Posted on 01/24/2012 7:58:22 PM PST by Brown Deer
I’m miffed, too.
I have said “track record” until I’m out of breath and not of these kneejerk armchair critics has addressed Daniels’ track record. Newt and Romney eat your heart out because under Mitch Daniels Indiana:
—de-certified state employee unions the first day in office.
—privatized the toll road and built up state highway infrastructure with the funds.
—most generous school choice in America.
—founded a Christ-centered school steeped in the classics for inner-city youth.
—AAA bond rating
—only budget surplus in the Midwest.
—government size rolled back to 2008. Real cuts, not just cuts in spending increases.
—ended state funding for Planned Parenthood.
—passed legislation makin abortion after 20 weeks a crime.
—sought to prosecute Planned Parenthood for failing to report abortions stemming from sex with minors.
—smallest per capita state government in the US
—lowest property taxes in the US.
—created Hoosier Healthwise as an low cost totally voluntary health plan for low income people.
—put state employees into health savings accounts in which they could accumulate unused health funds and roll them over year to year to reduce premiums.
—enacted state legislation to require photo I.D. to vote, causing the ACLU to go ballistic
—will sign the only Right to Work legislation ever passed in the Rust Belt.
That’s just the stuff that comes to mind.
What part of “track record” do Daniels’ critics not understand? What the hell part of that is not conservative?
That’s why the Tea Party rose up.
You are right. Many of the people who slam Daniels fail to look at his results in Indiana. He has better fiscal record then Newt. He just isn’t flamboyant enough for there liking. He has made some regrettable statements but the over-the-top Newt supporters refuse to acknowledge his many foul ups.
You have been here less than a week and are decrying conservatives and their negative impact on the political process? Have you read the mission statement of this site and of the founder?
May God grant us the strength, wisdom and courage we will need.
Tatt
Wow, I’m sold, he sounds like a great governor.
Obama exploded the debt because his core is marxist and he has looked at the chicom “statist capitalism” model and found his fourth way. There is no doubt in my mind about that. It perverts the American way from the bottom to the top.
—”Our government debt has exceeded the GDP and the entitlements are going to explode in size. That is a fact.”—
Which is why Social/Cultural/Moral issues are more important than ever.
Or do you dream of the mythical day when single moms will, en mass, stop relying on Government for everything from Food Stamps to Day Care, Free Medical Care to living subsidies, and a Public Education System the raises their kids rather than just educate them?
Let me tell you, balance the budget and pay off the debt - but if you ignore these issues, we’ll be as close to a Socialist Republic as possible much sooner than you think. Another generation of limitless Abortion, Divorce, Single Parenthood, and attacks on religion, and you’ll be wishing you would have had the foresight to demand the GOP walk and chew gum at the same time, instead of demanding we only focus on walking alone.
There are three legs in Reagan’s stool. To every candidate who continues to try and kick one leg of the stool out, I say: “No thank you, I’d prefer someone with better vision and foresight.” And to the GOP establishment I say: “There is more to the GOP than The Chamber.”
—”Our government debt has exceeded the GDP and the entitlements are going to explode in size. That is a fact.”—
Which is why Social/Cultural/Moral issues are more important than ever.
Or do you dream of the mythical day when single moms will, en mass, stop relying on Government for everything from Food Stamps to Day Care, Free Medical Care to living subsidies, and a Public Education System the raises their kids rather than just educate them?
Let me tell you, balance the budget and pay off the debt - but if you ignore these issues, we’ll be as close to a Socialist Republic as possible much sooner than you think. Another generation of limitless Abortion, Divorce, Single Parenthood, and attacks on religion, and you’ll be wishing you would have had the foresight to demand the GOP walk and chew gum at the same time, instead of demanding we only focus on walking alone.
There are three legs in Reagan’s stool. To every candidate who continues to try and kick one leg of the stool out, I say: “No thank you, I’d prefer someone with better vision and foresight.” And to the GOP establishment I say: “There is more to the GOP than The Chamber.”
The deficits under Bush were manageable. And he tried to face the entitlement problem, but got no help from the GOP Congress. He should have done better on the deficit, but it was not the problem it is has become since 2009.
I think a lot of people will be surprised to find out what "millionaire" means. They will also be surprised how much medical bills are when you don't have the Medicare you paid into your whole working life. I am betting the definition of millionaire will drift lower and lower to the point where anybody that was responsible enough to save for retirement will get a 45 year retroactive tax increase.
“Sorry for being a downer, but I am beyond disgusted with our party. “
Really? I think that the debates have helped form opinions about all the candidates. Would you rather have had the GOP Party “Leaders” run the “It’s My Turn” bit again and just anoint Romney? I agree that the Party stinks, but it stinks from the top and not the bottom. We cluck about how corrupt the RATs are, but just look at how shamelessly the GOP “leaders” do some of the very same crooked things. Just like the RATs, they think that they know better so they treat Conservatives like the RATs treat their “minorities.” Which is to say like “slaves.”
As far as Daniels is concerned, there was no fire, and yet the “Party Leaders” are now talking about how they can plug this guy in if Romney continues to disintegrate. Romney, Daniels, alleee sameee! Northeast Liberals.
Thanks. We Hoosiers think so. His speech on setting aside social issues was, well, a very bad idea, and wrong, but a lot of respondents parrot the same thing over and over to do with his speech an little else.
I am sorry Mitch dropped out but I do wish people would investigate the facts before emoting. I would tell people don’t take my word for it. Google Mitch. I think many people would like being in a place like Indiana about now.
Okay, maybe he has done good work in IN, but that has nothing to do with who the GOP picks for tonight’s extremely important rebuttal. They needs a string speaker with a strong message. They had the script Zero gave, they needed to tear him a new one. Point out the deceptions, his true records.
I’m still so freaking mad.
Anyone think this wasn't a GOP-E direct broadside on Newt?
I wonder who chose Daniels to give the response. It had to be Rinos and the establishment republicans....who might just as well have been democrats. It is a setup for a brokered convention....if romney does not take it in the primaries.....we will go to the point of spilling the blood of conservatives on the convention floor. We shall see.
Debt exploded under Bush and now under Obama it is just about uncontrollable. I don’t now how much longer the world will allow us to export trillions of dollars a year but when that stops, we collapse just as hard as the USSR did. Already India, China, Russia and others are stopping their use of dollars for international purchases. The clock is ticking and the red light is flashing. Were Germany to leave the Euro and issue D. Marks the dollar would be toast.
Nice speech but its still Mitchie the Stiff giving it. This is the guy the GOP establishment wants to trot out if Mitt falls down. I’m getting a migraine trying to imagine Mitch Daniels debating Obama on TV.
I’ll stick with Newt thanks.
I don’t suppose you would like to specify who your “fiscally conservative” (whatever that may mean), anti-religious, anti-military, non-compassionate and social issue indifferent (at best) candidate might be and why you regard that candidate as a conservative in spite of it all. I did not think so.
I have to agree. This moderate response gave the impression, that the solution to the current situation we are in was one of calm, getting along with the other side. Not the combative style we have seen from Gingrich. If he or someone else came on and was aggressive, people might think, that’s the right approach, that’s what Gingrich is doing.
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