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Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the current chairman of FreedomWorks, told CNN he though Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels should run for president: “Mitch is exactly the kind of candidate that our folks across the country are looking for.” While Armey isn’t quite ready to endorse for the 2012 nomination, he continued heaping on the praise.
He’s a serious guy, he’s no showhorse; he’s a workhorse. He keeps his eye on the ball. We really feel like we need a guy like him in this race and I’m trying to get him to understand that,” adds Armey. “He really fits the bill more than he realizes.”
Daniels has gotten himself into trouble with social conservatives, economic conservatives, and national security conservatives in the run-up to a possible Republican presidential bid.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.25.11 @ 3:50PM
He will appeal to those who want a truce on social issues. In other words, business as usual inside the beltway while the Ruling Class continues to plunder the U.S. Treasury.
Dan Sudlik| 3.28.11 @ 10:17AM
I do not think Daniels is liberal on social values and I certainly think he would stop the plunder. At least he is an adult compared to the current occupant.
Michael L. Hauschild| 3.25.11 @ 3:57PM
No.
Real American| 3.25.11 @ 4:08PM
I'd certainly welcome him into the race. There he can stand or fall on the issues and his record. The GOP needs better candidates and he'd be a good one. Not sure he's the best, but he's better than Newt, Mitt and Bachman.
Pence didn't run, which probably means Daniels is running.
Occam's Tool| 3.25.11 @ 6:47PM
Better than BTO? Bachmann Turner Overdrive was a GREAT band, man. Bachman ought to have their songs on as background during her campaign.
Michael L. Hauschild| 3.25.11 @ 9:50PM
Dear Tool,
BTO was a great band but the most anti-American bunch of Canuk's to ever import our cash. The Nuge would be a far better choice for the theme music.
PattyMor| 3.25.11 @ 4:44PM
Sorry, but Mitch shot himself in the foot. We need conservatives who are committted to the
WHOLE agenda. Social issues drive the economic issues.
God Is Truth| 3.25.11 @ 4:54PM
"We need conservatives who are committed to the WHOLE agenda. Social issues drive the economic issues."
Finally, someone who really gets it. The above words Patty posted should be sent to everyone running The Stupid Party & all candidates thinking about running in 2012. Most of them don't get it. Take care Patty & God bless you always!
Quartermaster| 3.28.11 @ 11:39AM
GIT, he's not the only, or the first, to say that. Conservatives know that is true. Daniels doesn't know it, and he isn't a conservative as a consequence.
David T| 3.25.11 @ 5:24PM
Daniels would be a welcome addition to the GOP debate, but he would have to drop out of the race after the first primary because 3% of the vote won't get you anywhere.
Bob| 3.25.11 @ 5:54PM
His wife's sexual proclivities has put Governor Runt's campaign on ice. He knows his wife's nocturnal activities will come under the electron microscope and used against him and her.
carroll hoke| 3.25.11 @ 7:18PM
Mr. Armey is exactly right about Mitch Daniels. But Daniels was also right about the social issues. If we don't curb the far right's enthusiasm for shooting us Republicans in the foot, we'll be left again with Obama and his far left agenda. Only then, he (Obama) will no longer have any incentive to put the pseudo brakes on. Go Mitch!
NoLib| 3.26.11 @ 6:26PM
Oh please, RINOs like McCain and GWB are the Repubs who shoot us in the foot.
RINO McCain lost to Obama in 2008, remember?
martin j smith| 3.26.11 @ 8:36AM
NO MORE BUSH TYPES AND NO MORE MCC COWARDS. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other than that go right ahead and run.
BitterClinger| 3.26.11 @ 11:24AM
The last thing the Republican Party needs is a candidate that affirms the notion that the GOP is just an extension of the Southern Baptist Church. If they nominate a candidate like Huckabee or Santorum, a great many independents will stay home on election day. Mitch D is the right balance.
NoLib| 3.26.11 @ 6:28PM
Your argument is stale, and we've heard it before in 2008. As I recall it didn't work out too well for us.
Quartermaster| 3.28.11 @ 11:41AM
It has never worked out well. All we've gotten is RINOs who are willing to talk about the social issues, but then they govern as liberals. I have little doubt tat Juan McCain would have placed us in exactly the same place we are now.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 3.26.11 @ 11:34AM
Dick Armey is a liberal Republican, so I'm not surprised to see him endorse another liberal Republican (Daniels), and I don't really care what Armey (or Daniels' lapdog James Antle) says.
Daniels is the exact opposite of whom America needs and what candidate Americans are looking for right now. He's not a serious politician. He's a statist liberal masquerading as a conservative. He has implemented a socialized medicine scheme in Indiana, financed by a huge hike of the state cigarette tax, and thus enrolled another 62,000 Hoosiers in the Medicaid program at the same time that this entitlement program, like its two cousins (SS and the Medicare program), are going bankrupt. He is voluntarily enforcing Obama's socialized medicine scheme in his state, using the appeal motion of the DOJ against lawsuits as a figleaf. He has failed to balance the state budget and for FY2011, Indiana is projected to have a $1.4 bn budget deficit. He wants defense cuts and a "truce" (read: capitulation) on social issues. He supports a tax on imported oil and believes in global warming. He has capitulated to unions on the question of the right-to-work law. And of course, as Bush's OMB Director, he replaced record budget surpluses with record budget deficits. By FY2004, the annual budget deficit was $400 bn. As for Obama's Porkulus, the biggest single deficit driver in FY2010, Daniels was for it before he was against it.
Of course, Mitch Daniels will NEVER be elected President. He can't credibly argue against Obama's policies when he has implemented/endorsed similar policies, and Obama will have unlimited financial resources with which to make that point, not to mention free advertising that the media will deliver for him under the guise of "news". Obama has already PUBLICLY ADMITTED that if Republicans nominate a candidate who has implemented socialized medicine in his state, he will use the money he will raise in 2012 to remind the American people of that fact.
And in the unlikely event that Daniels runs and wins, he will NOT reverse America's decline. In the best case, he will slow it down.
Who Knows?| 3.26.11 @ 12:09PM
Armey is a liberal Republican?
What a hoot!
Quartermaster| 3.28.11 @ 11:46AM
Really. He endorses a leftist Republican and he's not a liberal himself? Or does that simply make him abysmally naive?
What ZM lists says Daniels is a statist lib. When someone endorses the man who has done all that, it makes him the same thing, or he is a rip roaring idiot. Take your pick.
john dubose| 3.26.11 @ 11:37PM
Just because you agree with the positions that a candidate takes does not mean that it is wise to vote for him. The personal intangibles of demeanor and experience are important too. Mitch Daniels exudes stability and experience. The Republicans would be wise to pick him if they care more for victory than ideology.
Jonah| 3.27.11 @ 12:57AM
There is no victory without principle.
Wayne | 3.27.11 @ 1:12AM
When we needed him Walker stood tall, Daniels did not.
Hanover| 3.27.11 @ 1:03PM
In more ways than one!
Louis Tully| 3.28.11 @ 9:53AM
Armey: Get Shorty!
Me: You're coming up small.