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Wednesday, November 18. 2009

Gov. Mitch Daniels

Per Redstate, "Here he is from the other night at the Indiana Republican Party’s Fall
Dinner, using just notes, no prepared text or teleprompter:"


Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 19:28 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Reminds me a bit of Huckabee; I'd like to learn more about him. I worked out of Evansville for three years, and still maintain ties there - it is a great State.
#1 Steve in CT on 2009-11-18 20:34 (Reply)
I had to stop at "America did not vote for". Does the Governor inhabit a different world perhaps. The one I live in saw a legitimate election, aside from the ACORN votes of course. And now we single out 'notes' versus TelePrompter as being exemplary. Still not near a extemporaneous speech, with someone speaking from their heart and not their money/power grubbing soul. Fie on all of them.
#2 Luther on 2009-11-18 20:59 (Reply)
Daniels is my top choice for 2012. Steve, he's not like Huckabee at all. Huckabee's a Christian populist busybody; Daniels is a real small government conservative. Remember those? He was called Mitch the Knife when he was budget director, and he has kept Indiana solvent while states like California, NJ and NY spent themselves into insolvency.
#3 Gadsden on 2009-11-18 23:20 (Reply)
Hopefully, the RNC and the supposedly friendly right-leaning media will allow people like Daniels, Pawlenty, and Jindal to get a fair look. Unfortunately, the dreadful campaign finance laws are still going to give the edge to the self-financed, such as Romney.

Gadsden, that same small government conservative is the similarity I saw with Huckabee. I realize that Christian is a dirty word to the media, but that doesn't bother me. He never saw himself as a populist, BTW. As governor of Arkansas, he managed to get some key legislation passed, with difficult budgetary problems, in the face of a 70% Democrat majority.

Any governor, or business exec, is preferable to a Senator (or community organizer) as a presidential candidate, IMHO.
#3.1 Steve in CT on 2009-11-19 06:31 (Reply)
Slight difference between In. and Ca.Nj and Ca.?
Is there any difference to you all?Just curious.
#4 RL on 2009-11-19 00:14 (Reply)
"Americans did not vote for . . ." -- I think that's a legitimate point, given the evident blindness of many voters to the signals Obama was sending out about what he was likely to do once he gained power. It may have been obvious to people who were obsessively reading about his record, but it wasn't at all obvious to lots of the "Independents" who were eating up his vapid campaign speeches with a spoon. Now Obama's handlers appear surprised that the public doesn't like his platform all that much, after all -- as if the handlers had completely forgotten how assiduously they (and a compliant media) hid his record and his philosophy of government from the voters before the election.
#5 Texan99 on 2009-11-19 11:05 (Reply)
No soaring rhetoric? No promises of utopia? No commitment to make my life better in a vague but uplifting way? Where is the guilt and the white corporate villains?

This guy just sounds like a really competent leader and manager.
#6 NJSoldier on 2009-11-19 21:59 (Reply)
Mitch Daniels makes me proud to be a Hoosier. I've lived in Arkansas for the past two years, but have continued to follow events in my home state and track Mitch's successes.
He is, without question, the best governor Indiana has had in my 64-year lifetime. Indiana's finances were deep in the red when Evan Bayh left the governor's office to become a senator. Thanks to Mitch's brilliant management, the state is one of the few in the nation with a surplus.
I've spoken with Mitch several times and ridden motorcycles with him and I can tell you he is the most genuine person I have ever met in politics, based on my 34-year newspaper career.
#7 The Oracle (Link) on 2009-11-20 18:51 (Reply)

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