Posted on 05/21/2011 9:03:11 AM PDT by Qbert
With friends like Conor with one N, Mitch Daniels probably doesn't need enemies within the conservative base.
Everything is upside down in the Republican primaries. The GOP establishment is rallying behind a principled candidate with a proven conservative track record. That's upsetting the conservative base: on talk radio and right wing blogs, they concede that the man in question governs as a staunch conservative, but insist his candidacy isn't viable because he lacks charisma and electability.
Gee, Daniels is making headlines, again. He has a real gift for that.
Indiana Republican governor Mitch Daniels was hit in the forehead by a swinging door after concluding a workout Friday afternoon, prompting an injury that required 16 stitches.
Naturally, a silly boy like Friedersdorf would love Daniels. Conor with one N doesn't understand, let alone effort to advance conservatism, while doing more harm, than good, to it when he purportedly does try. As for Daniels, time after time he has proved himself gaffe-prone and self-defeating whenever his profile rises to the level of national politics. I don't care how right he is for Indiana, or what his record may, or may not be. He's unelectable, even if the so-called elite's calculations claim he is the answer to all things Republican in 2012.
Ideology aside, if we can learn anything from watching John McCain stumble and bumble his way through the 2008 general election, it should be that a self-destructive, not truly ready for prime-time, ultimately uninspiring and unsympathetic figure will not do well against Obama. Whatever Obama is, or isn't, when it comes to performing on the campaign trail, with all the help he gets from the media, it's as if he can do no wrong.
The GOP can not afford a 2012 nominee who has consistently demonstrated an uncanny ability to say and do precisely the wrong thing to the wrong people at the wrong time. If anything, Daniels makes Romney's relatively weak political judgment look strong by comparison. The Indiana Governor is unelectable and, frankly, I'm not interested in hearing what a great conservative he is, allegedly.
It's time for the so-called elites to figure out that much of the opposition to Daniels has little to do with ideology and much to do with his earned perception of being unelectable in 2012. To the extent things may be turned upside down right now, it's that the grassroots get that and the establishment GOP hasn't figured it out. But then, perhaps that isn't all that surprising given what we've seen from them for the last decade, or more.
apples and oranges.
mitch is a closet rino.
sarah is not a rino.
??? What is this guy talking about? Conservatism doesn't matter? My concern with Daniels is that he may not be willing to fight hard enough but he is certainly electable.
2004.
Disagree.
They're both pretty short.
I didn't realize onomastics and orthography were going to be issues this time around.
Mitch Daniels can probably withstand enemies who spell "real" with an I and an H.
Seriously, mocking how people spell their names isn't exactly taking the high road to respect as a pundit.
Ideology aside, if we can learn anything from watching John McCain stumble and bumble his way through the 2008 general election, it should be that a self-destructive, not truly ready for prime-time, ultimately uninspiring and unsympathetic figure will not do well against Obama.
If the right candidate isn't out there, he or she isn't out there.
Sure, another McCain or Dole would lose. So would another Goldwater -- and by a larger margin.
Daniels is clearly not the most inspiring of imaginable candidates, but if you're waiting for Superman or Superwoman, you'll be waiting a long time.
Thanks for info on the justice.
I do think that the “stumbling” characterization is valid (okay, maybe the stitches thing is unfair). I don’t think we’ve ever had a POTUS who has blatantly distorted facts with impunity the way that Obama has these past two years. What will Daniels do when Obama and the MSM flat out lie about everything in 2012- will he vocally attack any of this, or will he humbly stand aside and view Obama as the “fine fellow” as McCain did?
Take this as a cue, Mitch, and get out now. DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS.
Mitch? Vitriol? More than Mitt or Huck or Rudy or Newt?
His people will be very happy to hear that he generates any reaction at all.
“Daniels is clearly not the most inspiring of imaginable candidates, but if you’re waiting for Superman or Superwoman, you’ll be waiting a long time.”
Says who?
I don't know if he can reject the candidates and demand more of them, but like any job selection where you depend on a review committee's judgment you will quite regularly get a parade of people whose real abilities lie somewhere else than in the job you are interviewing them for.
I think elections are much better. They help widen the electorate.
...thing is, much of the opposition to Daniels comes precisely from his ideology...and the lack thereof is why the beltway loves him so much. If you nominate a staunch pro-American conservative like Cain or Bachmann, it becomes much harder for big government globalists in the Republican party to ply their trade.
Oh yes -forgot about that, but it was John effing Kerry. Besides, W wasn’t that much shorter.
I’d like our shorter than Obama candidate to be Sarah.
The stumbling characterization may be valid as a subsidiary issue, something that tips the scales when all else is close to equal. But we need meatier stuff, such as the supreme court nomination, and other viable decisions in office.
Keep in mind, comparisons to Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, may work with some of us, but there are many today of voting age who wouldn’t have a clue as to what we mean.
The polls, for one.
I don’t disagree with you on elections. But the fact that a commission gives a governor 3, or 4, or whatever, candidates for a position, it’s still that governor’s responsibility to look at the facts and come up with a wise decision. And if the qualifications aren’t sound (or debatable on issues), then the governor shouldn’t be afraid to toss them all out and tell the commission to go back to the drawing board. There’s too much to lose, otherwise.
Huh? What polls?
Watch this: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/11/gov_mitch_daniels_debt_is_the_new_red_menace.html
Now try and tell me that Mitch Daniels is “unelectable”.
If he did half as well in a debate with the current GOP field, he would zoom to the top contender over night.
I mean stumbling more in the verbal sense.
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