Endorsements

CorvetteDan wrote:Mike, I wasn't thinking of only a one stance voter and I don't think you were either. Asthough it does happen. From an earlier post, I have a thought. It has to do with my comment about voting for a politition because he will thake care of his people. This goes back all the way to the Jeffersonian and Hamilton era. So we had the inland states vs the Coastal states. [It didn't break down exactly that way, but is pretty close to the gist of it.] The inland states were wary of letting the coastal states having to much power and it reflected in organizing the new Constitution. The coastal states wanted a strong controlling government.This was a real hard battle.

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RLMcB wrote:Surprise, Surprise, the Detroit Free Press, a traditionally Republican, by traditionally, I mean in my lifetime of reading it when I could, paper has endorsed Obama, and they make a good case for his re-election. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

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What’s
the best case Barack Obama can make for re-election? Let’s start with
the stunning record of accomplishments he has compiled over the last
four years:

• General Motors and Chrysler are thriving — a long, long way
from the edge of insolvency, which is where Obama found them on his
first day in office. Bridge loans and managed bankruptcies turned them
around, and stable growth followed soon after. Is there anything more
important to people here in Michigan?

• The economy has grown jobs for the past 30 months, after
hemorrhaging 4.9 million in 2009. The bleeding began to stop when Obama
convinced Congress to authorize $831 billion in federal stimulus funds,
and employment has grown, slowly but inexorably, since the beginning of
2010.

• The Affordable Care Act, a broad set of private-sector and
government reforms, is bringing millions of formerly uninsured Americans
under the umbrella of reliable health care. It’s a quantum leap forward
that has bested both legislative and legal challenges.

• Of the two costly wars started during the Bush administration,
one is over and the other winding down. Osama bin Laden and at least 14
other al-Qaida leaders are dead, and their terrorist network is in
tatters. Meanwhile, Moammar Gadhafi, responsible for the deaths of more
Americans than anyone except bin Laden, was deposed with U.S. help. Not
since the fall of the Berlin Wall have the nation’s geopolitical
fortunes improved so markedly.

• That’s to say nothing of the president’s lower-profile
victories: for women, who regained the right to seek legal redress for
pay discrimination when Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
into law; and for the thousands of gay and lesbian Americans who won the
right to serve their country without lying about who they are.

On the strength of those achievements alone, Obama’s second
four-year term ought to be a no-brainer. Most two-term presidents can’t
claim to have gotten as much done.

The country is safer. Its economy and its largest industry have
been restored to health. And health care reform, fought out over 50
years in the U.S. Congress, has at last begun in earnest. When
Republicans say pejoratively that Obama “can’t run on his record,”
they’re 2peddling1 partisan nonsense and indulging a myopic fiction.

The Free Press enthusiastically endorses Barack Hussein Obama for four more years as president.
The next four years


But re-election campaigns aren’t just about the first four years; the
next four, and where the country is headed, are equally important.

By that measure, Obama’s case for a second term still trumps
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s argument for a change of
leadership. But Obama must focus his second term on two priorities:
faster, more robust job creation and a plan to combat the country’s
long-term economic imbalances.

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It’s true that the economy is on a 30-month run of job growth, but also true that this recovery has been slow.

Some of the recovery’s sluggishness stems from conditions that
pre-date Obama’s presidency: the shift toward high-skill jobs for which
too many Americans are not qualified or trained; lingering trade
deficits that continue to suppress demand for American products in China
and other overseas markets; and the fear that growing debt could spark
inflation and interest rate hikes that will discourage hiring.

Some of it is about recent Republican intransigence — bull-headed
opposition to a second jobs bill and to a national bank to finance the
construction and repair of aging infrastructure.

In his second term, Obama must overcome all these impediments to
faster job growth. He’ll need to persuade lawmakers to reinvest in
training and education, get new, tougher trade pacts approved, and work
with Congress to pass a second, more-focused jobs bill.

One place to start: Government employment has plunged by 1.2
million since December 2008, according to the U.S. Labor Department. A
focused plan to get more cops, firefighters and teachers back to work —
along with investment in the kind of infrastructure projects that boost
construction jobs — could lower the unemployment rate at least another
point.

The country’s long-term economic sustainability also deserves the
president’s rapt attention in a second term. Obama squandered an
important opportunity last December when he failed to embrace the ideas
put forward by the Simpson-Bowles commission. The recommendations yoked
sweeping tax reform and spending cuts (from a bipartisan perspective
that provided lots for both sides to hate) and offered a framework for a
serious effort to tame the deficit.

Obama would have an even stronger argument for re-election if he’d taken the commission’s ball and run with it.

He’ll need to grab it Nov. 7 if he’s to help Congress avoid the
“fiscal cliff” — a set of massive, reckless cuts and automatic tax
increases scheduled to take effect Jan. 1 unless Democrats and
Republicans can agree on a more thoughtful plan for reducing America’s
long-term debt.
Romney's unbelievable plan


Mitt Romney has his own record of successful governance. He led
Massachusetts ably for one term, and he rescued the 2002 Salt Lake City
Olympics from impending disaster. He is a Detroit native and the son of
an auto chief and former governor whose legacy still evokes bipartisan
respect.

But as a candidate, Romney has been a shape-shifter,
his message twisting and reconfiguring itself to fit the needs of the
moment. And his economic plans are a rehash of those responsible for the
fiscal crisis that greeted Obama in 2009.

Romney would cut
taxes more deeply than even George W. Bush did (a 20% additional cut,
across the board) and eliminate taxes on dividends, interest and capital
gains for most payers. He’d also lop the top bracket off the corporate
tax rate.

How would he pay for the estimated $4.9.trillion in
lost revenue? He won’t say, except to promise that a combination of
loophole closures, unspecified spending cuts and economic growth will
cover it.

An easy test for the seriousness of a Republican
promising spending cuts is how willing he or she is to reduce defense
department outlays, the nation’s largest domestic spending category. In
Romney’s case, the number’s zero — no defense cuts at all, and in fact
he wants to hand the Pentagon extra funding it hasn’t requested.

The
cuts he’s promised to make — 5% in discretionary, nondefense spending,
including pink slips for Big Bird & Co. — fall far short of closing
the $4.9-trillion gap.

Romney also says his tax cuts will
grow the economy enough to make up the difference, the old “tax cuts pay
for themselves” line that helped Bush trash the economy 10 years ago.
The nation has no appetite for Act II of that operatic tragedy.
Foreign policy needs steady hand


Even more troubling has been Romney’s about-face performances in the
closing weeks of the campaign. He was a hard-liner during the GOP
primaries and the convention, but in the debates with Obama, he has been
someone almost entirely different — “Moderate Mitt” is the term some
pundits have coined.

It’s unclear whether Romney is playing
for political advantage, or whether he’s just unsure of who he really
is. Either is unacceptable in the White House, where the president needs
certainty not just about what he believes, but why — and he must be
able to rally others to his cause.

Romney’s self-ambiguity suggests he’s not ready to be president.

And
if Romney isn’t up to America’s domestic challenges, he’s certainly not
ready for the role of commander in chief. He’s moved from seeming ready
to declare war on Iran during his first debate to saying, by the third,
that America can’t kill its way out of the global war on terror.

With
the myriad, significant conflicts in the Middle East, southeast Asia
and Africa, not to mention the U.S.’ perpetually tense relations with
China and Russia, the president has to have a steady, learned hand on
the tiller.

Romney does not have that hand.

Obama’s
first term proved he can deliver at home under the worst imaginable
circum8stances, battling multiple crises that individually would have
sunk lesser presidents; abroad, Obama has restored American credibility
and influence that was frittered away by former President George W.
Bush. With a refocus on job creation and long-term sustainability, his
second four years could impress even more.

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Columbus Dispatch
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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After nearly four years of economic stagnation, massive unemployment, record-setting debt and government intrusions into the economy that have paralyzed the private sector, the United States needs a new direction. For this reason, The Dispatch urges voters to choose Republican Mitt Romney for president in the Nov. 6 election.
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Four years after promising hope and change, and after a deficit-driving $787 billion stimulus program, here is the result:

• 12.1 million unemployed, with an unemployment rate above 8 percent for 43 of the past 44 months.

• 8.6 million working part time because they can’t find full-time work

• 2.5 million who wanted to work, but have stopped looking for jobs.

• In 2009, real median household income was $52,195. By 2011, it had fallen to $50,054

• In 2009, the U.S. poverty rate was 14.3 percent. By 2011, the poverty rate climbed to 15 percent.

• On Obama’s watch, 12 million more Americans joined the food-stamp program, which has reached a record of more than 46 million enrollees.

• Annual federal budget deficits above $1 trillion for the past four years, increasing the national debt to an all-time high of $16 trillion.


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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Obama has failed. That is why Mitt Romney is the preferred choice for president. Romney’s adult life has been spent turning around troubled private and public institutions. These turnarounds include scores of companies acquired and restructured by Bain Capital, the investment firm he founded in 1984. Not all were successes, but that is because to a significant degree, many of the companies Bain took on were high-risk. In 1999, he was asked to take over the scandal-plagued and fiscally mismanaged 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. He quickly streamlined its management, fixed its finances and guaranteed its security, turning it into a success. As governor of Massachusetts, he made tough decisions to lead the state out of a budget deficit, and he did so in a state dominated by Democrats.

As a career businessman and former governor, Romney brings a wealth of executive experience in the private sector and the public sector that dwarfs that of Obama. From working both sides of the government/private-sector equation, he understands how that relationship can aid or impede prosperity. His election would be an immediate signal to the private sector that someone who knows what he is doing is managing the nation’s economic policy. The effect on business confidence would be dramatic and immediate, and business confidence is the vital ingredient needed to spur investment and hiring, the two things that the United States so desperately needs.

In 2008, Americans made a leap of faith when they elevated the inexperienced Obama to the White House. That faith was not rewarded. This time, voters should place their hopes for change in experience, by electing Romney.

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Editorial
October 19, 2012

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Two days after his lackluster first debate performance, President Barack Obama’s re-election hopes got a timely boost. The government’s monthly jobless report for September showed the nation’s unemployment rate fell below 8 percent for the first time since he took office.

If that were the only metric that mattered, the president might credibly argue that the U.S. economy was finally on the right track. Unfortunately for him, and for the American people, he can’t.
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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.
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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.
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.][T]he core of Romney’s campaign platform, his five-point plan, at least shows he understands that reviving the economy and repairing the government’s balance sheet are imperative — now, not four years in the future.

Romney has a strong record of leadership to run on. He built a successful business. He rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from scandal and mismanagement. As governor of Massachusetts, he worked with a Democrat-dominated legislature to close a $3billion budget deficit without borrowing or raising taxes….
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But after reflecting on his [Obama's] four years in the White House, we also don’t think that he’s the best qualified candidate in this race.

We endorse Mitt Romney for president

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Tampa Tribune
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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Mitt Romney is the man who can lead the nation out of its lingering economic doldrums and restore faith in the United States.

A successful executive in the public and private sector, Romney is a committed capitalist who understands that the nation’s prosperity is driven by free enterprise, not government.

Under President Barack Obama’s liberal and inconsistent leadership, the country has limped along, barely a step ahead of another recession.



The deficit soared, government expanded and the prospects of more regulations and taxes chilled corporate investment.
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Romney understands a reformed tax code, one that closes loopholes but lowers overall rates, would help businesses and consumers. A growing economy can generate more revenue, even with lower rates.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say the president trusts taxes, federal regulators and unions while Romney trusts the marketplace.
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Instead, he [Obama] engaged in histrionic spending showdowns with an obdurate Congress. Now the nation faces a “fiscal cliff” of automatic tax increases and spending cuts. If compromise is not reached before the end-of-the-year deadline, the nation’s military defense could be compromised and the economy could nosedive. So much for leadership.

Romney’s record as a determined, detail-oriented leader who demands results strongly suggests he would find a workable middle ground in such conflicts.



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Mitt Romney at 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, UT.
When he took over the faltering organization charged with putting on the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he restored order and a sense of mission in a hurry. As governor of Massachusetts he worked effectively with Democrats.


You can trust him to fulfill his pledge to slash the overabundance of federal regulations. We expect he will tackle the growth of entitlement spending methodically, understanding caution is necessary when revising important programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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But we are reassured by Romney’s history as a deliberate leader of strong conservative values who will listen to others and carefully evaluate the facts.

President Obama may have good intentions, but he is simply taking the nation in the wrong direction.

Seasoned executive Romney would come to office ready to put the country on the course to more freedom and prosperity.

The Tampa Tribune, with confidence and enthusiasm, endorses Mitt Romney for president

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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It sounds cliched, but it is a truism: America is at a crossroads. It can continue down the path of Leviathan government and an increasing dependence on it, or America can return to the path of limited government and the kind of prosperity-producing independence on which the Founders based this great republic.

The choice is yours. Our choice is the latter. And that’s why we enthusiastically endorse Republican Mitt Romney for president of the United States.

He’s an exceptionally good and decent man who is a proven leader, administrator and deft politician.


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2003 – Mitt Romney is elected Governor of Massachusetts. Click on image to enlarge. (Photo – Jim Bourg/Reuters)
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has excelled in service private and public, showing great mastery in keeping the steed steady and in some quite unfriendly and even treacherous waters.
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And he showed great political adroitness in working with a Democrat legislature as governor of Massachusetts for the betterment of all Bay State residents.


Mitt Romney offers a seasoned, strategic and mature public policy mind so sorely needed in the White House and so necessary to enable our great nation and its people to excel.

It’s time to begin restoring America. It’s time to elect Mitt Romney as president of the United States

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Reno Gazette-Journal
Editorial
October 20, 2012

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The Gazette-Journal recommends a vote for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president of the United States.

It wasn’t an easy decision. A recommendation against an incumbent can’t be taken lightly.
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Nevada was the state hit hardest by the great recession, and four years later, the state continues to lag well behind the others as the U.S. economy shows signs of slow improvement. Its unemployment rate remains worst in the nation; the foreclosure rate, while no longer No. 1, is still among the worst; and the tourism industry continues to struggle.
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A vote to re-elect Obama promises four more years of the same. In the two debates between the two candidates so far (a third, on foreign affairs, is scheduled for Monday), the president has shown little understanding of how his failures are affecting the nation, and he hasn’t offered any tangible proposals to change course.
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]But the United States, and Nevada, cannot afford four more years of the same. The change Obama promised four years ago is needed right now.
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In 2008, the RGJ warned that a vote for the little-known Obama was a gamble, albeit one that Americans should embrace. The country was in need of a course correction.

Based on our current fiscal condition, a still-weak economy and a Congress deeply divided along party lines, our next president will continue to face a daunting challenge, one that must be met for the good of the country. Four years later, we find ourselves in need of change yet again.

Romney must be the leader to get things moving.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]New Hampshire Union Leader
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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The undecided New Hampshire voter has just two weeks to answer this question: Why switch from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney? By now the question is easy to answer if one has been listening to the candidates.

Barack Obama was in Manchester on Thursday. When he came to Veterans Park in 2008, he sold “hope and change.” He was uplifting, inspiring. Last week, that was gone. In its place was the negativity, the deception, the nastiness that Obama once said he wanted to remove from politics.

Obama offered New Hampshire nothing but bitterness and envy. He attacked Romney with a litany of mischaracterizations and deliberate falsehoods.



It was far from the uplifting message Obama delivered four years ago. But four years ago Obama did not have an indefensible record.
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What Obama offers America is a fantasy. Sputtering economies are not sparked back to life by government-directed spending on industries hand-chosen by politicians. They are revived by unleashing the energy and creativity of the American people.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]The key difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama is that Romney understands that crucial economic truth; Barack Obama does not.
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While Obama offers rhetoric and pipe dreams, Romney offers a real plan to bring the economy back to life. …
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Obama had four years — half of them with a Democratic majority in Congress — to try his way. Romney offers a better way, a realistic way, to restore American prosperity. We tried the fantasy. It did not work. Now it is time to stop dreaming and start growing again.

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Lowell Sun (MA)
Editorial
October 20, 2012

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n the 1980 U.S. presidential race against a Democrat incumbent, Ronald Reagan said, “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. A recovery is when Jimmy Carter is out of his job.”

We see many parallels between the campaign of 32 years ago and today’s between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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Romney may not be Ronald Reagan now. Yet given the chance to lead this nation back to greatness, Romney might prove even better than Reagan.

Romney knows how to run a business and a government. If elected, he would enter the White House with a level of private- and public-sector expertise unseen in modern times

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Romney has faced economic challenges at key points in his professional and political careers and has always seemed to grow in the job to deliver greater expectations than when he went in. President Obama, on the other hand, lacked any prior experience before entering the White House in 2008 and appears overwhelmed by the one serious economic challenge he has confronted.
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President Obama tells Americans the world is changing and we are but a cog on the big map of nations. Not a key cog, just a cog. He implies that America, against this evolving backdrop, must lower its expectations and even allow others to surpass us or the global good. It is a rationale for across-the-board entrepreneurial retreat and eventual economic defeat. Worse, Obama’s philosophy goes against the grain of everything Americans are taught and strive for from cradle to grave.

It is not the path to the future we want for America, and it is not the one Mitt Romney is championing.

In two nationally televised debates, Romney’s love for America, its values and its people come through as genuine.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]There is no need to retrench from the ideal of American exceptionalism either at home or on the world stage, says Romney. We are an exceptional people, he says, and we must demand exceptional leadership. In The Sun’s view, that’s where America has fallen off track these past four years. America trusted a “hope and change” candidate, it didn’t work, and we’re suffering the consequences. Now we’ve got a tested leader with a proven track record standing before us – Mitt Romney – and it’s his time to inspire Americans to greatness. It’s Romney’s time to bring us together in a single purpose that embraces fairness, self-reliance, responsibility, rugged individualism, entrepreneurial spirit and unlimited success.

Mitt Romney wants us to believe in America again. It begins with us believing in ourselves and each other.

Wouldn’t it be nice for America to once again stand as one against the serious challenges we face domestically and abroad?

The Sun believes in Mitt Romney and his vision for America’s future. Vote for Mitt Romney for U.S. President on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

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Arizona Republic
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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Our belief that Republican Mitt Romney should be elected the 45th president of the United States is anchored in that tough reality.

We believe the nation’s best opportunity to escape the compounding woes of spiraling debt and economic stagnation lies with a president who believes in the free market’s capacity to heal its own wounds.

That leader is Romney. The nation’s economy now is in desperate need of the kind of jobs-creating animal spirits that President Romney would encourage.



The economy indisputably will benefit, perhaps significantly, from a flatter, fairer system of taxation along the lines proposed by Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]It will benefit, too, from a regulatory environment that does not smother small businesses with punitive, anti-competitive, hoop-jumping requirements that favor their bigger competitors. We expect a Romney administration to foster that kind of growth-oriented, business-friendly environment.

But, more to the point, we expect better job growth in a Romney economy mostly because Mitt Romney does not fear or dislike a free-wheeling, growing, free-market economy.
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The president’s proposals for a second administration project scant hope that the economy will do much more than stumble forward at the current, anemic, sub-two-percent rate of growth. The 23 million Americans either unemployed, scraping by in part-time, low-paid jobs or not looking for work anymore need to see a commitment to revival. And, simply put, Obama isn’t offering them much. Not in his vision of the future as illustrated in debates thus far. And certainly not in the record of his first term as president.
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America needs a return to that kind of economic power, that kind of jobs-creating energy.

The nation’s best chance for reviving those spirits lies with Mitt Romney.

The Arizona Republic recommends Mitt Romney for president of the United States.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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Given the final two minutes to speak during Tuesday’s second presidential debate, President Barack Obama quickly spotlighted what he said was the key distinction between his re-election candidacy and the campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

“There’s a fundamentally different vision about how we move our country forward,” Obama said.

He’s right, and “fundamentally different” is what the nation needs. For that reason, Romney should be elected president on Nov. 6.



The slow U.S. economy and its discouragingly high unemployment overshadow the other important issues in this election. Economic recovery must be spurred to a faster pace, and a change to Romney’s leadership would do that.
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But the middle class has suffered disproportionately in the 2007-2009 recession and its aftermath. Opportunity is lacking and must be restored.
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The more relevant question is how to move forward.
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The House is expected to remain under Republican control, the Senate Democratic. Absent change at the White House, the economy will be left to its own devices, most likely a continued but very slow recovery. But slow isn’t what the country needs.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Romney is an agent of change whose primary campaign thrust has been the economy and his plans and qualifications to improve it.

On this front, he is highly qualified, both by business experience and public service.



No one should doubt that his economic recovery plan — a 20 percent cut in tax rates, additional tax breaks for upper-income individuals and reducing the budget deficit, all with no increase in taxes on the middle class — is but a loose sketch of a policy approach.

Details will have to be developed through working with legislative leaders from both parties who thus far have not made much progress on the nation’s fiscal problems.

Romney has laid out a consistent theme focused on encouraging business innovation and growth, reducing government spending and its economic footprint and educating and retraining people to take new jobs.

That theme is a winner, and Congress will be receptive when Romney brings it.

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Galveston Daily News
Editorial
Oct 21, 2012

The Daily News’ endorsements for the Nov. 6 election
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Four years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama used an inspirational message of change and undeniable charisma to convince a majority of the American people he should be the next president of the United States.

Today, that hope President Obama was so successfully able to foster in the American people has all but disappeared as the policies and programs he has implemented have made the difficult economic and foreign policy issues he inherited worse instead of better.

Which is why we recommend Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger, for president

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]The most critical issue facing the country is the economy, and when you look at the backgrounds of Romney and the president, it is clear Romney is better positioned to get the economy moving in the right direction again.
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… We need more taxpayers in the system, and the only way that will happen is if we have more people working. When it comes to job creation, we’ll take Romney’s background over the president’s every time.
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One of the sound bites from this year’s presidential campaign is that this election will not only decide the next four years, it will decide the next 40 years.

If that’s the case, all the more reason to vote for Romney

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Houston Chronicle
Editorial
Oct 21, 2012

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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. …
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]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.
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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.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Editorial
October 21, 2012

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The Avalanche-Journal strongly endorses Mitt Romney for president of the United States.

The crux of our support for the former governor of Massachusetts should not be a surprise.

In general, we believe less government is better than more government, and so Gov. Romney becomes an easy choice.

Romney believes government should … as much as possible … get out of the way of the free market.



President Obama believes government is the answer.

Don’t believe that’s true?

We have one word for you: Obamacare.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]In addition, we’re concerned what would happen if he had another four years and, without having to run again, a sense the American people have given him a mandate.

We believe Mitt Romney should be president for these and other reasons:

The deficit: …

Economy: …

Obamacare: …

Supreme Court: …

Israel and the Middle East: …
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…[T]his is not about our disappointment in this president.


It’s about electing a man who’s been successful in business, running the Salt Lake City Olympics and leading Massachusetts.

Four years ago, Americans were promised hope and change. We need new hope and to get it, we need a change.

Mitt Romney can bring America back

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CorvetteDan wrote:Not even worth that much. And a waste of ink.

RLMcB wrote:He's a troll, Sharon, he posts his nonsense on most of the boards if not all of them.

Dmounts wrote:

RLMcB wrote:He's a troll, Sharon, he posts his nonsense on most of the boards if not all of them.

Your a little person who knows nothing.