Concord Monitor: "Anyone But Romney in 2008"

This week the New Hampshire capital's paper made a very clear announcement with regard to the presidential election: "Romney should not be the next president."

According to the Monitor:

If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit. You'd add a beautiful wife and family, a wildly successful business career and just enough executive government experience. You'd pour in some old GOP bromides - spending cuts and lower taxes - plus some new positions for 2008: anti-immigrant rhetoric and a focus on faith.

Add it all up and you get Mitt Romney, a disquieting figure who sure looks like the next president and most surely must be stopped.

They go on to expose Romney for the opportunistic fraud that he is and close with a message close to this blog's heart:

When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it.

Mitt Romney is such a candidate.

Wow...And Team Romney thought Iowa was in trouble...This op-ed is probably the strongest anti-endorsement a newspaper has ever given to a single candidate outside of David Duke, and is particularly nasty for Romney and Sons coming out of the first primary state that neighbors Willard's "home" state. It seems as though this whole Anyone But Romney in 2008 thing is catching on...