Should Mitch Daniels Run for President?

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Permalink Reply by Linda J Ranger on June 4, 2009 at 2:12pm

As for the tollroad issue, I can't understand why anyone in Indiana is so upset with receiving all that money upfront from the company leasing the tollroad. ITR takes care of the road thru the collection of tolls for the lease period of 75 years. This is the same company that leases the Chicago Skyway. I feel it was a smart move on the Governor's part to give the state some much needed money.

This article addresses some of the myths. http://blogs.post-trib.com/davich/2008/10/indiana-toll-road-payment...

I feel he would make a good president but I don't think he will run.

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Permalink Reply by Genie Goykhberg on June 4, 2009 at 4:56pm

Amen

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on June 4, 2009 at 3:00pm

First, to those who say "No", "Hell No", etc, it would have been nice for you to share an opinion of why you would not like to see him run.
I just answered "Hell no" (sort of) because the question was "should mitch daniels run for president", I wasn't clear on the essay part of it. :o )

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Mannell on June 9, 2009 at 10:31am

No, because as Bush's head of Office of Management and Budget he championed privatization. And we all know how well that has worked in Iraq. Blackwater and KBR anyone? He is an idealogue in an age of pragmatism. I voted for Obama, and if unemployment reaches 25%, I'll still blame Republican ideology and "trickle down" supply-side reagonomics perpetuated by Bush. What else has so thoroughly dismantled the middle class over the last decades?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Stuck on June 9, 2009 at 11:08am

Can you give me an example of this pragmatism that we are all living in?

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Mannell on June 9, 2009 at 11:50am

I would submit that the bailouts are pragmatic. Whether banks, heavy industry, or maybe the insurance industry in the face of health care reform, saving jobs and further collapse are not the actions of a "socialist" agenda, they are necessary solutions to impending catastrophe. Adjusting the economy with green energy and health care reform is a necessary response to the realities of a changing world. This is pragmatic, not "socialist". Daniels ideology of smaller government, and his penchant for contracting-out public services, is not practical at this time. It is based on Republican philosophy.

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Permalink Reply by Bjorn Carlson on June 4, 2009 at 2:50pm

I don't know that any one individual can stop the tide of "Obamanizing" the entire nation. That's the nature of communism - force one party's beliefs on a whole group of people, and make it look like it's the true opinion of everyone involved. I think there are a LOT of Americans out there who are looking for some real change in the government and are dissatisfied with both the Republican party and the Democratic party as well - none excluded.

So, do I think Mitch should run for President? I know he doesn't want to, but our country is in need of a real patriot and whether its on the GOP ticket or something else, I absolutely think Mitch Daniels would do a great job in the Oval Office. We need someone who is willing to do the hard thing for the country, because it's the right thing for the longevity of the country. America is like a spoiled child right now and anyone who doesn't make things happy and perfect for everyone is a criminal. This attitude has got to stop and we have got to stop being so darned afraid of pain and struggle. Mitch Daniels would have my vote.

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Permalink Reply by Ernest Rando on June 4, 2009 at 2:55pm

No because he is not even sure if global warming exists. That shows a very uneducated "world view".

An example of this can be found on this YouTube video that was included on a discussion I started on A Greener Indiana

Now I have no problem with him being a state leader of national issues, mind you, however I do not believe he is educated enough to be an effective world leader in the social, political, or environmental issues that are facing us today. He could perhaps be needed on a fedral budget committee :)

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Permalink Reply by James Harris on June 4, 2009 at 2:55pm

Allthough I don't think he would get the Republician nomination, I believe he would be a good President, if he could get the nomination.

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Permalink Reply by Tino Marquez Jr. on June 4, 2009 at 3:07pm

If he indeed made such a promise not to seek higher office, he should be man and stick to that. If not and runs, I would probably vote for him, but I’m not sure. I would really like to see a viable third choice that can actually has the type of outside of the box ideas that would return this country to is prominence and yet at the same time, adhere to the constitution not as a “living breathing document” but as the solid foundation which this country was built on. Is Mitch that man?

If the poll numbers are true, then the majority of Americans are quite happy to embrace socialism and class warfare. The rest of us should just lay down now. Mitch would not have a chance as it stands now.

Regardless, whatever happened to a “government for the people by the people”? We now get to pick from two parties that pretty much are different sides of the same coin and act as our social elitist overlords. There needs to be away to set term limits and outlaw any attorneys from being politicians. Too many attorneys.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Kern on June 4, 2009 at 3:47pm

Daniels is much too sensible and way too honest to amount to anything in national politics.

It's hard to know the Gov's view on the US Constitution, so it would be hard to call, based on firm principles.

Besides, the current President has at least 7 1/2 more years to go.

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Permalink Reply by Genie Goykhberg on June 4, 2009 at 5:02pm

3 1/2

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