By Ron Meyer
© 2011
So much for Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels being the last, best hope for fiscal conservatives in 2012.
Daniels was my choice for the 2012 Republicannominationuntil I heard an interview RealClearPolitics.com dug upfrom his days as political director for the Reagan White House. Imagine the individual mandate morphed with the public option, and that’s what Daniels supported in 1987.
When Robert Novak, famed journalist and cohost of “Evans and Novak” on CNN, asked Daniels if federal health insurance for catastrophicillnessesshould be a GOP agenda item, he replied, “I sure do, and I’m glad you asked.”
If Gov. Mitt Romney should lose hiscredentialsas a fiscal conservative for instituting an individual mandate and aninsurance programto cover the poor in Massachusetts, Daniels ought to lose hiscredentialsfor trying to nationalize health insurance.
Short statureand a receding hairline aren’t Daniels’ only obstacles to thenomination. He must explain how someone who supports free-market economics could ever be in favor of socialized insurance.
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