Posted on 03/16/2011 12:21:22 AM PDT by pissant
So much for Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels being the last, best hope for fiscal conservatives in 2012.
Daniels was my choice for the 2012 Republican nomination until I heard an interview RealClearPolitics.com dug up from his days as political director for the Reagan White House. Imagine the individual mandate morphed with the public option, and that's what Daniels supported in 1987.
When Robert Novak, famed journalist and cohost of "Evans and Novak" on CNN, asked Daniels if federal health insurance for catastrophic illnesses should be a GOP agenda item, he replied, "I sure do, and I'm glad you asked."
If Gov. Mitt Romney should lose his credentials as a fiscal conservative for instituting an individual mandate and an insurance program to cover the poor in Massachusetts, Daniels ought to lose hiscredentials for trying to nationalize health insurance.
Short stature and a receding hairline aren't Daniels' only obstacles to the nomination. He must explain how someone who supports free-market economics could ever be in favor of socialized insurance.
For a guy who, in March 2010, criticized Obamacare in the Wall Street Journal by saying, "We better start adjusting to our new status as good Europeans," his stance in 1987 sounds pretty European.
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I say screw them both and the horse they rode in on.
Governor Daniels is, also, caving in to the needs of Indiana state Democrats, on labor union issues, along with many other Indiana state Republicans. True conservatives don’t cave to the wishes of labor unions!
Mitch Daniels had no chance for a while now.
And this ain’t gonna help
“Governor Daniels is, also, caving in to the needs of Indiana state Democrats, on labor union issues, along with many other Indiana state Republicans. True conservatives don’t cave to the wishes of labor unions!”
Actually, his selling off of the toll road was what tipped me off. But being wrong on just about every other issue didn’t help either. This health care situation doesn’t help, but selling out to the unions makes me really wonder what had made him so ‘wonderful’ to people on this site.
Was it like Huckabee (or Perot long before that)...where FReepers (or conservatives) insert the positions that they hope he’ll take and then decide they love him - rather than trying to figure him out first, and then decide WHETHER they love him? Probably.
We're going back to what he may have said a quarter century ago?
Let's look at his two term record as governor of Indiana.
Neither Daniels or Romney are Conservative
More and more it looks like the only real conservative out there is Michelle Bachmann....and both the Liberal and GOP media are already trying to marginalize her over the “Concord, New Hampshire” comment.
The year before Daniels allegedly embraced socialized medicine, his boss, Ronald Reagan, granted amnesty to 3,000,000 illegals.
Michelle Bachmann just needs to learn when to keep her mouth shut. It’s a good guess history isn’t one of her strengths.
Yes, the little runt sucked as governor also, could not make the hard decision on his own state funding. So he took his kickback and sold the roads and became a tin can shaker. Pitiful little liberal.
Danials specifically said he condones fleebagging as a “legitimate legislative tactic” and took the Dems side AGAINST right to work legislation. He opposed his own party on this, a party which won overwhelming majorities in the State legislature last election. The Dems are now in Illinois demanding that Pubs get rid of their entire legislative agenda now and citing Danials approval for political cover. I’m not sure Mitch is conservative enough to even call a RINO.
Anyone opposing Mitch Daniels need only play his introduction by George Will at CPAC to flatten any chance he has. He is a closet RINO at best.
Five or six years ago, I thought that an individual mandate was a good solution. I was wrong. I've changed my mind. People do advance in their thinking.
I wouldn't throw Daniels under the bus for something he said in 1987. His actions since then are more important.
This is bizarre. We don’t have Romneycare or anything like it here in Indiana.
We have the same crap most other states have.
So wierd.
The roads were not sold. This piece is also a lie.
I ain’t big on Daniels for some reasons, but this and the roads being sold are just untrue.
Ok, leased for 99 years, still passing the cost of running the halfass state to everyone crossing it. No damn wonder no business in it right mind would locate there. Just another damn tax on business.
That stupid road was a boondoggle for taxpayers.
I am glad the burden has been privatized. It always has been a toll road. That has not changed.
You'll have to go back to the Reagan Administration to see what this was all about (if you aren't old enough to remember it all).
Now, about caving into unions, the state is in the throes of having the state legislature put in a Right To Work Law which, in fact, Daniels supports, but for later on ~ like next year. One of his first acts on becoming Governor was to simply eliminate public union collective bargaining and dues check off.
That puts him about 100 years ahead of Walker in Wisconsin BTW.
Daniels genius here was to LEASE the Indiana Toll Road to investors for a large sum of money which was invested to finance OTHER highway development elsewhere in the state.
In short, he took the corrupt white elephant toll road and converted it into an income property. That income is, at the moment, at work building a real road in an area that needs a road, and all for people who live in Indiana not just Ohio and Illinois.
BTW, the Leftwingtards are opposing the construction of that road!
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