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Monday, March 14, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - "Mitch Daniels: Candidate or influencer?"
Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake have this post on the Washington Post's "Morning Fix." A sample:
Looking back at Daniels’ recent public comments — and, he has made quite a few — it seems he is more interested in impacting the debate going on in the party as it heads into 2012 than in leading the GOP as its presidential nominee.Daniels’ speech last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. was heavy on dire talk about the state of the economy and light on the sort of red-meat rhetoric that the activist base of the party loves.
The speech won kudos from the media as well as conservative thinkers like columnist George F. Will. But those two groups are not exactly the strong foundation on which Republican presidential primary fights are won.
Ditto for Daniels’ now famous (or infamous) call for a “truce” on social issues until the economic turmoil in the country has passed. (Daniels made the comments in a profile piece by the Weekly Standard.)
Rather than backing down amid the hubbub the remarks caused among social conservatives, Daniels effectively doubled down — reiterating his belief in the need to put economic issues above all others in a series of recent interviews.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 14, 2011 10:04 AM
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