Posted on 04/22/2011 7:45:13 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Looking at the electoral field, I wonder if this would be the strongest ticket from the current field. TP is a 2 term governor from a normally blue Northern state, Haley is a 2 term governor from a red southern state.
They have lots of executive experience, TP has shown he can win in a non-Republican state, and just might be able to put together more than 270 electoral votes....if we can put the keebosh on Hussein's fraud machine.
I’d say Tpaw fans are a particular breed of RINO’s, you might call them Milquetoast RINO’s. They think the blandest, most completely inoffensive and charisma-free candidate possible is somehow the way to beat Obama.
“Thoughts?”
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Two wrongs don’t make a right.
- JP
There is some logic in adding Pawlenty to the ticket.
Whats happening in WI shows things are changing in the midwest away from Scandinavian liberalism.
My problem is I don’t think Pawlenty will take MN and all we end up with is a “lets be friends” Republican who will get his bu** kicked by the DNC attack machine.
Barbour is a possible but I’d still rather have someone younger to match the spirit of the Tea Party movement away from the old guard GOP.
Allen West and Herman Cain
From a purely conservative standpoint, and as a Minnesotan, I would say no thanks. However, from a national point of view, that ticket could have a chance of nomination.
But of victory? Not so sure. Pawlenty was strong fiscally but he’s soft in areas where it’s important our candidate not be soft (AGW and energy to name just two).
There are better potential candidates out there, and perhaps we should wait until some of them declare or opt out before we start talking about tickets.
Palin/Cleese
I cannot imagine a much weaker team - Mr. Tepid and Boss Hogg.
West / Cain 2012.
Just say NO! to RINOs.
PS: Not a single spine between the two of them.
- JP
You wrote,”The only way Obama wins is if he raises 6 billion and pays folks to vote for him.”
Unfortunately, that is entirely possible.
lol. sux. blows.
I am from Minnesota and speak with credence when I ask, “Why, dear God, Pawlenty?”
He was adaquate enough for his time and this state, but who on earth honestly thinks he’s the best possible candidate for the presidency in these times?
On the Michael Medved show yesterday Medved was saying how much he likes Pawlenty. Of course the Medved show is 2nd only to Bill Bennett in RINOism on the radio. :-)
Choosing candidates this way is not what wins elections. This his how you win elections ‘on paper’ but lose them in real life. Especially when you don’t bother to do the research necessary to be aware that T-PAW has never won a majority vote in MN and wouldn’t have a prayer of doing so in a presidential election.
Meh.
Third place, 13EV, behind Palin and Obama.
NO!!
“The VP nominee will probably be someone who has been a congressman. Five of the last six republican VP’s were congressmen. Those five were Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon. The exception is Sprio Agnew”
Not that you’re suggesting anything more than a useful guide for prediction, but I’d like to point out that there were more pertinent reasons for Cheney and Bush’s nominations than their time in congress. It had a lot more to do with having been the Secretary of Defense, in the case of Cheney, and having come in second place in the primaries (not to mention having been a diplomat and director of the CIA), in the case of Bush. In the case of Ford, of course, those were special circumstances, as congress appointed him instead of the electors voting him in/ Big surprise they’d confirm one of their own.
I agree that many factors were used, to choose the running-mates, including other political experience and balancing the ticket, for geography.
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