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Stephanie Cutter: Des Moines Register Endorsement of Romney ‘Not Based on Reality’
pjmedia ^ | October 28, 2012 | RICK MORAN

Posted on 10/28/2012 10:31:22 AM PDT by Snuph

In a surprise, the Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest and most influential newspaper, has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. The paper endorsed Obama in 2008:

While the editorial praised both Romney and Obama, the decision ultimately came down to one question, the newspaper stated. “Which candidate could forge the compromises in Congress to achieve these goals? When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate.”

According to the announcement, the editorial board, which enthusiastically endorsed Romney ahead of the state’s Republican presidential caucuses in January, had “a vigorous debate” over which candidate to choose for the November election.

While “Romney has made rebuilding the economy his No. 1 campaign priority,” the paper stated, “the president’s best efforts to resuscitate the stumbling economy have fallen short. Nothing indicates it would change with a second term in the White House.”

The editorial board said the country needed a “renewed sense of confidence” in the economy. “That should come with Mitt Romney in the White House.”

Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, complained that the paper’s endorsement “didn’t seem to be based at all in reality.”

I guess it depends on what your definition of “reality” is:

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; dmr; ia2012
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Romney was endorsed by EVERY major newspaper in Iowa. All are linked in this article.
1 posted on 10/28/2012 10:31:27 AM PDT by Snuph
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To: Snuph

Stephanie Cutter would not know reality if it came up and slapped her in the face.

Just watch on voting day.


2 posted on 10/28/2012 10:33:24 AM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: Snuph

She was trying real hard to convince herself.


3 posted on 10/28/2012 10:34:09 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Snuph

She stated, it wasn’t a surprise, that The Register had endorsed Romney during the primaries. LOL


4 posted on 10/28/2012 10:34:14 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Snuph

Ms Cutters job is to make a failed President look good. Thus her job is about undoing reality..........


5 posted on 10/28/2012 10:35:26 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Snuph

So now Team Obama wants to throw the left-wing media under the bus? Good luck with that!!


6 posted on 10/28/2012 10:35:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Snuph

Oh dear, is that panic I smell? He’s coming to get you, Stephie...


7 posted on 10/28/2012 10:39:43 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Snuph

I saw Cutter on FNC for the first time this morning. She’s a bigger ditz than Barry’s other redhead, Jen (?) Saki who I saw for the first time the other day. I don’t think trotting out these two to defend him was a very good idea. They both are clueless.


8 posted on 10/28/2012 10:41:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Osama bin Laden is dead, Chrysler moved to Italy and China.)
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To: Snuph

She’s right. Forgjng compromises won’t help the country; putting pro-America people in charge, and letting a free market take over is required. Democrats won’t compromise on anything that is needed. Republicans just need to win, bring up votes, and move ahead with what is needed. If compromise is what the paper wants, the paper is deluded as to the current gulf between the parties. Between the tsar and Lenin, there is no compromise. Between freedom and Marxism, no room to agree. Just defeat it!


9 posted on 10/28/2012 10:41:55 AM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: Snuph

If the Des Moines Register has endorsed Romney, it makes it socially acceptable for all liberals to vote for him.


10 posted on 10/28/2012 10:43:10 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Snuph

Just keep hitting the bong Stephanie, reality will eventually come to you.


11 posted on 10/28/2012 10:48:44 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: cableguymn

She used the word ‘reality’ ALMOST as if she knew what it meant. Now THAT’S sincerety.


12 posted on 10/28/2012 10:49:11 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: Snuph

Hmmmmmm, with the Iowa newspaper endorsement of Mitt it sure has the dimoKKKRATS in a frenzy. Hopefully the endorsements will cause some of the voters to vote for Mitt. The RATS seem to think so the way they are acting.


13 posted on 10/28/2012 10:49:40 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: cableguymn

Cutter and Obama live in a separate reality...a Kool-Aid reality.


14 posted on 10/28/2012 10:51:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: Snuph

She’s an empty-headed prostitute for the Zero Administration. Pay no mind.


15 posted on 10/28/2012 10:53:17 AM PDT by grimalkin (Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Friedman)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She looks like she’s getting crazier every day. Her physical looks are changing.

As for the endorsement, if obama wins every state that has newspapers that endorsed Romney will be punished.


16 posted on 10/28/2012 10:56:29 AM PDT by Terry Mross (To former friends and relatives. Don't ever contact me if you still support obama.)
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To: Snuph

cutter is as much as an idiot as debi whatshername shultz.

shows the utter incompetence of this failed administration, and “administration” is used rather sarcastically. doesn’t fit Webster’s definition.

they tell one lie after another and keep it up. they live in an alternate universe.

Orwellian to say the least. up is down, less is more, and ignorance and stupidity is intelligence.

blessings, bobo


17 posted on 10/28/2012 11:02:17 AM PDT by bobo1
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To: Snuph

Did Bush’s campaign manager make these kinds of nasty comments when newspapers endorsed Kerry?

I swear that Cutter is sounding more and more like Baghdad Bob.


18 posted on 10/28/2012 11:03:36 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: bobo1

The whole D party, from top to bottom, is made up of lunatics and idiots. They perfectly reflect the people who elect them.


19 posted on 10/28/2012 11:19:39 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Snuph

On Nov 7, Stephanie will be saying that, Romney’s victory in the general election was, “not based on realty”, since, she can’t think of a person around her who voted for Obama.

Stephanie’s reality is of the “alternate” kind, and found only in fantasy books and in Disney children’s movies.


20 posted on 10/28/2012 11:25:14 AM PDT by adorno
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