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Forget Sarah Palin: Tim Pawlenty is the GOP's secret weapon in 2012
DAILY BEAST ^
| 21 NOVEMBER 2009
| DAILY BEAST
Posted on 11/21/2009 11:47:47 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
As the Republican Governors Association gathers in Austin this week, there is a real sense among conservatives that the Obama Bubble is about to burst. And all eyes are on the assembled governors to see who might do the bursting in 2012. Ever since his 2002 election, I've kept close tabs on Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. As governor, Pawlenty coined the phrase Sams Club Republican, which Ross Douthat and I later used to refer to a strain of Republicanism that aims to meet the needs of working and middle class voters. In an interview with the Ripon Society, a storied think tank for GOP moderates, Pawlenty described the essence of Sam's Club Republicanism. "People who are going to Sams Club dont have more money," said Pawlenty, and so "they have to live on a budget, and they still have to meet needs."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; liberalpubbie; nopawlenty; pawlenty; pawlenty2012; rino
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ROFL
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Tim Pawlenty is a Sarah Palin wannabe.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Seems to me that it should be up to the voters. I realize the GOP is too busy trying to manipulate us but still....
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:49:19 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The main difference between Pawlenty and Romeny is that Pawlenty does a better job at pretending to be a conservative.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:49:56 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Nobody from Minn will when the GOP nomination.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:50:07 AM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Pawlenty-palooza! It’s sweeping the nation!!
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:50:32 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I love how the dims love to tell us who should be our nominee.
Hint to writer: the obama “bubble” is blowing up big time.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:50:47 AM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline.)
To: Always Right
LOLOL!!! You are SO right! There isn’t a candidate around that can even come close!
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:50:58 AM PST
by
pollywog
( It's Saturday ~~~ But SUNDAY'S A COMING'!!!!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
LOL thanks for the laugh. After what is going on today in the Senate I needed a good chuckle
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Who wrote this? Meghan McCain.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:51:38 AM PST
by
McGruff
(We're Going Rogue Baby!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
OMG...
One wonders if Pawlenty is repeating the mistake Mitt Romney made in 2008 by trading in his hard-won reputation as a pragmatic problem-solver in exchange for tissue-thin conservative credibility.
Romneycare is problem-solving? More like problem-magnifying.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:51:51 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Does he keep his own state from going for the dems? I guess we know the answer to that don’t we.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:52:07 AM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm.......)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
RINOs running loose everywhere! If it’s not Pawlenty, it’s Romney or Huckabee. They think we don’t know who they are.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:52:13 AM PST
by
Waryone
(II Chronicles 7:14)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Man, am I disappointed. I thought the link was for “The Daily Breast”.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:53:26 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Now that’s Pawlenty funny to me...
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:53:39 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
To: dirtboy
But is just another zero RINO.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:54:38 AM PST
by
mulligan
To: Carl LaFong
Man, am I disappointed. I thought the link was for The Daily Breast.No, that's at Democratic Underwear.com. (I think I got that right...).
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:55:59 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Well, bring him on, and let the people decide.
Pawlenty probably fits the good ol' boy image for the old school GOP, sparing their egos.
They want quit this charade until they've muddied the waters enough where NO conservative will win because of diluted loyalties.
They do this everytime, pumping up one wannabe after another, just so he has enough support to piss off his people when he doesn't get the nomination, and they stay home and don't vote at all.
Conservatives, if you stay home in 2010, you will be voting for obama/democrat...and if what we've endured in just eleven months isn't enough to make you get out the vote, then you deserve all you get of obama.
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:56:07 AM PST
by
FrankR
(SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The contempt Pawlenty had for conservatives on election night last year showed his true colors. I’ll stick with Sarah, thanks but no thanks Daily Beast.. :)
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:56:26 AM PST
by
IMissPresidentReagan
(ATTENTION RINOS: IT'S NOT THAT I'M TOO FAR RIGHT; IT'S THAT YOU'RE TOO FAR WRONG! fubo funp)
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