Nevada's Largest Newspaper Endorses Mitt Romney For GOP
The Last Vegas Review-Journal, the largest paper in Nevada, has endorsed Mitt Romney for this Saturday's Republican caucuses. And unlike their back-handed endorsement yesterday of Barack Obama — more of an anti-endorsement against Hillary Clinton — this time the conservative paper actually shows some enthusiasm for Romney's pro-business platform.
"Each GOP candidate can make — and has made — a reasonable case that he's best suited to ensure the party again embraces the ideas and concepts that made this nation a beacon of freedom and economic opportunity," the editorial says. "But in our opinion, the viable candidate most likely to lead Republicans in such a direction is Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts."
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I'm still amazed that Mitt can convince educated, intelligent people that he has an ounce of integrity. Don't they realize that he'll say anything to become president?
January 17, 2008 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, thank God we don't have anyone like that running for president on our side.
January 17, 2008 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Review Journal people are far from educated or intelligent. They are a bunch of conservative dipshits who wouldn't know a good presidential candidate if one bit them on the ass. I don't even know why they bothered to endorse on the Democratic side, oh wait, I do, they just hate Hillary.
Silly conservatives, hating Hillary for all the wrong reasons..
Gosh, I can't wait until she brings our country together.. :P
January 17, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mitt's plan for Michigan was pure economic pandering, so I'm not sure what they think he stands for. I guess you can just project your own desires onto the Mittster.
January 17, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mass Voter:
You are assuming the neanderthals who opine in the pages of the Review-Journal are educated. One would not have guessed it after reading their non-endorsement endorsement of Obama yesterday. It was as uf the editorial board was channeling Richard Mellon Scaiffe at his height of hatred for all things Clinton. I've said it before: I would be disheartend to learn that anyone made up their mind on whom to vote for based on the editorial opinion of this conservative rag.
January 17, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
The thing that won Michigan for Mitt, and even more importantly, lost it for McCain was when McCain basically said, "tough titty" to the Michigan workers. When he said jobs just aren't coming back in that matter-of-fact, off-hand way he might as well have said, "oh well, no matter what, after this I'm flying back to the Sun Belt and knocking back a stiff drink."
Romney jumped in and pandered, but more than that he showed MUCH better political instincts than McCain does currently. Now Mittens is doing something else that's smart. He's skipping SC, which is going to be a Republican bloodbath, and getting a head start on Nevada. He'll combine that with his Wyoming win to begin a real western push right in McCain's back yard, while McCain does backflips trying to win over a South that will never ever trust him.
I still think it's going to smoke filled back room deals for the GOP, but I'm starting to think that Mitt won't be quite the pushover that Democrats think he will be in the general. Like McCain, he can believably tack back to the center after the primaries, and in a hypothetical matchup versus Clinton, he can use his executive experience to lay waste to her claims of experience. Not to mention, he can potentially beat Clinton over the head with her failure to pass her healthcare package while he was able to get one done in Massachusetts. Mittens may be a flip flopper, but that won't hurt him in the general they way it did Kerry, and he has more money than anyone currently standing (which most Republicans still consider a virtue).
The general may be interesting, yet.
January 17, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary's willing to do just about anything to get elected president, but Mitt has taken completely opposite stands on a wide range of issues, first pandering to Massachusetts moderates and now taking the opposite stand and pandering to hard-line conservative. I think Hillary's method is potentially more destructive and sinister, but Mitt is just so obvious about it. There's plenty of video out there showing him supporting gay rights and abortion rights, yet people are still buying this garbage rhetoric that he's a real conservative. Mitt Romney is a believer in Mitt Romney and little else; Hillary at least puts up a front like she cares about integrity, etc.
January 17, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, so much for the Union influence in Nevada.
Tell me: did this paper also endorse Harry Reid for Senate?
January 17, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do you think that this counts against him in Nevada? My impression of Nevada republicans is that abortion and gay rights are low down on their list of concerns, so the fact that they cannot trust him on these issues is no big deal. Did he campaign in MA as a tax-and-spend kind of guy (that is a serious question; I have no idea on what platform he ran in MA)? If not, then I imagine that the folks in NV are able to look at him and say "What flip-flop? Oh, you mean abortion and gay rights? Who cares..."
January 17, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's with Daily Kos? Endoursing Reagan wanabee, Romney in Michigan? They had the warped concept that they this would force the Rebublicans to spend more to get elected.
Typical Kos. Democratic Machine all the way ] This is not what we want. Just more money for big media. And where does that money come from? Not official Republican coffers. The Republicans own the media. They get free airtime every night on FOX, CNBC, and CNN. Also, we all know, money is no problem for Republicans. And the purchase of a presidency? What's that worth? A lot. Banks will loan to presidential contenders and their good friends.
I wouldn't even ignore the possibility of another false flag terror event to boost Romney's candidacy.
So keeping this rabid, jobs exporting, bribing, lying, vote-buying,his-dad-made-his-money-by destroying-michigan, tax-haven hedge-fund manager in the race is not just destroying the Republicans, it's playing with fire and hurting the country. And I've got to wonder about its motivation especially with Kucinich in the race.
January 17, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Idiot comments such as the muck spread before my comments shows ignorance and lack of real intelligence. An intelligent person would listen, observe and not B.S. at the mouth.
Mitt Romney has integrity, but the liberal press and ignorant rumors have blown his true position out of whack. Open minded people change their opinion about things as they learn from new experiences. Reagan changed from a liberal democrat to a conservative republican. Why shouldn't Romney be able to change his view from a moderate to a conservative? He grew up in Michigan, a liberal state and those views apparently influenced him in the beginning. As governor of Massachusetts, he voted conservative. Hillary is the real Flip-flopper. Anyone would be a fool to trust her in the White House. Do you really think she would be different than her husband was? Those two birds of a feather share the same birdbath.
January 19, 2008 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink