Bush is 5'11". What's Daniels? He's got to be about 5'4".
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.
Bush is about 5'11" and Kerry is 6'4"...that's a pretty significant difference. Also, in 2000, Bush beat Gore who is about 6'1".
I took it to mean in the literal sense what with his ‘door’ problems and all. Frankly, I haven’t heard him speak all that much, so I can’t comment on that...
“If he did half as well in a debate with the current GOP field, he would zoom to the top contender over night.”
So what’s holding him back?
Rush seems to think Rick Perry and Sarah are the two biggest barn burners.
I know little about Perry..anyone here care to help.
Cain is nice..says good stuff.. but ..I don’t know...fool me over and over..we’ll see....I will not fall for race pics no matter how good it makes white conservatives feel about themselves.
Who else?
who knows really...we may get stuck with crap
I mean..Daniels, Pawlenty, Romney...it’s no doubt which way the mainstream GOP wants us to go is it?
Candidates who attract more excitement among the committed, like Palin and Bachmann, haven't done that well in the polls.
Ron Paul, surprising, doesn't do that bad, though I suspect it's more name recognition and it won't last.
I'm not saying go with Daniels. I'm just saying that the idea that there were excellent candidates in the race in 1996 or 2008 with a good chance of winning who got passed over for Dole or McCain is a really questionable one.
If you think Superman or Superwoman is in the race or likely to enter it, go ahead, say who it is.
Mitch Daniels is unelectable in 2012 because he isn’t well known enough right now. He’s pretty much completely unknown.
Republicans never give the nomination to unknowns, and you don’t get famous enough to win just by running the one year.
Daniels wants to be President? Run, then run again. Run, get the VP nod. Get the VP nod, then run again.
John Kasich is the Governor of Ohio. Next state over from Indiana. What about him? Was a US Rep, did run for President before, is Governor of a big important swing state, had his own Fox TV show. He should be more well known than Mitch Daniels.
Daniels in unelectable because he’s short, balding, unattractive, a moderate and pro-choice.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Mitch_Daniels.htm
I don’t think he can be more than 5’2” without shoes. Freakishly ugly, too—look at his forehead to chin ratio. It’s probably unfortunate but true that the US isn’t about to elect a 300 lb woman—or a dwarf man—as president.
Herman Cain is an excellent candidate who should be marketed more as an elite, establishment Republican.
The elite, establishment Republicans do not respond very well to “one of the people” style. They do appreciate elite credentials. As as former chair of the Kansas City Fed, he can be elite and also an outsider. He would be very appealing to businessman Republicans in the Northeast. He would be able to directly take it to Romney, based on the business / elite resume.
Hey, dumb a**, Sarah had a limited choice of who to pick. The Governor of Alaska, and some other states, are given a list of candidates by the Senate and they had to choose from that list, they have no choice. Sarah chose the least radical of the bunch. Only a total idiot would NOT know that already and not use your lame assed argument that has been debunked many times on FR in the past.
palin, and that’s from a paul supporter.
My key problems with Mitch Daniels are:
1. The establishment wants him.
2. He seems uncomfortable making the all around conservative case.
3. He supported single payer same, Newt, and Romney.
4. I’m heard him speak and he said something to the effect that we conservatives should “bend over backwards” for our “mean” liberal opponents.
I really am puzzled by the people who accuse Palin, Paul, and others of being surrounded by a “cult of personality” when we have guys like this who seem to be surrounded by a “cult of timidity and acquiescence”. At least I know where Palin, Paul, Cain, and others on the conservative/true libertarian side of the house stand and they are willing not only to stand up for our founding principles but they proudly take the heat from the left and GOP establishment. They are not afraid. I don’t always agree with them but I know one thing that they will STAND firm when others would retreat or compromise.
What we have are too many appeasers in our party. Too many half-measure conservatives who are image driven and who no matter how many times we prove that we can fund candidates and win without the big money rhinos or the big left media they still seem to want to retreat into the pre-Reagan dynamic where if only we had a ‘perfect’ media acceptable candidate that we’d win in a walk as if our opponents would just lay down and give up for us. When has that ever happened? Do we want to be a slave to demographics or do we want to change them? It is not surprise that it was during the rise of the tea party where conservatism was most bold that conservative and GOP party id peaked.
When will be learn that we can not win will losers? We can not win by compromising away the American dream. We can not win with ideas that are acceptable to a left that has every intent to whittle away even our political right to exist. Right now conservatives represent the largest political group in America. Do we want to retreat with Mitch Daniels and get continue to let the left set the tone in politics, academia, in the media?
We need a bold leader who will not stand down in the face of an evil empire. A leader who will not sell us out for the sake of not offending the lazy worthless pieces of crap among us who like spoiled brats demand what they have not earned and wish to be lifted up to satisfy their own worthless egos while restricting the rights of free men and women to even openly speak the truth.
Nah, you’re describing why you don’t like him.
The list of terrible positions McCain took was longer.
But McCain did win. Because he was the most famous, was the top republican.
Daniels can’t argue that he’s the top Republican in 2012. He’s unknown. And the winner always has a convincing argument, a plausible case. Daniels doesn’t.
I think it’s way too early to focus on polls. The GOP had one of the weakest candidates in history in 2008 (from a party with a deeply unpopular president at the time in office, a stock market crash right before the election, and a “historic” black candidate running), and the election was still fairly close under the circumstances, and by no means a landslide.
If McCain could do that well, there are many, many GOP politicians out there who could decimate the failed POTUS Obama.
Welcome to the modern era: 2012 is not going to be won by a geeky stemwinder.
Selection of justices
Alaska’s supreme court justices are chosen using the Commission-selection, political appointment method of judicial selection. The Alaska Judicial Council forwards a list of its nominees to the governor, who must choose a name from the list within 45 days to fill any vacancy. Justices serve 10-year terms on the court. Appointed justices are then subject to a retention election at the state’s first general election that is more than 3 years after the appointment.
http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Alaska_Supreme_Court
“must choose a name from the last within 45 days”
And he loves muslims. Dealbreaker in my book.
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