Dispatch, Plain Dealer Split On Presidential Endorsements

[babsbunny]

http://beta.wosu.org/news/2012/10/21/dispatch-plain-dealer-split-on-presidential-endorsements/

Two of Ohio’s biggest newspapers have split on their endorsements in the presidential race.

The Plain Dealer of Cleveland supports a second term for Democratic President Barack Obama. The Columbus Dispatch backs Republican Mitt Romney.

The Dispatch says the United States needs a new direction. The Dispatch states that it warned four years ago about Obama’s lack of experience. It says Romney has the real-world experience to lead the nation out of economic malaise.

[Andy823]

1. If you ask me

I think "would" lead us out of the economic malaise, and right into a complete economic melt down! He would increase the deficit by trillions with his war on Iran, and even more when he takes us into world war III. Romney in the WH would mean the end of the world as we know it today! His goal would be complete domination of the world ran by a Mormon theocracy, with him as the mighty leader on his white horse! He would make Joseph Smith proud!

[Botany]

2. The Dispatch is a right wing rag ..... always has been and it will always be.

In 2004 they endorsed W after saying that the war in Iraq was a bloody hell hole
with no bottom.

[Maeve]

3. True--no one who knows the Disgrace could have expected anything BUT an R endorsment

It's okay that Rmoney has minimal real government experience and that he has the same advisers as Dubya--he's the REPUBLICAN!

[Trailrider1951]

4. I was born in Columbus in 1951 and grew up there

We used to get the Dispatch (aka Dogpatch) when I was a kid. My dad read it, only because the Citizen-Journal sucked so bad. Mom did the right thing and lined her bird cage with it. Her parakeet said,"Shit on this!"

Edited for my atrocious spelling.

[madinmaryland]

5. I don't get the "new direction" thing, since Rmoney only wants to take the US back to the Bush era.

How the fuck is that a new direction?

[JaneyVee]

6. Plain Dealer has MUCH bigger circulation.