Posted on 01/24/2012 7:58:22 PM PST by Brown Deer
It reads better than it was delivered. Nothing really wrong with Mitch's response intellectually, but it had all the insipid inspiration of a high school valedictorian’s address.
Please GOP, we need warriors for this battle.
Oldplayer
Very disheartening, I’ve all up given up hope for saving the country. I guess we will just have to collapse under debt and then in 15 or 20 years if there still is a USA try again.
Just a bunch of Gingrich-bots doing what they do best: the circular firing squad tactics.
It went right over the talking heads on TV. I was shocked to hear him speak so frankly of economic ctastrophe.
I agree, jwalsh07. Overall, I thought Gov. Daniels' speech was rather brilliant.
I'm getting slammed on the SOTU live thread for simply saying 'I liked Daniels' speech'. What's going on with FR lately...?
Boy, do I ever agree!
The kissy-face is nauseating.
Daniels is the GOP establishment pick for losing candidate in 2012. Just enough criticism of the economy and too much (way too much) emphasis on the need for moderation instead of “extremism” (tm)
Is there anyone out there with less charisma and passion that Mitch Daniels?
As a loyal opposition, who put patriotism and national success ahead of party or ideology or any self-interest, we say that anyone who will join us in the cause of growth and solvency is our ally, and our friend. We will speak the language of unity. Let us rebuild our finances, and the safety net, and reopen the door to the stairway upward; any other disagreements we may have can wait.
Agreed. I’ve lived the Mitch Daniels experience and seen the absolutely stunning change in my beloved home state’s government. Mitch has taken a state that was on the brink of disaster after sixteen years of unfettered D control and turned it into a lean and mean bastion of fiscal responsibility...all while maintaining a solid pro life, pro gun, pro family record. Has he said some regrettable things? Sure - Don’t they all? I am very pro Gingrich, but his proclivity for regrettable comments far outshines Mitch. That doesn’t make Newt a bad conservative, and it sure as hell doesn’t make Mitch bad either.
And no, he’s no Sarah or Newt when it comes to rhetoric. He’s short, he’s awkward - I get it. But damn, that little dude sure can lead. I’m gonna miss voting for him.
Agreed. I’ve lived the Mitch Daniels experience and seen the absolutely stunning change in my beloved home state’s government. Mitch has taken a state that was on the brink of disaster after sixteen years of unfettered D control and turned it into a lean and mean bastion of fiscal responsibility...all while maintaining a solid pro life, pro gun, pro family record. Has he said some regrettable things? Sure - Don’t they all? I am very pro Gingrich, but his proclivity for regrettable comments far outshines Mitch. That doesn’t make Newt a bad conservative, and it sure as hell doesn’t make Mitch bad either.
And no, he’s no Sarah or Newt when it comes to rhetoric. He’s short, he’s awkward - I get it. But damn, that little dude sure can lead. I’m gonna miss voting for him.
It’s my belief that Obama and the Democrats exploded our national debt to deliberately harm this country.
Not sure what others will say here, but I just watched a Republican advocate for turning Medicare and Social Security into PROGRESSIVE TAXES.
That was a step too far for even the Socialists in the Labour Party of the UK under Blair/Brown.
this is a disgrace,
Since no one actually believes the fudged GDP number put out by gov, the debt is almost certainly way higher than GDP.
No one but a fool got past the first paragraph, where he neatly summed up everything that is wrong with the establishment republicans.
It was flaccid.
Pssst...the GOP “establishment” isn’t just RINOs. It’s “conservatives” who like making every cultural problem into an unwinnable national crusade that is often in turn lost to Democrats and the judges they appoint, not to mention the “compassionate” conservatives who want to make religious charities wards of the state as well. It’s “conservatives” who squeal every time someone suggests some defense cuts, particularly money for white elephants and stationing troops overseas in countries that could be defending themselves. It’s conservatives who propose reforming entitlements right after they add to them. It’s conservatives who only propose getting rid of cabinet-level agencies during campaign years....and it’s the phonies who vote for them in spite of the facts.
Whats going on is a loyalty oath to Newt and any praise of anybody else or pointing out flaws in Newt is verboten. Very sad.
Maybe. But what is the GOP’s excuse for helping them?
I’m miffed, too.
I have said “track record” until I’m out of breath and not of these kneejerk armchair critics has addressed Daniels’ track record. Newt and Romney eat your heart out because under Mitch Daniels Indiana:
—de-certified state employee unions the first day in office.
—privatized the toll road and built up state highway infrastructure with the funds.
—most generous school choice in America.
—founded a Christ-centered school steeped in the classics for inner-city youth.
—AAA bond rating
—only budget surplus in the Midwest.
—government size rolled back to 2008. Real cuts, not just cuts in spending increases.
—ended state funding for Planned Parenthood.
—passed legislation makin abortion after 20 weeks a crime.
—sought to prosecute Planned Parenthood for failing to report abortions stemming from sex with minors.
—smallest per capita state government in the US
—lowest property taxes in the US.
—created Hoosier Healthwise as an low cost totally voluntary health plan for low income people.
—put state employees into health savings accounts in which they could accumulate unused health funds and roll them over year to year to reduce premiums.
—enacted state legislation to require photo I.D. to vote, causing the ACLU to go ballistic
—will sign the only Right to Work legislation ever passed in the Rust Belt.
That’s just the stuff that comes to mind.
What part of “track record” do Daniels’ critics not understand? What the hell part of that is not conservative?
Could be but it all started with Bush. Bush threw away all the hard work the GOP Congress did in the late 90s. Obama is a Marxist and he wants to collapse the system so he can remake it to this liking. And it appears the GOP House will go along since the House holds the purse strings. I am not to happy with anyone in DC.
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