Oh, yeah, this is a really smart platform for Indiana Democrats in the fall election:
"You've seen the devil," he said of Daniels, after delegates had laughed at a 2004 Daniels campaign commercial that promised to stop the outsourcing of Indiana jobs. "To date, he's already signed $775 million in state contracts to out-of-state companies."Referring to Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous hunting accident, which wounded another hunter, Thurman said: "It should have been Mitch Daniels hunting with Dick Cheney."
On the other hand, some Democrats are urging that the party move beyond a "Ditch Mitch" theme, which makes sense, since the governor isn't, you know, actually running. There is this, for example:
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, who many Democrats hope will run for governor in 2008, said polls that show Daniels' and President Bush's approval ratings are down have left some Democrats with the illusion that "we will waltz to victory" this November."I don't believe that for a second," he said.Voters, Peterson said, want change and will support whomever they believe will make things better in their lives. That support is won, he said, by presenting a positive agenda with superior ideas, not negative campaigning.
A positive agenda with superior ideas? What the heck's he thinking? The man has no future in politics.
