Just the opposite in the opinion of many.
Pawlenty......wow, strategically I dont know how great of a choice this is. I would have thought one of the women would have been a better choice. Both would have been pleasing to conservatives, and would have grabbed some of the Dem female vote.
I dont know anything bad about Pawlenty. Hell, I may like him more than McCain once we get to know him, he sounds like a decent conservative. But my first impression is that the McCain camp said the pick would be “surprising”. Unless McCain is pulling a big fake, I would say this is the least surprising, or more correctly least exciting choice he could have made.