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First the Union-Leader, then the Salmon Press, and now tonight, both the Des Moines Register and the Boston Globe. Nice snags for McCain in his pursuit of victory in New Hampshire and third place in Iowa. I reckon Russert will rib Romney tomorrow for not picking up the Globe’s endorsement.
From the endorsement editorial:
In the last two presidential campaigns, Republicans scraped out victories by pressing just enough buttons and mobilizing just enough voters. But such wins breed political polarization and deprive a president of the political capital needed to ask Americans to sacrifice in difficult times.
The antidote to such a toxic political approach is John McCain. The iconoclastic senator from Arizona has earned his reputation for straight talk by actually leveling with voters, even at significant political expense. The Globe endorses his bid in the New Hampshire Republican primary.
McCain’s views differ from those of this editorial page in a variety of ways. Yet McCain’s honesty has served him well. As a lawmaker and as a candidate, he has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States. He deserves the opportunity to represent his party in November’s election.
Read the full endorsement Sunday in the Globe and on boston.com.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Aron, look below, he also got the Des Moines Register
December 15th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Do we really need two threads?
Anyway, look for Romney to counter this with a big ad blitz.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Also McCain got the endorsement of the Salmon Set Of News Papers in NH that combine has more Readership than the Union Leader.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Good for McCain. I think it may be too little too late though, and I am not sure the “average” voters will hear about this, let alone care. But nice endorsements all the same.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
How much influence could any newspaper’s endorsement have in the republican primary?
December 15th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
5, especially the Boston Globe
December 15th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Randy,
Quite a bit.
ACT,
yes they are two different endorsements, and newspaper endorsements are big news.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
You mean all the negative press from the Boston Globe wasn’t an endorsement of Romney?
December 15th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
The double will help McCain a lot. It pretty much says there is no one else ready to become president.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
The media have always been shills for McCain, come on.
They had him crowned as the Republican nominee back in 2005.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
#9 Feltcher.
Just curious, who do you think the last president was that was really “ready” to be president?
December 15th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
So there are still some conservatives out there who have yet to see the bias in their newspaper’s editorials?
December 15th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
“The double will help McCain a lot. It pretty much says there is no one else ready to become president.”
Are you crazy? The Boston Globe hates Romney because he is a conservative. The fact that the paper is endorsing McCain now means they worry that Romney has a chance.
In there own words, “[McCain] deserves the opportunity to represent his party in November’s election.” Did you hear that? Represent his party, not win the election. This is not an endorsment for McCain, so much as it is an endorsement against Romney. I hope Romney uses this as an opportunity to prove his conservative credentials.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I thought the Boston Globe would endorse Romney.:)
December 15th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Jack,
GHWB and Nixon, because they had both served as VP.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Way to go McCain!
December 15th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
#14 – Why, they are a liberal newspaper, and he is a conservative. The fact that they endorse McCain should tell you more than the fact that they didn’t endorse Romney. (Read: McCain is more moderate/liberal than Romney)
December 15th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
The Union Leader is Liberal?
December 15th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
#15 What about Ford?
December 15th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Hah, what a joke! That is hilarious. That right there make me confident i am correct in not voting for him. that is bad news for mccain in a gop primary.
that would be like getting an endorsement from the new york times or Katie Couric. lol!
December 15th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Forgot about him.
I am one who does not buy that you need a certain amount of experience to be president. If you are too wonkish, you get bogged down in policy (a la Carter, Clinton in his first couple years). If you are too flighty, you can get lost (which I think happened to GWB). Based on the presidential biographies I’ve read, I believe personal leadership characteristics, such as possessed by Kennedy and Reagan are most important.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
#18 – Boston Globe
December 15th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Who cares who the liberal editorial boards annoint as the best republican nominee. Of course they love McCain the “Maverick”. Libs were gushing over McCain years ago for going against the GOP consistently. I wouldn’t take the endorsements as a compliment.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
This is about as important as the Washington Times theoretically endorsing Bill Richardson because he seems the least liberal.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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December 15th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
This is like Hillary Clinton herself endorsing McCain. I live in Boston. The Globe’s endorsement of him is entirely embarrasing for him.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Ah, so the paper that gave us the lawn service nonesense and launched the canard that Gov. Romney’s position on homosexuality has shifted is endorsing Sen. McCain.
Shocker.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
2, Act Blog: Earned notoriety trumps purchased notoriety in my book.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
26, Not so fast –they also endorsed Obama, and they are one of the premier papers in the country. Does the Globe usually endorse candidates on both sides in an election year?
December 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
This is the sort of thing that McCain lives for: to be a pet of the media. Once he’s Mr. Maverick again, bashing the other Republicans about waterboarding or being a scold on global warming, they fall right back in love with him.
Absolutely wonderful.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
30, (with sarcasm) McCain folded like wet cardboard when the media demanded the we cut and run from Iraq.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Well said TLG.
December 16th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Huckabee must be outrage that the BG or DMR doesn’t pick him as the most liberal republican.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Boston Globe has always been very anti-Romney, this is not a surprise.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
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