Ted Turner Praises Mitt Romney, Despite Differing Views (Video)

Ted Turner, the Mouth of the South known politically for his diehard liberalism for the past several decades, said presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would “make a good president.”

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Speaking to Piers Morgan on CNN Thursday night, Turner said he hasn’t officially “endorsed” a candidate since he founded CNN in 1980, but he doesn’t mind talking about them.

“I would say about Mitt Romney, I think he’s a real gentleman,” Turner said. “I think he’s been very successful, I think he’s really smart. I don’t agree with everything that he believes, but I agree with a lot of it, and I think that he’d probably make a good president.”

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Turner also reminisced about the fateful merger of AOL and Time Warner, after which he lost “$10 million a day for three years, counting holidays.”

“It felt bad,” he said. “But I stayed at the company, and stayed on the board of directors to try and mitigate the losses as much as I possibly could, to do what I could to help, and as a result I lost even more because, when the stockholders sued the company, I wasn’t part of that suit because I was on the board, and that cost me several hundred million dollars. But I have my honor. I had my honor at the end of it, which not everybody in the media business can say.”

Watch video of both segments below.

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