IMHO, the RINOs will love Pawlenty and tolerate Barbour.
Neither will get my vote. I recall Pawlenty was the party favorite to run with McCain until McCain pulled a shocker and chose Palin as his VP.
Palin/Cain!
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.
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. :-)