He's fiscally OK, too much a County Club Republican and a "Lugy" (like Richard Lugar). Mitch Daniels’ speech to CPAC

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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels
February 11, 2011 Remarks
Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner
Conservative Political Action Conference
Washington, D.C.

Phyllis Schlafly, David Keene, George Will, good friends, thank you for the enormous privilege of this podium. Even a casual observer of American public life knows how many great ideas have been born here, how many important debates joined here, how many giants of our democracy appeared on this platform. When David broached the invitation, my first reaction was one I often have: “Who cancelled?” But first choice or fifteenth, the honor, and the responsibility to do the occasion justice, is the same. I am seized with the sentiment best expressed by Hizzoner, the original Mayor Richard Daley, who once proclaimed a similar honor the “pinochle of success.”

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Mitch Daniels tells CPAC to defeat the ‘new red menace’
Daniels’ speech wasn’t unrelenting in its seriousness. He zinged Obama over his Nobel Peace Prize and said the EPA should be renamed the “Employment Prevention Agency.” He called the fiscal crisis of our nation our “raison debt,” to chuckling from the audience.
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