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Top Ten Reasons Why Mitch Daniels Should Run for President

Posted on April 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

The more I hear aboot Donald Trump wanting to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate, the more impatient I get waiting for Mitch Daniels to announce he’s running for President.

Today brings two more news articles (both national and local) suggesting that he’s getting closer to make a decision. My sources tell me that one way or another, and official decision is coming in May…when he also happens to be traveling to Washington DC to give a speech on education reform. So while we wait, the good folks at Hoosier Access (where all Indiana bloggers serve at the pleasure of my CPAC roomie Josh Gillespie) put together ten great reason why Mitch is the man for the job.

The good folks at HA go into full detail on each of these, but for the bulletpoints, here are the top ten reasons why Mitch Daniels needs to run for President…

Reduced Indiana’s Debt…Without Raising Taxes
Turned Deficits Into Surpluses…Without Raising Taxes
Two Balanced Budgets…Without Raising Taxes
Massive Job Growth
Property Taxes Capped
Public Employee Unions Disbanded
Streamlined State Government
Affordable Health Insurance…Without Government Expansion
Aggressive Education Reform Agenda
Nation’s Largest Voucher Expansion Program

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Mitch Daniels Endorses Paul Ryan and Heads to DC, Still Mum on 2012

Posted on April 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

I was curious to see which of the rumoured 2012 candidates would offer the strongest support of Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity.” Gov. Mitch Daniels, you’re up…

The House budget resolution is the first serious proposal produced by either party to deal with the overriding issue of our time. The national debt we are amassing threatens the livelihood and the liberty of every single American, and in particular the life prospects of our young people. Anyone criticizing this plan without offering a specific and equally bold program of his own has failed in the public duty to be honest and clear with Americans about the gravest danger we are facing together.

This was also the same day Daniels booked another trip to Washington D.C., this time to give a policy address on education reform.

Dude, just announce you’re running already so we can get this shit started.

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Mitch Daniels: The Pro (school) Choice Governor

Posted on April 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

Indiana passing a school choice plan considered to be one of the most sweeping in the nation makes me smile for two reasons. One, as a Mitch Daniels supporter and a voter who put school reform at the top of the list, he once again has the record to meet the rhetoric (much like with health care reform).

The other is all the self appointed arbitrators of truuuuuue conservatism who pissed and moaned a few months ago (during the Obama Campaign organized union protests in Wisconsin over public employees having to contribute a little to their benefits) because Mitch Daniels wasn’t angry enough when the Indiana Democrats fled the state. The basic logic was that Gov. Daniels didn’t answer a question the way they wanted him to…therefore he’s not qualified to run for President. Yeah, I know.

Apparently Daniels knew a) what he was doing, and b) what was best for his state (something conservatives are supposed to appreciate). He’s talked aboot education reform before in editorials and his State of the State address, but now there’s actual legislation to help give parents more of a choice where they send their kids to school. Among the details…

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Maybe Mitch Daniels is a True Conservative After All

Posted on March 28, 2011 | 2 Comments

I’m a Mitch Daniels supporter, but I’m also a sarcastic prick. That’s why I love calling him an unmitigated liberal RINO who wants to wave the white flag of surrender on social issues. Do I mean it? Of course not. I do it just to piss off my friends in Indiana.

It’s a cheap dig at the truuuuuue conservatives who seem to be the sole arbitrators of what conservatism is. Most either have talk radio shows or follow whatever they hear on talk radio, and a decent majority seemed to have been vocal supporters of Christine O’Donnell’s senate campaign in 2010. They don’t like Mitch because, among other reasons, the establishment GOP likes him, he caved during the chaos in Wisconsin, and he is supporting Dick Lugar for re-election in the Indiana senate.

That’s why I find this past week to be rather humorous…
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Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin are RINOs

Posted on February 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

It’s funny, I remember when Glenn Beck was first singing praises of Chris Christie, Christie ducked a question when asked if he’d ever appear on the Glenn Beck show. When Beck was asked aboot it, his response was basically “If avoiding me is going to reform New Jersey, so be it.” Compare that to his colleagues Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, who are apparently upset that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels hurt their poor little feelings.

It’s in response to Daniels speech at CPAC.

Now, could I have done without some of the speakers and anything Ron Paul related? Of course. You don’t boo Dick Cheney at anything that has the word “conservative” in it, and if Campaign for Liberty is going to pay to have people shipped in to disrupt CPAC on behalf of Ron Paul, it can be solved by no longer inviting C4L or Ron Paul. That stuff was such a small part of the event; I thought the rest of it was a success.  I digress…

The problem with Daniels, and the part they have an issue with, is that after talking aboot conservative health care reform, conservative education reform, conservative tax reform, conservative entitlement reform, and conservative economic reform…he insinuated that in order to beat Obama, we need to reach out to voters other than just those who listen talk radio. Rush and Levin saw that as an attack on talk radio, pandering to the mainstream media, and selling out conservative principles.
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Transcript of Mitch Daniels Address on Education Reform

Posted on January 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Since education reform, for me, is the most important issue I want any of the Republican presidential candidates to be talking about, I want to make sure I highlight any speech any of the potential candidates gives on the topic. This is from Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels recent State of the State Address…

In no realm is our opportunity larger than in the critical task of educating our children. The need for major improvement, and the chance for achieving it, is so enormous tonight that opportunity rises to the level of duty.

Advocates of change in education become accustomed to being misrepresented. If you challenge the fact that forty-two cents of the education dollar are somehow spent outside the classroom, you must not respect school boards. If you wonder why doubling spending didn’t produce any gains in student achievement, you must be criticizing teachers. If your heart breaks at the parade of young lives permanently handicapped by a school experience that leaves them unprepared for the world of work, you must be “anti-public schools.”

So let’s start by affirming once again that our call for major change in our system of education, like that of President Obama, his education secretary and so many others, is rooted in a love for our schools, those who run them and those who teach in them. But it is rooted most deeply in a love for the children whose very lives and futures depend on the quality of the learning they either do or do not acquire while in our schools. Nothing matters more than that. Nothing compares to that.

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