The Des Moines Register endorsement: Mitt Romney offers a fresh economic vision

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This has to help in Iowa, The Des Moines Register endorsement: Mitt Romney offers a fresh economic vision considering the source’s history of endorsing Dems post-Nixon:


• 1976: Jimmy Carter (D) – won
• 1980: Jimmy Carter (D) – lost
• 1984: Walter Mondale (D) – lost
• 1988: Michael Dukakis (D) – lost
• 1992: Bill Clinton (D) – won
• 1996: Bill Clinton (D) – won
• 2000: Al Gore (D) – lost
• 2004: John Kerry (D) – lost
• 2008: Barack Obama (D) – won

 

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well of course

the Obama THUGS are now attacking the paper

BUT WE KNEW THAT

THEY ARE THUGS


Cutter Attacks Des Moines Register For Endorsing Romney: “Not Based At All In Reality”…




Cutter wouldn’t know reality if it was a cinder block being dropped on her head.

Via WaPo:


Top Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter said Sunday that the Des Moines Register’s endorsement of Mitt Romney “didn’t seem to be based at all in reality.”

“It was a little surprising to read that editorial, because it didn’t seem to be based at all in reality — not just in the president’s record, but in Mitt Romney’s record,” Cutter said. “It says that he’d reach across the aisle, which he’d do the exact opposite. It’s the exact opposite of what he did in Massachusetts.”

The paper announced its endorsement late Saturday. It backed President Obama in 2008 and is the biggest newspaper in a major swing state, Iowa.

The paper is one of relatively few swing state newspapers to switch its endorsement from Obama in 2008 to Romney in 2012.

Its editorial board wrote: “Barack Obama rocketed to the presidency from relative obscurity with a theme of hope and change. A different reality has marked his presidency. His record on the economy the past four years does not suggest he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years.”

Cutter noted that Obama has been endorsed by several major swing state newspapers this weekend, including the Miami Herald, the Toledo Blade and the Youngstown Vindicator. Obama also got the backing of the Raleigh News and Observer.

Romney on Sunday was also endorsed by the Cincinnati Enquirer

 

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MITTMENTUM: Four Years After Endorsing Obama, The New York Daily News Endorses Romney.“Four years ago, the Daily News endorsed Obama, seeing a historic figure whose intelligence, political skills and empathy with common folk positioned him to build on the small practical experience he would bring to the world’s toughest job. We valued Obama’s pledge to govern with bold pragmatism and bipartisanship. The hopes of those days went unfulfilled. . . . The regrettable truth is that Obama built a record of miscalculations and missed opportunities.”

Well, I saw this coming.

UPDATE: Also Newsday.“Had Barack Obama done the job of president with the same passion and vision he displayed in seeking it, he would likely deserve another term. He did not. . . . Romney’s potential to put America back to work earns him our endorsement.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Another Romney endorsement from the Madison Wisconsin State Journal.