Will Mitch Daniels Run?
Daniels also would challenge his own party, with a message that calls for focusing on fiscal issues over social ones, for appealing seriously to voters who are not part of the conservative coalition and for being prepared to compromise with Democrats to solve the debt problem.
As he put it in a speech this year: “Should the best way be blocked . . . then someone will need to find the second-best way. Or the third, because the nation’s survival requires it. Purity in martyrdom is for suicide bombers.”
Word is, his wife doesn’t favor a run. And religious and social conservatives aren’t receptive. And Daniels would have to answer for how the economy did during the Bush years when he was budget director. And as governor he tried to privatize parts of welfare, turning over claims processing to private companies like IBM, before state officials terminated the contract resulting in a lawsuit.
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