It should come as no surprise that the Detroit Free Press has endorsed Mitt Romney for the upcoming GOP Presidential Primary coming up this Tuesday. The left does not want a clear choice for the White House; it wants someone not that unlike the current occupant. Or, as this is actually rather sinister and underhanded, they want the person most likely to lose to President Obama, and are conniving to get Republicans to pick a weak candidate.
The paper berates the changes in Romney's attitudes during the primary season, but offers the excuse that he probably had to appear to have a sharp rightward turn in order to win the nomination. Shouldn't this be a reason not to support him, though? How can anyone trust a candidate who veers in any direction simply to garner votes? The idea that such rhetorical lip service is all that someone needs to qualify for President certainly ought to ring hollow in the face of the serious journalism the Free Press ordinarily claims to practice. Further, as that newspaper will almost surely endorse Barack Obama, why should it deign to help Republicans select their nominee?
The editorial writers save the sharpest stick for the others: Santorum is 'zealous' (Obama isn't?), Gingrich 'impulsive' and Ron Paul 'backward thinking'. Yet it easy to see why Romney is their guy: he was Barack Obama lite in Massachusetts and they expect he'll be that way again if President.
It is important that conservatives are not swayed by such talk. The Detroit Free Press cares nothing about who would make a truly good Republican president. Indeed, the writers there care nothing about what makes a truly good conservative. They care about what will keep the folks they like in power. As such, they want the electorate to vote for the GOP candidate most like them. It's a fail safe, really. It is in no way objective. It is in fact the worst kind of selfishness: fatal conceit disguised as virtue. Do not fall for it.
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