Agreed. I’ve lived the Mitch Daniels experience and seen the absolutely stunning change in my beloved home state’s government. Mitch has taken a state that was on the brink of disaster after sixteen years of unfettered D control and turned it into a lean and mean bastion of fiscal responsibility...all while maintaining a solid pro life, pro gun, pro family record. Has he said some regrettable things? Sure - Don’t they all? I am very pro Gingrich, but his proclivity for regrettable comments far outshines Mitch. That doesn’t make Newt a bad conservative, and it sure as hell doesn’t make Mitch bad either.
And no, he’s no Sarah or Newt when it comes to rhetoric. He’s short, he’s awkward - I get it. But damn, that little dude sure can lead. I’m gonna miss voting for him.
Mitch is not even Coolidge, someone he calls to mind. Coolidge was very sharp, knew his limitations as a platform speaker. He was, however, the first President to address the nation by radio, and was very effective in that medium—and knew it. I sometimes wonder what Coolidge would would have done if he had not lost his son Calvin. He was devastated, and all the jokes about his naps come back to me. Obviously he was deeply depressed, and he had the taste of ashes in his mouth. Probably killed him before his time, because his father had such a long time. If he had really sought the election in 1928 he could have had it. If he had been president, the crash would have come, but at least he would not have made Hoover’s mistakes.