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Title: What do we know about Mitch Daniels?
Post by: Mr Mannn on May 10, 2011, 01:53:27 AM

I know nothing about him. He's governor of Indiana. That's it. all I know.
Is he a tea party conservative, or an establishment Republican (RINO)?

Title: Re: What do we know about Mitch Daniels?
Post by: Janice on May 10, 2011, 05:06:00 AM

RINO, sad to say.

Title: Re: What do we know about Mitch Daniels?
Post by: Janice on May 10, 2011, 07:19:56 AM

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixqVmR9C_w[/youtube]
Republican Insiders And Democratic Power Brokers Want Mitch Daniels To Be The Nominee

He used to be considered fairly conservative, but over time he has "evolved" and appears to still be evolving. Currently:

He blames the tea party for losing the Senate.

He also told Newsweek that taxes may have to be raised.

He also suggested he could support a VAT and a tax on foreign oil.

He also follows the RINO playbook in saying that we should not focus on social issues.

Gov. Mitch Daniels thinks it’s AOK for Democrat Senators, in his state, to leave the state so the democratic process can not continue:

Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels declined Tuesday to support a GOP-pushed right-to-work bill that had led House Democrats to flee the state to avoid a possible vote on the bill.

“I don’t attempt to dictate the agenda. I’m not in position to, really, of a separate and free-standing superior branch of government,” Daniels told reporters in an afternoon press conference. “For reasons I’ve explained more than once, I think there was a better time and place to have this very important and legitimate issue raised.”

Daniels also seemed to say that Democrats fleeing the state was a “perfectly legitimate part of the process,” which is how he described the “activities of today.”

Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/22/indiana-republican-gov-daniels-declines-to-support-gop-pushed-right-to-work-bill/)

Does this sound like a conservative?

Title: Re: What do we know about Mitch Daniels?
Post by: Rebel on May 10, 2011, 07:42:20 AM

I know a far left loon (not moderate, not centrist, a "William Ayers is a good man" LOON, on the MT.org site that's saying the Republicans need to run Mitch Daniels and that he likes him.

That's enough for me to kick him to the curb.

Title: Re: What do we know about Mitch Daniels?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 10, 2011, 08:26:49 AM

He has some pluses and minuses, he represents the play for the moderates; not as bad that way as McCain was, and not as delusionally arrogant as Gingrich, but I'm extremely underenthused about him myself. 

Pretty much a fiscal conservative, social middle-of-the-roader, no real record of which I'm aware on Libertarian issues independent of issues where a fiscal component was probably really driving the train for him.