Salt Lake Tribune endorses Obama - no longer trusts what Mitt Romney stands for
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| The Etch-A-Sketch candidate's now too hard to pin for Utah. |
Yesterday something extraordinary happened in Utah, a state that's not generally known for dramatic events. The Salt Lake Tribune, the state's largest paper, declined to endorse Mitt Romney, giving their nod instead to incumbent Barack Obama.
To put this in context, to give you a sense of the surprise this occasioned, this was rather like Soviet era Pravda failing to endorse the Politburos' pick; it was like L'Osservatore Romano taking issue with the Holy See.
It was unprecedented.
In Utah Mitt Romney is a known commodity, or rather he used to be, which was the paper's point in overlooking him this time it emerged.
'We have watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the center with breathtaking aplomb,' the paper wrote. 'Through a pair of presidential debates, Romney’s domestic agenda remains bereft of detail and worthy of mistrust.'
'The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first,' they concluded.
Utah, as you know, is ground zero of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons as they are known. But they simply don't like or trust this 'shape-shifting nominee.'
Before the nation embraces what Obama has called the 'sketchy deal' Romney is offering, which include more tax breaks for the wealthy that Romeny won't commit himself to paying for, voters need to ask themselves a simple question. It's a question the board at The Salt Like Tribune put like this: ‘Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?’
Utah is a dependably red state so the surprise of this non-endorsement for the GOP pick can not be underemphasized. There's little doubt that the Mormon Governor will carry the state so the decision by the board must truly rankle him.
How could this have happened?
It happened because the state that thought they knew him have finally decided they never knew him at all. 'Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear,' the paper wrote.
Shameless, pandering, opportunistic and quite simply unbelievable. They may still vote for him, but like the rest of the nation they no longer seem to know who they'll be voting for.
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Starlet | Oct 23, 2012, 11:53 AM EDT
This is significant because it clearly indicates the difference between the western faction of the Mormon church and the eastern faction.
Romney certainly cannot count on the fundamentalists in either his church or the other Christian denominations.
And so goes the outcome of the Election...
Just these facts alone are enough to sink his chances without some kind of surge from a yet, unknown constituency.
It is looking more and more like it is Romney's election to lose.
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hunter933 | Oct 23, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT
How much longer can Romney and Ryan be taken seriously?
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hunter933 | Oct 21, 2012, 08:09 PM EDT
I believe Mitt Romney is a glass looker much like Joseph Smith. Romney is a charlatan who has financial plans to make him, his family and his rich cronies richer. Although he changes his political positions constantly, he has a deep rooted affinity for wealth and a disdain for the poor and disadvantaged. he has openly stated that 47% of the population of the USA consider themselves victims even though many of the 47% are seniors and veterans who have worked and earned their right to any benefits they receive. Hopefully all the 47% will vote for Obama and the many good people in the other 53% will also vote for Obama.
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KweenOHearts | Oct 21, 2012, 07:55 PM EDT
Wrong pilib04! Since Utah is still in its great majority mormon, it stands to reason that the largest and most popular newspaper in the State of Utah is 'The Deseret News", and guess what... that newspaper most certainly has endorsed Mitty! -- But do tell sir, do you live in Utah and are therefore qualified to gauge the 'overwhelming support' of oblamer by mormons, no less? Yeah sure... that will be the day!!
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pilib04 | Oct 21, 2012, 05:42 PM EDT
The largest and most popular newspaper in Salt Lake City endorses Obama. I'm not sure it gets better than this. Is feidir linn.
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eiriamach | Oct 21, 2012, 04:53 PM EDT
Workers do not trust Romney to care about them. It's not easy to fool American workers, even those who are not union members. He says gov't can't create jobs, but if we give him the top gov't job, he will create jobs! So we know what he has in mind is NOT creating American jobs! It's making sure his one-percent buddies pay no more than one percent income tax after he eliminates capital gains and distribution taxes. (Salary is the smallest part of a millionaire's income.) He's trying to frighten workers-- "Vote GOP or lose your job." In closing remarks at the "Presidential Small Business Town Hall" conference call with the National Federation of Independent Business, Romney told employers, "I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal [now, after "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission"] about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision." Check out the video....
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BigDaddy | Oct 21, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT
Ever notice that when the news is not flattering to the corporate candidate, then all the grateful slaves scream that the media is biased. But no matter what the news is in favor, they tout that as being proof that their boy is the favorite? Mitt Romney is all that he looks like and nothing of what he says he is. Having said that, he will be appointed just as Duhbya was because the Kochs and friends will not spend hundreds of millions of dollars in vain. Their boy will get in despite the fact that he is favored by no more than 30-35% of registered voters. The media says the race is close so the masses will not revolt when he is given the job. I'm sure all you conservatives agree because "you can't believe anything the press says", right?
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micky74007 | Oct 21, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT
Do you really think anyone with any common sense believes anything the press (right or left) says anymore? The fourth estate is defunct as a carrier of truth. The media has lost all credibility. That includes this site.
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BrianO | Oct 21, 2012, 09:09 AM EDT
Ephraim, I'm sure some of your best friends are Mormons.
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KweenOHearts | Oct 21, 2012, 03:35 AM EDT
The SL Tribune 'no longer trusts what Mitt Romney stands for?' Puhleez... the hook is as misleading and sensationalism-seeking as the fact that the SL Trib is in any way a publication friendly to either the LDS church or conservative causes. -- The paper is owned by AP president Dean Singleton, who along with Chris Matthews has a slobbering 'man-crush' over oblamer. -- The Trib, until around 2005 when it was swallowed up by Singleton after falling on financial troubles, was in fact the only 'independent voice' in a state controlled by the LDS church and its own media empire. --- The 'real news scoop' here would be if Cahir were to report that it was the 'Deseret News' and not the Trib who 'disowned' Mitt. This instead is business as usual for Utah, which btw is a hot bed of gayness, and that must be the reason it attracts Cahir's attention.
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EphraimKibbey | Oct 20, 2012, 07:43 PM EDT
I heard in a documentary on the Mormons that they were a very large Democratic voting block at sometime in the near past but now vote mostly Republican. I know that they financed the Proposition 8 drive in California but I think the party switch occured before Gay Rights began to delineate the party's opposing positions. I wonder if the switch occured in the sixties? Anyone have the specifics?
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eiriamach | Oct 20, 2012, 07:34 PM EDT
Salt Lake City ain't in Nevada, BrianO. And the State of Utah is very far from liberal!
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hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2012, 05:28 PM EDT
Mr 47% of the nation are parasites isn't going to win.
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Eschetic | Oct 20, 2012, 04:50 PM EDT
It's always fun to watch "true believers" in a losing cause try to spin bad news. Yes, it's true that Utah's largest paper endorsed Obama over John McCain & the laughable ex-Governor of Alaska in 2004, but that was NOT over Mormon Romney and a Wisconsin almost-favorite. Perhaps newspaper endorsements do not mean as much as they once did, but the reasons behind them still may - and explaining this one away won't be that easy for the extreme right wing that Romney has given carte blanche to in his campaign.
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