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I have said “track record” until I’m out of breath and not of these kneejerk armchair critics has addressed Daniels’ track record. Newt and Romney eat your heart out because under Mitch Daniels Indiana:

—de-certified state employee unions the first day in office.
—privatized the toll road and built up state highway infrastructure with the funds.
—most generous school choice in America.
—founded a Christ-centered school steeped in the classics for inner-city youth.
—AAA bond rating
—only budget surplus in the Midwest.
—government size rolled back to 2008. Real cuts, not just cuts in spending increases.
—ended state funding for Planned Parenthood.
—passed legislation making abortion after 20 weeks a crime.
—sought to prosecute Planned Parenthood for failing to report abortions stemming from sex with minors.
—smallest per capita state government in the US
—lowest property taxes in the US.
—created Hoosier Healthwise as an low cost totally voluntary health plan for low income people.
—put state employees into health savings accounts in which they could accumulate unused health funds and roll them over year to year to reduce premiums.
—enacted state legislation to require photo I.D. to vote, causing the ACLU to go ballistic
—will sign the only Right to Work legislation ever passed in the Rust Belt.

That’s just the stuff that comes to mind.

What part of “track record” do Daniels’ critics not understand? What the hell part of that is not conservative?

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You are right. Many of the people who slam Daniels fail to look at his results in Indiana. He has better fiscal record then Newt. He just isn’t flamboyant enough for there liking.

Great posts in #59 and #64, CatholicEagle and shoedog.

Wow, I wish we in CT had a conservative governor like Mitch Daniels! Nothing but pure socialism and union thuggery here in the Peoples' Republik of Connecticut. Our governor here walks in complete lockstep with Uncle Sham Wow Obama.

No one has questioned Mitch Daniels track record which is excellent. It was not so much the messenger but the message that was so mediocre.

A news headline this morning read "Obama Delivered a Fiery Speech in Which He Had Tough Words for Congress, Wall Street and China."

All Daniels delivered after 15 minutes of delicate labor was a mouse.

I think the overwhelming tone of the comments posted here bear out my opinion that in a situation and in an opportunity that called for a General Patton, the GOP Establishment trotted out a General Wesley Clark.

Leni