FReepers, if we don’t get our financial and security issues under control, there’s not going to be a free society in which to practice our conservative values and pass them on to our children.
Gov. Daniels has just signed a bill that makes Indiana the first state in the nation to revoke Medicaid taxpayer funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business. This is a serious accomplishment. Could it be that his request for a "truce" was just a way to cool the overheated rhetoric on abortion in order to get something DONE? How many other conservative politicians can claim to have accomplished this much?
Like Jedidah, I'm still looking at the candidates and haven't decided yet for whom to vote (though Herman Cain really interests me). But Daniels' fiscal accomplishments as governor are significant, and exceed the actual accomplishments of many, if not all, of his competitors. Actions do speak louder than words, and his actions have reassured me about that "truce" thing.
Beyond that, the "truce" thing has been badly mischaracterized by those who are either too lazy, or too dishonest, to discuss Daniels' statement in the context in which it was made.