I’m a longtime lurker who wanted to share my enthusiasm for a governor I lived under for several years. Based on my firsthand accounts and everything I’ve seen and read about that guy, he’s done a great job. I suggest he’d be a good ticket with Palin, and you start insisting he’s some sort of RINO. If you can back up this allegation, I want to hear what I missed. If you can’t back up this allegation, I’m curious why you’re smearing a good conservative politician (and believe me, we could use more of them) for no good reason.
Let’s not make the RINO hunt a witch hunt.
If you have so much to say in pushing him then defend him against the charge that he is not a strong social conservative.
Descriptions like these are not encouraging.
“There’s a refreshing lack of orthodoxy about Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who insists he’s not running for President, but is nonetheless taking deliberate steps to raise his national profile. Over dinner last week in New York with a small group of policy-oriented conservatives, Daniels reviewed his record and the paradox of being a conservative pragmatist.”
“As governor, Daniels has been an activist innovator, putting conservative ideas into practice without being an ideologue. Thoughtful and a bit of a technocrat, his record includes a mix of ends to admire and means some conservatives will question.”
“But Daniels also proposed a one-year, 1 percent surtax on those earning more than $100,000 a year (it failed) and allowed the state sales tax to increase from 6 to 7 percent. He increased the cigarette tax, saying with a shrug that he learned in the Reagan administration that if you want less of something, tax it.”
“Before he ran for governor, Daniels was a long-time top aide to Sen. Dick Lugar”
“”Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend,” Chairman Mao said during last century’s struggle between socialism and capitalism. Gov. Daniels’s approach to politics and policy is unorthodox, but as Republicans regroup and embark on their own long march, his ideas ought to contend.”