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Geraghty: Source says it’s Pawlenty for VP
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| July 28, 2008
| Allahpundit
Posted on 07/28/2008 4:48:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: trumandogz
McCain’s people are putting tons of false rumors out. Likely he hasn’t chosen yet.
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posted on
07/29/2008 3:31:41 AM PDT
by
Impy
(Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
To: Diogenesis; All
Gov. Palin is Sen.McCains biggest opportunity to win.
If he wants to win.
10 million women will crossover and oil from Alaska will stoke the imagination of another 60 million Americans on the edge.
If he wants to win.
Governor Palin's experience is not much greater than Obama-lama-ding-dong's himself. She hasn't even been Governor for 2 years (elected December 2006), and her experience before that is hardly the stuff that builds national political mettle:
*Two terms on the Wasilla City Council, '92 to '96
*Two-term mayor/manager of Wasilla, Alaska. '96 to '02
(I can hear that campaign slogan "She tamed Wasilla, she'll tame the Senators on the Hilla!")
Oh and not to forget: Palin was elected President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors, and appointed Ethics Commissioner, spent another 2 years at that job before resigning.
She's a pretty face for sure, and no doubt a bright lady but presidential or vice-presidential material?
No way. She's not ready.
To: CatherinePPP
I really don’t see what advantage Pawlenty has over Romney. Romney is a much better campaigner.
To: WilliamReading
I would be OK with Romney too, but I’d be a little concerned that there are a good number of Republicans who really hate him. McCain is already on thin ice and if Republicans who are disgruntled with him see him pick a VP they really dislike, it might be the last straw for them. I think Romney has more enemies than Pawlenty does.
But he’s also better-known and has important business connections. He probably wouldn’t be a bad choice. It sounds like Pawlenty is more conservative than he is though.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
For the uninitiated, what the heck is CM?
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posted on
07/29/2008 5:11:07 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The VP question gives the blabbers something to blab about but I cannot believe any votes hinge on who gets the VP slot. I know I'm in the minority on this but the arguments I hear about the importance of VP just don't impress me. I think a bad pick can hurt but a good pick really isn't that important.
That said, Pawlenty is a fairly good guy. I know I'm in the minority on that too but I think center right is accurate. His worst position is his Climate change idiocy but he really didn't jump on that bandwagon until he started lobbying for McCain's VP position, which started about two/three years ago.
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posted on
07/29/2008 6:41:46 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: WilliamReading
The Pres candidate doesn't want someone who will outshine him. With McCain that is a pretty low threshold.
Pawlenty is a bit of a snooze.
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posted on
07/29/2008 6:44:50 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Free ThinkerNY
Minnesota has mandated a 10% mixture of gasoline and ethanol (gasohol) since 1997, while most cars are designed to safely handle 15%. Pawlenty signed into law in May 2005 a bill that will raise the minimum mandated mixture to 20% in 2013. Pawlenty has also lobbied the Governors' Ethanol Coalition to mandate higher ethanol use nationwide.
Conservative Republican governors were not supportive of Pawlenty's presentation on clean energy to the governor's association, which he gave in cooperation with Ed Rendell, who is the governor of Pennsylvania and the NGA's Democratic vice-chairman. With Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, Pawlenty is co-chairman of the association's energy committee. The effort received "adamant opposition" from governors of oil producing states.
Pawlenty won the governor's race by just 21,000 votes in 2006, down from the 180,000 he won by in 2002. It looks like he doesn't wear well.
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posted on
07/29/2008 6:51:19 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: WilliamReading
A ham sandwich is a better choice than Pawlenty.
Get ready to start saying “yes, Commissar” as you use your rationing coupons to buy food and fuel
To: We Dare Defend Our Rights
Tim Pawlenty, like Walter Mondale before him, has that charisma, or “Minnesota Magic” that really lights up a room whenever he is around.
To: Free ThinkerNY
I want him here in Minnesota. He’s our last line of defense; he’s vetoed a bunch of the DFL-controlled legislatures’s latest schemes to separate us from our money.
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posted on
07/29/2008 7:08:50 AM PDT
by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
To: MortMan
To: WilliamReading
The same “Minnesota Magic” that got Mondale elected President?
Please keep this “never heard of him” at home
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Stephanie32
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:23:44 AM PDT
by
ozarkgirl
(If McCain can vote on the basis of principle and conscience over party, so can I.)
To: ozarkgirl; Stephanie32
That’s a very helpful site. Thank you.
To: Stephanie32
Yeah, I love it. I didn’t realize before I sent it (at lunch, work) but they don’t have much on Pawlenty but I enjoy looking at everyone I get curious about someone from time to time. Has all senators, representatives, governors, etc.
And at the bottom they have that little test about where everything falls into place (the grid at the bottom of the page). I’ve taken it, I’m conservative/libertarian. It puts both Pawlenty and McCain as conservative close to populist. So perhaps not always correct?
If you haven’t taken that test, you should and see where you end up. I think if you google “worlds smallest political test” or worlds shortest political test”, you can find it.
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posted on
07/29/2008 10:26:25 AM PDT
by
ozarkgirl
(If McCain can vote on the basis of principle and conscience over party, so can I.)
To: ozarkgirl; Stephanie32
Thanks, I will take the test later and let you know how I score!
To: Zevonismymuse
Yeah, I really didn’t mean to say majority. I guess what I meant to say was that there is a large number of “conservatives”, this time, that are claiming that they will not vote for McCain. whether or not they really won’t vote for him still remains to be seen.
To: indylindy
I had never even heard of him until a few weeks ago. Well you're a few weeks ahead of me.
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posted on
07/29/2008 11:27:28 AM PDT
by
McGruff
( 'the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee' - Barack Obama)
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