The Sun Journal’s endorsement of Mitt Romney for president (Oct. 28) is deeply disturbing for many reasons, not the least of which is its airy dismissal of the Republican candidate’s waffling, his radical shifts in policy positions, his prevarication as “… running hard to the middle in his final sprint to win … .”

Indeed.

The Sun Journal endorses Romney. Romney, who refuses to release tax returns for more than the past two years. Romney, who outspokenly favored leaving the auto industry to fail. Romney, who — was he just kidding? — declared 47 percent of American people are living off the government; parasites, he might have said.

The Sun Journal endorses a presidential candidate who, as the New Yorker magazine editors (Oct. 20 and Nov. 5 issues) observed, managed, in a quick trip abroad, to offend the English, pander to a bellicose friend Netanyahu, and insult the Polish press?

The Sun Journal is endorsing a candidate who has as key advisers to his campaign Robert Bork and John Bolton? The former is Ronald Reagan’s failed, super-conservative Supreme Court nominee; the latter, the grossly undiplomatic ambassador — his tenure blessedly short — to the United Nations.

With advisers such as Bork and Bolton, and a budget-builder like Ryan as his running mate, Romney can be relied upon to savage the safety net for the poor and to cut the very programs that can create jobs — repairing the decayed infrastructure is but one.

The prospect of a Romney/Ryan victory is as chilling as the Sun Journal’s endorsement is unconvincing.

Jim and Linda Macgregor, Rumford Point