Now that Mitch Daniels seems almost ready to announce a presidential bid, people are scouring Lexis/Nexis to find evidence of conservative heresies. The search for his remarks on health care have so far produced only one damaging quote -- from a piece in the South Bend Tribune during his gubernatorial bid -- which seemed to indicate support for an individual health-care mandate. It was an indirect quote, so Daniels has been able to deflect it, but the consensus is that Daniels should have a team scouring his history to find anything damaging before an opponent or the press does:
The base is already suspicious of him, I think, especially given his ostentatious support among the dreaded Republican elite, so any bombshell revelations in his past involving conservative heresies will do major damage, needless to say. You don't suppose Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty have 10 or 20 or 1,000 people digging on him right now, do you?
The linked piece also includes a clip from 2009 with Daniles saying he wouldn't subject himself or his familu to "the savagery of presidential politics." T
