◼ Brush away all the rhetoric, all the vitriol, all the divisiveness from the presidential campaign. To most Americans, only one thing matters — the economy. - Sun Sentinel Editorial Board
We believe Romney will help this nation find the political will to address the challenges with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We’d like to see him exercise equal fiscal discipline at the Pentagon, whose budget has grown 50 percent in 10 years and exceeds that of the next 10 largest nations combined.
The greatest threat to our national defense is not the size of our military, but the ever-escalating size of our national debt. We must get government spending under control, across the board.
President Obama is a decent man who took office with the nation facing an economic precipice. But even he predicted he would be a one-term president if he failed to turn things around.
We believe the best chance to get America back working again is to elect Mitt Romney. That’s why we endorse him for president.
◼ The latest paper to switch from endorsing Barack Obama in 2008 to Mitt Romney in 2012 is the Orlando Sun-Sentinel. The editors are quite brisk in dismissing Obama’s various campaign distractions and social-issue panders, making it clear that it’s all about the economy, and Mitt Romney is the right man for the job. - John Hayward/Human Events
◼ PROGRESSIVE ORLANDO SENTINEL ENDORSES ROMNEY - Michael Patrick Leahy/Breitbart
◼ Orlando Sentinel Endorses Romney After Backing Obama in 2008 - Noel Sheppard/Newsbusters
◼ The Orlando Sentinel’s Brutal Endorsement of Mitt Romney - Charles C. W. Cooke/National Review
On the economy:
If that were the only metric that mattered, the president might credibly argue that the U.S. economy was finally on the right track. Unfortunately for him, and for the American people, he can’t.
On the next four years:
We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years. For that reason, though we endorsed him in 2008, we are recommending Romney in this race.
