The National Review Endorses Mitt Romney

Conservative magazine endorses Romney
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:57 PM by Domenico Montanaro



From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro

The National Review magazine endorsed Romney and puts him on the cover with the headline “Mitt Romney for President.”

Here’s what the editors write:

“Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate. In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Unlike some other candidates in the race, Romney is a full-spectrum conservative: a supporter of free-market economics and limited government, moral causes such as the right to life and the preservation of marriage, and a foreign policy based on the national interest.”

*** UPDATE *** NBC/NJ's Erin McPike adds...

As Romney struggles to cope with the Huckabee boomlet and has a released his first attack ad to do it, the National Review just handed Romney an early Christmas present with its endorsement.

In one of the shortest statements the Romney campaign has put forth, spokesman Kevin Madden writes: “Governor Romney has earned the endorsement of the National Review, one of the most respected conservative publications in the nation.”

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