Concord Monitor: Romney Must Be Stopped

    As we've been writing all along, endorsements -- particulary newspaper ones -- scarcely matter any longer. But we're stumped to find many cases in modern history where a mainstream paper went after a mainstream candidate (who wasn't someone like, say, George Wallace) the way the Concord Monitor has gone after Mitt Romney this morning.
    In an editorial that is not an endorsement (presumably that may come later), the state's third largest paper delivers a broadside attack on Romney, stating "Mitt Romney, a disquieting figure who sure looks like the next president . . . most surely must be stopped."
    That's, well, pretty strong. And, combined with the other-end-of-the-spectrum Union Leader's endorsement of John McCain and polls showing the race tightening in NH, Romney's campaign is in trouble.