With all due respect, it’s more than just “hosting some dinner.” Daniels has a very bad habit of doing little things like that or saying little things that by themselves, don’t mean that much, but the pattern shows he has a McCain type reflex to tweak his own team.
Besides, he’s attracting the Bush team folks, who are clearly not conservative.
We HATE that. Now he’s been a pretty good governor and I’ll vote for him over Obama if he wins the nomination. But I’m going to work hard against him in the primary in favor of either Cain, Palin, some others perhaps.
McCain's problem was his voting record and his behavior with legislation. No one can point to Daniels's record as governor as anything but very conservative. About the most that you can really fault him for is when he first took office, he tried to push through a temporary tax increase to balance the budget. I disagreed with him on that and, after some fallout, he backed off.
But I think that Mitch is a pretty savvy guy and says and does very deliberate things. So he hosted a dinner to score some political points; as long as he's not bringing over hookers to the governor's mansion, I look at his record. And it's good.
For example, lots of people on this board gave Mitch all sorts of grief about his reaction to the Dem legislators fleeing the state--but who got the last laugh? The legislature came back and Mitch got his agenda passed. People here don't seem to realize that the guy just might know what he's doing when he says certain things.
Besides, he’s attracting the Bush team folks, who are clearly not conservative.
Agreed and a fair point. But I'll take Bush and his politics over Obama any day of the week.
But I’m going to work hard against him in the primary in favor of either Cain, Palin, some others perhaps.
I know it's not a particularly popular view on here, but I subscribe to the Buckley rule: I support the most conservative candidate who can win. Like I said upthread, I see three electable candidates from the GOP side. I view Mitch as the most conservative of the three.