Posted on 02/27/2010 5:05:15 PM PST by Steelfish
MONA CHAREN FEBRUARY 26, 2010 12:00 A.M.
The Anti-Obama? Mitch Daniels might challenge Obama in 2012; the GOP would be lucky to have him.
On the morning of November 5, 2008, the world rocked to news that the United States had elected Barack Obama to the presidency. That same morning, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, joined the list of those most often mentioned as potentially defeating President Obama in 2012.
In what may be a sign of unusual mental health and emotional balance, Daniels persistently declined to be considered a candidate. Among his many reasons, he told C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, was reluctance to subject his family to the “savagery” of presidential politics. It is great news for the country, if not for him, that he has at last relented and agreed to keep the door open — if only a crack.
He earned his spot on the short list of possibilities the hard way: In a quicksand year for Republicans, he managed to win reelection as governor by 18 points (in a state Obama carried). His supporters included 24 percent of Democrats, 20 percent of African-Americans, 51 percent of the youth vote, 67 percent of the elderly, and 57 percent of independents.
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I haven’t had anyone tell me yet that this guy is a social conservative, what little I can uncover seems to indicate that he isn’t.
Some freepers have speculated that he would be useful for diluting Mitt Romney’s support in the primary.
he’ll be a formidable candidate if he wants to win. But it really has to come from him...we don’t need another Fred.
Damn Mitt. I wish he would take his phoney, used car salesmans smile and plastic hair and shuffle back to Mass.
If the GOP picks a person just because its “His Turn”, then the party will get its fat ass kicked.
No more McCains, no more Mitts and no more RINOS.
Dole and McCain are the precedents.
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