Mitt Romney scored the endorsement of the influential Cleveland Plain Dealer on Saturday, giving him a nice boost ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
The editors said Romney’s business experience made him “by far, the best choice for Ohio Republicans.”
As has been a recurring pattern, the Romney campaign sent out only positive excerpts of the endorsement, which also contained some more critical paragraphs. The following was left out of Romney’s e-mail press release, for example:
“Consistency is certainly a problem for Romney. The one-time moderate has adjusted his positions on so many issues — including abortion and gay rights — that his core beliefs are a mystery. In this campaign, he has tried so hard to prove his conservative bona fides that he has undercut one of his greatest selling points: the pragmatism that enabled him to get things done as a Republican governor in one of the nation’s most Democratic and liberal states.”
