Columbus (OH) Dispatch Endorses McCain

Columbus Dispatch ^ | 10/19/2008 | Dispatch Editorial Board

[Saab-driving Yuppie]

Dispatch reporters have been writing like they graduated from Pravda for years, and the paper's editorials have been trending left for the past deacde or so. Therefore, this was something of a suprirse http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2008/10/19/bikepath2.ART_ART_10-19-08_G4_GUBKEGH.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[Saab-driving Yuppie]

No surprise here. Columbus tends to be a little more conservative than most major cities. And the Columbus Dispatch is a little more right-leaning than most major newspapers.

When's the last time you read the paper?

The reporting has been as hard-left as anyone for years. The editorials have taken the liberal stand on every issue, except for school choice, for the past 15 years. Even then the case for vouchers is cast in liberal language.

[edpc]

A web search showed a blurb saying they haven’t endorsed a Dem presidential candidate since Wilson. However, they did endorse Hillary during the primaries and did not weigh in on a Republican nominee. Perhaps that’s because McCain was already the presumptive nominee by the time OH came around to voting, but who knows.

[Mad Dawgg]

"As someone who lives in the Columbus vicinity, you could have knocked me over with a feather after reading this endorsement."

I live in Southern Ohio and have long since stopped reading that Liberal Rag. Upon hearing the news of the endorsement I continually check the sky for winged swine, and constantly scanning the horizon for four mounted riders.

[Comparative Advantage]

I think the Dogpatch brought in editors from Cleveland about 10 years ago.

[Dudoight]

I think the Plain Dealer already endorsed the O.

[jersey117]

Excellent endorsement coming out of Ohio. It gave me great pleasure this morning to cancel my 14 year subscription to the Asbury Park Press after opening to their endorsement of Obama. Obama doesn’t share the views of the majority in Monmouth and Ocean Counties yet they went out on a limb to help push the messiah along.

[1035rep]

bttt

[chris_bdba]

LOL! Yes Dh and I are sitting here wondering how in the world this happened? I’m happy but very surprised here in SE Ohio. Perhaps they see the strory developing about illegal voting/ACORN and think it is better to use it to help destroy Obama here in the next week then to look hypocritical by trying to straddle the fence on this issue?

[fightinJAG]

Yes. And it's very important to start hammering that a SUPERMAJORITY OF RATS is very dangerous to our country. People will get that.

A resume containing so little evidence of leadership and accomplishment leaves in question Obama's ability to handle the most responsible and difficult job in the world, especially at a time when the nation faces a combination of problems so large and complex that they would challenge even the most seasoned leader.

Nor does it seem likely that a man who has traveled in the left lane of American politics for his entire adult life really is the bipartisan centrist that he claims to be. And with Democrats already in control of the U.S. House and Senate -- and the possibility that they might gain a filibuster-proof majority in the next Senate -- there would be little to check the inevitable excesses of one-party rule if a Democrat wins the White House.

This could have a profound effect on the U.S. Supreme Court. A divided Senate acts as a check on presidential nominations to the court by preventing the confirmation of justices with extreme views. But with a filibuster-proof Senate majority ready to do his bidding, Obama would have the unfettered ability to appoint justices likely to be judicial activists, eager to launch a new era of legislating from the bench. Such a Supreme Court could end up as a rubber stamp for, rather than a check on, the White House and Congress.

[fightinJAG]

So has the idea of a Rat SUPERMAJORITY.

That scares the living daylights out of people who finally start thinking about the implications.

We need to be talking about the possiblity of this SUPERMAJORITY at every opportunity.

[fightinJAG]

Write the paper and tell them you agree!

[Oatka]

As for Colin Powell . . .

He's the black version of Wesley Clark.

[BAW]

"rousing motivational speaker" Well said. This correctly compares Sen Obama to a speaker circuit hype guy hired by big companies to ramp up the sales force.

[CharlotteVRWC]

I was totally shocked to see the McCain endorsement when I opened up the paper. The Dispatch is a liberal rag. Just last week they had a fluff piece on Ayers and why it wasn’t an important association with Obama.

Read the whole article- .. it’s really very good.

[JavaJumpy]

Seriously? That was my jaw hitting the floor you just heard...wow! Good news!

[LiberConservative]

I haven't lived in Columbus in years. I guess I was comparing the Dispatch to the Denver Post or the NY Times. However, I did find the Dispatch not quite so liberal. And in newspaperspeak that's about as fair and balanced as you can get.

[CanadianYankee]

Agreed!!
The Dispatch coverage has been so slanted to this point that I canceled my subscription about 10 days ago.

In fact, I think this endorsement might be an attempt to stop the bleeding. The lady I spoke to at the paper said “I understand” when I told her my reasons for stopping delivery and it seemed to me after speaking with her that they were getting many cancellations.

Maybe they got the message.