Mitch Daniels is the darling of the Rockefeller Republican elites. He is touted as some kind of policy wonk. In reality he is a man with no backbone. His wife dumped him for another man and he begged her back. Eventually she did and he acted like everything was OK.  He backed down to the Labor Unions recently over a Right to Work law. In short,Mitch Daniels is  a man without a spine and would be easy meat for The Progressive machine. He is no Conservative and is a Progressive Republican.

During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan proposed to abolish the Department of Education entirely to reduce the budget deficit and allow states to manage their own education affairs.  In the 2000s, President Bush and Mitch Daniels greatly increased the Department of Education’s budget and the degree of federal involvement in education.  And the results are dismal: the high school dropout rate, for example is 30%.

Daniels started the year 2011 with a good idea — a proposed right-to-work law — and then backed down after Democrats boycotted the state legislature.  But Daniels needs to realize that if he’s elected president, Democrats will often behave this way; they will not hesitate to do anything to sabotage conservative policies and the democratic political process.  How can conservatives trust such a man if he backs down under Democratic pressure?  When air traffic controllers went on strike, Ronald Reagan sacked them all.

“My man Mitch” also believes in anthropogenic global warming and that humanity needs to act urgently to stop it.  As documented at AT and elsewhere, including in numerous books, anthropogenic global warming is a fraud designed to transfer vast sums of wealth from developed countries to developing ones and from urban American taxpayers to Midwestern farmers. Daniels also supports a tax on imported oil, which would only hike gasoline prices.

Mitch Daniels lets his wife and Labor Unions walk all over him. How will he stand up to our adversaries.