The Des Moines Register’s editorial board announced Saturday that they are endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the Iowa GOP caucuses. The editorial board wrote that Romney “stands out in the current field of Republican candidates,” especially among the top tier candidates. They described former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as “an undisciplined partisan” and Rep. Ron Paul (TX) as holding a libertarian ideology that “would lead to economic chaos.” They described Romney’s flip-flopping as “subtly nuanced statements” that voters would have to decide about for themselves: “He helped create health-care reform in Massachusetts that is strikingly similar to the much-derided ‘Obamacare,’ for example.” Read the endorsement here.
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