Romney Camp Keeps Editing Endorsement Editorials

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The Romney campaign likes to send out editorials from local papers that endorse Mitt Romney but regularly leaves out the less-flattering paragraphs. Two paragraphs were left out of the latest editorial sent out by the campaign.

From an editorial in the Birmingham News in Alabama:

Cut through the clatter of scorched-earth attack ads (mainly from shameless super-PACs), candidates’ charges and countercharges and Romney’s unfortunate tendency to put his foot in his mouth at times, and here’s what you will find: Romney is an extremely successful businessman and was a very competent governor who accomplished much of his agenda by working across party lines.

 And 

And, of course, there was Massachusetts’ version of health-care reform, which some have said was a model for Obama’s national plan. That reform has dogged Romney on the campaign trail, and he has defended it by saying the Massachusetts version was put together to meet the needs of a single state.

 

That has been just one example of some of the shape-shifting Romney has done to appeal to conservative primary voters who believe he is too moderate. So, it’s not unfair to wonder who the real Romney is.

The campaign attributes the edits to having to comply with copyright laws. They recently began ending their emails with the following disclaimer: 

**In compliance with copyright laws, this version of the editorial is excerpted**

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