Agreed. I’ve lived the Mitch Daniels experience and seen the absolutely stunning change in my beloved home state’s government. Mitch has taken a state that was on the brink of disaster after sixteen years of unfettered D control and turned it into a lean and mean bastion of fiscal responsibility...all while maintaining a solid pro life, pro gun, pro family record. Has he said some regrettable things? Sure - Don’t they all? I am very pro Gingrich, but his proclivity for regrettable comments far outshines Mitch. That doesn’t make Newt a bad conservative, and it sure as hell doesn’t make Mitch bad either.
And no, he’s no Sarah or Newt when it comes to rhetoric. He’s short, he’s awkward - I get it. But damn, that little dude sure can lead. I’m gonna miss voting for him.
Truer words have seldom been said. I’ve said a few times he’d have been Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and the country and media (and more than a few here) want fire-in-the-belly charisma and rhetoric. I get that. But charisma doesn’t mean integrity and humility doesn’t mean a lack of passion as we Hoosiers know very well from what Daniels has accomplished here.
Graces and blessings!