Pawlenty? He's barely a "republican" much less any kind of TEA Party/conservative type.
Doesn’t matter how excellent her voting record is, she can’t win statewide in MN. She could barely hold her GOP House seat. Pawlenty has at least won statewide twice. At this point, we’re not going to get a Tea Party type out of MN. Better someone who will vote our way 75% of the time than 0% like Frankenstein.