Mitch Daniels Delivers Terrific Speech

RUSH: You know, the response to the State of the Union last night is getting more positive reaction than the State of the Union speech itself. Mitch Daniels. And I have to tell you, other than his opening when he started, I said, "Oh, no, no, no, please." Then I started thanking God that nobody was watching 'cause it's a response that's, you know, 15 minutes after the State of the Union speech. But after he got through the open, it was good. It was really, really good. Mitch Daniels was really, really good in his response last night. Take away the first minute and a half, I was having panic attack in the first minute and a half, talking about how much we have to respect and love the presidency and respect and love Obama. He's a nice guy and all that sort of stuff.

But then, after getting that, that was perfunctory as it turned out, after getting that out of the way, he was called an extremist, he didn't use the word liar, but Mitch Daniels called Obama a liar in the classiest way I've ever heard it done. He called him pro-poverty. He articulated conservatism pretty well, really did. And at the end of it -- I knew this was gonna happen, too. I knew this was gonna happen. They went to the Fox All-Stars, and they went to Dr. Krauthammer of Krauthammer online.com, or Krauthammer review, whatever it is. And he said that there are no doubt people sighing with desire or something after watching Mitch Daniels. I guarantee you that out there in the Republican establishment there were people, kind of like what Madonna was doing when JFK Jr. married Carolyn Bessette, "Oh, no, what if? If only me." I guarantee you, the Republican establishment right now is trying to figure out a way to make it happen.

Remember, before the State of the Union show, we had a story on Monday, the headline story was "Establishment hoping to find a way to get Mitch Daniels back in the game." Well, I know his wife said no, but things change. I'm not predicting it. In fact, the unconventional wisdom is that it can't happen, it's unlikely to happen. It's way too late now anyway as a matter of law within the party, party rules, not so much law, party rules, the delegates are pledged. But there are people holding out hope. There were people holding out hope there would be anybody but Romney or Gingrich before last night. Now in Mitch Daniels' response, I got Cookie working on putting together some bites for you in case you'd missed it and didn't hear it.

RUSH: Let's listen to some Mitch Daniels sound bites. He did the response. This has created... Oh, you cannot imagine what's going on in the Republican establishment since last night into this morning and up to the present. There is... I don't quite know how to describe it. It's not quite buyer's remorse. There's just, "Oh, what if! Oh, if only," and then, "How can we maneuver things to get rid of these guys that are currently running and get this guy to say yes?"

There is such a mixture of disappointment yet anticipation and excitement about what could have been. It is near orgasmic on the establishment side. This is, "If we only ran..." (interruption) Well, but, see, when to look at... (interruption) No, no, no. It's not, "If we only ran a conservative." The Republican establishment doesn't look at Daniels as a conservative. It's why the speech was good but they don't look at him as a conservative. They look at him as a one of them, a moderate. They see him as a moderate. He's strong conservative on budget matters, but outside of that? "No, no, he's not an extremist racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe who appeals to the NASCAR hicks who are pro-life." (interruption)

Well, he called Obama an "extremist" but he did in a polite way after praising Obama first. Now, here's how Mitch Daniels opened. We don't have that. I'm gonna read that to you. When he started I said, "Oh, no! Oh, no." But when he got this out of the way, it turned around. Here was his open. He said, "The status of loyal opposition imposes on those out of power some serious responsibilities: To show respect for the presidency and its occupant, to express agreement where it exists. Republicans tonight salute our president, for instance, for his aggressive pursuit of the murderers of 9/11 and for bravely backing long-overdue changes in public education.

"I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the first lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples," and you're probably thinking, if you haven't heard the rest, "Oh, my gosh! Rush was right. The Republican Party actually thinks the only way they've got to win this thing is by praising Obama, 'cause the independents love Obama, and he's personally popular. He's revered and loved, and if we criticize Obama, the independents are going to go running away." So that paragraph that I just read to you, that was the outreach to the independents -- and what followed was anything but what you just heard.

RUSH: Let's go to the Mitch Daniels sound bites now. Remember how he ended his open. You could say that this is a slap at Newt Gingrich. "I would personally add to that list of admiration the strong family commitment that the president and the first lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples." That is what has made some Republicans think that Mitch Daniels might actually be changing his mind and that that was a slap at Newt. So we'll see. So you heard me read the open. Here is some of what else Mitch Daniels said.

DANIELS: As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

DANIELS: The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy. It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach that breaks all ties and calls all close ones in favor of private sector jobs that restore opportunity for all and generate the public revenues to pay our bills. That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates, a pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise could be used to hire somebody. It means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy's gotten in years.

RUSH: The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands. He called that extremism. Jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature is a pro-poverty policy. He called Obama a liar in one of the most creative ways. "The president has to know what he's saying tonight isn't true." After praising him for being great on family values, he says, "The president has to know that what he says tonight just isn't true," and he said it very effectively. Here he defends the Republican Congress.

DANIELS: It's not fair and it's not true for the president to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions. They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down time and time again by the president and his Democratic Senate allies.

RUSH: Who's defending the Republicans in Congress? There's nobody. They don't even defend themselves. Mitch Daniels did last night. And here he calls out Obama for dividing the nation.

DANIELS: No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category. If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.

DANIELS: 2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong. The year we strike out boldly, not nearly to avert national bankruptcy, but to say to a new generation that America is still the world's premiere land of opportunity. Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen; who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them; who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in and to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.

RUSH: That's Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels, and just some of his remarks in his response last night. The whole thing, front-to-back, in continuity was really good, and one of the things that he counters here, this individual against the state, I can't tell you how important it is with Obama out there saying teamwork is what made this country great. Teamwork? Man, that is one of the biggest openings any Republican has had to run against Democrats in a long, long time, in an instructional, educational, factual, informative way. This country was established so the individual would triumph over government. It limited what government could do to constrain individual liberty and freedom. And Obama just spits that aside, "No, no, no, teamwork, government working with people."

RUSH: Now, here is the Mitch Daniels statement that you haven't heard yet in which he calls Obama a liar in one of the most creative ways. He comes very close to calling him a liar. In one of the most creative ways I've heard.

DANIELS: On these evenings, presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our national condition. But when President Obama claims that "the state of our union" is anything but grave, he must know in his heart that this is not true. The president did not cause the economic and fiscal crises that continue in America tonight, but he was elected on a promise to fix them, and he cannot claim that the last three years have made things anything but worse.

RUSH: Well, there is no denying that. There is literally no denying it -- and it was so powerfully stated coming off that 90-minute State of the Union Show of the president's.

Great points. The speech was horrible! I took it further on another thread:

“The status of ‘loyal opposition’ imposes on those out of power some serious responsibilities: to show respect for the Presidency and its occupant,

DON’T CALL HIM A SOCIALIST YOU TEA PARTY EXTREMIST!

to express agreement where it exists.

OBAMA ISN’T ALL BAD

Republicans tonight salute our President

SECOND SENTENCE OF THE SO CALLED REBUTTAL AND HERE I AM SALUTING OBAMA!

I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the First Lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.

NICE SHOT AT NEWT FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT

The President did not cause the economic and fiscal crises that continue in America tonight.

HE WAS IN THE MAJORITY IN THE SENATE AT THE TIME, AND HIS ALLIES IN THE HOUSE HAD JUST TAKEN OVER WHEN THE SHIITE HIT THE FAN. SHIITE CAUSED BY COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS AND LIBERALS FORCING BANKS TO MAKE LOANS TO THOSE WHO COULD NOT PAY THEM BACK

nearly half of all persons under 30, did not go to work today.

CONSIDERING 1/2 OF ALL PEOPLE UNDER 30 ARE BETWEEN 1-15 YEARS OLD.....

“In three short years, an unprecedented explosion of spending, with borrowed money, has added trillions to an already unaffordable national debt.

NO MENTION OF HOW THE EXPLOSION STARTED IN JAN 2007 WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TOOK BACK CONGRESS

“As Republicans our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life’s ladder. We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves.

AS REPUBLICANS, OUR FIRST CONCERN IS TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE-OBAMA IS GUTTING OUR MILITARY.

“In our economic stagnation and indebtedness, we are only a short distance behind Greece, Spain, and other European countries now facing economic catastrophe.

AND OTHER “SOCIALIST” COUNTRIES

But ours is a fortunate land. Because the world uses our dollar for trade...

INDIA IS NOW PAYING FOR OIL WITH GOLD AND OTHER NATIONS ARE ABOUT TO AS WELL. QE2 IS ABOUT TO COME HOME TO ROOST.

“So 2012 is a year of true opportunity, maybe our last, to restore an America of hope and upward mobility, and greater equality.

YES, EQUALITY! THATS WHAT A CONSERVATIVES NEED TO WORRY ABOUT /S

The challenges aren’t matters of ideology, or party preference;

“The routes back to an America of

“That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates.

WE”RE COMING FOR THAT HOME MORTGAGE DEDUCTION BARABARA!

“There is a second item on our national must-do list: we must unite to save the safety net.

#1 EQUALITY
#2 SAFETY NET

IS THIS THE GOP PLATFORM OF THE DNC’s?

Medicare and Social Security have served us well

AS HAS THE POST OFFICE, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND INNER CITY MAYORS

“Decades ago, for instance, we could afford to send millionaires pension checks and pay medical bills for even the wealthiest among us. Now, we can’t, so the dollars we have should be devoted to those who need them most.

WE LIED. THAT MONEY WE TOLD YOU YEARS AGO THAT WAS GOING TO YOUR GOVERNMENT RETIREMENT ACCOUNT WAS REALLY JUST AN ADDITIONAL TAX SO WE CAN GIVE YOUR MONEY TO OTHERS

stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need, and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth.

IS THIS THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE OR THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH?

“It’s not fair and it’s not true for the President to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions. They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down time and time again by the President and his Democratic Senate allies.

NO MENTION, AGAIN, OF THE DEMOCRAT CAPTURE OF THE HOUSE IN THE 2006 ELECTIONS. “FANNY AND FREDDY ARE NOT IN TROUBLE!”-BARNEY FRANK

“This year, it falls to Republicans to level with our fellow citizens about this reality: if we fail to act to grow the private sector and save the safety net, nothing else will matter much.

SAVE THE SAFETY NET! CHARGE!

“No feature of the Obama Presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

LIKE DANIELS IS DOING WITH THE WEALTHY ABOVE

As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed, over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category.

I’D LIKE TO SAY SEXUAL PREFERENCE BUT THIS CODE WORD WILL DO

If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.

THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT HAS DECLARED SAVING THE SAFETY NET (FEDERAL FREE MONEY PROGRAMS) IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN NATIONAL SECURITY. HOPEFULLY THIS IDIOT WILL BE KEPT OFF THE SUPER COMMITTEE WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT SHOULD BE CUT.

We will speak the language of unity.

SHUT UP YOU TEA PARTY EXTREMISTS!

Let us rebuild our finances, and the safety net, and reopen the door to the stairway upward; any other disagreements we may have can wait.

LET THE ILLEGALS INVADE, SCREW NATIONAL SECURITY, SCREW THE UNBORN, LET THE HOMOSEXUALS MARRY....BUT SAVE THE FREE MONEY PROGRAMS!

“In word and deed, the President and his allies tell us that we just cannot handle ourselves in this complex, perilous world without their benevolent protection. Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb!

JUST LIKE THE REPUBLICANS WHO CAVED ON THAT BILL IN EXCHANGE FOR A PROMISE TO TEMPORARILY NOT ENFORCE THE NEW LIGHT BULB BAN, DANIELS SEEMS TO THINK THIS LITTLE BONE WILL WIN HIM POINTS. “OH, HE IS SUCH A CONSERVATIVE! IM SO GLAD THE GOP WILL STAND UP FOR MY LIGHT BULB CHOICES!”

“A second view, which I admit some Republicans also seem to hold, is that we Americans are no longer up to the job of self-government.

I ADMIT, AGAIN, THAT WE SUCK

We can’t do the simple math that proves the unaffordability of today’s safety net programs

BUT SAVING THEM IS MY #1 PRIORITY!

We will allow ourselves to be pitted one against the other, blaming our neighbor for troubles worldwide trends or our own government has caused.

WE ARE SO WRONG TO BLAME THE LEFT

“2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong. The year we strike out boldly not merely to avert national bankruptcy but to say to a new generation that America is still the world’s premier land of opportunity.

OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN AND USE OUR “FREE MONEY” SAFETY NET THAT IS MY #1 PRIORITY

Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen

BUT 2 DAYS AFTER THE 150,000+ MARCH FOR LIFE IN DC I WON’T EVEN USE A CODE WORD FOR THE UNBORN (LIKE I DID FOR HOMOSEXUALS)

to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.

THE EMERGENCY OF SAVING THE FREE MONEY SAFETY NET

“We will advance our positive suggestions with confidence,

CODE FOR: SHUT UP TEA PARTY

There is nothing wrong with the state of our Union that the American people, addressed as free-born...

IF TAX PAYER FUNDED PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOESN’T KILL THEM FIRST

You three are correct when you state Daniels is a Conservative. BUT, not all his decisions are such, and his ability to carry the Conservative argument FORCEFULLY nation-wide is problematic.

Quote of Gov.Mitch Daniels: ““At some stage I just think that if you’re interested in results you should just try to be careful to use words that don’t drive anybody away and if possible just take a chance to be more civil, more likeable than the other guy,..”

Mitch Daniels: Obama not a socialist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2782833/posts

“...asked...if he thought Obama had pursued socialist policies, Daniels laughed wryly and simply said, “No.”

Note: when Obama attended Occidental College, he was described by fellow students as a “Marxist-Leninist”.

Indiana Supreme Court: citizens have no right to resist unlawful police entry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2720545/posts

“In a move that flies not only in the face of the U.S. Constitution but defies common law dating back to the Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that residents of the Hoosier state have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David, writing for the majority, expressed the view that:

“...a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”

Note: Mitch Daniels appointed this Judge to Indiana’s Supreme Court.
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Mitch Daniels is no more or less Conservative or electable than Gingrich or Santorum, plus he is late to the primary race and forcing him onto voters at this late date is frankly stupid, as it would be vigorously opposed by those of us Tea Party enthusiasts.

For forty years the Democrats held power. The Republicans occasionally were thrown a bone, given cover and some pork to keep their constituents quiet. Meanwhile the congress was enriching themselves at the expense of the nation. The centralized government kept growing and growing…

In 1980 Ronald Reagan is elected President. Newt Gingrich, elected in 1978, joined with others to ally with President Reagan and build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority - the Reagan Revolution - which directly led to the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy

Gingrich becomes Speaker of the House and the Democrats and Republicans panicked! Budget cuts, less pork. For the first time in a very long time the Republicans actually had to govern and take responsibility. The Dems were outnumbered - it should have been easy and, after all, it is what the voters wanted congress to do.

The 1998 budget was scheduled for a $1 Billion cut and congress saw the gravy train leaving the station. No more getting rich at the public’s expense.

So it became “get rid of Newt Gingrich” even to the extent of manufacturing lies about him. He was exonerated of ALL those phony ethics charges, but the media continues to smear him year after year after year.

And now, older and wiser, he is back. And the corrupt in Washington, D.C., are AGAIN trying to save the status quo.

The question is, what are YOU going to do?

So far you’re repeating all the lies the media and Congressional fat cats spout about Newt. They’re pooping in their silk panties at the thought of Gingrich controlling the executive branch.

I suspect you can do better.

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