Ditch Mitch? Not Yet

Conventional wisdom holds that all the first string Republicans have too much baggage ergo it essential that Mitch Daniels enter the primary and provide the voters with a clean and unsullied choice. So far not much has surfaced in the way of scandal that would impede Daniels other than his wife, Cheri, taking a three year sabbatical from their marriage. Waiting for Daniels to enter the race are scores of questions about his tenure at Indianapolis based drug maker Eli Lilly. While he was serving as a senior executive, Lilly pleaded guilty to two criminal misdemeanors and paid $2.7 billion in fines and settled 32,000 personal injury law suits. No one person makes a decision either scientific or legal in a company the size of Lilly and these sort of legal problems have plagued the drug industry and Daniels may have had no knowledge of any wrong doing but it is a little much to say Daniels has no baggage.

Elsewhere in Indiana Senator Lugar's aide's have claimed that some people have been duped into supporting Richard Mourdock, Lugar's Tea Party backed opponent. Those people who have been duped in to backing Mourdock? They would be 67 of 92 Republican county chairmen.