Anyone see the anti-endorsement the New Hampshire Concord Monitor gave to Mitt Romney? Not good at all -- but it mirrors a lot of my own thoughts about Romney, that he has no core convictions and will say whatever it politically convenient.

[url]http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071222/OPINION/712230301[/url]

Some highlights below, but it's short and worth the read: [QUOTE] [B]Romney should not be the next president[/B]

If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit. You'd add a beautiful wife and family, a wildly successful business career and just enough executive government experience. You'd pour in some old GOP bromides - spending cuts and lower taxes - plus some new positions for 2008: anti-immigrant rhetoric and a focus on faith.

Add it all up and you get Mitt Romney, a disquieting figure who sure looks like the next president and most surely must be stopped.

If you followed only his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core.

People can change, and intransigence is not necessarily a virtue. But Romney has yet to explain this particular set of turnarounds in a way that convinces voters they are based on anything other than his own ambition.

When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it.

Mitt Romney is such a candidate. New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no.[/QUOTE]

Ouch

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And the hits keep on coming -- a second anti-endorsement in NH...

[url]http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=The+Romney+backlash%3a+Conservatives+are+coming+home&articleId=bc5bd60b-68a2-4427-93aa-d0fc2548ba3d[/url]

[QUOTE] [Mitt Romney] has spoken his lines well, but the people can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt.

Last week Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of "saw" is. It was only the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims -- he'd been a hunter "pretty much" all his life, he'd had the NRA's endorsement, he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. -- that call into question the veracity of his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes and his affection for Ronald Reagan.

In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes. [/QUOTE]

On the one hand, who really cares about who a newspaper endorses. On the other hand, when you've got editorials from conservative newspapers going out of their way to make sure you don't get elected, it can't be good.

I'd feel bad for the guy if I didn't think the articles were spot on...

Re: Romney -- Ouch

This guy is a fake and a punk Regean would not have pissed down his throat if it was on fire.