First, is the United States better off today than four years ago? Even more important, will you be better off four years from now?_____
Electing Mitt Romney as president will bring real change, giving Americans reason for hope about the future. President Barack Obama's record provides cause only for worry.
Fewer Americans are working today than when Obama took office. Millions are not on the official unemployment reports because they have given up on finding work. Millions more are "underemployed" in low-wage or part-time jobs that are all they can find. This is not the American dream. It has become a nightmare for too many people.
Trillions of dollars have been wasted on programs such as "stimulus" and bail-outs of big businesses and irresponsible states.
The Pueblo Chieftain endorses Romney:
Gov. Romney, along with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, has charted a course to protect current and soon-to-be retirees with full benefits, while restructuring how those two programs can be financed without breaking the budget.______
In short, seniors or soon-to-be seniors can rest assured a President Romney won’t pull the rug out from beneath them.
Can Gov. Romney pull this off? We believe so. During his term as governor of Massachusetts, he was able to work with both Democrats — who were the majority — and fellow Republicans in that state’s legislature. That’s the mark of true leadership.
Washington state's The Columbian picks Romney:
We endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and acknowledge his passion and diligence. But he has fallen far short of the two nonpartisan goals expressed above. Yes, Congress shares much of the blame for continued economic stagnation. But the best leaders break the worst logjams. Obama has not._____
Members of Congress have their own self-inflicted defects, what with historic low favorability ratings. Most of them face stern accountability tests on Nov. 6. But President Obama also must be held accountable, and even he acknowledges too little has been done to repair the economy, reduce the deficit and cut the federal debt.
Romney lacks Obama's credentials and experience in foreign policy. But he better understands how an economic recovery is powered by an incentivized private sector, not a bloated bureaucracy. Thomas J. Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a Sept. 10 speech: "Our economy is stuck in first gear … our government borrows 40 cents of every dollar we spend." Obama has presided over "a massive debt, out-of-control spending, a broken tax system and unsustainable entitlement programs."
The Longmont Times Call endorses Romney:
The question before Coloradans and all Americans in the Nov. 6 election is what choices can we make to help make the future better? Will it be more of what we have seen for the past four years or will we embark on a better course that will offer a reasonable opportunity to begin to reverse the high unemployment rate, put people back to work and begin to drain the oceans of overspending that threaten the future of the country?_____
In July, the Associated Press reported that three years after the recession ended, 43 states had yet to regain the jobs they lost since the Great Recession began in 2007. An unemployment rate that was higher than 8 percent for 43 months is the longest period with such dismal statistics since 1948, when record-keeping began.
Mitt Romney would bring a more balanced and realistic approach to national leadership than the government-centric philosophy advocated by Barack Obama. This nation, after all, was supposed to be a land where the government served the people who were free to pursue their dreams in private enterprise. Romney has worked in the private sector, as governor of Massachusetts, and as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Romney would bring to the presidency a professional background more in tune with what the country needs now in the area of job creation and management.
Michigan's Daily Tribune says Romney is the leader we need to create jobs:
So although he transplanted to Massachusetts where he served as an effective governor in a bipartisan setting, Mitt Romney is somewhat of a native son. If he wins, he would be the first president born in Michigan._____
That alone, of course, is not enough to justify support of his candidacy, but it might evoke enough pride among Michiganians to warrant considering his arguments. Since the country is not flourishing under the current president, Romney at least deserves that.
This election has been cast as a watershed choice over the size and role of the government. Romney and President Obama, we are told — in fact, they tell us themselves — have two starkly different visions for the United States.
Georgia's Cherokee Tribune picks Mitt:
MOST PRESIDENTS running for re-election run on their records. Not this one. Why not? Because it is so unpopular with so many voters. Instead, Team Obama has mounted a relentlessly negative campaign. Forget “Hope and Change.” This time around it’s “Fear and Smear.”_____
Leadership? Obama’s forte is “leading from behind.” You can look around and see where that’s gotten us.
Romney’s resume, on the other hand, is dotted with leadership successes — at Bain Capital, overseeing the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, and his term as the Republican governor of one of our most Democratic states.
This is a country desperate for change. It’s a country badly in need of an economy that produces jobs, rather than spits people out of jobs. A country where the growth of the private sector outpaces that of government, rather than the other way around.
This is a country that needs a leader who leads, not a leader who follows. A leader who will enhance the things that make us the most dynamic country in the world — not one who pushes redistributionist policies designed to transform us into another socialist Europe.
The New York Observer believes Obama squandered an opportunity:
While we admire Mr. Obama, we believe he squandered an opportunity to bring positive change to Washington—and what change he did bring will burden future generations. We continue to rack up debt, buy services we cannot afford and allow unfunded liabilities to continue to grow. This has to end._____
Rather than reimagining government’s role in society and the economy by embracing the courageous alternatives proposed by the Simpson-Bowles commission two years ago, Mr. Obama turned to neo-New Deal policies. Rather than building creative partnerships with the private sector, the president chose to demonize the successful. Rather than strengthen the nation’s relationship with Israel as the Arab world imploded, Mr. Obama treated Jerusalem as less a friend than a burden.
Mr. Romney, on the other hand, promises to bring a new and refreshing attitude to Washington, one that speaks to his experience as both a successful business leader and the governor of a state not known for its affection for Republicans.
West Virginia's The Journal picks Romney:
The past four years have not been good. The next four would be worse under Obama.
Romney represents a real and realistic alternative. His economic policies will hold taxes low, allowing the private sector to create new jobs.
More important, Romney brings the predictability on government regulation and taxes that businesses need to create jobs - and families need to begin buying again and thus growing the economy.
Romney will abandon the war on coal, protecting states such as West Virginia and Ohio and holding electric bills down.
The Weirton Daily Times, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, and The Inter-Mountain all have identical editorials to the above.
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