Well I got that one spectacularly wrong. As I said last week, three people close to the Governor had told me he absolutely was in. They said it was more than reading tea leaves. But they were wrong and I was wrong. To be fair, or at least in damage control mode, all indications even up to Friday were that Daniels was in, but something | Read More »
Tonight on the Erick Erickson Show I’ll be defending Mitch Daniels a bit. Believe it or not. And I’ll probably rant on Saxby Chambliss some more and on No Child Left Behind. The show starts at 7:05 p.m. ET. You can listen at http://wsbradio.com and call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK. Consider this an open thread.
I think I’ll start doing this every week. The feedback, both from you guys and from others who are trying to keep up with the pulse within the conservative grassroots has been very positive. Feel free to disagree. I’m just giving you my honest take on where I see the 2012 horse race right now. Last week I took a bit of heat from Dan | Read More »
It’s that time boys and girls — that time where I tell you what I really think and you can all hate me for daring to say something critical about your preferred candidate. Here’s how I think the 2012 race is shaping up by candidate, in alphabetical order.
I’m still pretty sure he wants to run for the Senate and not President, but it does seem to me that Jenn Rubin delivers a fatal blow to Mitch Daniels’ run for the Presidency. The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg explains that Daniels didn’t go to the Tea Partyers or to the National Rifle Association for a testing-the-waters confab. Instead, he went to Manhattan Surrounded by | Read More »
Mitch Daniels is encouraging Republican legislators in Indiana to yank right-to-work legislation they have the votes to pass. The Democratic legislators fled Indiana yesterday giving way to a National Geographic special on the migratory patterns of absconding Democrats. NatGeo found they all wind up in Illinois. 48 more states to go before they all end up in Illinois. Mitch Daniels received lots of criticism on | Read More »
I have had great hopes for the Governor of Indiana running for President. Signs are starting to point to a run and in the process Daniels is signaling he is not so much a leader as a technocratic wonk and not so much driven by fiscal conservative principles as by bureaucratically generated data. A leader would not pick an unnecessary fight with social conservatives before | Read More »
One of the very few states in the nation to have a budget surplus right now is Mitch Daniels’ Indiana. As Governor, Daniels actually went into office, raised sales taxes, cut property taxes, fixed his budget problems, then slashed the beejeezus out of tax rates, including the aforementioned sales tax. The state is thriving. He’s an attractive choice to challenge Obama. I think a governor, | Read More »
UPDATE: By the way, if you agree, call John Boehner today at (202) 225-4000 and suggest Mitch Daniels give the Republican Response. —————————— On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress to pitch his his healthcare plan to the American people using the ultimate bully pulpit, some free press, and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden standing behind him clapping, | Read More »
After a few rocky years starting off as Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels has really made a comeback. First he won re-election in Indiana, then he worked exceedingly hard to maintain and build on the financial stability he brought back to the state. The Chamber of Commerce has a post up on its blog with Mitch Daniels talking about saving the free market. It’s worth | Read More »
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