomination.
Be the man who governed Massachusetts, and you’ll reunite America.

Tennessee is nobody’s idea of a swing state, but those have still got to be tough words for the Obama campaign to read.

Update: Add the Orlando Sentinel to Romney’s list of endorsements:

Economic growth, three years into the recovery, is anemic. Family incomes are down, poverty is up. Obama’s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, highlighted these and other hard truths in this week’s second debate.
Even the September jobless numbers deserve an asterisk, because more than 4 million Americans have given up looking for work since January 2009.
And while the nation’s economy is still sputtering nearly four years after Obama took office, the federal government is more than $5 trillion deeper in debt. It just racked up its fourth straight 13-figure shortfall.
We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years. For that reason, though we endorsed him in 2008, we are recommending Romney in this race.

Notably, they hit Obama for bringing the federal government close to a default, which will infuriate Democrats who have been furiously trying to spin that event as a result of Republican obstructionism.
And they’ve got no patience for Obama’s Medi-Scare tactics:

Two years ago, a bipartisan panel the president appointed recommended a 10-year, $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan. Rather than embrace it and sell it to the American people, Obama took his own, less ambitious plan to Congress, where it was largely ignored by both parties.
Now the president and his supporters are attacking Romney because his long-term budget blueprint calls for money-saving reforms to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, three of the biggest drivers of deficit spending. Obama would be more credible in critiquing the proposal if he had a serious alternative for bringing entitlement spending under control. He doesn’t.

The Sentinel worries about Romney’s supposed “appeals to social conservatives and immigration extremists,” and his prospective “steep learning curve on foreign policy,” but applauds his “strong record of leadership,” including his business acumen. They’re wiling to give him a term to see if he can get things done, instead of giving Obama four more years to prove he can’t.

I thought that the leftist media is all suspect; therefore, this would imply that supporting Romney is the wrong thing to do.

This is good. More lies uncovered. Looks like all those liberal papers owned by conservatives aren't as liberal as the right likes to portrait them.

- TenPenny ... Why don't you just go with your breathless and brainless quote of a few days ago that "of course Obama is a liar and a hypocrite because you have to be a liar and a hypocrite to become president" and defend your hero who hands out other people's money to you and your kind that way rather than make an even bigger fool of yourself (if that is even possible) with the kind of statement you made above?

- Kreskin ... These three newspapers all enthusiatically endorsed Obama in 2008 and have tended to take a left of center or liberal stance on most issues for the last several years. Now, like anyone else with a functioning cerebral cortex who reads and understands economic, fiscal and foreign policy trends and developments and who is niether employed by nor receiving the dole from Obama, they have had enough of BO' BS and non-performance and have chosen to back someone who is actually qualified by intellig3ence, industry, character, knowledge, experience and accomplishment for the job.

- What a foreign concept for someone like you, eh Kreskin?

P.S. Only an extremist ideologue or crackpot contends these days that the US MSM is not liberal leaning and biased toward Obama. Every poll shows that. When you deny the output evidence, the polls of journalists themselves and the consensus of mass opinion, you run the risk of being thought an even bigger fool than you are already believed to be.

Ted:
Question:

Are you Yukon Jack's twin??????

My hero? You have to be a blind ignorant fool to think Obama is my hero. Apparently, you're not capable of reading.

-I thought you were such a suckup for the Republican party that you were blind and deaf to any reality that does not suck the same semen filled *****es as you personally do, and this simply confirms it.

Don't forget to swallow.

China Daily is considered a liberal newspaper.

Who do they give the nod to?

Two? Is this a halloween prank?

- DS ... To my surprise, even you seem to be incapable of dealing objectively and rationally with the most basic political issues as well as with posts that are longer than a couple of sentences.

- What has this Yukon Jack got to do with the growing trend of newspapers that have been liberal and former Obama supporters taking a look at Obama's record and Romney's qualifications and switching this election to supporting Romney?

- Why do you suggest that I might be Yukon Jack's twin?

- Who the hell is this Yukon Jack and where does he post?

- For the record, I am not related to this Yukon Jack character and have never been to the Yukon. I did know the late Yukon Eric Neilsen who was Mulroney's deputy PM for a time and who was also the brother of the late Leslie Neilsen of Naked Gun comedic acting fame. So what?

It's gotta be just a halloween prank.....

Since this was a rhetorical question, a simple yes or no would have sufficed

Actually, if it was a rhetorical question -- no answer should have been expected at all.

If he starts on about Michelle Obama being obese, we'll have definite proof. He repeats many of the appropriate catch phrases already.

There are three others from the west who have traditionally backed DNC candidates who are now discussing doing the same at the Editorial Board level. One is from a over forty year Liberal history. Things may be starting to change once all the supposed facts being quoted by the DNC are being checked closer for accuracy.

He lacks Jack's human touch, no?

The f**ker is toast, Teddy!

Wake me up when The New York Times endorses Romney...

Utah's biggest newspaper just endorsed...Barack Obama for President. WOW. This might be devastating for Mitt Romney. His mother was born and raised there. His parents met and fell in love there. He went to college there. He met his wife there. He was married there. His church is headquartered there. He ran an Olympics there. So, what kind of man gets shunned by a town with such deep connection to that man? The Salt Lake Tribune is happy to tell you.

More troubling, Romney has repeatedly refused to share specifics of his radical plan to simultaneously reduce the debt, get rid of Obamacare (or, as he now says, only part of it), make a voucher program of Medicare, slash taxes and spending, and thereby create millions of new jobs. To claim, as Romney does, that he would offset his tax and spending cuts (except for billions more for the military) by doing away with tax deductions and exemptions, is utterly meaningless without identifying which and how many would get the ax. Absent those specifics, his promise of a balanced budget simply does not pencil out.


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I wonder how old Y.J. is doing these days! Have you thought of nipping over to Winnipeg to pay the old chap a visit? I'd go myself but you live closer!

The right wing only believes in the left media, which is all media according to them
when they say nice things about the right. The problem is there is no real media on
the left in America.
Even Obama would be conservative outside the United States. America has consumed
itself with fear of the left to the point where they are being led around by the nose by the
very people they should be wary of.
The problem is people can't think about anything that might be different in the way of doing
things and if they do, the controllers of thought condemn them for it. Who in their right mind
would be against Medicare for example. There are a whole list of other social issues that
need to be discussed. America once believed in a brave new world of innovation and
progress and now they are afraid of everything outside their own boarders it is sad really.
Obama took over the worst mess the social conservatives ever created and now some
folks want to give it back to them so they can finish America off and if they get do come back
it will begin the decline of American influence.. In fact I think the American Dollar will become
less important and not the worlds official tender anymore.

Probably more people than you might think! Generally healthy people, living healthy lifestyles who aren't genetically predisposed to any serious diseases, who would rather just foot their own bill and have an insurance policy to cover the big ticker items. They don't appreciate paying for those who going running to the emergency with a sniffy nose or a hang nail.

55 Million people have newspapers delivered- total number of daily papers in the US according to this link - 1476

United States Press, Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers - television, circulation, stations, papers, number, print, freedom

So 3 more endorsements- Takes little to excite you. I suggest you practice control in your sex life.

Teddy - A Red - Must have hit a sore point.
Guess you suffer from SD or PE Syndrome.

The downfall of modern media. 'NEWS'papers should be telling you platforms of both, not endorsing any one candidate.

Newspapers have for the most part been supportive of the owners opinion- Few exist where the editors are free from this interference.

Other than Faux news which ones are crackpot ideologue?
Why is it that rightwingnuts do not know how to use spellcheck?

Geez for the amount of Romney threads you post in here Teddy..... Why don't you just marry the guy and be done with it. I can already imagine you have a picture of Romney on your ceiling above your bed..... Like your own personal David Hasselhoff



He's waiting for you....

NY Observer is conservative and owned by the Trump family. Biggest welfare bums in NYC.

... and so is the Orlando Sentinel


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Do try to get your facts straight.

- Gopher ... Do try and be on point and accurate just once in your life.

- Regardless of their owneraship, all of the papers in question endorsed Obama in 2008 and are now fed up with him because of his hopelessly inept record. The topic is not who happens to own particular newspapers but rather which candidate the editors had chosen to support for president and why.

- Here is another prominent newspaper (one that is usually right of center) that supported Obama in 2008 and is now fed up with him. The editorial in this regard is quite compelling, not that you would be able to understand it but others will want to read and reflect on this well earned and explained abandonment of Obama.

Romney for president
Copyright 2012: Houston Chronicle | Sunday, October 21, 2012 | Updated: Sunday, October 21, 2012 11:53am

• 

The Chronicle's backing of Barack Obama in 2008 broke a 44-year string of endorsing Republican candidates for president. Like so many others, we were captivated by the Illinois senator's soaring rhetoric and energized by his promise to move American politics beyond partisan gridlock and into an era of hope and change.
It hasn't happened. Four years later, President Obama's deeds have failed to match his words, much less his specific vows to cut the national debt by half and bring the nation's unemployment rate to 6 percent. As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president's attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the NASA budget and the energy sector. The hurtful symbol of this attitude of insensitivity to Texans' feelings was the administration's choice to deny Space City's bid to become home to one of the retired space shuttles.
We do not believe four more years on the same plodding course toward economic recovery is the best path forward for Texas or the nation. And so we endorse the Republican team, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, in the belief that they can do better by Texas and the nation.
Starting with energy and continuing with NASA.
Concerns about the economy consistently register at the top for most voters, and for obvious reasons: Nearly 23 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have given up the job search. And national unemployment rates remain stubbornly high, especially among African-Americans and Hispanics.
There is a launching pad to reignite the national economy: It is the abundance of affordable domestic energy that has revealed itself so dramatically over the past several years. We refer primarily to the resources of natural gas and oil from shale rock that have become available through the technologies of horizontal drilling and fracturing.
These resources offer us a clear path to prosperity and energy security. This is a Texas story, to be sure. The state has huge shale resources, and they've been unlocked in large part due to the pioneering work of Houstonian George P. Mitchell.
But it is a national energy story, as well. Shale resources extend from Texas through Oklahoma and Kansas, east to Mississippi and north through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York state. The picture of abundance is further enhanced by the riches in North Dakota's Bakken oil formation that has transformed that state into a major energy center and given it the nation's lowest unemployment rate. Add to this the upward revisions of reserves in the Gulf of Mexico and the potential for East and West coast offshore development, as well as in the Arctic.
Such a gift.
President Obama's failure to identify the economic opportunities these resources offer is mystifying. In our 2008 endorsement we cautioned the president against demonizing the energy sector - good advice that he has never heeded (see Keystone XL Pipeline). By contrast, Gov. Romney has listed energy atop his five-point plan to rejuvenate the economy.
It can. Let us count the ways:

Jobs: The abundance of clean-burning domestic natural gas has raised the prospect of a manufacturing renaissance across the Rust Belt in the Midwest.

National security: Increased reliance on domestic fuels will lessen our dependence on oil and gas from unstable, unfriendly countries. With each passing day, the volatility across oil-producing areas in the Middle East becomes more apparent.

Balance of payments: Producing our own energy at home will stanch the flow of dollars to nations such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, while expanding the revenue base for governments at every level in this country through job generation.

Transportation: Conversion of fleet vehicles to natural gas is already well under way, but much broader use can be made as infrastructure is expanded for refueling automobiles and long-haul 18-wheeler trucks.

Cleaner air: Natural gas burns 50 percent cleaner than coal, the fuel traditionally used by electric utilities and heavy industry.

In the development and expanded use of these resources, utmost care must be exercised to protect air and water resources. We join many other Texans in insisting on that. We also view this windfall as the logical bridge to a sustainable energy future for the country.
The other launch pad ignored by President Obama is the literal one - NASA, and specifically the Johnson Space Center.
It has been an insult to the memory of American heroes like Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride to allow manned spaceflight to languish in the country that put men on the moon. The notion of paying $50 million a seat to Russia for commercial taxi service to the International Space Station is galling.
Obama has failed to articulate a bold vision of his own for the agency. That failure forsakes a legacy of scientific achievement that has showered benefits on the nation. This approach to NASA has abandoned the American imperative of lighting out for the territory and exploring new worlds. NASA's legacy must be reclaimed.
In recent days we have seen a welcome return of popular enthusiasm for space exploration, thanks to the success of the Mars rover Curiosity. When NASA stuck the landing in a tour de force of technical precision, the international excitement was palpable. Let's seize upon it.
That will require more effective presidential leadership.
Our endorsement of Mitt Romney is not unqualified. He must address the perception that he tailors his message to suit any given audience. And his economic plans lack specificity. There's a lot of concern that his tax and budget proposals won't add up without gutting our social safety net. "Trust me" is not good enough. Between now and Nov. 6, Romney needs to go to the blackboard and show us the math.
Let us stipulate: The Mitt Romney we are endorsing is the Massachusetts moderate who worked successfully alongside an 88 percent Democratic majority in the state Legislature to produce what the Obama administration says became its model for national health care reform.
Romney's ability to negotiate successfully across party lines in the Bay State stands in contrast to the president's baffling disengagement from the national health care debate. Obama's decision to leave essential details to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, together with his failure to step in and insist that the Republicans' version of health care reform have a fair hearing in the House of Representatives, needlessly polarized the process. Reports from his own staff that Obama is uninterested in process are troubling.
Should Romney be elected, we expect him to make good on his promise to negotiate in good faith with congressional Democrats on two major issues:

Health care: Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court opinion on the Affordable Care Act clearly left room for a political solution beyond the act. That solution is self-evident: It should combine the best elements of the Democratic plan signed into the law - coverage of pre-existing conditions, mandatory participation by all, coverage of children up to age 26 - with strengths in the Republican plan that were not included, such as freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines. There is room for debate over whether the tailoring of health care reform should be left to individual states. Texas is not Massachusetts.

The deficit, debt and spending: Forging a solution will require both cuts in government spending and additional sources of revenue. The opportunity for meaningful tax reform is within reach if the two sides will take it. As president, Romney would have specific responsibility for bringing true believers in the tea party wing of the GOP toward workable compromise. The challenges of the next four years leave no room for partisan triumphalism.

Gov. Romney impresses us as a focused, task-oriented problem solver, both by inclination and by experience - a "fix-it" guy.
A lot needs fixing in America, from a broken economy to a broken-down political system. Mitt Romney offers the leadership we require from the White House.

The truth is that Mitt Romney as president will take his marching orders from the Mormon living prophet in Salt Lake City where his church believes in the return of polygamy and where men have more rights than women With Mitt Romney as leader of America one can forget about the separation of church and state because the only official religion in the U.S. of A. will be the Mormon one.

- Liberalman ... What a truly disgusting drive by smear artiste you can be, fomenting religious bigotry and fabricating disgusting falsehoods in a desperate attempt to win at all costs.

- You are well named as Liberalman and remind me of the criminals who ran the Liberal party out of Quebec during the Chretien years. Your ridiculous allegation is the same baseless garbage that his opponents tried to use against JFK in 1960 claiming he would take his marching orders from the pope in Rome. It is as ridiculous as making the same allegation against your hero Peter Waterhole because he happned to be a devout Catholic. Maybe you should get help.

- On the other hand, you would fit in superbly with Obama's Chicago gang of mugs, thugs and slugs who, like you, will descend to any level of lies and manipulations and fear mongering to get a leg up the greasy political pole.

Good to see you are finally talking sense!