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This is Part 1 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.
Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty
Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney
Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee
Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman
Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan
Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich
Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum
Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman
The time is fast approaching when those who want to be considered serious Republican presidential candidates will have to stand up and be counted.
Who would have a serious chance of beating Obama?
The first person that we might want to take a look at is Indiana Govenor Mitch Daniels.
Why Mitch Daniels?
Well if for no other reason that than he just won a straw presidential poll at Seaside Dorchester Conference.
How did the voting go?
Mitch Daniels 30%
Mitt Romney 23%
Sarah Palin 18%
Mitch Daniels was praised for “being fiscally conservative, running a state government with a budget surplus and having core moral values”.
Sarah Palin received the most attention during a floor debate on Sunday and others capturing the spotlight during speeches during the last day of the three-day conference in Seaside’s Civic and Convention center included Chris Dudley, who was narrowly defeated in last year’s Oregon gubernatorial election, and former Gov. Vic Atiyeh, Oregon’s last Republican governor.
Many participants at the conference’s annual presidential straw poll felt that Palin had a “clear moral compass that we can all share” and, even if she couldn’t win, she would “make other candidates run harder”.
Whether or not you’re familiar with Mitch Daniels, our video clip should help bring you up to speed on him.
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Below are a few Mitch Daniels’ quotes that might be pretty telling:
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don’t believe in Americans, who will?
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
I am concerned that Daniels shows no interest in, or willingness to become proficient in foreign policy.
Our present president is a “reluctant” commander in chief, at best, and he has trailed and continues to trail international events rather than lead.
Obama has disregarded human rights and democracy promotion, which has been a moral and geopolitical failing, and he’s now begun to slash defense.
Should we expect Daniels to be any different?
Sadly, the answer is probably no
Daniels is not a fan of democracy promotion, and his natural inclination when presented with a national security issue is to rely on worn out clichés such as “peace through strength” etc and to suggest that we should be rolling back our commitments in the world; and that’s not a formula that is going to appeal to many in the Republican electorate, beyond the Ron Paulites that is.
He’s too short, – 5’ 7” doesn’t have the stature.
This will be a media circus, attractive, smart and articulate candidates are important.
Candidates can say anything, but need to look Presidential doing it.
The Indiana House of Representatives voted yesterday (April 28, 2011) 66-32 to approve a controversial bill tightening the state’s abortion restrictions and cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood.
Daniels now has six more days to take action on the bill, and he has three options once it arrives on his desk:
1) Sign the bill into law.
2) Veto the bill.
3) Do nothing, and allow the bill to become law after six days without taking a stance.
If he signs it, he’ll be able to proudly tout two blockbuster legislative achievements, the abortion bill, and his recently passed landmark education reform bill, and enter the Republican primary with two significant ideological victories under his belt.
If he vetoes the bill however, it will be the strongest indication yet that he’s putting state governance over presidential politics.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said this morning he has not yet decided whether to seek the Republican nomination for president, and won’t announce a decision this weekend.
Daniels had said that he’d announce his decision after the legislature concluded its session tomorrow, but he just told The Indianapolis Star that “it absolutely won’t be announced this weekend because you can’t announce a decision you haven’t made”.
He said he will now take some time to reflect on his decision, and while he won’t keep people waiting long, he won’t rush it.
But, he added, “the time to work on it is here.”
He’s been encouraged by many to run, he said, “and I feel some responsibility not to just keep them dangling”.
Mitch Daniels, is Indiana’s extremely effective governor and putative front-runner among conservative policy wonks, the Bush family, and insomniacs.
He yanked away collective-bargaining rights for public workers years ago, without the Sturm und Drang that accompanied Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s more tepid reforms, and just this month, he successfully withdrew all state funding of Planned Parenthood, which is a holy grail for social conservatives.
Daniels, however, also steadfastly refuses to sign anti-tax activist Grover Norquist’s pledge to never raise taxes.
And he famously called for a “truce” on social issues, which social conservatives translate as “surrender” to the Left since they rightly believe that the Left is the aggressor in the culture war.
And last week he playfully suggested that he might tap former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as his running mate, and floating a pro-choice veep is not exactly the best way to reassure social conservatives.
Daniels also lowered taxes and enacted sweeping education reform, which The New York Times says will “expand charter schools, end teacher tenure, narrow teachers’ collective bargaining rights and introduce a taxpayer-funded voucher of up to $4,500 for students to attend private schools”.
And his feats with the budget may be even more remarkable.
When Daniels took office, in 2004, the state faced a $200 million deficit and hadn’t balanced its budget in seven years. Four years later, all outstanding debts had been paid off and after four balanced budgets, the state was running a surplus of $1.3 billion, which has cushioned the blows from a steady decline in revenues caused by the recession.
No other state in the Midwest, and all of them, such as Indiana, are dependent on a declining manufacturing sector can match this record.
Daniels has called the federal deficit “the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink”.
It’s a nice metaphor, but unlike some big talkers about deficits, Daniels can match his rhetoric with his record.
It’s official, Mitch Daniels Says He Will Not Seek GOP Nomination!
That’s right! And you must be an early-bird because the The New York Times reported it early Sunday, citing an email message Daniels sent to supporters that read,
“In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one,” Daniels wrote. “The interests and wishes of my family is the most important consideration of all. If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry”.
Hopefully he said, “are the most important considerations”.
And I hope you found out from a source other than the NYT, which I’d only keep in my bathroom for cleaning up jobs!
Chris Matthews: Can Romney beat Obama?
Mitch Daniels: Yes.
Matthews: Can Santorum do it?
Daniels: I think anybody can.
Matthews: Can Santorum?
Daniels: It depends on the campaign they run, entirely on that. Of course, a lot of Republicans are restless right now, and in my frivolous moments I’ll say the following. Given this economy, which is very weak no matter what they say — you got record low percentage of people working today. It’s the weakest recovery we’ve ever seen from a recession like this. Add on gas prices, add on the mounting debt, add on ObamaCare, which fewer and fewer people like, I always say it’d be really hard to lose an election to President Obama, but we’ve got just the team that could do it.
Matthews: Did you see the poll numbers I just gave you? He’s ahead. Obama’s ahead substantially.
Daniels: Well, I don’t think these things mean much of anything right now, Chris. They could change by next week. I think it depends entirely, it’s not so much a question of the who we nominate as the what.