Slows down the Huck freight train just a little.
Romney wins backing from National ReviewWASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican Mitt Romney won the backing of the National Review Tuesday, an endorsement that is likely to give the former Massachusetts governor a boost in conservative circles heading into the first round of presidential primary contests.
In an editorial posted on the conservative publication's Web site Tuesday afternoon, the magazine's editors praised Romney for his executive experience and called him a "full-spectrum Republican."
"Romney is an intelligent, articulate, and accomplished former businessman and governor. At a time when voters yearn for competence and have soured on Washington because too often the Bush administration has not demonstrated it, Romney offers proven executive skill," the editors wrote. "He has demonstrated it in everything he has done in his professional life, and his tightly organized, disciplined campaign is no exception."
The magazine's editors also brushed aside doubts about the former Massachusetts governor’s conservative sincerity, calling him a "natural ally of social conservatives."
"He may not have thought deeply about the political dimensions of social issues until, as governor, he was confronted with the cutting edge of social liberalism," the editorial states. "No other Republican governor had to deal with both human cloning and court-imposed same-sex marriage. He was on the right side of both issues, and those battles seem to have made him see the stakes of a broad range of public-policy issues more clearly."
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