Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, touted as a possible savior of the GOP, took a gamble that paid off when he delivered a recent commencement address at Butler University (Indianapolis) that took a critical look at his own generation of baby boomers, according to Byron York.

“All our lives, it’s been about us,” said the 60-year-old Daniels, who told the graduating seniors that his free-spending “Me Generation” who wore T-shirts saying “If it feels good, do it,” will also “leave you with a staggering pile of bills to pay. . . Good luck cleaning up after us.”

Apparently, the governor’s words not only resonated with the grads, but with other “self-loathing boomers.” Weekly Standard editor William Kristol suggested that the nation might even be ready to “elect a boomer president who disdains his own generation.”

Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia.