[Bigtigermike]

Mitch Daniels opens to VAT and oil tax hike. These comments come on the heels of a September profile in Newsweek, in which Daniels said tax increases might be necessary to tackle the federal deficit. “At some stage, there could well be a tax increase,” Daniels told the magazine. “They say we can’t have grown-up conversations. I think we can.” Daniels has previously clashed with Norquist over the former’s refusal to sign the “No New Taxes” pledge.

[Pan_Yan]

I don't know much about Daniels and don't have much opinion about him either way. All I commented on was the POLITICO article that everyone is buying hook, line and sinker. If you were going to make it your mission to alienate a candidate from the Tea Party you would write this one word for word. They called him an elite favorite and listed his colleges. They paraded favorable quotes from every journalist that Tea Party conservatives hate. They even call Daniels the "Anti-Palin".

It's a masterful hit piece of journalistic art at it's highest (or lowest).