[Bigtigermike]

Quote from the article:

"He went to all the right schools (Bachelors, with honors, at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and a law degree, with honors, from Georgetown), learned at the knee of a political Wise Man (veteran Sen. Richard Lugar) headed up a think tank (Hudson Institute), was a top executive at a Fortune 500 company (Eli Lilly), and for two terms has been a governor, where, as the mandarins’ formulation goes, all the real policy innovations take place."

He went to the right school? that's where for some Establishment people think Sarah started on the wrong foot back in the 80's - learned from wise Dick Lugar! LOL!

[hennie pennie]

Boy the pundits all need to dial 1-800-Get-A-Clue

[upsdriver]

If Mitch Daniels is the nominee, I’ll vote third party. I’m not interested in the “Elites” choices.

[muawiyah]

There seem to be a couple of avenues to take in criticizing Mitch Daniels. One is to go after him from the standpoint that he may have misspoken a couple of times, and then just beat the heck out of him over and over and over until he cries uncle.

The other is to try to compare him to "others" claimed to be undifferentiated from him in any way.

In the end you are left with the problem that he's sitting atop the ONLY state government in the Mid West or East of the Mississippi that is SOLVENT! In fact, Indiana is right there next door to America's number one basketcase ~ ILLINOIS!

His edge for "higher office" is simply that his government is not broke and all the others are! It's almost like you don't want anyone with some financial acumen to get in charge.

Hey, TEAParty people ~ Hey, yeah, you guys ~ do you want a candidate who cares about something beyond waste, fraud and abuse like, perhaps, lower debt, lower taxes.......

If you do, find us a candidate eh!

[InterceptPoint]

"Of all the Republicans talking about the deficit these days, Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has arguably the most credibility,” claimed The New York Times’ David Leonhardt in an Indianapolis-datelined economics column recently.

Is there such a thing as the Official Free Republic Kiss of Death? If there is, Mitch Daniels is now the proud owner of one.

[Pan_Yan]

Very clever writing. Praise the man with faint praise, paint him as an elite and watch the rabble with the pitchforks and torches tar and feather him without bothering to find out who he is.

[nhwingut]

Bruce Babbitt, Paul Tsongas, Ross Perot, John Anderson, Lamar Alexander and John McCain in 2000 all won plaudits from elites for their willingness to speak hard truths LOSERS

[musicman]

Have YOU Donated To FR Yet?
Less Than $10k To Go!!

[driftless2]

An endorsement from The Economist is a bigger albatross in my opinion. If they leaned to the right in the old days, they certainly do not lean that way now. They are reliably anti-American on just about every issue.

[CORedneck]

I think we had enough of the elites in high office ! The last non-elite POTUS was Ronald Reagan. Carter was a Naval Academy ring knocker. Time for a non-elitist for POTUS !

[Patrick1]

It seems as far as those who post on FreeRepublic are concerned it is Palin or Duncan Hunter or the country will just have to get along with another four years of the disasterous Obama.

Nice.

[goldstategop]

He’s the go to the guy FTABR Crowd - that is, for any one but Romney. Daniels doesn’t have Romneycare as an albatross around his neck and he’d carry his home state in the general election. Romney can’t.

[beckett]

Mitch Daniels is a fantastically talented leader. Leave it to the yahoos on FR to talk him down. Are there any sober voices of reason on this website anymore? What has happened to this place?

[ballplayer]

How about Romney,they are wetting thier pants over him,and John Huntsman jr.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Daniels doesn't have the charisma to run for President. A lot of shallow voters are disgusted with Obama, but not disgusted enough to vote for a short, bald, white guy. He's a policy wonk - Al Gore without the physical beauty. :)

But he'd make an excellent Commerce Secretary.