This is a curious line of thought you’re expressing. Daniels and Palin are both conservatives and have enacted what appears to be across-the-board conservative policies in governing their respective states, but you consider Daniels a Mitt Romeny-like RINO because he’s not a “dedicated social conservative?” How does one even attain that label?
I’m 100% for weeding out RINOs, but actions mean a lot more to me than words - if our representatives are governing conservatively, I don’t need flim-flam speeches about how much their ideals mean to them to accept their conservatism as true and valid. Hollow words and promises are how Obama bewitched a lot of easily misled independents to support him. Show me their record, not what they say.
Besides, Sarah needs a conservative partner on the ticket that compliments her, and Daniels is a good fit. It’s like a modern day Reagan/Coolidge ticket.
Evidently Daniels is not a social conservative, which means that he is not conservative, which means that you can give up on him, even though you signed up yesterday under yet another name to push him here.