second-place irrelevant at the straw poll fair. well, he is infastant front-runner if he runs. what? he is a tea party s dream in many ways. david brody of the christian broadcast network called him tea evangelical, and it is a good one. and they were trying for chris christie and mitch daniels and if you look at the profile candidate, rick perry fits it in a long way, and he has a positive record on economic growth and so forth, and in many ways he has the gravitas, but he has the texas swagger which he has to shake off. and dee dee, the excitement that you heard in the conservative intellectuals about rick perry that you heard about chris christie, and they like him and respect him, but then they sit there and say, weak
mitch daniels and midnight e-mail, my phone was going off around midnight last night with alerts, mitch daniels is out. this is bizarre, you don t see midnight, saturday night e-mails regarding a very high profile candidate, but again the second straight sunday we re talking a high profile governor, last weekend it was huckabee and now, here is why, mch daniels says he s out, counsel and encouragement i received interest important citizens like you caused me to think deeply about becoming a national candidate and in the end i was able to resolve every competing consideration, but one the interests and wishes of my family is the most important consideration of all. if i have disappointed you, i will always be sorry. he has some family history that would be brought up. his wife sherry left him back in 1993, moved to california, married a different guy and then came back and remarried