I am a hoosier and Daniels most certainly is AN ESTABLISHMENT Rino, if you want someone acceptable from the Hoosier state take Mike Pence!~
Pence just sounds stronger on the social side because that’s his campaign schtick. Daniels actually has a state government to run. Besides, now that he has a majority in the state senate as well as the house he can probably bring in Right To Work ~ something that half a century of mostly Conservative control of the legislature has never succeeded in doing.