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Mitch Daniels: Obama not a socialist
The Hill ^
| 09/23/11
| Cameron Joseph
Posted on 09/23/2011 12:39:50 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: vbmoneyspender
When was the last time a prominent Democrat came out and said that Democratic candidates need to be careful with their rhetoric when discussing Republican opponents? Ah, never.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:50:35 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: freespirited
Daniels is right. He is a marxist.
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:51:26 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(DUMP Obama in 2012)
To: freespirited
But Mitch Daniels...is he a socialist? He must be, defending other socialists from the nasty capitalists.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:51:59 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: freespirited
There are many men who have no stones.
Mitch Daniels is one.
To: freespirited
Obama is a social Democrat, which means he supports the kind of welfare state with power highly centralized in the elites that we find in western Europe. Except among the blacks, the feminists, the academics, the government workers, the gays, and the Jews. he has no real base.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: freespirited
Mitch Daniels: Obama not a socialist
You see little guy? That is why no one in the base wanted you to run for President. You are a misinformed cuckold of a man. Now go away and see if you can do something that your wife will be happy about.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:54:07 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: freespirited
At some stage I just think that if youre interested in results you should just try to be careful to use words that dont drive anybody away and if possible just take a chance to be more civil, more likeable than the other guy, said Daniels, who added that he did not see Thursdays debate. Yeah, like when the guy introducing you at event calls a large swath of the population that oppose you S.O.B's. Is that the kind of rhetoric, Mitch, that you need to tone down and disavow? Is that what you meant?
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:56:19 PM PDT
by
throwback
( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
To: Paperdoll
I cannot think of a single Republican who would be driven away from a contender if he/she said Obama was a Socialist. Can you? No. But then, if the only people who vote for you are Republicans, you lose all 57 states.
Daniels is absolutely right about the rhetoric. It feels good to say it, it fires up the base, but it does not help with the independents whose support (like it or not) is essential to anyone trying to win the office.
More importantly, there is the issue of governing after you get elected. Unless we get 60 votes in the Senate (ain't gonna happen), we're going to need some Democratic support if we really want to make big, substantive changes in how this country is run. A President who may be an ideologue but doesn't come across as one has the best chance of succeeding.
That was Obama's trick. Sure, the guy's a socialist. but he convinced voters by his demeanor and tone that he was something else. That made it tougher for us to hold the squishy RINO's like the Maine sisters. The result of that is everything we see, including ObamaCare and all this other wacky crap. To reverse that, we need to elect someone who has the right policies but knows how to sell them without looking like an ideologue to independents. And who will be able to attrack support from Senate Democrats nervous about the President's appeal to independents.
Daniels is more conservative than Romney, more electable than Perry, and doesn't alienate most independents. The left hates him because they consider him a wolf in sheep's clothing, which is exactly why he'd have been a good candidate.
Oh well.
To: freespirited
It goes to show. Republicans inside the Beltway can’t distinguish the Washington D.C. fog around them from the blue sky beyond. It all looks the same to them.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:57:18 PM PDT
by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood)
To: freespirited
Buzzzzzzzz Wrong answer Mitch. Try again.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:57:28 PM PDT
by
ReaganBaby26
(Matthew 12:36)
To: freespirited
The only left to say is to advice Daniels not to quit his day job.
And to think a mere month or two ago, this guy was thought of as the most even-tempered, deep thinker on this side of Obama.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:57:32 PM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: freespirited
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:57:32 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: freespirited
“Mitch Daniels: Obama not a socialist”
He’s further down the spectrum—he’s a Marxist.
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:58:43 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: freespirited
Mitch Daniels
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:58:59 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: central_va
Ah, never. I think Jeff Davis may have asked his fellow Democrats to turn down their rhetoric because it might distract from their marksmanship.
To: freespirited
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posted on
09/23/2011 12:59:38 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: freespirited
“He also used the opportunity to warn the contenders to be more careful with their rhetoric.”
Daniels, you idiot suck up...to heck with rhetoric, his deeds speaks volumes.
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posted on
09/23/2011 1:00:55 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Paperdoll
What he’s saying is that we shouldn’t tell the truth about 0bama because it would be “uncivil”.
This is EXACTLY the environment the left is trying to sandbag us with, and Daniels is acquiescing to it.
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posted on
09/23/2011 1:01:02 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: freespirited
This kind of brain-dead, neo-liberal rubbish from alleged 'Republican' politicians is one reason for the TEA party. We're sick and tired of leftist 'moderate' Republican politicians that can't wait to join the Democrats and use their talking points against Republicans so they can get quoted in the New York Times and be fawned over as 'responsible' Republicans. Mitch Daniels instructing mostly 'moderate' Republican presidential wannabes to "be careful with their rhetoric" (translation: don't call Obama what he really is) is the height of arrogance from a politician who is obviously ready to switch to the Democrat party, where he belongs, but knows he's more useful to them as a 'Republican' criticizing 'other Republicans'. This is the kind of 'Republican' guys like Karl Rove want to be president. No thanks.
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posted on
09/23/2011 1:01:21 PM PDT
by
Jim Scott
( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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