Posted on 10/18/2012 6:55:21 PM PDT by kristinn
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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.
Romney is not our ideal candidate for president. We've been turned off by his appeals to social conservatives and immigration extremists. Like most presidential hopefuls, including Obama four years ago, Romney faces a steep learning curve on foreign policy.
But the 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, and pass the health plan that became a national model.
This is Romney's time to lead, again. If he doesn't produce results — even with a hostile Senate — we'll be ready in 2016 to get behind someone else who will.
We reject the innuendo that some critics have heaped on the president. We don't think he's a business-hating socialist. We don't think he's intent on weakening the American military. We don't think he's unpatriotic. And, no, we don't think he was born outside the United States.
But after reflecting on his 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
You seem unaware that the I-4 corridor is the key to FL. That is not solid GOP country. Much of it is filled with snowbird transplants from blue states and immigrants. Sheep needing direction to water.
That editorial sliced and diced the kenyan and gave the green light on Romney. It is a good thing and the campaign will use it.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Sun Sentinel (sister paper) also endorses Romney.
OT: Has there been any polling since the Mack-Nelson debate?
The Slantinel?
They spend paragraphs of ink praising The Obama, The Messiah, The Appointed And Anointed (yes, I actually heard a black chick say those words), and then OBTW we endorse Ronmney.
I wonder what their corporate/political masters in Chicago have to say about this?
I think Obeyme's old buddy, Rahm Emmanuel, might be sending Guido and Luigi down south to pay the publisher a little visit...
I, for one, am completely stunned.
The OS is a left wing rag, much like the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel. Whoulda thunk it ?
WOW! What was it? The high unemployment - and even higher welfare? Crime going up after 19 years?
Maybe the total failure of Obama's corrupt 'green' crapola 'jobs'? And endless money to his friends and supporters? Or maybe the blatant lies about foreign policy?
And Romney - in four years he has to prove he's been a total success or they go back to a dem? Are these the people who gave Obama a four year pass because it was all 'Bush's fault' - for four friggin' years? Well it's a step in the right direction - they've been pulled kicking and screaming into the light - an inch into the light. Welcome Orlando Sentinel...
This is a CYA change. They want now to be on the right side after endorsing a plant/traitor in 2008 which regime is totally falling apart with F & F and now more of the “theater” play of the Benghazi-Gate is unravelling!!!
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