Mitch Daniels and the CPAC Moment

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American Spectator:

Is Indiana governor Mitch Daniels running for president? That was one question on the minds of some of the 11,000 people who attended the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend.

Daniels went to the CPAC and gave a terrific one-legged stool presidential campaign address. The minimum number of legs for a stool, however, as many people from the state of Indiana know -- Indiana has 154,000 milking cows -- is three.

Daniels gave a sober, but not somber, 31-minute speech which was interrupted by applause 42 times. Flown in from Indiana on a friend's plane, Daniels was relaxed, poised, Teleprompted, and, yes, presidential, in part because a teleprompter prompts people to think of presidents.

Daniels summed up his economic philosophy early on: "We [Hoosiers] believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual -- we spend less money than we take in."