This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, March 11, 2011.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is calling for a truce on social issues

to make a better stab at solving the big fiscal issues, massive

debt and continuing overspending.

Daniels may be a presidential candidate soon.

Politically, it's a gamble gamble but one with a track record worth

examining that from John Samples director of the Cato Institute's

Center for Representative Government and author of The Struggle to Limit

Government.

Actually, this is the exact strategy that Senator Rand Paul pursued in Kentucky,

which is focusing on the dangers posed by debt, deficits, and overspending.

Even with a socially conservative electorate,

Senator Paul found that that worked very well.

And I think that's what Governor Daniels is suggesting.

The real danger, the one that has to be confronted,

and the one that can bring a majority of the votes, is the overspending and the problems of debt and what it means

for the future of the country.

Carl Rove, who I think discovered or crafted a strategy for

0-4 that injected a lot of wedge issues

into a presidential election year and I think had great success with that.

Is that fair to say?

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