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Mitch Daniels: ‘At Peace’ With Decision Not to Run for President, Deflects VP Speculation

Posted on August 21, 2011 at 3:56pm by Madeleine Morgenstern
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said he’s “at peace” with his decision not to join the GOP presidential field.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Daniels reiterated his earlier statements that his choice not to run was a family decision, and said he has no intention of reconsidering.

“This race can do fine without me,” he said.

Deflecting speculation about whether he would ever agree to be someone’s running mate, Daniels said it’s “such a far-fetched question” that he doesn’t answer it.

But as far as the current crop of candidates goes, Daniels said he thinks the campaign is off to a good start.

“Those are good people with a lot of character and a lot of them I think have the right skill set to be president,” Daniels said, noting that he would campaign for whichever candidate ultimately gets the Republican nomination.

At the same time, he said, there’s nothing wrong with more people entering the field, saying it’s “a more the merrier situation” to find the best candidate to beat President Barack Obama for re-election next year.

Whoever the nominee is, Daniels said he hopes he hopes they will have an inclusive message.

“I personally hope that our party wil speak the lang of unity,” Daniels said. “We don’t need to bash the president — the failure of what he’s done for this country is pretty obvious to us all.”

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We the people of the republic
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 2:34am
The Blaze apparently will not post my negitve comments on IN and South Bend. so I’ll just warn ALL OF YOU…DO NOT MOVE TO THIS SOCIALIST COMMUNIST STATE…EXPECIALLY SOUTH BEND!!
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STFU
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:22pm
I’m totally at peace with his decision, too.

This guy was as appealing as a bag of wet bread.
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Daddymac10
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 1:06am
He sound like a robot during that interview..
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blue_sky
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 6:41pm
I agree with CNN and Rasmussen polls that Ron Paul is the strongest candidate to beat Obama since he brings lots of independents and anti-war democrats on board. After Bush=Obama central planning of economy (playing with interest rates, money supply, whom to bail-out – whom to fail, etc) and endless wars, people need some sanity – sound money, return of the capital that fled to China back to USA, jobs, meritocracy.

Only Ron Paul brings real issues to the table. The rest only demagogue for “small government” while growing the government power through Pentagon, CIA, TSA, Entitlements of all sorts to their special interest groups.

That is why active duty US military donate more to Ron Paul than to other GOP candidates COMBINED. That is why bankers and lobbyists do not give Ron Paul a penny, while people just this weekend collected $1,560,000 for his birthday in small donations of $20.12
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:07pm
  No thanks, I don’t worship at the alter of the kook
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s66bTshO1jM&feature=related
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- blue_sky
  Posted on August 22, 2011 at 1:27am
  RepubliCorp, funny that you mentioned. You do.
  In your case, instead of Individual Liberty and sound money, your “kook” is special interests, endless un-winnable wars, paper money. More of the same Bush=Obama, most people are tired of.
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- rodamaa
  Posted on August 22, 2011 at 7:18am
  Curious, you seem to worship big government. An idea that has never worked. Big government is like a cancer. The more it grows the less efficient and then becomes destructive. We’re witnessing that now. I don’t agree with everything Ron brings to the table but we are much more alike than we are different.
  
  For my part, I will keep a relative open mind and listen to the issues. One thing is for sure, I will vote for my old broom in the basement before I vote for Obama or any other nut-job trying to usurp power and his thinly veil attempts to destroy the American way of life.
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roadhog
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 5:16pm
He Had no Chance in Hell of winning.
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- Applehead
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 5:39pm
  I thought he was awful on Meet The Press with Savannah Guthrie! He totally ***** out defending conservatives issues with the lame Savannah sounding like the true liberal she is! Rick Perry did the right thing calling Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke treasonist! He said he shouldn’t of used those terms! This is why were in the mess were in! Republicans backing down from bold true statements that liberal take the bite out of by criticizing as hate speech! Progressives say much much worse that doesn’t have a shred of truth to it! BB is trying to destroy the dollar and force us into a One World Currency and ruin our economy! They have caused more problems over the years that any other entity! Mitch Daniels is a typical softy like the Speaker of the House! We need to get these guy out of here bc America is sinking fast!
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- becker88
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 6:16pm
  Who is this guy? He would not have made it far.
  
  http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
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Indymaverick
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 5:15pm
When we win the election in 2012 I hope Mitch is on advisory board with whoever wins to get this country back on track.
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GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 5:14pm
Establishment types need not apply. PERIOD.
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cologoddess
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 5:01pm
I‘m glad he is ’at peace’ with his decision… because I’M NOT! I was terribly disappointed and still am damn angry… mostly at his Wife. Mitch had done EXACTLY what D.C. needs to do.. and if you say he has zero charisma.. then you clearly have not seen him speak. Read his record of accomplishments in Indiana….. He would have made an excellent Candidate. The GOP “establishment” did NOT want him because he said he would not make “social issues” his primary focus… once again – exactly what the GOP SHOULD DO… but noooooooooooooooooooooo. So now we a loon like Bachman who thinks Gays can be “converted” into being Straight… sigh……… aarrgghh!
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megansmom
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 4:12pm
Good for mitch. not everyone needs to run but he’s wrong about Obama bashing: We need to keep his failures at the front of every one’s campaigns. And to stop bashing other GOP candidates so much.
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IMPrepared
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 4:05pm
Mitch Who?
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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 4:08pm
  If his remark was “this race can do fine without me”…then I’m glad he did not waste my time or anyone elses…the attitude should be “can the country do fine without me, or am I the one the American people need to get things back on track.”
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- drattastic
  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 4:41pm
  Mitch ,you know the guy with zero charisma. The first one the establishment tried to force on us this election cycle.
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