{"id":21569,"date":"2010-06-18T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mitch-daniels-and-chris-christie-libertarian-centerfolds\/"},"modified":"2010-06-18T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:12:00","slug":"mitch-daniels-and-chris-christie-libertarian-centerfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mitch-daniels-and-chris-christie-libertarian-centerfolds.php","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie libertarian &quot;Centerfolds&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TBtyQl14T2I\/AAAAAAAAL3w\/rMP7JZ_KiUo\/s1600\/MitchDaniels2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/58171_MitchDaniels2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TBtxMrYZKOI\/AAAAAAAAL3o\/cazRUMKl0tk\/s1600\/ChrisChristie1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/53fe9_ChrisChristie1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>A balding Mid-west Governor, and a more-than-husky outspoken East Coast chief of state are described as \"sexy\" proponents of the free market philosophy - tongue in cheek - in the latest column by Michael Gerson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/17\/AR2010061704567.html\">WaPo<\/a> \"Mitch Daniels: A paradox for our times\":<\/p><blockquote><p>Daniels became a highly successful Indiana governor, combining a motorcycle-driving, pork-tenderloin-eating populism with courageous budget cutting, a solid record of job creation and a reputation for competence. If responsibility and austerity are now sexy, Daniels and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are centerfolds. <\/p><p>When asked his political influences, Daniels cites Charles Murray, the author of \"What It Means to Be a Libertarian.\" Daniels speaks of taxation as a form of coercion that can be justified only by narrow and necessary public purposes. But unlike, say, libertarian Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, Daniels has actually run a state, forcing him to define government's necessary purposes in a more realistic manner. <\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7828681836623105417-5557992528875160366?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:A balding Mid-west Governor, and a more-than-husky outspoken East Coast chief of state are described as \"sexy\" proponents of the free market philosophy - tongue in cheek - in the latest column by Michael Gerson at WaPo \"Mitch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mitch-daniels-and-chris-christie-libertarian-centerfolds.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}