True, but he did that running on a Democratic platform with an “R” behind his name. All of which came back to haunt him in the Priamries and would doom the ticket.
Yeah, would it be Romney v.1994 or Romney v.2008 who ran for Veep? The latter, of course.
It would be Romney v.2008 in the Republican ads and Romney V.1994 in the Democratic ads.
From some of the chatter I’m hearing on the cable news shows, I now think it’s going to be Pawlenty. They said he cancelled his scheduled appearances for tomorrow and saturday. If it’s him, Minnesotans will have an added incentive to vote for Obama.
By the way, it’s partially Pawlenty’s fault that bridge fell down. The Obama camp needs to hammer on that.
ETA, and Pawlenty is also responsible for letting Dru Sjodin’s killer out of prison.
We’ll have motivation because Pawlenty sucks or because the troll who serves as Lt. Gov. would take over? or both.
I’m all about Pawlenty right now since I get $100 if he gets the nom. This campaign season is paying off for me in spades so far!
Well, I was thinking about the former, but the point about Molnau is quite valid too. Even Pawlenty can’t stand her.
What a load of horseshit.
Regards,
Shodan
On the postive side, Biden would absolutely kick the shit out of T-Paw in the VP debate.
There’s new speculation that it might be Kay Bailey Hutchison.
So they can keep Pawlenty as Governor?
His replacement would be even worse. Pawlenty getting elected VP is a double-loss for Minnesotans.
Reuters says Pawlenty has canceled his Denver appearances on Friday. Not fire, but it sure looks a lot like smoke to me.
A few minutes ago Greta Van Susteren breathlessly announced she had “breaking news” from the McCain campaign. The news? That the campaign will not be saying who the veep choice is tonight.
They actually used a breaking news sounder to announce that there wouldn’t be any breaking news. :rolleyes:
Would you like to describe exactly what’s wrong with Pawlenty? From the articles I read, he sounds like a pretty decent politician with decent experience in government and the private sector. He doesn’t sound like a fundy, but more like a pragmatic conservative. I’ve never paid attention to him before, so I know little about him. But he doesn’t sound evil or stupid.
Here’s one problem with Pawlenty: I mentioned him as a likely veep to a politically savvy friend this evening, and her response was “Who?” If I weren’t obsessively reading political blogs these days I’d never have heard of him either.
I don’t think an obscure Governor Who?!? helps McCain.
He’s not Darth Vader. He’s mostly just uninspiring and not particularly likeable. He got elected to his first term by promising not to cut taxes, and them made wide reaching and damaging, mean-spirited cuts to make up the deficit. My wife and I both work in social services in Minnesota and both saw real pain caused to people who really needed services. In addition to cutting social services (which I know conservatives don’t care about), he also cut things like highway funding to avoid raising gas taxes (something which arguably led indirectly to the 35W bridge collapse), and he cut funding to a sex offensder program that led directly to the release of a sexual psychopath named Alfonso Rodriguez, who proceeded to murder a girl named Dru Sjodin. It’s a ready made Willie Horton ad, and it has a lot more substance to it.
The Republicans will say that “he balanced the budget without raising taxes,” but that isn’t really true. Aside from some really brutal and unnecessary spending cuts, Pawlenty did raise taxes, he just used the tactic of calling them “user fees.”
Now, those are reasons Minnesotans don’t like him, but I don’t know how much any of that will resonate nationally. His personality is bland and non-descript – kind of a Pub version of Evan Bayh. I doubt he’ll do much damage to McCain, but the Republicans are deluded if they think he’ll deliver Minnesota in November. I think he’s a net zero to the McCain campaign. He moves the needle neither up nor down (though the Obama campaign should immediately get to work on an Alfonzo Rodriguez ad).
I have a Minn. college friend, a clear-eyed and objective lady who would say nice things about any Republican if there were anything nice to say. FWIW, she loathes Pawlenty.
A “Who?” needs a roll-out. Unless there is something special or novel about them. Pawlenty doesn’t have it. Which doesn’t mean that McCain won’t do it anyway, but does mean that it would not be smart.
Unless it’s somebody like Powell, I don’t see how this can be anything but anti-climactic tomorrow. Pawlenty Who gives nobody a boner. Neither does Romney, really. I guess he could make some real news if he told the religious right to get fucked and chose Lieberman. That would actually really show me something. It would give him back his maverick image and make it authentic again. I don’t see him doing it, though.
Perhaps McCain’s real problem is that there’s no one willing to be his VP candidate? Which of the prospective candidates can afford to go down as a loser?