Posted on 10/09/2008 11:35:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NEW YORK The Courier in Findlay, Ohio, has announced its endorsement of Sen. John McCain for President. The newspaper also supported the Republican candidate in 2004. Also committing to McCain:: The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.
E&P is charting every editorial endorsement. Obama had been on a run in the past week. Send any pick to: gmitchell@editorandspublisher.com.
The Spokesman-Review views McCain’s “long service” to the country and strong record of leadership as the experience needed to handle America’s affairs at home and abroad. Though the endorsement does criticize Palin as the VP pick, “she is not running for president,” and Obama is, the editorial read.
The Findlay editorial cited McCain’s plan to bail the nation out of the current economic downturn as a key reason for its support. The Ohio newspaper (the state once again is a key battleground) believes that a McCain-Palin administration would downsize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, put an end to predatory lending, and keep “credit-worthy homeowners” in their homes.
The Courier also supported McCain’s stance on government spending. “In the Sept. 8 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he pledged in his first 100 days in office to examine "every agency and department and expenditure of the federal government and ask this simple question: Is it serving the needs of the taxpayer?" If the answer is no, he wrote, "we will reform it or shut it down," the editorial read.
Other issues the editorial endorses include McCain’s tax plan, both McCain and Gov. Palin’s solutions to the nation’s energy problems, McCain’s proposed health care plan, McCain’s “strict constructionist” view of the Supreme Court, and the Republican candidate’s stance on foreign policy issues.
On social policy issues, The Courier critiqued Sen. Barack Obama. It criticized his views on abortion and argued that civil unions would be nationalized under an Obama administration when it should be left up to the states to decide. The endorsement also faults Obama for the “negative baggage” he carries: “the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, ACORN, etc.”
Any Ohio Freepers that can discuss the politics of the papers? Is this like the Washington Times endorsing McCain, or the NY Times endorsing Obama? Or, is there a reach across the aisle here?
The FIndlay paper is not a big surprise. I live in Findlay, and the former name of our paper was the Republican Courier. Remember, were the town where rumors are so rampant about Obama too.
Findlay is a town of about 50,000 people, and we vote 65% to 70% for Republicans usually. It is places like this in NW Ohio though, as well as the counties in the southeast and southwest that will make or break McCain. If they vote in a block 70% for McCain, as they did Bush in 2004, McCain cannot lose.
Of course, the Seattle PI and Seattle RED Times will fully endorse Hussein Obama.
they *have* endorsed him. No suprise that McCain is
ahead east of the Cascades..
Spokane’s not really in Washington. At least not the Washington represented in Olympia.
The Youngstown Vindicator will come out for OBambi but then again if the Dem’s were running a potted plant the plant would get the endorsement.
Oddly enough out here in the burbs it is McCain/Palin all over the place. My favorite signs are the “Democrat for McCain” ones. This was Hillary country.
Obviously racist publications. < / sarcasm>
come to Washington.....SARAH could make the differance..okay, bring along the Navy vet too....
ONWARD TO THE WHITE HOUSE JOHN AND SARAH!
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