Posted on 03/07/2011 8:38:25 AM PST by Valpal1
As Pawlenty prepares to run for the Republican nomination for president, his main problem is simple: Most Americans have never heard of him. Republicans tend to prefer known commodities: Every winner of the Republican nomination in the last 70 years had a national reputation a year before the primaries. Courage to Stand is not selling well. Yet Pawlenty may just be the Republicans’ strongest presidential candidate for 2012. Compared with his competitors, he is either more conservative, more electable, or both.
Read the rest here http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261416/pawlenty-ramesh-ponnuru?page=1
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Palin is on my short list, but I worry about her inability to not engage the media on their sophomoric level. She keeps wrestling with pigs.
Pawlenty established a Sharia bank in his state for the muslims. Supposedly he ended the process after 18 mos.
IMHO,he’s a squish. This is America. We follow the constitution not Sharia Law.
From the second page of the article:
For most conservatives, the biggest blot on Pawlenty’s record is his past support for cap-and-trade. He does not try to finesse the issue. “It’s fair to say I’ve had a change of position and change of view, and the reason is it’s a dumb idea,” he tells NR. “It was a mistake.” All public officials have a few “clunkers” in their record, he says, expressing the hope that voters will appreciate a straightforward acknowledgment of error. He adds, “I think my clunkers are fewer than others’.” This particular clunker is widely shared. Gingrich, Palin, Romney, and Mike Huckabee all once supported cap-and-trade — although not all of them are as candid as Pawlenty about their switch.
Maybe you should read the whole thing.
Pawlenty has a habit of caving. He is conservative until he isn’t.
No, it's the pigs who attack her and then she's forced to fight them off.
Isn’t he a bit squishy?
Those sicko adds he runs about his little book are so over the top with self love, I think little Timmy has a pervert problem.
Pawlenty signs bill increasing ethanol content in gasoline
by Laura McCallum, Minnesota Public Radio
May 10, 2005
Minnesota is the first state with a law mandating 20-percent ethanol use by the year 2013.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/10_ap_ethanol/
NO.
I can definitely support Pawlenty. Romney is a huge NO for me.
Mitt in a parka with less personal wealth.
I prefer Palin wrestling with pigs, to GWB standing there above it all, until 8 years pass and he’s up to his neck in media fecal toss, at which time it’s very hard to look above it all.
Palin calls attention to the irrational and vicious nature of the attacks on her, and that’s a good thing.
milquetoast
> Mitt in a parka with less personal wealth.
Thanks.
That’s kinda what I thought.
Source for your claim?
Not what we need for POTUS.
IMO, Pawlenty still has not given an adequate answer on why he didn’t intervene to prevent Al Franken and ACORN from stealing Norm Coleman’s Senate seat. If that abomination could have been prevented, the ‘Rats would never have gotten the supermajority and we would not have had Obamacare shoved down our throats.
Mike
Likewise, I was willing to cut the Mittster a little slack in 2008 for the same reason. But his subsequent defense of the mini-health care fuster cluck in Massachusetts turned me off.
Pawlenty isn't the type of guy who is likely to excite a crowd in the same way that Sarah does (with conservatives) or even ObaMao does (with the looters and the mentally challenged). And he sure isn't my first choice. But I do think he has the potential to be a better than average president, especially considering how low that standard has fallen lately.
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