Students Run Ad Urging Mitch Daniels to Run for President

One of the first ads of the 2012 Republican presidential primary is for a candidate who has yet to jump in the race.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is term-limited out of office this year, has generated presidential buzz for a while, though he has yet to make a decision on a presidential bid.

That isn't stopped Students for Mitch Daniels, a political action committee founded by Yale student and former Obama supporter Max Eden, from launching an ad urging Daniels to run. The ad is slated to air in Iowa and New Hampshire -- two early-nominating states -- as well as Indiana. The ad will run during this Sunday's NFL Pro Bowl, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the 30-second ad, a young woman bemoans meeting "this guy" a couple years ago.

"He told me he was different. He bought me a car, he even subsidized my medical insurance," she says, referring to President Obama's "cash for clunkers" program and health care reform.

"Everything was perfect. Until I got my credit card bill," she continues. "It turned he was spending all of my money!" (According to the Congressional Budget Office, the health care reform legislation actually saves $230 billion over a decade.)

The woman says the "new man" in her life is Mitch Daniels.

"He doesn't need to rely on fancy rhetoric or empty promises," she says. "You know what he's all about? Fiscal responsibility."

At the end of the ad, a narrator says, "Mitch Daniels did NOT approve this message. Tell him to."

The Journal reports that Daniels laughed when told about the ad, saying, "That sounds pretty cute, actually" -- but he played down its reach.

The conservative buzz surrounding Daniels stems from his record as governor in Indiana, where he has kept the state in relatively sound fiscal condition with moves like reducing the number of state workers and raising sales taxes. He angered social conservatives, however, when he suggested a "truce" on social issues. Mike Huckabee, another potential 2012 contender, complained that Daniels' position was to "stop fighting to end abortion and don't make protecting traditional marriage a priority."

Daniels may have more incentive to jump into the race now that his fellow Indiana Republican, Rep. Mike Pence, has announced he's not running for president. A favorite among social conservatives, Pence was also considered a possible presidential contender but is now expected to run for governor.

[nomdithewh]

He hates teachers. He lies. I am a conservative and I will never vote for him again. I am sorry Indiana for voting for him twice. I will say he is intelligent, but I am tired of the lies and hate speech towards teachers. On the news this morning he said that teachers were wanting more money. Not true, we don't believe that public dollars should fund charter schools. How is that asking for more money? So, his answer to education is to destroy the "union" and to make the teacher the enemy. I haven't joined my teacher's union because of the NEA and a few other differences. All though I haven't belonged I feel the hatred that the Daniels and his sidekick, Bennet has darted towards teachers. I have decided to join the union because of this *******. One more thing...don't think for a moment that the charter school legislation is about education...it is about money! Bennet's wife just resigned from her position with the charter schools...conflict of interest? Furthermore if vouchers pass, the state will pocket a lot of money! Oh what...the public believes that the state is going to let the money follow the child! If you apply and qualify, you only get a portion of it. So, your money doesn't really follow your child if the new bills get passed. The voucher system will also shut down unaccredited private Christian schools, many of which are doing a great job. Read the bill people.

[iolo--2008]

why would some character who looks/acts like a lower middle-class streetwalker be a good spokesperson for a politician?

is this a riddle of some sort?

[iolo--2008]

"a sorority queen!", and at yale!

why didn't i think of that? I should have known, the way she tossed that hair around - those neck gestures! very, very collegiate.

what do you suppose she had to do as a pledge? Do they still call it 'hell week'?
I won't ask how the rest of the sisterhood looks, since she's 'the queen'.

which beau from which frat do you suppose she will hold down in wedlock and raise monsters with?
and will they vote following their mother's lead? or will they rebel? and will attendance at yale be hereditary by then?

So... it's been a few days now - who you suppose is the new man in her life today?

... and reading between the lines... who was paying off that credit card before she hooked that man a while back??

inquiring minds want to know

[iolo--2008]

A student at Yale???
???
is that a J.C. or C.C. somewhere? else?

prove it - then, i of course apologize to her personally- but not to the character she played - we can assume the separation of the two

-or- i could make some scathing comment about the quality of Yale's undergrads - although she looks a bit old to be undergrad, but maybe she's a non-traditional (age group) student - i certainly was

you have to admit she talks like a real grown up valley girl

would you date that character and trust her with anything important to you?

[akaplan84]

http://www.ivygateblog.com/2011/01/yale-sorority-queen-stars-in-political-ad-to-air-during-nfl-pro-bowl/

[iolo--2008]

1st things first - that girl looks like she would go with anybody - it wouldn't matter what you promised her or whether you delivered or not, she would screw it up - she's a sofa, a couch, as well as a couch-potato - but OK - I know it's an AD. SO IT"S ALL A LIE ANYWAY
-next-
we can only hope - or is it that our only hope is -that the next candidate(s) will attract those who realize that governance requires someone who can think, not just someone who will wave her boobs in our face and we'll get all fuzzy and forgiving until everything's really aflame and even dipsticks realize it was close to too late well before now: NOR does help for us lie with someone who uses a bunch of sports analogies NOR someone who doesn't "believe" in government, but does believe in floods and ends of worlds and 2nd or 3rd comings, et c, et c

Democracy has to mean rule by the intelligent and educated, in a land where everyone who has the will to it has access to education.
It does not mean, it cannot mean, rule of the boobs, or rule by the couch-potatoes or rule by the jocks - which way do you think it would work better?

this, of course is only an abbreviated version of my full reasoning on this subject

[akaplan84]

the girl in the ad is a senior at yale.

[Birdman04]

It was plenty long enough to bore us into submission. Keep your day job.
It would have made much more sense if you had just kept silent.

[noloyalisti]

Keep in mind that pretty much whatever a Republican says, IT IS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. When they say they are fiscally responsible it is because they are NOT. When they say they are for the working people it is because they are NOT. When they say they want peace, it is NOT. When they say they want to help American families it is because they want to steal from them and give to the rich (Because the rich are good, that is why they are rich). And that means poor people are bad and evil. For whatever reason, it does not matter.

[Regensburger]

As amazing as it is how Republicans construct alternate realities out of untruths like "Obama is spending, spending, spending," providing no facts to back their assertions up--indeed, as the article points out, the truth is the exact opposite--it's even more amazing that college students could get caught up in the lies and alternate reality. Are they really so non-idealistic these days, and only interested in money, that a student who clearly didn't vote for Obama would lie about it? Because anyone who did should know that Obama is anything but the "tax and spend liberal" that conservatives knee-jerkingly, and without evidence, make him out to be.

[noloyalisti]

Conservatives need power, that makes them good. If you are good it is OK to lie and steal because you are good. If you steal from the people and then they have nothing, then they are bad. Whatever bad people say doesn't matter. Whatever good people say doesn't matter even if they lie.

[furrypedestrian]

I live in indiana and he's been the governer here for as long as i have been old enough to follow politics (i'm only 22) but as far as i can tell he's done a great job, although i dont have another governer to compare him to, adressing the points in the article: it says he raised sales tax, yes he did but only by 1% which doesnt make much of a difference to us consumers but it seemed to help the state alot, also as stated he doesnt put much rhetoric into anything, he is a "this needs to be done for this reason" guy, if he were to run he would definitely have my support

[tregarde]

You think he's done a great job because you're too young to remember that there didn't used to be bogus jobs on the official, state-funded job search site, you used to be able to talk to a human being if you had a problem with your state unemployment or whatever else instead of having to do everything on the web, and it used to be considered a bad thing to let a foreign country lease a toll road. And a 1% sales tax is a lot in a state that also has income tax. My family pays more in state taxes than we do in federal taxes.

[furrypedestrian]

@tregarde, before i say anything else i want to say im not defending or attacking here because as i said i have no one to compare him to and i am still young,i realize these things, but it doesnt change that i still feel he's done a great job considering the things i hear from other states, and we do have income tax also (although fed IS more than state here), but he didnt raise income taxes only sales tax, which is (IMO) why it worked out so well, it was something small that didnt make much of a difference to people here, also havent had to worry about unemployment, i've been lucky enough to hold on to my job (albeit a crappy one in a warehouse $7/hr but its a job) again i have no comparison but in my opinion hes still done a pretty great job considering comments ive seen from people in other states and family in other states, just tryin to put my firsthand info forth on this topic

[furrypedestrian]

I live in indiana and he's been the governer here for as long as i have been old enough to follow politics (i'm only 22) but as far as i can tell he's done a great job, although i dont have another governer to compare him to, adressing the points in the article: it says he raised sales tax, yes he did but only by 1% which doesnt make much of a difference to us consumers but it seemed to help the state alot, also as stated he doesnt put much rhetoric into anything, he is a "this needs to be done for this reason" guy, if he were to run he would definitely have my support

[Rational_Thought]

I dont know anything about this guy other than what is in this article. However, based on that, it looks like the conservatives are trying to find someone who is pro-choice, pro-gay, and pro-tax...uh, OK. So whats the problem with Obama? He's passed the most economically smart and socio-economically important piece of legislation in a generation (The Health Care bill), he's kept the economy alive through a republican-driven, deregulation-caused recession, and he has kept his promise to end DADT, among many other promises i never thought he could fulfill. He's the most productive President (with the possible exception of Clinton) since Nixon (who was very productive and did a lot of good things for the country and the world before he fell on his face with Watergate).

Oh let me guess, he didnt write you a check for a couple hundred bucks like GWB, or tell stupid jokes and miss the nuance of every single issue he was confronted with like Reagan, so you dont like him?

The only thing about conservative politics that prevents me from utterly despising its proponents is the fact that i know they cant help it - fear-driven politics is a genetic trait. Its not that they refuse to use reason to make decisions, its that they are unable to do so; emotions drive these people, and we just have to learn how to cope with it.