Is Mitch Daniels the GOP’s savior? In this year of continued publicity about the Tea Party movement and members of the Republican Party’s increasingly more conservative base, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that there is a Republican Party establishment — and a most assuredly still strong Bush wing of the GOP. Plus, there are Republicans or independent voters who might vote Republican if they were offered a candidate who didn’t talk as if he/she was writing bumper stickers for NewsMax.com or as if he/she is barfing up the latest talking points from Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity’s shows.
The name that keeps popping up for Republicans who aren’t smitten with some of the choices offered so far and some of the ones that were choices (D-o-n-a-l-d T-r-u-m-p) is Mitch Daniels.
is Mitch Daniels the GOP’s savior? Here’s a good roundup that provides food for (political) thought.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.