• David Brody,  Laura Ingraham,  Mitch Daniels

    President 2012: Mitch Daniels Playing with Fire with Social Conservatives?

    Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels with President Bush in the Oval Office

    David Brody, CBN News White House Correspondent seems to think so.

    The other day on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Daniels re-iterated his call for a “truce” on social issues while America gets its economic house in order. He now says he’d like to “mute” those issues for a little while.

    Listen here.(You have to go 4 minutes into the clip to hear this) The transcription is below:

    “If you don’t accept that we face a republic-threatening issue in terms of the debt–and again I would love to conclude one day that I was overreacting–but that threatens every one of us whatever our views on these other questions. I would like to think that fixing it and saving our kids future could be a unifying moment for our country and we wouldn’t stop our disagreements or our passionate belief in these other questions, we just sort of mute them for a little while, while we try to come together on the thing that menaces us all.” (Laura Ingraham show 01/31/11).

    If Daniels gets in the race you can be sure that some other candidate is going to call him out on this. Whoever does it first will immediately endear himself or herself to social conservatives nationwide. Who’s going to do it?

    Yes, who will do it?

    Mike Huckabee could as a Baptist minister but he has his own problems with pardoning Arkansas criminals and calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard. So, it won’t be Huck, since I doubt he runs.

    Will it be Mitt Romney? Nope. Romney has flipped more than a fish out of the sea on social issues like abortion.

    Sarah Palin? Most of the social conservatives will be voting for Palin anyway but they may cool to her, when she cozies up to lesbian Tammy Bruce (A Palinista BFF) and her friends at GOProud who support repeal of DADT and Gay Marriage.

    Newt Gingrich? With his adultery baggage and the three marriages, very doubtful.

    No, the social conservatives may bitch and moan (like Laura Ingraham and Brody) but will come around and support Mitch when his campaign catches fire. He is socially conservative enough to appeal to them in the GOP but does not wear it on his sleeve – much like Ronald Reagan.