Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Re-elect Obama: The made-over Mitt Romney is no alternative (Endorsement)
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In making his case to be the nominee for his radically more conservative party, Mr. Romney had to pretend to be someone he wasn't. As part of this makeover, he has promised to scuttle Obamacare, even though it was modeled after his own successful state health care plan, and with only vague notions of how to replace it.
Driven by the political need to repudiate Mr. Obama's bailouts, he stooped so low as to say he would have allowed a large part of the auto industry in Michigan, where he grew up, to go into bankruptcy, which would have doomed it along with millions of jobs. This was not his father's Republicanism.
Because they have been such implacable critics of Mr. Obama's policies, we know what the Republicans would have done -- and by extension now, Mr. Romney will do -- with control of the White House. There will be no stimulus money for jobs, regulations will be cut back severely on the environment and Wall Street (where the recession was hatched due to loose rules in the first place) and, of course, the well-to-do will be showered with tax cuts.
With a Romney victory, the nation would return to the fiction of the George W. Bush years -- that taxes could be slashed, revenues wouldn't suffer and the deficit wouldn't swell. Mr. Romney says he can cut tax rates for individuals by 20 percent by removing certain deductions, but he won't say clearly what they are. This is ideological alchemy in search of fool's gold. The less polite term is baloney.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/editorials/re-elect-obama-the-made-over-mitt-romney-is-no-alternative-659567/
Another Newspaper endorsement of President Obama.
Ironically, when newspapers have endorsed Mitt Romney, it has mainly been because recalcitrant Republicans in Congress would be more willing to work with him, which strikes me as giving House Republicans a free pass. In other words, why punish the reasonable party and reward the party that is more interested in scoring political points, than governing the Nation.
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Made-Over-Mittens.
