Actually, Daniels made himself look foolish with baseless attacks on Obama’s, “new age socialism” gibberish. Mitch made the claim;

In three short years, an unprecedented explosion of spending, with borrowed money, has added trillions to an already unaffordable national debt.

This is just more regurgitated nonsense that has no credence. The real culprit of the debt is the tax cuts for the wealthy, which didn’t work, which Daniels himself was Bush’s budget director. Daniels went on to say;

In word and deed, the President and his allies tell us that we just cannot handle ourselves in this complex, perilous world without their benevolent protection. Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

So, like the debt silliness, where the hell in a real world other than GOP lunacy did that come from? The Affordable Care Act, regardless of how many times one repeats the lie, allows one to choose their coverage. Light bulbs? The energy legislation easily passed the House and Senate in 2007 and was promptly signed by GWB. So now it’s Obama telling us what kind of bulb to buy???? And, Obama wants to chose our schools and tell us here we can borrow money????? I guess if you just roll multiple lies into one great big lie then it’s only one lie??
And I could just nitpick his gibberish to death. Let’s get real here. <bockquote"Steve Jobs created more American jobs than the Recovery ActThe bank bailout saved more jobs than Apple has employed. Just a fact.
Daniels spews that Obama made the economy worse. In what world? Anyone of any reasonable intellect has to roll their eyes at that as some desperation filler. Hell, even Romney agrees it’s gotten better but he just doesn’t want to assign credit to Obama.
Daniels parrots Lindsey Graham’s “U.S turning into Grease” which has been dismissed by even many of the GOP as shear fear mongering.
We expect this out of Romney because he’s a compulsive liar. It’s commonplace to hear Newt talk this way because like Paul, Bachmann, et al, he’s bat shit crazy. But I thought Daniels was suppose to be a notch above, a more prominent figure, or perhaps one of the sane members of the GOP. These unhinged and ridiculous statements puts Daniels in the GOP candidate category that Joe Klein called a “dim-witted freak show,” when he was pushing Daniels to run as he wouldn’t appear like a “public clown.”
When Daniels claimed Obama supports “a pro-poverty policy”, I was almost wondering if some saneness would prevail and he’d add something like “and I say this because as you can see, I really have nothing, the GOP has nothing, honesty has no place in our party, we know you’re not really smart people, and we really just don’t like Obama”. That would have at least given him a back some respect.