Posted on 02/12/2016 9:06:16 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Dallas Morning News on Friday endorsed Republican presidential candidate John Kasich over home-state rival Ted Cruz for the GOP nomination.
"As much as we'd like to see a Texan in the White House, we fear that Cruz's brand of politics is more about disruption than governing and threatens to take the Republican Party to a dark place," editorial members of the influential Texas newspaper wrote.
"As we've written before, continuing obstructionist paths might excite primary voters, but it won't benefit the nation or the conservative cause," they added.
Editors of the Dallas Morning News wrote that state-level public servants like Kasich "forged practical, even imaginative, ways to help their citizens lead safer, more stable and prosperous lives."
"That's a sharp contrast to what GOP presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are offering," the editors wrote, referencing the candidates who won New Hampshire and Iowa, respectively.
"John Kasich of Ohio is one of those pragmatic leaders, a Republican who -- to his own present detriment, perhaps, but to the benefit of his constituents -- shows more interest in actually governing than in partisan theatrics," the newspaper added.
The Morning News editorial board praised Kasich's "get things done" bona fides in Ohio, mentioning closing a budget shortfall and overseeing a sharp drop in unemployment, as well as his efforts in Congress to balance the federal budget. They also credited his moderate positions on immigration and Medicaid.
"While other GOP establishment opponents, for instance former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, have rewritten parts of their résumés, the center-right Kasich hasn't been cowed by the farthest-right reaches of the party into doing anything of the sort," the editorial reads.
Texas holds its primary March 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This endorsement tells you all you ever need to know about the DMN. Not enough bird cages or fresh fish in Big D to justify a subscription.
This is the paper that put the comic strips, aimed at kids, in the lifestyle section that catered to the gay lifestyle.
Dallas Morning News?
Chances are their editorial department is extremely sad that Lindsay Graham dropped out before they could endorse him.
Birdcage liner.
Establishment hard at work with this one....
Dallasites by and large respect W. It is not a carte blanche endorsement of all Bushes.
Exactly! Next it will be the Houston Comical. Neither will be a surprise, except to someone not aware of the political climate in TX but infected with CDS.
Well then, Kasich is their man indeed ...
Figures. Worthless rag good only for lining the cat box. They should just move down to Austin to commiserate with the rest of the libtards.Of course, since Dallas County has gone blue due to our demographics and Fred Baron’s money dump into the Dallas Democrat Party it has been a real slog. Not to mention supposed “conservative” House members and our esteemed super Rino senator,part of the “leadership” Cornyn. Me, bitter, pissed off and disgusted...ya think?
Splitting hair are we? I suppose she did not do it formally in writing on personalized stationery, but I certainly remember her saying favorable things about Trump, and NOT Cruz.
Whoops! I hate it when that happens.
Missed it, by “ “ this much...
You don’t know how liberal the editorial board of the DMN is. It is a long way from the paper of 1960.
I believe it ...
Has governor Greg Abbott endorsed the junior senator from Texas?
Is that true?
Well lets see:
2012 Mitt Romney
2008 John McCain
2004 George W Bush
2000 George W Bush
1996 Bob Dole
No, they don't seem to support Democrats; you aren't a Cruz backer by any chance?
This post from the Dallas newspaper is interesting...
oldguy60 2 hours ago
I am a liberal democrat, have always been one and will continue to be one. However, after a news article I saw today about Carrier air-conditioning manufacturer moving its plant to Mexico and displacing 1400 workers, I am going to roll the dice. One of Trump’s main campaign lines is how we are losing our jobs to Mexico and China. I am willing to take the chance that he means what he says and I am voting for Trump. I don’t think anyone else will do a damn thing about the trade imbalance.
This isn’t surprising.
A Texas newspaper doesn’t endorse Cruz. I’m sure there are New York newspapers who won’t endorse Trump.
Trump is on a roll. NO OTHER CANDIDATE has crowds the size of Trump. His overflow crowds at rallys are larger thanthe other candidates main crowds. He is above it all, with the loser candidates fighting each other for the crumbs of 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. Must be frustrating for their dejected followers.
Go Trump. Make America Great Again.
I never heard that one. Spent most of my adult life on the West Coast.
Although I never dropped in to the Washington Square Bar and Grill (the Washbag) to see if I could hornswaggle my way into sharing a drink with the guy, for a while I was acquainted with Herb Caen's gossipy three-dot journalism (SF Chronicle), and could buy an LA Times on most any street corner that either did, or did not also sell the Chronicle.
I did not live near the City, or L.A. either, but could end up being briefly in those places, upon occasion.
Lib paper endorses liberal, who cares?
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