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Posted on 01/29/2012 8:37:04 PM PST by Steelfish
Florida Paper Backs A Gingrich Presidency Shawna Shepherd
The Tampa Tribune endorsed Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who the newspaper said is an “innovative problem-solver with rock-hard conservative credentials,” over Mitt Romney, whom it called the “safer choice.”
Sunday’s endorsement from the city’s second-largest newspaper that leans conservative comes two days before Florida’s primary election in which Romney is favored to win.
Despite potential areas of weakness from the former House speaker, the editorial said Gingrich is the best Republican candidate to “take the fight” to President Barack Obama.
“Sure, he can be grandiose. His personal life has been, to put it kindly, complicated. But he has proved his ability to effect change – in a hurry. And this is what the nation needs,” the editorial read.
The editorial page editors said they believe Gingrich has learned from the “painful experience” of facing ethics violations at the end of his two decades in Congress, which are the subject of a Romney television ad released in Florida on Sunday.
While Gingrich and Romney both vow to repeal Obama’s health care law, the Tampa Tribune raised the question of Obama’s plan being based partly on the Massachusetts health care system implemented when Romney was governor.
“There are important differences in the plans, but it takes some explaining. Gingrich would be able to attack the looming entitlement without apology,” the paper said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
The Tribune used to be my favorite Florida paper. I stopped reading all newspapers for the usual reasons that we are all familiar with.
At least the Tribune was slightly better than the (Jacksonville) Times-Onion I read in high school. And much better than the Tallassee Democrat and the Gainesville Sun. The Sun used to have a column devoted to anti gun stories called the Gunshine State. No leftist bias there, huh?
You forgot to mention the Orlando Slantinal.
This is nice. It doesn’t mean much, but it is nice.
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