Another Conservative Paper Endorses Clinton

The Columbus Dispatch, a conservative newspaper, endorsed Secretary Clinton for President in this morning's edition, breaking with decades of endorsements of Republican candidates. In its editorial, the paper says,

"Republican candidate Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States. Democrat Hillary Clinton, despite her flaws, is well-equipped for the job.

The Dispatch traditionally has endorsed Republican presidential candidates, but Trump does not espouse or support traditional Republican values, such as fiscal prudence, limited government and free trade, not to mention civility and decency. [Ed. note:  Riiight!] We are disappointed that so many Republican leaders have accommodated a narcissistic, morally bankrupt candidate who is so clearly out of step with those values.....He has proved himself a liar of epic proportion. He is a bigot, a braggart and an admirer of foreign thugs such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He is reckless and thin-skinned. He has demeaned Mexicans, demonized Muslims, insulted women and mocked the disabled.

His economic policies, to the extent that they can be analyzed, would at least double the national debt. His call for punishing tariffs on foreign goods would trigger retaliation and ignite a trade war with disastrous results for employment and the standard of living in the United States.

The stakes are too high to sit out this election and risk letting Trump misuse the awesome power of the presidency. The Dispatch urges voters to elect Hillary Clinton." (emphasis added)

The Dispatch, the key newspaper in Ohio's capital city (and its largest city) and influential in the entire swing state, hasn't endorsed a Democrat for President since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. It joins fellow conservative newspapers like the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Arizona Republic, the Dallas Morning News, and the San Diego Union-Tribune in breaking with tradition and with the candidacy of neo-fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump.