Utah Newspaper Endorsement Slams Mitt Romney

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/utah-newspaper-endorsement-slams-romney/story?id=17519264

Utah Newspaper Endorsement Slams Mitt Romney
By ABBY D. PHILLIP

In a blow to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Utah's largest newspaper today slammed his candidacy and endorsed President Obama instead.

Despite being credited for saving the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and making Utah his home at one time, the Salt Lake City Tribune said that the state's "favorite adopted son," Romney, has become "the party's shape-shifting nominee."

"In considering which candidate to endorse, the Salt Lake Tribune editorial board had hoped that Romney would exhibit the same talents for organization, pragmatic problem-solving and inspired leadership that he displayed here more than a decade ago," the editorial board wrote. "Instead, we have watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the center with breathtaking aplomb."

[still_one]

1. Wow that sounds big

[DonRedwood]

2. we need a utah DUer to explain how significant this is

sounds big to me too, though

[Politicalboi]

3. They should have known

When Rmoney lost his temper at security guard at the Olympics because he thought he shouldn't have to wait in a traffic line. Is that the same " talents for organization, pragmatic problem-solving and inspired leadership that he displayed here more than a decade ago," the editorial board wrote".

[hrmjustin]

4. I bet that this paper will get grief over this. But you have to stand up for your beliefs.

[JimDandy]

5. This is huge! Wow.

I lived there for 14 yrs. I would never have bet on this in a million years!

[gopiscrap]

6. Excellent

[Melinda]

7. Yup, Salt lake Tribune said it; "...the party’s shape-shifting nominee"

From the article (link in OP):

"Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party’s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: "Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?"

Mitt RMoney: shape-shifter.