Not to worry. This election is all about Obama and what isn’t about Obama will be all about Romney. If Romney chooses Pawlenty, it just won’t move the needle in either direction.
Pawlenty is a ‘safe’ pick.
Romney is not going to go with some one who clashes with his own person/idea.
Just imagine the debate between Pawlenty vs. Biden?
Just a few days ago the media was “certain” it was Condi. WTF?
T-Paw is not my choice and I suspect not the choice for a lot of Americans.
Is this another cas of the left pricing their (beatable) opponents?
I can’t see the base getting overly excited by this choice.
I hope this another trial balloon.
At least it’s not Condi.
Have you forgotten what a RINO Sununu is? That wouldn’t be thowing us a bone. It’d be beating us over the head with one.
Bob Dole was a certain winner???? You might be able to make a reasonable case for Ford (early RINO model that he was) or Bush 41 but Dole???? Have you checked the calibration date on your political sensibilities meter lately?
Given your forum handle, I don’t see how you could or would want to make a case for any of them.
I gotta say. Pawlenty is not blowing up my skirt.
Motivator, not hardly.
...still trying to just understand Conservatism.
Great graphic!
Milquetoast tells us a thing or two.
1. The s.o.b. conservatives (who will give no quarter to the GOPE) are OUT of contention forever, in the Republican Party of the future.
2. The conservatives around here who are more pragmatic than they are conservative are also OUT, because the Party will become a more obvious arm of the DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST PARTY and these useful tools will be mocked.
2. The conservatives who are more panicked and fearful than they are conservative will be squashed in the exodus from the socialist Republican Party.
The base of the Republican Party, while howling all the way, has gone over to the dark side and are now complicit, cooperative and compliant with the machine who rolled them.
Laughable, if it weren’t so pathetic.
Slightly off topic, but...
According to Drudge, the New York Times is the source for Romney’s vice presidential pick.
Only one way that could happen.
The Romney campaign leaked the story to the NYT.
How long will it take before the GOP leadership understands that the MSM is utterly committed to the destruction of Conservative principles?
If we need to leak, leak to Fox News or the Washington Times or National Review.
T-Paw has actually been very good on the stump lately. He also energizes Evangelicals and helps in the upper Midwest. And Romney is comfortable with him. Not a bad pick.
T-Paw has actually been very good on the stump lately. He also energizes Evangelicals and helps in the upper Midwest. Abd he has a great life story. And Romney is comfortable with him. Not a bad pick.
White Bread! This can’t be true..... can it?
“T-Paw”?
I shouldn’t have to look at an article to figure out WTF the headline means. The headline should be clear.
This naming people with an initial and a few letters is childish and reeks of ghetto.
What a stupid headline.
LLS
Pawlenty’s a dumb pick, I suppose. It could put Minnesota in play, so that would be interesting.
Unless there’s a black, hispanic, female governor with foreign policy experience and great charisma out there, Romney is stupid to chase anyone but Marco Rubio.
If Rubio is not selected, then it’s only because Rubio turned Romney down. The only reason Rubio would turn Romney down is because Rubio is a rising star who is destined to one day run for the presidency in his own right. Why turn Romney down? Because Rubio doesn’t need the name recognition a VP run would provide him. He’s already a household name.
Rubio would turn down Romney only because of being advised that Romney is surely to lose the election. Rubio would not want to be associated with a loser.
So, it makes sense that watching Rubio might say something about Romney’s chances.
Pro-Life Governor Tim Pawlenty Seeks GOP Nomination for 2012
If God gives us another opportunity to turn back from our path of destruction, then America's future rests fully upon her people taking advantage of that opportunity.
That’s probably the idea. Romney doesn’t need a VP nominee who overshadows him, as in 2008.
Well, who knows, some people will rise to the occasion.
If this is true(?), Romney is elected and Pawlenty stays true to form as a competent administrator, but without the flash and dash, his political future will depend on the next four years.
The guy in the front row looks like Krugman. If Pawlenty puts him to sleep, so much the better.