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Oct. 20, 2004 With Mitch Daniels sweating bullets and only two weeks left to go until Hoosier voters pull the levers - or tap the screens - in support of either the former White House Budget Director or Democratic Governor Joe Kernan, it’s no wonder Daniels has begun to pull out all the stops. Daniels was quoted at the final gubernatorial debate as saying, “I've taken every opportunity I could to say that the governor and his people are good people.” Perhaps the slew of attack ads and character smears he’s launched to counter his eroding - and in some case vanishing - poll numbers are just mirages. It’s not unlikely: so much about Mitch Daniels has turned out to be a mirage lately. My Man Mitch, as he’s known to his supporters (who, for good measure, have attacked the Kernan Administration for shipping Hoosier jobs overseas while producing those fine green shirts in Mexico), seems to know no low. At the debate, Daniels said , “If you let me lower the bar enough, eventually I'm going to be a great high jumper.” Well, he’s doing a fine job of that. The subject of Daniels’ ire? Various ads telling Hoosiers about his involvement in shipping jobs out of state when he voted to sell IPALCO, and his time in Washington when he lobbied Congress to keep drug prices high. He calls them negative. Are they really negative if it’s the truth? Mitch assisted President Bush in a flip-flop of epic proportions earlier this week when he commented about how picking up prescription drugs from Canada to lower drug prices is dangerous to the pocketbook and the health of Hoosiers. Just a day or two later, Bush announced that, because of poor planning in the White House, we would be getting some of our lacking flu vaccines from Canada. Mitch, of course, was silent. When Governor Kernan implied that it was odd for someone who had made a life out of bilking Hoosiers out of their savings/jobs/pills, Daniels was almost so apoplectic he could barely speak. “Governor, you called me in your ads greedy, you've called me untrustworthy, you said I don't know the difference between right and wrong,” Daniels said. Yeah, I’d say Kernan hit it right on the head. So would most of the families who lost their life savings when IPALCO went out of state. So would the people who trusted Mitch Daniels with the biggest surplus in history, and left him to squander it. So would the people who listened to him talk about decency while ignoring his arrest for drug possession - LSD, among other things - at Princeton University. When Mitch Daniels talks about how he can help bring Indiana jobs while making his own campaign shirts in Mexico; When Mitch Daniels can talk about how he can help the Hoosier economy after raiding Social Security and Medicare and still tanking the national economy; When Mitch Daniels can preach ethics while swindling Hoosier workers out of their jobs, their paychecks, their retirement funds, that’s the day I fear for Indiana. As Governor Kernan so aptly put it: When Mitch Daniels speaks, “Consider the source.” ------------ About the author: Max Burns is a 17-year-old conservative Democrat, writer, pollster, pundit and aspiring Indiana politician. He currently is an intern (unpaid) with Indiana Democratic Party and writes for The Progressive Voice). Read the fantasy-fiction novel "Alcardia". Email: DeMBurns@gmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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