Stunning newspaper endorsement for Mitt Romney

The Des Moines Register, the largest newspaper in Iowa, and a paper that has not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate in more than 40 years, is backing Mitt Romney for president! After endorsing Democratic candidates in nine consecutive presidential elections, including Barack Obama in 2008, the newspaper says Romney is the right person who can "correct the nation’s fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America."

From the endorsement editorial:

The former governor and business executive has a strong record of achievement in both the private and the public sectors. He was an accomplished governor in a liberal state. He founded and ran a successful business that turned around failing companies. He successfully managed the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Romney has made rebuilding the economy his No. 1 campaign priority — and rightly so.

 Read the full endorsement at the newspaper's website.

It's time for all Americans to join together and give Mitt Romney the mandate he needs to turn this country around.