{"id":4051,"date":"2010-03-02T01:57:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:53:23","slug":"its-mitch-in-a-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4051\/its-mitch-in-a-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Mitch in a Pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to the media for casting their glance to a deserving corner of Middle America. While we&#8217;re still about 10 months from the 2012 presidential sweepstakes starting in earnest, an amazing amount of journalistic attention has been directed towards Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels in recent days &#8212; this despite the fact that Daniels has probably been<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/33561.html\" target=\"_blank\"> the most reticent of all potential GOP contenders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can generate plaudits from National Review&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/26\/why_mitch_daniels_is_on_the_2012_short_list.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mona Charen<\/a>, Newsweek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/234178\/page\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Eleanor Clift<\/a>, and the New York Times&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/01\/opinion\/01douthat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Douthat<\/a> in the course of a week deserves a serious look. It also helps if that same individual can make <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704231304575091600470293066.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion\">principled, fact-driven cases for market-based policies<\/a>, come off as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oNy7Dz_1OzI\" target=\"_blank\">more decent than any other politician on the continent<\/a>, and give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/portal\/news_events\/38894.htm\">the best political speech o<\/a>f the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Before Republicans begin their usual coronation of the next candidate in line, Mitch Daniels deserves consideration commensurate with his tremendous record as a public servant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to the media for casting their glance to a deserving corner of Middle America. While we&#8217;re still about 10 months from the 2012 presidential sweepstakes starting in earnest, an amazing amount of journalistic attention has been directed towards Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels in recent days &#8212; this despite the fact that Daniels has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,915,913,916,666],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-eleanor-clift","tag-mitch-daniels","tag-mona-charen","tag-ross-douthat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}