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Getting it wrong before he even gets to the Presidential starting gate:

Beyond the debt and the deficit, in Daniels’s telling, all other issues fade to comparative insignificance. He’s an agnostic on the science of global warming but says his views don’t matter. “I don’t know if the CO2 zealots are right,” he said. “But I don’t care, because we can’t afford to do what they want to do. Unless you want to go broke, in which case the world isn’t going to be any greener. Poor nations are never green.”

And then, he says, the next president, whoever he is, “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues. We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while,” until the economic issues are resolved…

To call a truce in the matter of social issues is to surrender them to the left – because they will never, ever call a truce. This is one of thing which burns me up about some Republicans – the way they don’t get it about the left: they are in it to win the whole ball of wax.

The left wants America to be a carbon-copy of Canada, or France. Everything controlled by government, moral depravity given public support, Christianity booted out of the public square (they wouldn’t even mention Christianity in the proposed European constitution – as if anyone can make any sense of Europe without a grasp of Christianity) and the people disarmed, welfare addicted and prevented from actually changing the way things are done in government. It is what they want and they will never call a truce and will never compromise – anything they get in negotiations is just one more step on the path to total victory.

Don’t get me wrong, the economic and fiscal crisis in the United States commands priority but nothing exists in isolation. You won’t be able to sustain a free market economy if you have a population on welfare. People who are waiting for their government checks are not likely to be much moved by appeals to individual responsibility. Daniels might win the battle for a tax cut – but he’ll lose the war unless the people have the internal grit necessary to take advantage of a low tax economic climate.

There is a triad of things we must do to rescue our nation:

1. Balance the budget, lower the tax burden.

2. De-fund the left – taking away the massive government subsidies to things like Planned Parenthood who undermine the very concept of freedom which makes a low-tax, low-regulation environment worth while.

3. Vigorously investigate all forms of political corruption in the United States.

None of these things can be done in isolation – success in any one of them requires success in the other two. We can’t balance the budget without de-funding the left; we can’t de-fund the left unless we expose the corruption whereby the left gains its government subsidies; we can’t investigate corruption unless we make it part of a general reform of government as opposed to something which could be cast as a political witch-hunt. All are necessary, all are connected and failure in any one of the three will mean that our nation’s story is told.

And Mitch Daniels wants to call a truce! That, in and of itself, shows that he’s not ready to be the sort of President we need. Competent he would be; he would get some good things done – but unless he fully engages in the entire battle to restore America, everything he does will be ultimately pointless.