Posted on 07/31/2009 12:45:39 PM PDT by steve-b
It's striking that today's Associated Press profile of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, excludes mention of his evangelical faith and strong ties to the evangelical world. I was struck by the same absence in a recent New York Times Pawlenty profile.
How solid are Pawlently's evangelical bona fides? The pastor of his home church is president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the nation's largest evangelical interest. Last year, as John McCain struggled to win over evangelical leaders, Pawlently quietly tried to arrange a meeting between the Republican presidential nominee and National Association of Evangelical bigs, but to no avail....
Unlike prospective Republican White House contenders like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, Pawlenty doesn't talk like a culture warrior, which helps explain why Pawlenty coverage in the national media ignores his faith-based side. But can his less strident tone help him win independents in a way that Huckabee and Palin have failed to, while his evangelical side makes him a hit with the GOP's social conservative base?
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This week Pawlenty blasted both RomneyCare and ObamaCare. Plus he said nice things about Palin. Pawlenty is attempting to portray himself as the conservative alternative to Romney. Pawlenty is hoping Palin supporters will flock to him should Palin decide to not to run.
Like Palin, Pawlenty was attacked by the Left. He faced down hostile DFL legislaors in budget battles. Despite the attacks, he endured the battles and served two full terms as Governor.
All you need to know about Pawlenty is Wheelock Whitney Jr. He supported Rudy in the last election. (gave some cash to McQueeg and Barry to be fair)
http://www.muckety.com/2006-Tim-Pawlenty-MN-gubernatorial-campaign/5026084.muckety
That’s the way I see it too - from a distance.
I’d hate to have the media stick us with a candidate again.
Sorry I am so use to being attack I took your post all wrong. I apologize.
You are correct Caliph (Muslim Ruler: A title taken by Islamic rulers such as the Turkish sultans that asserts religious authority to rule, derived from that of Muhammad.) is even better than Sultan (Muslim Ruler: the sovereign ruler of an Islamic country, especially formerly the head of the Ottoman Empire.). Thanks!
Well said, the imaginary large pool of "fiscally conservative, socially liberal voters" doesn't exist.
More to the point, they wanted virtually ANY of the leading RINO candidates that ran last year. Rudy would’ve been eviscerated for his Social liberalism (and the “in drag” pics wouldn’t have helped, let alone the three marriages), Huckster as the backwoods Southern buffoon, McCain (obvious), and Slick Willard (flipflopper, disastrous tenure as Governor, and belonging to a church that excluded Blacks from leadership until almost 1980 - which would’ve been a nightmare to excuse or justify for us). Notice the one candidate they DIDN’T want was Fred Thompson, and they did their best to ignore his candidacy. It’s too bad we didn’t have other first tier Conservatives to run last year, all but Fred took a pass. The liberal RINOs sure didn’t... and they damn well should’ve.
This evangelical is a Palin supporter.
Had Pawlenty not crippled the MN GOP, he’d not have HAD gargantuan DFL majorities after 2007. Faced ‘em down, what a joke. Yet the DFL laughs all the way to election day and after...
Tim who?
Nope. Most talk radio listeners are sheep. They actually believed that Mitt was a Reagan conservative and none of the big talkers did anything to correct that perception. They actually helped create it. They had no problem with Mitt's government run health care but they are vehemently opposed to 0bama care? Something doesn't add up.
I dont think a Minnesota RINO will be able to win the nom. in 2012.
Palin should run in 2012. She would win the nomination. Unlike 2008. it seems that RINOs are more interested in running, compared to conservatives.
Even if she did not win the nom. in ‘12...she is still young enough for ‘16.
If they like Cap & Trade (Ration & Tax) because Gov. Green Jeans Pawlenty is a big greenie.
Pawlenty, championed his own regional Cap & Trade. I guess he was afraid the Democrats couldn't pass it, or at least not pass it fast enough for Pawlenty, so he felt it necessary to try to do his own Cap & Trade.
Pawlenty also signed into law bills requiring energy companies to buy increasing amounts of scarce and expensive green energy. Already the energy companies in Minnesota are asking for increases to pay for their increased costs brought on by Pawlenty's foolishness.
Pawlenty? This Minnesota conservative says No Thanks!
I don’t think if Pawlenty was the GOP nominee in 2012 he would even carry Minnesota.
>The “Republican governor eyeing a presidential run in 2012” appears to be Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty used his time at yesterday’s roundtable discussion to cast himself as the “modern” Republican while casting aspersions on the traditional conservative message, calling for outreach to the “new demographics,” deriding the GOP for allegedly being 15 years behind in the use of the Internet, and calling for the party not to be led by “a crank.” Pawlenty appears to have John McCain’s penchant for attacking conservatives rather than those in the other party.
Pawlenty in Miami was publicly angry, agitated, and even cranky, possibly because he found himself at odds with the far more conservative tone of every other speaker here. Hundreds of RGA members, who paid thousands of dollars to attend this Conference, wildly applauded “red meat” conservative pronouncements by speakers and not the more moderate and conservative-jabbing words by Pawlenty.
No... I think that *is* one way that someone can tell *if* a conservative might be thinking of running for the Office of President of the United States.
That’s because you won’t find anyone who is doing that, who will open their mouth about the “Obama birth certificate”... thus it’s a way of “eliminating” someone from consideration...
If you see a conservative mentions the “Obama birth certificate” issue as a viable issue — then you know that they are *not running* for that office in the future... that’s guaranteed.... :-)
Loyalist, I have to agree with you. Personality is another way of saying ‘charisma’...and we like that in our leaders be they left, right or moderate. It’s one reason Teddy Roosevelt is sill remembered fondly, why JFK—even if you didn’t agree with his politics—is still revered by many (Okay, dying young by an assassin’s bullet helped), why we all smile (again left and right) at the memory of Ronald Reagan
Fred Thompson took a pass on his own candidacy in 2008; he didn’t run so much as he strolled.
Y’know, another one of the great big media-fed lies about Fred Thompson was his laziness. I remember when that was thrown in his face during a Larry King interview and Jeri Thompson reeled off all the things Fred did to keep current, the pace of which would’ve sent most of us too total exhaustion, dismissing the allegation as rightfully bull$hit.
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