Tim Pawlenty is one of the lamest candidates ever to run for President. He’s also a political coward. When the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, Senator Amy Klobuchar blamed Bush at a press conference he was at. Pawlenty said nothing. When Franken stole the Senate seat, he said nothing. He promoted the settling of Somali colonists and was OK with Sharia financing. He’s a useless Rockefeller Republican. Yet George Will, who’s baseball knowledge I respect, claims he’s the most electable!
Pawlenty emphasizes, as tortoises will, the long run. His campaign believes that Bachmann is potentially a flash in the pan whose campaign is brittle because of her propensity to say peculiar things (e.g., about Concord, N.H., the Founders and slavery, John Wayne). Pawlenty’s problem is the short run — between now and Saturday.
If Paul finishes first or second, the political community will shrug: There he goes again, the Babe Ruth of straw polls. If Paul and Bachmann, in either order, capture the two top spots, Pawlenty’s campaign may be mortally wounded. If another candidate propelled by an intense faction — former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, a favorite of evangelicals who in 2008 were 60 percent of Republican caucus participants — also finishes ahead of Pawlenty, the Ames circus will have destroyed the only one among the six candidates who bought space — and therefore are permitted to speak — at the event who has a realistic chance to be nominated and defeat Barack Obama.
Read the rest: Making hay at the Ames straw poll
I wonder what world George Will is living in? Tim Pawlenty is a substitute for anesthesia. He’s lame and boring. Pawlenty should just go away and play golf. He’s wasting Republicans’ time with his pathetic campaign. George Will needs to stick to baseball!
