Posted on 02/17/2008 12:14:32 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
He’s gonna have Palwenty of twubble wif peeples mispwonowncing his name...
Pawlenty’s a statist, nothing more than a Northern TX Gov Perry.
too green
I'd support him for veep to get him out of the statehouse. He has been frighteningly squishy on certain issues such as sucking up to the globull warming crowd. He has been decent on state spending but has hurt conservatives outside the metro area by constant pandering to the ring suburbs. It's hard to drum up support for conservative candidates in my part of the state when they look at the governor essentially ignoring us.
My biggest complaint has been that the costs of government have not changed in Minnesota, they have all been transferred to the local level, and have been switched over to higher fees for various things.
Our state now has every school district voting higher real estate taxes to pay for the same level of education, so keeping the cost of government down here has been illusory.
There is no free lunch.
Pawlenty is unacceptable.
What makes you say that?
McCain will win the South by default. We aren’t crazy about him down here, but no way would Obama or Hillary carry any southern states.
He won’t help McCain carry MN for starters (and it’s not likely to help him anywhere else).
I think Pawlenty has been a subpar Governor and his having moved leftward (as others have cited in this thread) makes him completely unacceptable to Conservatives (not to mention that while he got reelected just barely, the party suffered massive losses on his watch, the loss of all its other statewide offices, a Congressional seat, failure to capture the open Senate seat, loss of the State House of Reps for the first time in a decade).
I’ve cited another poorly-known Governor as a far better choice for VP who has fought strongly for Conservative governance, and that’s Rhode Island’s Don Carcieri (although he’d probably have a negligable impact in New England).
I think it's pretty much a given McCain will choose Charlie Crist or Kay Bailey Hutchinson as his running mate.
From my point of view we are screwed for the next four years. It is only a matter of degree.
And if he is pig-ignorant stupid enough to choose a Larry Craig type who champions voting rights for rapists and murderers or an even more open borders RINO Senator than he is, he will lose by a substantial margin, and deservedly so.
Or Mark Sanford.
Don Carcieri is a good idea. Others that occured to me are Rob Portman (whose name has been circulating), Judd Gregg, and Christopher Cox (current FEC Chairman).
Charlie Crist may be a good choice in theory, but he’d be a disaster in practice. While he’s been a good steward of the state’s economy, his record on virtually everything else is deplorable, not much better than a DemocRAT.
I think it’s pretty much a given McCain will choose Charlie Crist or Kay Bailey Hutchinson as his running mate.
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That’s the first time I’ve heard Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s name mentioned as a possible VEEP. Are you speculating or do you have a source?
Speculating, but I am guessing Hillary will be the Dem nominee and McCain needs the white women vote.
But Crist's endorsement was the reason why McCain won Florida.
The ultimate losers are us. While I admire McCain's service he is totally unfit for the job as president. And God help us if Obama or Hillary get there as well.
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