Palin beware?

[Gob]

Washington, D.C. — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Friday summoned frustrated Americans to join together in a broad coalition to set the nation on a healthier fiscal and economic course.

But Daniels, a Republican quietly weighing a presidential candidacy, did so in a cerebral call-to-arms by also asking a select audience of conservatives to welcome non-ideologues into the tent.

“We must be the vanguard of recovery, but we cannot do it alone,” Daniels told about 500 attending a banquet at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

“We have learned in Indiana, big change requires big majorities,” the second-term governor and former Bush administration budget director said. “We will need people who never tune in to Rush or Glenn or Laura or Sean. Who surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter. Who, if they’d ever heard of CPAC, would assume it was a cruise ship accessory.”

The references were to conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. CPAC is the acronym for the three-day conference sponsored by the American Conservative Union, where several of the prospective 2012 GOP presidential candidates have appeared.

Daniels touted accomplishments in Indiana such as an increase in school choice, tax cuts and health savings accounts. And he proposed for the nation changes in Social Security and Medicare that would give younger Americans different options when they need the entitlement programs, which are aimed at seniors.

“Medicare 2.0 should restore to the next generation the dignity of making their own decisions, by delivering its dollars directly to the individual, based on financial and medical need, entrusting and empowering citizens to choose their own insurance and, inevitably, pay for more of their routine care like the discerning, autonomous consumers we know them to be,” he said, prompting a standing ovation.

The speech was a breakthrough moment for Daniels, who has hinted more in recent months that he is entertaining a 2012 campaign.

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/ ... coalition/

Ok, as we have a pretty broad political spectrum from the USA here, all the way from the loony left to the barmy right, what does the hive mind of Plan B think this guys chances are folks?

[Mr. Duality]

Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll. I would wager that no one who ever won a CPAC straw poll ever became President. Just having been included in that poll could be a handicap in a nationwide election. I never heard of Mitch Daniels before, so he has quite an uphill battle to fight regarding name recognition.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02 ... poll-cpac/

[Gob]

BBC article on the contenders for Repubby candidate.

[Timster]

Honestly. Who gives a fuck about the fixed game That IS two party politics any more?
Seriously, it is truly the illusion of free choice in America. Period.

Only the blind and myopic partisans can think that this system has a chance in hell of surviving in the next century.