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The Spectacle Blog
Mitch Daniels received high marks for his response to the State of the Union address last night, which is likely to increase speculation about him making a late entry into the presidential race. Intrade now considers Daniels a more likely GOP nominee than actual candidate Rick Santorum.
I profiled Daniels for the print edition and think his record has a lot to recommend it. But the first time a Daniels candidacy was floated, he didn’t exactly catch fire with the base. He offended social conservatives by calling for a truce on their issues, he annoyed national security conservatives by putting military spending on the table for cuts and suggesting some of our overseas commitments needed to be reevaluated, and economic conservatives disliked his flirtation with a VAT. Daniels was polling about 1 percent.
Obviously, that will all need to be dealt with — assuming Daniels even wants to run, which is doubtful — if Daniels is to avoid the fate of Jon Huntsman. A late entrant would have to be able to win primaries and amass delegates fairly quickly. A candidate who nobody voted on who was simply imposed by the establishment at the convention would have no legitimacy.
kingsmill| 1.25.12 @ 1:13PM
MD the neo-con and beltway Repubican "great white hope". Now that Willard has crashed and burned let's check the waste paper basket.
Chesterbelloc| 1.25.12 @ 1:22PM
Not interested in Willard II. Daniels is wet on social issues.
somnolence| 1.25.12 @ 1:31PM
Go with the new breed------Susana Martinez, please.
bobmontgomery| 1.25.12 @ 1:53PM
oh, yes, "high praise", indeed. Jennifer Rubin knows 'tough language' when she hears it , doesn't she? Good grief.
PCP Smoker| 1.25.12 @ 2:37PM
There is nothing there. Other than the usual DC Cons pushing RINOS.
Dai Alanye | 1.25.12 @ 2:39PM
It's an old story -- like the grass on the far side of the fence, the candidate who isn't running is always more attractive than those who are. Let's remember, Daniels used the excuse that his wife had forbid him to try for the nomination. Is this the character we want in our candidate?
As for Intrade, their odds are made by people stupid enough to gamble on something inherently unpredictable rather than invest in penny stocks.
Bob Miller| 1.25.12 @ 3:37PM
In around seven years, Mitch Daniels has straightened out our Indiana government to an unimaginable degree. No slogans and no flash and no bursts of childish insanity; he just gets it done. I'm tired now of blowhard hack pundits and blowhard hack politicians running our nation into the ground. If I had the magic wand, Mitch Daniels and Paul Ryan would become our ticket. Truth may yet be the hot commodity.
Indy| 1.25.12 @ 4:30PM
Thank you for the local feedback. I'll take Daniels over the field we have now. He's right, we need to focus on economic issues. Newt and Mitt both have major problems. Daniels may not be able to come up with the catchy phrases Newt can but he's not a "conservative futurist" try that in your search engine, no Newt.
Romney's guy let some truth slip out, they will not go to the mat to repeal ObamaCare
http://hotair.com/archives/201.....-entirety/
Mitch sounds like an adult, boring is fine with me.
RJ| 1.25.12 @ 4:11PM
Let's face it, our only choices are the four candidates who are still running for the job. Pick the best among them.
JEM| 1.25.12 @ 5:23PM
Very true. But I second B.M. and Indy's comments. He destroyed the state employee unions, he has started down that path to break the teacher union's monopoly on education policy and spending and is about to make Indiana RTW. The state is not a financial basket case like all of its neighbors. He is taking on Planned Parenthood's infatuation with killing babies and had an actual viable workable medicaid reform that so frightened Obama and Sebelius they refused to extend the state's waiver. He leased the state's tollroads to free up assets.
His comment on social issues was essentially to give him room to manuever when the democrats refuse to accept the offer. His admission that our footprint militarily is too large and expensive is worth exploring, but he never was of the Ron Paul lets just leave it all to the Chinese camp. His governance has been more conservative than anyone running in the current GOP primary including Santorum.
I don't think he had the pizazz to really connect in a TV driven world. But then Coolidge never would have either, and he did OK by historical standards.
You can easily say he has spots not to like - everyone does. But those of you calling him a rino are just demonstrating your ignorance and stupidity. You will get the GOP nominee you deserve.
RJ| 1.25.12 @ 7:27PM
Fine, but Daniels isn't running and its too late for someone new to join the race.
Clint| 1.25.12 @ 8:03PM
Do Your Homework.
Dr.Ron Paul,
" August 14, 2006 Each year the people of the United States write a check to subsidize China, one of the most brutal, anti-American regimes in the world. Lately it has been in vogue for everyone in Washington to eagerly denounce the egregious abuses of the Chinese people at the hands of their communist dictators. Yet no one in our federal government has been willing to take China on in any meaningful way. Very few people realize that China is one of the biggest
beneficiaries of American taxpayer subsidies. Thanks to the largesse of Congress and the President, China enjoys subsidized trade and the flow of US tax dollars into Beijing's coffers. I offered an amendment before the House of Representatives last month that would have ended the $4 billion subsidy our nation quietly gives China through the US government's Export-Import Bank. The bank underwrites the purchases of goods and services by the Chinese government and others around the world. "
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In Florida.
Crassus| 1.25.12 @ 5:21PM
The United States needs a Commander-in-Chief not a Cuckhold-in-Chief.
Dai Alanye | 1.25.12 @ 5:47PM
I don't particularly care for Daniels, but it's a cowardly liberal trick to bring his family into it.
Daniels' used the excuse of his wife's preferences to make his decision on a presidential run, but that's his problem not hers. As for what she's done and what he's forgiven, or vice versa for that matter, that's between the two of them.
Lloyd Daub| 1.25.12 @ 6:57PM
Pick who you like, GOP. I'm voting for your candidate in November, not for Obama. But until then, I would prefer a different person [who is not running]. I have that right to a first choice, and taking the Hobson's Choice to be named later. Whoever is nominated will be more qualified and competent than the incumbent. All I ask in the meantime is that all the candidates and all these 'conservative' reporters and pundits concentrate on the message of why that nominee is superior to Obama. Leave the mud-slinging to the Leftists he represents.
Uncle Samuel| 1.25.12 @ 7:19PM
Where Obama bowed, Mitch may kiss the backside or feet.
http://www.therightscoop.com/m.....-420353387
Mike| 1.25.12 @ 7:48PM
Mitch received high marks? From whom? Most boring speaker delivering the most inane speech ever.