Posted on 05/24/2011 6:46:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the GOP tries to stick us with another loser, if they try to foist THEIR candidate on us, Zero gets his second term. This may be the first election I sit out since 1971.
Should Pawlenty get the nomination, the election will not be a plebiscite of Tim-Yes or Tim-No. He would be running against an actual flesh and blood opponent, one who has done and continues to do massive damage to our social and economic systems. In fact, the vote may actually turn out to be a plebiscite of Barack-Yes or Barack-No, in which case, whoever the republicans nominate will have an excellent chance.
Strong words?
As Sarah would say, “You betcha!”
I love all these articles - why some candidate no one cares about must do this or that.
Pawlenty is not famous enough to win the Republican nomination. The Republicans never pick someone who is a fresh face. That’s the Democrats. The Republicans treat the primary as a quiz - “who is the top republican”.
Palin, Gingrich, Romney, Paul, Bachmann can make the case that they’re the top Republican. Palin has the easiest job of it.
Go TPaw Go!!!! I’m a big supporter of TPaw and think he can win. Why? Because he won’t shy away from these questions.
RE: Pawlenty is not famous enough to win the Republican nomination
I wonder, how famous was Obama back in 2008 when he challenged Hillary for the Democratic nomination?
Tim probably won't have Blowprah pimping him, LOL
I’m open to learning more about Pawlenty. It helps that he was a conservative governor in a liberal state (higher degree of difficulty), not the converse like Huckabee, IMO.
Some interesting points in the article, but basically it’s those of the conventional wisdom questioning others from the conventional wisdom point of view. How boringly conventional. From what I can tell, TPaw has almost zero support among movement conservatives who dominated the 2010 election cycle.
I love the cap’n’trade dismissal argument:
‘It doesn’t really matter if he favors it ‘cuz Congress won’t pass it’.
That got me on the bandwagon./
I guess he is better than Romney. That pretty much sums him up IMO.
4. Can he appeal to blue-collar voters?
He IS a blue-collar person. He is probably the first person in his family to own a tie.
When I was in school we were taught that the constitution required the president to be a “natural born citizen”. To meet this requirement I was taught that you had to have been born in the country and both of your parents had to be United States citizens. We were taught that this requirement was to prevent someone with “divided loyalties from becoming president.
I guess at some point the educators in this country decided that the constitutional requirement wasn’t fair and dropped this from the curriculum. Tim Pawlenty better send a big thank you note to the NEA, the DNC, Nancy Pelosi, and especially Obama for flushing our constitution down the toilet
Amen to that! Fact of the matter is, no matter how distasteful some of these candidates are, we have to be committed to vote for ANY of them. Because if we end up with four more years of Obama the country is essentially over.
I enjoy telling people that I happily voted for Richard Nixon in 1972 and that, knowing what I now know, I would vote for him again. I was not a big fan of Nixon, but a George McGovern presidency, combined with large Democrat majorities in Congress, would have led to an economic and national security disaster for the US. I’m not even certain that Ronald Reagan could have turned things around if we had suffered through eight years of a McGovern presidency.
No serious Conservative would ever entertain the idea of ‘sitting out’ an election.
Leave the ballot for that ONE election blank - if you must - but don't be a crybaby. Go vote.
Well the elites have made their choice and now they are going to jam him down our throats. Everyone else will be marginalized.
McCain on hockey skates.
If Bachmann gets in where does that leave Palin? I can't see Sarah jumping in and causing a cat-fight. As the strong social and fiscal conservative, I do see her entering the race later if Michele slips and falls.
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