Posted on 12/28/2010 2:55:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels has given yet another interview in which he talks about a social issues truce he put forward this summer that upset pro-life conservatives.
The interview with WANE follows on the one he gave the Indianapolis Star in which he appeared to shift position and suggest the truce was meant for liberals, not social conservatives concerned about issues like abortion.
In the Star interview, Daniels suggested the truce was meant for liberal activists like those who favored repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy — and he continued that line of thinking in the WANE question and answer session.
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He’s spinning like a top. Not a good sign.
“...a social issues truce he put forward this summer that upset pro-life conservatives.”
How did the pro-death liberals like it?
No, it’s not a good sign.
If he just said what he really thinks he’d probably make more sense.
Yeah, not sure I buy that one. We’ll see in the debates.
Looks like he checked which way the political winds are blowing and decided to ‘adjust’ his socially-liberal ways. We don’t need a half conservative, we need full conservatives.
His remarks were blown WAY out of context.
IF he really meant this latest version, why did he not explain it that way on his first couple of attempts?
Unless he says he can he see Chicago from Ft. Wayne, he belongs on the short list. At 5’-7”, he’s probably too short anyway.
This has been out there for weeks, why wait?? It is too late even if its wrong because opinions are already formed. If this is true then he is too thick and slow to ever consider for President.
Although I think the stories were right in the first place and he’s not on our side.
Voted for him and liked him because of his conservatism. I totally disagreed with his nanny state do-goodism by banning smoking (outdoors!) on government property. Indoors, OK, but outdoors?
Ya right I got that... sure ... Why not ... I believe him.....NOT!!!!!!
A couple of them may have fed the to get some Conservatives to criticize him ~ but silence speaks in this case, and they did not say "yes".
Actually, there's no hope of converting the Leftwingtards to the cause of truth, justice and the American way of life.
They say he has been successful in Indianapolis, but isn’t he tied to that awful Lugar?
This latest version doesn’t really make sense.
A truce involves both sides of a dispute.
If just one side concedes then that’s a surrender.
Yeah, Mitch Daniels Presidential aspirations are dead before they even began. His efforts to distance himself from Social Conservatives have been ongoing and continuous for months, while at the same time he shamelessly reaches out to every RINO and Liberal special interest he can shake hands with.
This man is NO Conservative. It’s one thing to build consensus. It’s quite another to surrender former principles and eschew old friends in order to accept new beliefs and embrace new “friends” for the sake of political advancement. There’s an old saying where I come from — “Dance with the one who brung ya.” Well, Daniels, like SO MANY OTHER Establishment Republicans, has ignored that wisdom. And they ain’t gonna be at the dance in 2012 as anything more than wallflowers....
I got so stressed and sick about things that happened lately that I ended up in the ER.
Daniels looks like a politician here, trying to win back social conservatives. Better to stand by comments and move on than do this. However, I cannot back him in the primary if he is not clearly on the side of appointing judges that support repeal of Roe v. Wade.
It tells me he is scrambling to find the “right” answer, which in turn, tells me he is running for POTUS.
I think it’s odd how people are willing to assess a candidate on what they say (however inartfully) versus what they actually have done.
Romney was a socially liberal governor. He now says he’s conservative - do we trust what he says or what his record indicates?
Huckabee was a fiscally liberal governor. He now says he’s conservative - do we trust what he says or what his record indicates?
If you answered “record” to those two, I’m not so sure Mitch’s highly awkward statements should really unwind his record as a fairly conservative governor (he’s not perfect, and his position on smoking is puzzling). But frankly, he may have the most effective, conservative gubernatorial record of all of the serious candidates that were governors. I think what he’s really saying is that he wants to focus on financial matters instead of running on wedge issues...but I will be keeping an eye on this.
Rush, Sarah, Mitch...our guys and girls don’t rely on the teleprompter so they’ll come off awkward sometimes. I think Sarah knows that SOUTH Korea are our allies, and I think Mitch isn’t suddenly going to become Giuliani 2.0 because of his goofy truce statements.
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