The line that ensures Mitch Daniels will never be President: [View all]

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

"The war in Iraq will cost $50-60 billion"

Then we have the rest of the Bush economic policy he crafted. Doesn't look too good for him, does it?

Put it this way, I'm unsure as to why so many 'establishment' Republicans are hoping that this man will make a late entry into the race, and even more flabbergasted that some on this very forum worry that he'd be an opponent of almost uncanny strength. First of all, he'd go down like a wet fart, splitting the 'moderate' Romney vote and handing Gingrich the nomination on a silver platter.

Next, let's say he was somehow engineered into the nomination. Consider that he sounds "sane" by GOOP standards not because he has great ideas, but because he is really fucking boring. I'm sorry, but that's just a fact.

So we've got:

Bushaggage, including a frankly scandalous estimate of the financial impact of Iraq.

He is REALLY boring. I mean, you could roll the most charismatically challenged aspects of Al Gore 2000 Edition, John Kerry, Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis into a big doughy ball and you have a candidate with three times the magnetism of Daniels.

He is REALLY short. Not just short, but really, really weedy, with his hair transplant and shrunken head only compounding his lame appearance. He would probably look Presidential if you gave him seven inches, a more convincing hair job and inflated his head a bit.

He would be a remarkably inept candidate; at least in failed Democratic candidates they usually got half of it right, but Daniels is that rare major league politician who manages to lack charisma AND look like a complete wuss. He just comes across as this kind of risible man, and that in conjunction with his Bushaggage would send him careening to a Mondalian defeat.

Even Gingrich would do better right now, given his ability to get the rabids foaming at the mouth. Daniels couldn't, and Obama would be a dreadful head-to-head match up him, the absolute worst.