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Breaking: Mitch Daniels not running for president
Politicons- Politically Conservative ^ | May 21 | Henry D'Andrea

Posted on 05/21/2011 10:42:54 PM PDT by conservativeforpalin

The Right Scoop reports:

Mitch Daniels is not running for president due to family considerations. This below was forwarded to me in an email.

From: Eric Holcomb (Indiana Republican Party Chairman) The following is from Governor Mitch Daniels…. “I hope this reaches you before the public news does. If so, please respect my confidence for the short time until I can make it known to all.

The counsel and encouragement I received from important citizens like you caused me to think very deeply about becoming a national candidate. In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one, but that, the interests and wishes of my family, is the most important consideration of all. If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry. If you feel that this was a non-courageous or unpatriotic decision, I understand and will not attempt to persuade you otherwise. I only hope that you will accept my sincerity in the judgment I reached.

Many thanks for your help and input during this period of reflection. Please stay in touch if you see ways in which an obscure Midwestern governor might make a constructive contribution to the rebuilding of our economy and our Republic.


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To: Lakeshark

Even Mitch Daniels’s wife would run from Karl Rove.


81 posted on 05/22/2011 12:05:37 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Bigtigermike

It would be tough no doubt but she hasn’t been hammered the way Palin has these past two years. Plus IMO she’s a better speaker and will interview with anyone, not just friendly Fox News. Oh and she doesn’t use lame phrases like lamestream media and WTF.


82 posted on 05/22/2011 12:06:13 AM PDT by ejdrapes ("Trump is NO conservative." - Jim Robinson)
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To: ejdrapes

Palin is to Obama.

As Reagan was to Carter.


83 posted on 05/22/2011 12:08:02 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: ejdrapes

Please! Everybody will be hammered if they are near or get the GOP nomination just like Sarah. McCain was the medias best friend but once he got the nomination he was beat up by them just the same even though he was a moderate.

Besides you are a Bachmann support and don’t like Palin anyhow, [which is your right BTW], so its too early in the morning to argue back and forth but I’ll say this every time Sarah is live or people who usually don’t like her see her for themselves away from the media filters, they like her and like what she says, there was an analyst or study of this starting with her VP speech, to the VP debates to her Tucson Arizona speeches...etc

So campaigning is the key to changing attitude, I don’t dislike Bachmann by the way, so no harm


84 posted on 05/22/2011 12:14:23 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: conservativeforpalin

not that I care but any man waffles publicly about wifey over POYTUS run sure ain’t quite ready to a heads up with ol Putin or any run of the mill at your feet or throat Muslim

or even Sarkozy or Merkel

go ahead fembots...fire away...I’m sticking to it

he’s soft


85 posted on 05/22/2011 12:20:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (All the social libs who left last go around have crawled back...they can't help themselves)
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To: Always A Marine
Thank you, Rush Limbaugh! EIB’s recent replay of Mitch Daniels’ pathetic June, 2009 appeal to fellow Republicans to abandon principles and to kiss the liberals’ asses detroyed any hope of Conservatives being hoodwinked into supporting Daniels.

I agree with you that Rush Limbaugh relentlesly pounding Mitch Daniels all last week may be the real reason that he will not run for the GOP Presidential Nomination in 2012, if this report of him not running for president is accurate.

'Family Considerations' will be Daniels' official reason for not seeking the presidency, but in reality, the submarine USS Rush Limbaugh sank ole Mitchie boy's presidential hopes before his presidential ship ever left the harbor with a full 6 bow torpedo salvo.

86 posted on 05/22/2011 12:51:12 AM PDT by dsm69
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To: Windflier

‘_______high heels comng down the hallway___’

L O L ! !

Feminine, but/and tough!


87 posted on 05/22/2011 1:38:40 AM PDT by USARightSide
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"For if God is for a man, who shall stand against him?"

8^D

88 posted on 05/22/2011 3:13:24 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin 2012 ~ "Going Oval" ©2010 by Gargantua)
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To: conservativeforpalin

GOOD!!!GO SARAH GO!!!


89 posted on 05/22/2011 4:12:14 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: conservativeforpalin

You gotta wonder if the RNC/GOP will try and dig up yet another McCain clone whose “TURN” has come up! Pathetic! They might want to learn what being a conservative is all about.


90 posted on 05/22/2011 4:14:05 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: rodguy911

Palin loses if she runs.


91 posted on 05/22/2011 4:19:25 AM PDT by paul544
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To: BigSkyFreeper
This may sound a bit brutal but think about it and you may agree. I think that goes for both parties as well.

Sad as well. We have people such as Herman Cain and Condi Rice that could have made excellent top executives but will not get the chance in the foreseeable future IMHO.

Zero has set race relations back at least 20 and maybe 30 years. He has done such a hit job that those who had erased most vestiges of prejudice in their minds over a period of years are now beginning to think twice again.

It was all part of zeros plan to create groups in the country instead of a "United" States. His plan was always to divide and conquer and to a certain extent he has had some measure of success.

Think about it,when you see a black person these days,many of us automatically think,ahhh yes yet another one who gave us ozero.

Sad times.

92 posted on 05/22/2011 4:22:20 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: paul544
Palin loses if she runs.

Unless she runs against Barack 0bama.

93 posted on 05/22/2011 4:23:08 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paul544; All
Palin loses if she runs

Gee, seems I have heard that before....

Here is the catch 22 in that logic.

The vote will hinge on middle of the roaders, NPA's.

Now fast forward to a year from this November.

If you are a middle of the roader and have watched your country being destroyed by a pretend potus who has done his best to destroy the country at every avenue from the budget to housing to business to foreign destruction of the US image worldwide you enter the voting both while asking yourself 'am I really better off than four years ago?'

Now you have a choice between Sarah and someone whose name you are not even sure of, who will the you the middle of the roader vote for?

Frankly, I will take my chances with Sarah Palin any ol' day.

94 posted on 05/22/2011 4:37:09 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: Always A Marine

Dittos to you and Rush.


95 posted on 05/22/2011 4:58:51 AM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: Windflier

LOL


96 posted on 05/22/2011 5:01:30 AM PDT by hwkbeer (I will pursue my enemy and not stop till I consume him.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m noticing that too!


97 posted on 05/22/2011 5:05:44 AM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx

GOD works in mysterious ways... never doubt HIM or the power of prayer. My knees are bloody but my spirit is soaring.

LLS


98 posted on 05/22/2011 6:59:37 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (PRESIDENT PALIN... because I refuse to accept anything less!)
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To: ansel12

Thank you, Mitch, for bowing out. That was a much wiser decision than those you made as OMB director for the budget-blowing George W. Bush.

You saw the light. The secular rightwing pundits favored you by 3-1, but potential Republican voters in the primaries knew all too well that you were a squish.


99 posted on 05/22/2011 7:09:29 AM PDT by heye2monn
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To: conservativeforpalin

100 posted on 05/22/2011 7:11:30 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (GOP mantra: 'Repeal and replace.' Translation? 'We can do socialism better than the Democrats.')
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