Crazy Liberals, Trix are for Kids

For all the talk in the liberal blogosphere that Governor Mitch Daniels is now some how weakened because of the loss of Jon Costas at Monday’s convention, they seem to be unaware of the problems within their own party. I understand that when the Governor puts forth a candidate for AG, he would hope that person wins. But when you have two more than qualified candidates for the job, it’s nice to have choices. And the delegates were happy to have that option.

But allow me to say that, Costas’ defeat in the convention, hardly means trouble for Mitch in the fall. If Costas had won, then my guess is, there would have been trouble (but that’s another post for another time). What the liberals don’t understand, is that for all went on over the last few weeks, since Greg Zoeller is our candidate for AG, those who had a beef with Mitch are now mollified. It’s like a family squabble. Now that it’s resolved, we’re back to being a family and willing to move on.

See the Democrats can’t say that. They talk about Mitch Daniels being in trouble with his own party but don’t they have a candidate they didn’t want leading their statewide ticket? Didn’t they have 50%+ of their voting electorate (not just a small number of delegates) that said, “forget what the party told me, I’m voting for Jill!”? Plus, they have a gubernatorial candidate who they hate more than Mitch Daniels. She has more people turning her down to be her LG candidate than a fat Jared did dates before he went on his Subway diet. At this point, she’s probably looking at Town Councilors to be her running mate. And she’s getting no help from the party. Not that she would take it if they offered it to her.

Let’s take this a step further shall we.

(Read more after the leap)

Jill Long Thompson has been beaten three different times for higher office here in Indiana. And one of the people who led that first effort was…wait for it….Greg Zoeller when he led then Senator Dan Quayle to victory over one Jill Long. And let’s not forget she’s also lost to Mark Souder and Chris Chocola. So we have people who know how to beat her in November and in different ways.

But let’s be honest, will the Democrats put up much of a fight against Mitch Daniels when they have a candidate they don’t like, who can’t raise money and has a whole powerful faction of the party that won’t lift a finger for her? They could more effort into the AG’s race than they could their governor’s race.

They can talk all they want, but Republicans are excited about the ticket we have. We have a great leader in Mitch Daniels. It’s hard to ignore all the other states around us with Democrat leadership in the the Governor’s office and not notice how all those states are financially in the red with a couple of those Governor’s in legal trouble (Granholm, Michigan and Blagojevich, Illinois).

Is that what we want? I sure don’t, and I even willing to bet that there are some Democrats who don’t want that either. They just may not blog about it.