Mitch Daniels for Senate in 2004!
Kurt Schlichter
| Jan 16, 2023
Indiana politics is probably, maybe, very important to … Indianans (Indians? Warrrenses?), but this sturdy Midwest flyover state is rarely the battlefield for an important fight for the direction of the GOP and the country. Today is an exception. With its current senator, Republican Mike Somebody, going home to be governor, the Senate seat will be open in 2024 and folks are gearing up to run. The race is important because who gets nominated and wins will help define the direction of the Republican Party. Will it be someone who knows what time it is, or someone whose watch stopped about the time W was wrecking the GOP brand?
I would like to announce my endorsement of Mitch Daniels for Indiana senator in 2004. At 73, he’s the perfect blend of mediocrity and self-sabotaging pseudo-principle for that miserable era. But in 2024, not a chance in hell. I’ll stick with based, vigorous 43-year-old Rep. Jim Banks, despite him being a Navy officer instead of a member of the decisive military branch that is the Army, because he represents a future of aggressive pushback instead of the weak, decline-management model embodied by Mitch Bush. I mean Daniels. Mitch Daniels. AKA Hoosier Jeb! – please clap.
Mitch is on the cutting edge of two-decade old Republicanism, the soft, gooey Buick Republicanism represented by perpetual losers like Mitt Romney and zero-for-five RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel (You can help end her reign of ennui by going to
www.HireHarmeet.com). Think of him as Mike Pence without the pizazz. Mitch is a life member of the GOPs Margaret Dumont wing, fussy and failed. Mitch Daniels will clutch pearls. We need Republicans who will clutch throats. The era of insipid “bridge-building” and going AWOL in the culture war (he also did not serve in a war war – Jim Banks’s real-world experience serving his country overseas is exactly what we need right now) is over. That all ended in 2016. Why dig up this time capsule from a time of failure?
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