Dallas Morning News endorses Clinton for president
Source: Politico
For the first time since before World War II, the Dallas Morning News endorsed a Democrat, Hillary Clinton, for president. | AP Photo
Dallas Morning News endorses Clinton for president
By Nick Gass
09/07/16 06:35 AM EDT
Breaking with decades of encouraging readers to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in the general election, the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, whose editorial board previously suggested was not a real Republican.
"We don't come to this decision easily. This newspaper has not recommended a Democrat for the nation's highest office since before World War II — if you're counting, that's more than 75 years and nearly 20 elections," the editorial board wrote. "The party's over-reliance on government and regulation to remedy the country's ills is at odds with our belief in private-sector ingenuity and innovation. Our values are more about individual liberty, free markets and a strong national defense."
The editorial board had endorsed the Republican nominee in every presidential election dating back to World War II, save for the 1964 election when it remained neutral between Democratic President (and Texan) Lyndon B. Johnson and Republican challenger Barry Goldwater.
........................ the editorial board contrasted her "experience in actual governance" to Trump.
"Resume vs. resume, judgment vs. judgment, this election is no contest," the op-ed continued, making note of the host of Republican hands backing Clinton, including Jim Glassman, the founding director of the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas...................................
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Those are real shortcomings. But they pale in comparison to the litany of evils some opponents accuse her of. Treason? Murder? Her being cleared of crimes by investigation after investigation has no effect on these political hyenas; they refuse to see anything but conspiracies and cover-ups.
We reject the politics of personal destruction. Clinton has made mistakes and displayed bad judgment, but her errors are plainly in a different universe than her opponent's.
Trump's values are hostile to conservatism. He plays on fear — exploiting base instincts of xenophobia, racism and misogyny — to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best. His serial shifts on fundamental issues reveal an astounding absence of preparedness. And his improvisational insults and midnight tweets exhibit a dangerous lack of judgment and impulse control.
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"Political hyenas"!
IMHO, this editorial voices the sentiment that is coming from the William F. Buckley "intellectual wing" of the Republican party that sat back on their yachts sipping gin and tonics while the lunatic RW talk radio hosts spent almost 30 years hijacking the party's message. The "fear — exploiting base instincts of xenophobia, racism and misogyny — to bring out the worst in all of us" messaging has been running 24/7 since 1988, on hundreds and hundreds of RW-owned talk radio stations that purportedly have "millions" of listeners. Trump is only voicing what the brainwashed "base" of the GOP has been fed for decades.
The "twitter war" between a National Review writer and Hannity is exactly establishing this split coming out into the public.
The same paper that ran ads against JFK in November 2013.
If you read the comments, you'd know how upset the Dallas locals are. 
