They are warming up Mitch Daniels in the bull pen. The channel I watched actually made it a point to say that the person delivering the rebuttal to the state of the union has often gone on to be president.
not true at all
Obama, W, Clinton, 41, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ, etc... none gave the rebuttal
I hope not Daniels. He has no charisma and for me, his speech was bland.
Whoever you were listening to is, at best, full of it! Perhaps wishful thinking by a Mitch Daniels fan? Still lots of them around.
The closes you will find to a SOTU response by a future president is 1968 when a team of Republican Congressmen giving the response included then-TX Congressman GHWB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_response_to_the_State_of_the_Union_address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_response_to_the_State_of_the_Union_address