Category Archives: Tim Pawlenty

Tim Pawlenty – A New Direction

Posted on April 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

If only Tim Pawlenty were as exciting as his web videos were (though, I know a lot of people who have met him one-on-one that came away incredible impressed)…

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Tim Pawlenty: He’s Really a Real Conservative (this week)

Posted on December 15, 2009 | Leave a comment

I really want to like Tim Pawlenty, but so far he’s making all the same mistakes that soured me on Mitt Romney when he ran for President the first time. T-Paw is a blue-state Republican Governor who has a successful record to run on, is conservative without needing to be a dick aboot it, and started off with a great message by a) pointing out to people that they are more conservative then they realize, and b) while liberals have a great message of telling voters they’ll give them all this free stuff, you and I both know nothing is free.

But instead of running job creation, the economy, and other kitchen table issues that Governors deal with on a regular basis (like Romney should have), he’s trying to turn himself into the “real conservative” in the race (like Romney tried and failed miserably at) by attacking Olympia Snowe, attacking Mike Huckabee on his latest clemency blow-up, and even attacking Romney on “RomneyCare.”

And though while my original excitement for Pawlenty has turned into a sense of “meh,” he appears to have picked up one key endorsement…kinda. I give you Dick Armey…

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Pawlenty to Obama: “Don’t sing it, Bring it!”

Posted on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

2008 wasn’t the best year for Tim Pawlenty. He was passed over for Vice-President for by Sarah Palin. Then after the election, when they held the Republican Governors Association conference and many consider that to be his first step on the national stage, he was over shadowed by…Sarah Palin. And to think, he cut his mullet for this!

Seriously though, 2009 is turning into a better year for him. He’s speaking out more and is one of the go-to guys when people are looking for a Republican response to anything Barack Obama does. Most recently, he spoke to the Values Voter Summit, the annual meeting of conservative activists.

And while he place third in an irrelevant straw poll, from all accounts he blew the attendants away with his speech. Here he is calling out Dear Leader…

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What About Me? What About Pawlenty? (No. 3 in a Series)

Posted on September 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

Al Hunt recently wrote a column on Tim Pawlenty’s presidential aspirations in 2012 for Bloomberg News. Of course, Hunt being blatantly liberal, you have to take all praise with a grain of salt because we’ve seen this movie before.

They aren’t saying anything aboot Tim Pawlenty that they haven’t said aboot John McCain before. McCain would be the ideal candidate who didn’t engage in ideological wars…that the media complete turned on the minute he received the Presidential nomination. Hopefully Pawlenty is learning from McCain’s mistake that these people are not his friend.

Anywho, some snippets from the interview…

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What About Me? What About Pawlenty? (No. 2 in a Series)

Posted on August 24, 2009 | Leave a comment

I mentioned last week on how Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty seems to be speaking to any audience willing to listen to him, most likely in an attempt to raise his profile for a 2012 run. He does interviews where he takes subtle shots at Massachusetts universal health care system (signed into law by the former Governor). He does speeches where he tries out catchy one-liners. My man is running.

He still doesn’t have his niche though. Mitt Romney is the frontrunner and the economy expert. Newt Gingrich is the policy wonk. Sarah Palin is the darling of the conservative base. T-Paw? He’s the guy who…um…had a mullet up until last year?

That being said, he seems to be making it a point to talk aboot a serious issue most in our part regretfully don’t…edumacation. Here’s what he had to say at a recent Florida GOP fundraiser…

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What About Me? What About Pawlenty? (No. 1 in a Series)

Posted on August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

During my time away from blogging, the 2012 Republican Primary started. It didn’t start with presumptive frontrunner Mitt Romney (disclosure: JBdotC is Romney Country). It started when Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, while criticizing ObamaCare, made it a point to make a few digs at the government run health care system in Massachusetts. BTW, did you know that Romney was the former governor of Massachusetts and it was his plan? If you don’t now, I’m sure you will come time for the Iowa caucus.

I find this slightly amusing, because a few months ago I was kibitzing with my token lefty friend aboot 2012 and said that it all depended on how the first two years goes for Obama as to whether we run a Ronald Regan or a Walter Mondale against him…with Romney in the Reagan role and Pawlenty as the sacrificial Mondale.

Regardless, Pawlenty is out giving speeches, and each one is being treated as his audition for the “big stage.” For example, his recent schpeil at the GOPAC conference in Chicago…
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