Tim Pawlenty is someone to watch.
Pawlenty wants to “dramatically lower individual and corporate taxes, zero taxes on capital gains and dividends, sunset provisions for federal regulations and a growth-rate target of 5%—”
1. Targets are nothing but feel-good goals
2. Sunset Provisions - will take years to have a gradual effect.
3. Dramatically lower taxes - how can we stop this revenue stream to the federal government if we don’t raise the debt ceiling? will we even be able to borrow more until the (hopefully) beneficial economic growth effects of these tax cuts kick in? or have we maxed out the credit card already?
I’m not that impressed.
Why? Is he a good juggler or something? :P
He never won a majority vote for governor. Therefore, he can't bring his home state to the table. That eliminates him right there as a contender. Dittos with Santorum and Bachmann. Technically, Cain has the same problem, since he couldn't win the primary for the Georgia Senate seat against Isakson. But since he's a total outsider from politics, I'd make it a mere asterisk instead of an outright disqualification.
It's also reason number 89948433 that Romney is a crap candidate. He can't win EITHER of the states he calls his home states, Michigan or Massachusetts. Yeah, I know people will claim he has a shot at MI, but by the time he's done tying himself in knots pandering to everyone, he'll lose.
Grass growing, Tpaw. Tpaw, grass growing. If you've watched one, you've watched the other.
I don’t know what to think of Pawlenty. He is a bit on the liberal side. On the other hand, if you were Governor of socialist Minnesota in 2005, how much could you really accomplish?
I think people are being too hard on all these candidates as it relates to their fiscal issues in the past. Stopping the government spending gravy train was something that Reagan didn’t do, nor did Palin in Alaska. It really hasn’t been since 2009 and the country figured out that we were out of money that it became politically viable to be a big cost cutter.
And even now, guys like Scott Walker may or may not make it long term while implementing true budget reductions and cutbacks in government programs.
My main suspicion with Pawlenty is that this past week the Wall Street money is starting to embrace him, with the thinking that Romney is seriously damaged goods, despite those polls.
Whenever I hear Pawlenty, I think polenta. In other words, “mush”.
T-Paw is obviously not very popular ‘round here and I hardly love him myself.
But unlike say Romney or Newt or Hunstman he is
A)Someone I could actually vote for without vomiting first.
B)Could actually beat Obama
Our choices are limited.