Mitch Daniels

1:00 PM, Sep 28, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Chris Christie gave an impressive speech at the Reagan Library last night. But by far the most interesting moment was an exchange from the question and answer session.

Mitch Daniels during Indianapolis Navy Week Aug 2006

5:19 PM, Sep 26, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Although Indiana governor Mitch Daniels would like to see his New Jersey counterpart run for president, Daniels said today that he doesn't see any signs Chris Christie will change his mind. “I personally didn’t press him, so I have nothing to report,” Daniels said of his meeting last Thursday with Christie. “I saw no evidence that he’s going to change his mind.”

11:49 AM, Sep 26, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Matthew Continetti writes that Mitch Daniels's new book, Keeping the Republic, is unfortunately "a campaign book with no candidate."

2:01 PM, Sep 23, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Lots of interesting e-mails on the boss’s “Yikes.” This one, from a Republican who has held high elective office, is worth noting:

Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, Jim Jordan, and Bill Bennett encourage Ryan to run for president.

11:31 AM, Aug 17, 2011 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES

As Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan comes to a final decision about running for president, several top national conservatives are encouraging him to join the race. Ryan, who has been seriously but quietly considering a presidential bid for several months, is expected to decide on a run in the next two weeks.

Indiana governor Mitch Daniels hopes he runs. “If there were a Paul Ryan fan club, I'd be a national officer,” Daniels said in a phone interview Wednesday morning.

10:56 AM, Jul 28, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Indiana governor and budget hawk Mitch Daniels, who dubbed debt "the new red menace" during his CPAC speech this year, supports the Boehner plan:

7:00 PM, Jul 19, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Ben Smith: "Report: NRSC, Obama donor arrested as Pakistan agent"

Time: "Reporter Accosted After Bachmann Comments on Migraines" (and it wasn't THE WEEKLY STANDARD's John McComack!)

1:36 PM, Jun 23, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

A CBS affiliate in Terre Haute reports:

5:32 PM, Jun 22, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

There are currently at 800 Medicaid providers that can provide patients with family planning services in the state of Indiana, but you wouldn't know it by this "report" by the Associated Press's Rick Callahan.

Poor people are "fending for themselves," according to the AP, now that the state has cut off taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider. The AP's Callahan writes:

7:30 AM, May 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

"The remaining candidates, in essence, are still running against Mr. Daniels’s ghost."

"Obama’s speech doesn’t sway some key donors"

"Obama: 'It has always been my view that I should ask for proper authorization after the period specified by law'"

But others will enter.

6:33 AM, May 22, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Not running: Mike Huckabee, the 2008 runner-up; John Thune, the likeliest candidate from the Senate, the body that has produced the out-party candidate in 2008, 2004, and 1996; Mike Pence, who could lay as much claim as anyone to represent the conservative movement; and Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels, effective two-term governors with impressive D.C. experience as well.

7:30 AM, May 19, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

"Schumer: You’re damn right we’ll use Gingrich’s criticism of Ryan against the GOP"

"GOP elite see Mitch Daniels as 2012 savior"

Iowahawk: "'Justice'? I Spit on Your 'Justice'"

3:24 PM, May 13, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Erin McPike at RealClearPolitics reports that, following a big fundraising speech by Mitch Daniels's wife, the Indiana governor kicked back with some college students who are asking him to run for president: