Posted on 07/28/2008 4:48:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Announcement coming “very soon.” Geraghty notes that Pawlenty’s still scheduled to give a routine speech on Wednesday, but TNR noted over the weekend that he’s already pulled out of one event and his plans for this week are suddenly and suspiciously hazy. See this recent item from Marc Ambinder, too, passing along a rumor that McCain was planning to meet with his inner circle about VP yesterday. And then of course there’s that CNN item claiming an attendee at a fundraiser heard McCain say conservatives are “really going to like” Pawlenty. Put it all together and today’s scurrilous veep du jour meme seems a tad less scurrilous than usual.
Here’s a bullet-point argument, again from TNR, about why Pawlenty is a “slam dunk” pick. His working-class pedigree is all to the good, but between the lack of name recognition and the “boring old Republican white guy” effect, I’m underwhelmed. He doesn’t even have serious religious cred to reassure antsy evangelicals. Let’s hope the report’s wrong, although given the general savviness of McCain’s campaign these days, it probably isn’t.
Update (Ed): Well, I live in Pawlenty’s state and have met him on a couple of occasions, and this pick would not make me too glum at all. Pawlenty has a good center-right track record, especially on holding the line on taxes with a hostile Legislature. He demonstrated real leadership during the bridge collapse and its aftermath, keeping the gas-tax-increase advocates at bay and convincing the rest of the state to ignore them. He’s also pro-life, and a humble but telegenic man who will inject a little vigor into the campaign.
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I think he’s withstood a week of Obamamania fairly well, and I’d rather have him save his veep thunder (hoping there’ll be some thunder!) for the end of the summer when people pay more attention.
My biggest issue is that I want to see Obama painted as the laughably and frighteningly far-leftist that he is. That should be the base to the Obama jokes and that should really get put across while McCain simultaneously comes out proactively with a strong energy and economy issue. (I’m with you on the proactive bit!)
I think McCain had to ding Obama on his supposedly heroic trip, and he’s done that. I don’t even really mind that he was seen dowdily tooling about a supermarket while he was at it. But I really want to see a double-barreled message than contrasts McCain’s strong energy and economic solutions with the whacked out radical socialism of Obama.
Just a little arm-chair campaign managing here, but it’s somehow therapeutic!
Yuck! A global warming moron.
Yuck! A global warming moron.
Yuck! A global warming moron.
Nobody votes for VP.
He won’t hurt McCain.
Stop bawling, people! Goodness sake.
Hmmm could Rush with his “high connections” found out about this?
Rush was very upset when talking about the elections today.
Rush goes “we’re screwed”
Another white male ain’t gonna do it for him.
Dan Quayle is still available and would be more popular than Pawlenty.
“Nobody doesn’t like Dan Quayle.”
If I had a dime for every person who claimed to have the “insider knowledge” of whom McCain was gonna pick...
I think Romney or Ridge would be stronger picks than Pawlenty.
Pawlenty is a bit of a snooze.
It has not worked for over 20 years. Every time we vote for the lesser of two evils, the Republicans give us an ever greater liberal the next time. The Senate passed the Mortgage Bailout with only 13 Republicans voting against it. Republicans keep going along with Democrats with the assumption that Conservatives have no other place to go.
I could make the argument that voting for RINO Republicans, simply because they are better than the socialist Democrats, has given us the Mortgage Bailout, Out of Control Spending, No Permanent Tax Cuts, Open Boarders, Amnesty in 09, No Energy Plan, Cap & Trade 09, Prescription Drugs, Falling Dollar, Ethanol, $48 Billion Aids Bill...
The Republicans take Conservatives for granted and continue expanding government once elected. We gave them the power in 2004 and they did nothing. McCain was a major force in opposing anything Conservative getting done. Why should I think this time will be any different?
but always passed...If it had not passed the bridge would have been shut down. Problems exist in every bridge, it’s the level of problem that was, unfortuntely, misdiagnosed.
I’m not saying the DOT did a great job, but the bridge was deemed safe to travel as I did hundreds of times over the past 10 years prior to it’s collapse.
At the very end of the show he kind of got emotional.
He goes “Somedays I come in and think we’re gonna win and somedays.. like today I think.. we’re screwed folks”
He said it right before the last break.
McCain needs someone like a Carly Forina. Someone outside the box.
oops Fiorina
Your post appears to be lifted from one of their incessant anti-Romney articles from the last couple of years or so.
my state, right or wrong.
/s
hey! my nuts are not connected to california.
if the place goes to hell, and it is, fine.
McCain needs Michael Palin’s sister, or he’s McDole!
I suspect the democrats pulled out all the stops during the republican primary season to get McCain nominated, because they knew what an awful campaigner he would be, thus assuring the democrats a victory in November.
McCain is toast, he just does not know it yet. He has his head buried in the sand, listening to all his 'yes' men, ignoring the dissent within his own party, just like George Bush Sr did.
Good-bye McCain, get ready to drink your sorrows away with Hillary!
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