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DETROIT, MI -- For the second time in a day, a top Michigan newspaper has endorsed Mitt Romney in next Tuesday’s GOP primary here -- while noting reservations about the former Massachusetts governor’s opposition to the 2008 auto bailout.
Citing his “leadership credentials” in his public and private careers, the Grand Rapids Press this afternoon writes that Romney’s “free-market, entrepreneurial emphasis provides a legitimate ideological counterpoint to Obama Administration.”
The editors of the newspaper also point to what they call “flaws” in Romney’s record, including his opposition to the auto bailout.
“Also disappointing are inconsistencies in his message, which The Press editorial board addressed in 2008, when it endorsed Romney for that year’s primary election,” the editors added.
But the newspaper -- which covers the conservative, western portion of the state -- reserves its sharpest criticism for Romney’s chief challenger, Rick Santorum, whom it accuses of “delving into a grab bag of diversionary tactics” during recent campaign stops.
“His accusing Obama of practicing ‘some phony theology’ is off-topic and divisive,” the editors write of Santorum’s oft-quoted remarks in Ohio last weekend.
Earlier today, the Detroit News also endorsed Romney while making clear it disagreed with him on the auto bailouts.
A third Michigan newspaper, the Detroit Free Press, will announce its endorsement in the GOP primary Thursday morning.
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So what you're saying is, the Grand Rapid Press held their nose & endorsed Willard?
The enthusiasm for MittWitt is simply stunning! lmao
Here is a look at the billionaire donors contributing to Romney's Restore Our Future Super PAC:
For the month of January 2012, Restore Our Future raised an average of $213,000 per day, mainly from billionaires.
So i have compared the list at the Restore site and the Forbes list of the 400 American billionaires. Names on both lists are:
David Koch, John Paulson, Richard Marriott, JW (Bill?) Marriott.
So was your comment specific to these 4 individuals or just a gross generalization with nothing to back it up?
"Romulian Romney" also has the endorsement from his home planet newspaper. The newspaper from his home planet is the "Romulus Times." A newspaper so "Alien" to not only America but to the rest of planet Earth. What a joke!
The "inevitable nominee" for the GOP: A chicken hawk, multimillionaire Morman cultist who believes that he will one day attain godhood and populate his own world with his spirit babies, that Jesus Christ and Satan are twin brothers, and who wears magic underwear, etc. Bye, bye, GOP. You just lost your last ounce of credibility as the party that was supposedly the champion of Christianity and morality. What a joke. And people are calling President Obama the anti-Christ! What! Notice that no one is even mentioning what the cult of Morman believes in and why they are NOT Christians or Catholics. They are an absolutely heretical cult by every definition. SHEEP. "Baa, Baa."
Oh good ... more free market capitalism ... exactly what caused the financial meltdown ... lots of greed, no rules and no penalties for effing up.... and getting bailed out after ....