He’s not going to win anybody, Steve.
lib mag tells GOP secrets,,,
I am not interested in Pawlenty. The only decent thing out of Minnesota is Bachmann.
Huckabee didn’t have too much trouble with moderates. He struggled with talk radio listeners.
Sorry Steve,
But the real question is can he win the base of the party, the conservatives.
If he keeps up with the “Big Tent” crap, codeword for we need to lower our standards and principles, he’s dead on arrival.
Easy answer.....NO!
As the governor of Minnesota, whose senators are Klobuchar and Franken, Pawlenty is, IMO, a nonstarter. His campaign will be over before it starts.
Too many of us will want to know how he oversaw a corrupt election that ended with Franken being declared the winner? That’s NOT the type of individual I want in the WH!!
Furthermore Stevie-boy,
Why post crap from a left-wing site such as US News and World report?
Nothing out of that rag can be trusted and nothing is objective.
he should run for Senate, take a leading position in Senate Centrist Coalition (”advocating bipartisan solutions”) and pushing some liberal dream bill with McCain and Feinstein. That would get him declared The Conservative Messiah here in fr..
it worked before..
Gilgoff seems to have a big thing for the National Association of Evangelicals, gay drug addict Ted Haggard’s group. The NAE vice president Richard Cizik also supported Barack Obama last year.
Stay away.
this just makes him the least influential "most influential" nonentity in the country, because probably 3% of evangelical church goers even know whether they're members. Pawlenty and Sanford have the same problem, they look like dull, scared twits on TV.
steve-b - proudly trolling FR since 1998.
I’ve paid a fair amount of attention to Pawlenty, trying to get a fix on him. And I mean from watching him interviewed or giving a speech, not from the bad political outcomes in MN. Not saying they aren’t important...they are.
Hate to say it but gotta...after searching and searching for who or what Pawlenty reminds me of in his persona...general appearance, voice, mannerisms and manner, features, etc., I’ve come up with what he reminds me of.
A cute mouse, such as they are drawn in cartoons, storybooks etc. Not a real mouse because they aren’t cute...
I can’t get past that, but even if I could get past it, I’ve got some other bones to pick with the MN Governor.
I'm afraid the Minnesota evangelicals aren't the evangelicals that the Republican party must have to win presidential elections. And the evangelicals they must have in the south and midwest aren't overly concerned about global warming and sure don't support cap and trade.
Pawlenty will not win over the evangelicals in red states talking about global warming and advocating cap and trade. But if conservatives don't get their act together and settle on a conservative candidate early in 2012, Pawlenty is just the candidate the blue states might nominate while conservatives split their votes among several candidates as in 2008.
What part of “No RINOs” don’t you get, Steve ?
I hate Huckabee.
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Pawlnety is a first class wussie - a Lindsey Graham understudy.
One hears so much about this elusive bloc of fiscally conservative, socially liberal voters that is essential to the GOP’s success, yet no one can actually find it, even when the GOP sets out one of these presumably attractive candidates as bait.
If this bloc existed in the numbers claimed, Romney and Pawlenty would be attracting much more unsolicited public and media interest.
People would be talking about them with the same enthusiasm that they did about Barack Obama before his nomination and election, and the way they do about Sarah Palin now.
The media would be enraptured by the (Pawlenty, Crist, Romney, etc.) phenomenon. They just wouldn’t be able to stop talking about him (or her), good or bad.
People don’t want the magical, mystical, middling muddler. They want the personality. Like it or not, Barack Obama was The Personality, and regardless of ideology, The Personality will almost always beat The Safe Choice.
Sarah Palin is The Personality today, just as Barack Obama was from the moment of his Senate election.
The Democrats had a passel of safe candidates—Edwards, Vilsack, Bayh, Warner, Richardson—but the Democrats didn’t tie themselves up in knots trying to pass one of them off as the inoffensive moderate the needed to sweep to victory in 2008. Had they done so, they would have demoralized their own base and thrown away a winnable election.
Great..lets run a Rino “moderate” again. McCain showed us how well that worked.