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April 19, 2012

EDITORIAL: A match of Mitt and Mitch?

Daniels finally makes way into Romney camp

Not every Indiana governor’s endorsement of a presidential candidate has made instant national news as did Mitch Daniels’ support for Mitt Romney on Wednesday. And it’s more than the cyber-instancy of an Internet-obsessed world that made the endorsement resound. It’s that Daniels, like him or lump him, truly does hold sway in national politics unlike any of his recent predecessors. Even after deciding not to run for the presidency, our governor is a major player because of his accomplishments, intelligence, insistence and eloquence — described in a Wall Street Journal blog Wednesday afternoon as “the budget hawk who many Republicans hoped would run for president himself.”

Surprising no one, Daniels wrote of the presumed Republican nominee: “... Mitt Romney has proven that he understands what is at stake and is prepared to summon Americans to the changes that will restore the American Dream and our national greatness. I’ll do whatever I’m asked to help him.”

In an exchange of mutual-admiration-society quotes, Romney said of Daniels: “Governor Daniels shares my background in business, and he has used the principles of the private sector in government. … I am honored to have his support and look forward to working with him to fix our economy and get our country on the right track.”

The only thing at all surprising about the announcement, which was made live on Fox News, was its timing. We’re willing to make a $20 bet at an Indiana casino craps table that Romney has long been Daniels’ choice within the winnowing, self-eliminating field of Republicans seeking the nomination. Daniels says he waited, we trust as a courtesy, to make an endorsement until Rick Santorum withdrew from the race in case there were to be a closely contested primary on May 8 in Indiana.

Both Daniels’ and Romney’s statements will be parsed for hints about whether the endorsement signals anything about Daniels’ potential role in a Romney administration, should Romney defeat Barack Obama.

“It sounds a lot like a tryout for the #2 position [vice president] on the ticket,” conservative blogger and TV host Ed Morrissey said on hotair.com. “Fiscal conservatives who remain leery of Romney might feel more enthused if Daniels makes the argument for Mitt in the weeks between now and the convention,” Morrissey added.

When asked on Fox News about the vice presidency, Daniels said, “It won’t happen so we won’t take the audience’s time with it.”

Forgive us if we take that statement with a few thousand grains of salt, for it’s not clear how that statement squares with Daniels’ written I’ll-do-whatever-I’m-asked-to-help-him statement.

Neither would it surprise anyone if Daniels ended up as Romney’s vice presidential choice or as a ranking member of the team should Romney win the Oval Office.

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