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Mitch Daniels Boomlet Ends

Posted on | February 22, 2011 | 43 Comments

He just threw Scott Walker under the bus:

Democrats went into a behind-closed-doors meeting Monday, refusing to return to the floor. Today, sources told The Indianapolis Star that Democrat lawmakers have left the state.
Daniels, a Republican, supported their right to deny Republicans a quorum to do business and the rights of labor unions to protest at the Statehouse.
“The activities of today are perfectly legitimate part of the process,” he said. “Even the smallest minority, and that’s what we’ve heard from in the last couple days, has every right to express the strength of its views and I salute those who did.”

The Underground Conservative was never on the Daniels 2012 bandwagon, but he’s sure as hell off it now:

Daniels took another step toward revealing himself as a Not Ready For Prime Time Player today when he told Indiana House Republicans to drop the Right-to-Work bill . . .

If you don’t support the right to work without interference from union goons, you’re not conservative:

Gov. Mitch Daniels signaled this afternoon that Republicans should drop the right-to-work bill that has brought the Indiana House to a standstill for two days and imperiled other measures.
Daniels told reporters this afternoon that he expects House Democrats will return to work if the bill dies. It would be unfortunate if other bills are caught up in the turmoil, he said.

One of Daniels’ pundit fans, Jim Geraghty now says he’s “extremely disappointed.”

UPDATE: “Alternate headline: ‘Apparently, Mitch Daniels not running for president.’”

Philip Klein bids for the Understatement of the Year Award: “In another move unlikely to endear him to conservative primary voters should he decide to seek the presidency . . .”

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin: “Unfortunately, GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels has gone and made himself an honorary fleebagger.”

Hey, you know who benefits from this?

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Comments

  • Polly

    If it comes to a choice between Sarah Palin and Herman Cain, what would be McCain’s pick?

    I’m 99% sure it would be the latter.

  • Anonymous

    If you mean John, you’re probably right.

    Otherwise, that would be a tough one.

  • http://twitter.com/victoria_29 victoria_29

    Glad I stayed on the Haley Barbour bandwagon. We need someone with a solid conservative record that can’t be disputed, but isn’t afraid of a little controversy

  • Anonymous

    This is why it’s important to allow the various possibles as much time as possible to show how stupid they can be. Way too early to get our bowels in an uproar. I’ve been leery of Daniels since his truce statement, he was probably correct but the delivery was less than artful even clumsy. After what he said today one must conclude he does not want to be president.

  • http://twitter.com/vjmfilms Victor Morton

    Yep … someone without the willingness to force a showdown with the Democratic Union Party is someone who might make a good senator or OMB chief. But not a good chief executive.

  • PCPSmoker

    The minute this little cretin started talking about staying away from social issues, I knew this would follow. The bottom line is that this asshole does not have the guts for a political fight. He can run around and impress the Washington conservative cadre, but my vote he will never get. Another weakling making excuses as to why he does not fight.

    To paraphrase Stacy on Mike Castle and his supporters: Fuck Mitch Daniels and fuck the people who support Mitch Daniels.

    “My man Mitch”, bent over, taking it, and unwilling to fight.

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    Can we officially call Mitch Daniels a weak-kneed RINO loser now?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Polly, this is just more evidence that whoever it is, it CAN”T be one of those senescent old incumbents or ex-incumbents from the last century. Maybe Palin, Maybe Cain, maybe Walker… but none of the Old White Guys Waiting Their Turn….

  • http://twitter.com/dustbury Charles G Hill

    Like I said t’other day: “I got 99 candidates and Mitch ain’t one.”

  • http://912member.blogspot.com just a conservative girl

    Very disappointing. I had some hope for Daniels.

    Oh well. But as usual you are correct. Cain will look better and better as time goes on.

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    Ahead of the curve, CG. I bow to thee, homeslice.

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    Ahead of the curve, CG. I bow to thee, homeslice.

  • http://wyblog.us/blog Chris Wysocki

    I saw his comments and thought the same thing as you. Daniels is D-O-N-E as a potential 2012 GOP nominee.

    In other news, Chris Christie is losing weight. He’s hired a personal trainer and a nutritionist. Conventional wisdom says that fat guys can’t get elected president. Is he squishy on a lot of important issues? You betcha. But he’s one tough-talking hombre on the fiscal stuff and that seems to be what people are caring the most about right now.

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  • http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/ Wintery Knight

    At this point it looks to me like Cain, Jindal or Bachmann is the best candidate, with Bolton as VP. West will be good in 2016 or 2020.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Coffer/1296650908 Chuck Coffer

    What a gutless dick.

  • Anonymous

    No No No must have Bolton as Secretary of State.
    For UN Ambassador….Carlos Mencia

  • Anonymous

    He tolerates jihadists, soft on amnesty and horrible on gun rights.
    With the right congress the last one doesn’t matter but the first two?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Which would sour me on Herman, frankly, McCain being the petty, vindictive, vainglorious little prick he is.

  • Joe

    Any doubts are now confirmed. Mitch, you are dead to me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jorge-Emilio-Emrys-Landivar/37403083 Jorge Emilio Emrys Landivar

    Who do we vote for?
    Cristie is anti gun:
    Daniels tries to stop right to work:
    Mit used to do bust-outs on businesses and implemented Romneycare.
    Huckabee is anti-libertarian.
    Palin is the only choice left :-(
    Maybe Gary Johnson will run or something… sigh, I had high hopes for Mitch Daniels:-(

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jorge-Emilio-Emrys-Landivar/37403083 Jorge Emilio Emrys Landivar

    The first and last one worry me… a lot.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Mrs. Palin, Herman Cain, Governor Walker, Draft Mike Pence, Stacy McCain [the South Will Rise Again!] – never despair!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Richard, she was talking about Meagan.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Mr. Barbour also isn’t afraid of taking Mexican Government monies.

    http://theothermccain.com/2011/02/14/35000-a-month-plus-expenses/

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Let ‘em wait their turn at the Dog Track betting window.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Chris Christie for SecTreas.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Well said, Joe.

  • http://wyblog.us/blog Chris Wysocki

    I agree with you. But a Christie juggernaut appears to be developing. And for a guy who swears he’s not running he surely is making all the moves associated with running for president.

    So then the real question becomes, will he be another John McCain, or is Chris Christie somebody we can do business with?

  • Anonymous

    I like Ann Coulter for the bombs she throws, but she isn’t that influential and all of these people being touted now at some point have to get very conservative votes in a primary. Right now the spotlight is on Christie’s budget cutting efforts, it doesn’t take conservative values. just a grasp of arithmetic to cheer those efforts. Candidates for Governor can be one issue candidates if that issue is a big one. Presidential candidates can’t.

  • Anonymous

    Draft Mike Pence would fill the bill for me alas I doubt it will happen.

  • http://twitter.com/RightKlik RightKlik

    I hope George Will is off the bandwagon now.

  • moflicky

    1) Daniels removed collective bargaining from state workers in 2005 to
    little fanfare.

    2) Indiana republicans, while in the minority, have used the quorum
    tactic in the past.

    3) Daniels has two dozen other bills that he had prioritized as more
    important that died last night because they missed the deadline to be
    posted out of conference committee. Those bills now have no hope of
    being passed this session, wasting all the time put into them and
    putting them well past any possible announcement for president.

    4) this is not the same thing as Wisconsin. RTW laws are separate
    from public service unions.

    5) Daniels has explained all of this already, but no one seems to be
    listening to him.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Au H2O

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    …or is Chris Christie somebody we can do business with?

    Spoken like a true New Jerseyite, Don Wysocki.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    George who?

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    moflicky: Let’s stipulate that all you write is true. Daniels still shows that he has a tin ear. We need someone who is going to be clear and concise and bold.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Ann Coulter’s going to need to gain every ounce Christie loses before she’s ever going to qualify as a juggernaut.

  • Anonymous

    NOTHING is more important to the restoration of our Republic than limiting the undemocratic powers of the Bolsheviks. The reason no one is listening to Daniels is because he’s not making sense.
    I think Daniels is just trying to play the percentages and wants to pad his list of accomplishments. Signature achievement an education bill, sound familiar? The kicker is he probably pandered and prostituted himself to no purpose. The Indiana dems have added several bills to the list that Republicans MUST drop before they’ll ALLOW the peoples representatives to do the peoples work. Included in this list is Daniels education bill.

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  • ck

    If only we had someone with executive experience who had also lived in the private sector. Someone who would take a stand on all major issues, without waiting to see which way the wind blows, someone not afraid of the Republican establishment. Someone not brainwashed at Harvard, Yale or Columbia. Someone who got a major profitable infastructure project passed over the protest of both R’s and D’s. It’s impossible, you would have to someone very far from DC. Oh, I’m just dreaming, guess I’ll just go for the guy on the couch with Nancy Pelosi at Al Gore’s church. Resistance is futile, join the Borg.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere
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