Posted on 01/17/2023 8:26:09 AM PST by cotton1706
Indiana politics is probably, maybe, very important to...Indianans (Indians? Warrrenses?), but this sturdy Midwest flyover state is rarely the battlefield for an important fight for the direction of the GOP and the country. Today is an exception. With its current senator, Republican Mike Somebody, going home to be governor, the Senate seat will be open in 2024, and folks are gearing up to run. The race is important because who gets nominated and wins will help define the direction of the Republican Party. Will it be someone who knows what time it is or someone whose watch stopped about the time W was wrecking the GOP brand?
I would like to announce my endorsement of Mitch Daniels for Indiana senator in 2004. At 73, he’s the perfect blend of mediocrity and self-sabotaging pseudo-principle for that miserable era. But in 2024, not a chance in hell. I’ll stick with based, vigorous, 43-year-old Rep. Jim Banks, despite him being a Navy officer instead of a member of the decisive military branch that is the Army, because he represents a future of aggressive pushback instead of the weak, decline-management model embodied by Mitch Bush. I mean Daniels. Mitch Daniels. AKA Hoosier Jeb! – please clap.
Mitch is on the cutting edge of two-decade-old Republicanism. The soft, gooey, Buick Republicanism represented by perpetual losers like Mitt Romney and zero-for-five RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel (You can help end her reign of ennui by going to www.HireHarmeet.com). Think of him as Mike Pence without the pizazz. Mitch is a life member of the GOPs Margaret Dumont wing, fussy and failed. Mitch Daniels will clutch pearls. We need Republicans who will clutch throats.
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You might try to get the moderator to fix the year in the headline.
Time machine?
LOL, Awesome line!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
its intentional
I live in Indiana. I’m a hard no on Daniels or Pence for anything.
Partial transcript as follows: KILMEADE: Meanwhile, Congressman, you are Congressman Jim Banks, but you feel as though you want a career change.
Mike Braun is going to run for governor for Indiana. What has that prompted you to say – to say today?
BANKS: Well, Brian, it’s not about me, it’s about the great state of Indiana. And I’ve had the incredible opportunity to serve in the House of Representatives for northeast Indiana the past six years...
Mike Pennies has pizazz? Who knew?
“You might try to get the moderator to fix the year in the headline.”
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic. But the year is intended by the author.
You might try to get the moderator to fix the year in the headline.
I think that was purposeful by Schlichter.
I have always thought that Mitch Daniels was a democrat. Always. Now I know why. (I didn’t live in Indiana until recently.)
beat me to it
Just saw Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) on WarRoom this morning and he was announcing that he is running for the Senate seat in IN, being vacated by Mike Braun.
Roadmaster is clearly racist. Every one of them should be crushed. I’m triggered because that name reminds me of black chain gangs doing road work. /s
The author describes circa 2004 perfectly as the era of soft, gooey mediocrity and Republican big government platitudes. We did not know it then, but recent events have brought that into sharp contrast.
Mine was black with a thin red stripe (trace of indigeous people no doubt), so it is okay. My white Chevy Caprice wagon with the fake wood, on the other hand . . .
Boiler Up for Mitch as President of Purdue - he froze tuition for more than 10 years.
But hammer down as a senator - not a hard conservative.
Ditch this Mitch as well. Remember Daniels entered the Presidential race and lasted about a week, there was SOME DIRTY LAUNDRY THERE that needs to stay in the hamper!
Mitch Daniels did a good job as president of Purdue. He should just retire quietly and stay out of politics.
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