One got the impression that Paw was reading off other candidates note cards in a vain attempt to paint himself as a genuine man. Thankfully it failed. As for the book, that was another thing he lifted from others.
Posted on 08/14/2011 10:19:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He was a dull boring RINO... Not sure how he kept wining in Minnesota.
T-Paw was facing an uphill battle to begin with. He governed as a moderate and was just too vanilla. There was no dynamism.
But he really doomed himself when he wimped out on confronting Romney to his face over Obamneycare.
If he’s not going to stand up to Romney, how can we trust that he would stand up to Obama?
He crossed swords with Michele Bachmann unnecessarily and more than once. I gave him a little money once but repent.
He took a swing at Michele and she destroyed him,hit the guy with a List of mistakes he made,DONE!!
“He will have to offer, like any Republican candidate serious about claiming the nomination, a fundamental departure from the miasma of convention that clings to the Republican brand.”
The attitude that Romney can just change the words that he says and his RINO record can magically go away is flawed.
Romney is an establishment RINO. This is not a good year to be an establishment RINO. Tough luck Romney, tough luck Perry, tough luck all establishment RINOs.
If you have statism all over your resume, if you have globalism all over your resume, the tea party is not having it.
That’s a lot of blather for, “get a haircut”.
The magnitude of privately held debt spins nightmare scenarios in the heads of policymakers already hesitant to undo a system of governance dedicated above all to artificially maintaining for Americans of every class a lifestyle many of them could not accomplish on their own.
I appreciate your post.
We’ll see ‘bout how it all goes...
I live in Minnesota and know of Pawlenty. On the campaign trail he bragged how he balanced the budget here. BS, he left us a 6.2 billion budget deficit and owing the schools billions more.
When Northwest Airlines was having labor trouble with its mechanics, Pawlenty was bought off and provided no fight in saving Minnesota 40-50K jobs.
He wrote a book ‘Courage to Stand’… what a fake, do nothing, scab loving wimp.
This piece is dead on. It also shows some signs of hope that Mittens will eventually be eliminated. He is not that far off from Paws in policies. Mittens is the defender of the “business as usual” crowd this election. That will have limited millage with the current GOP electorate.
I have no doubt he would have made a competent President, but he is not an agent of conservative change, he has a right bent or leaning, but not a true commitment to a right wing way to doing things. He lacked dogmatic conservative thinking, and he came across as phony when he tried to emote any kind of passion talking to the base, its not him. He actually had less passion and fire then say a Mitch Daniels would (I also think he is less of a governor then Daniels, who has what Pawlenty has but in spades, and he probably would have suffered a similar fate).
In other words, he's the kind of guy you hire to carry something out, a manager, he is not the kind of guy, you make your face, or put in charge of having a vision.
One got the impression that Paw was reading off other candidates note cards in a vain attempt to paint himself as a genuine man. Thankfully it failed. As for the book, that was another thing he lifted from others.
Now we got Dayton, worse yet.
Over the past several decades, for the first time in history and at an ever-doubling pace, Americans have run up credit cards, high loan-to-value mortgages and home equity loans, new car loans, personal loans (for big-screen TVs and a zillion other toys), school loans, loans for vacations, loans for this, loans for that... all for the purpose of living high on the hog today with the idea that everything will be paid off sometime in the distant future. Always, in the distant future. The installment plan - - it’s all about squeezing as much fun and cool stuff out of a weekly paycheck as a 30-year payment plan will allow.
The common mindset has been, “Get complete gratification today, pay for it tomorrow.” Then, the cars depreciate, the TVs and toys break, the vacations and casino trips leave fading memories, and the parties come to an end. But paying for it all, well... that continues for the next 30 years. But it’s okay - - just borrow some more and do it again, and push an even bigger day of reckoning out another 10, 15, or 30 years.
Naturally, the banks and the government have worked hard to become accomodating enablers. At least, they were accomodating enablers until recently... Oops.
Of course, the government itself has operated in exactly the same Ponzi-schemish way even more recklessly than the selfish, ignorant chattering class it has enabled.
Gee, who saw this depression coming?
The day of reckoning has come a little earlier than many expected. (Ha! Doesn’t it always?) It is finally time to pay the piper.
It was inevitable.
No way is a Democrat ever going to stand up and deliver the bad news. Democrats are cowards just as surely as they are liars. So who is the Republican who will lead America out of its mess?
I have no freaking idea.
I think this is on target. I listened to Pawlenty speak, once or twice, but never heard him say a thing. And his unwarranted attacks on fellow republicans before the primary season even began was atrocious judgment. He lost because there really was no reason to vote for him.
Courage to stand ? … The only place he stood was in line for big business handouts.
He campaigned on creating jobs. More BS, he sat back and took big business money and watched 50 thousand plus jobs leave his state.
He’s a fake !
This is a shill piece for Ron Paul. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
I like chocolate on my donuts
yeah, pretty much to the point....
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