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George Will pushes Tim Pawlenty

by Phantom Ace ( 305 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Humor, Republican Party at August 8th, 2011 - 5:00 pm

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!

Tim Pawlenty: Wilsonian Republican

by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Progressives, Republican Party, Tranzis at June 28th, 2011 - 9:41 am

Polls show the majority of Republicans are sick of Wilsonian style nation building. Our country is in an economic morass. Wages are stagnating and our debt is out of control. Clearly we need a cautious foreign policy and if we fight, it needs to be quick and decisive. Tim Pawlenty doesn’t get it. He is advocating More nation building and useless interventionism.

GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty will deliver a major address on foreign policy on Tuesday in what his top aides are billing as a rebuttal to what they see as President Barack Obama’s flawed May 19 speech on the Middle East.

All the Republican presidential candidates are being forced to sharpen their foreign policy chops as the primary race heats up, but Pawlenty has been vocal on several key foreign policy issues for some time. His campaign may for now be light on foreign policy infrastructure, but it’s heavy on policy positions and ideas, several of which he plans to lay out tomorrow morning when he addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

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On specific issues such as the president’s approach to Israel, U.S. policy toward Iran, or U.S.-Russia relations, Pawlenty often shares the views of leading GOP hawks in the Senate such as Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT). But Pawlenty doesn’t want to be identified as a neoconservative, and doesn’t want his views to be tied to those senators in particular.

“I wish you could think of another way to describe this wing of the party, other than McCain and Lindsey Graham. I love John, but that’s like saying we’re embracing Nelson Rockefeller on economics,” Pawlenty joked during his interview with Bloomberg News.

Pawlenty is embracing the Rockefeller/Interventionist wing on foreign policy. Bush’s freedom agenda was a failure and cost this nation resources and treasure. It’s time to end Wilsonianism which is a Progressive concept, not a Conservative one. Tim Pawlenty is not a Conservative and will get more Americans killed in useless nation building projects. We must defeat him in the GOP primaries.

CNN Presidential Debate Recap and the Obama Magic is gone

by Phantom Ace ( 79 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, unemployment at June 14th, 2011 - 11:30 am

CNN hosted a debate for the 2012 Republican Presidential candidates last night. My observation was that they are building up Mitt Romney. Clearly the Progressive elites know that Barack Hussein Obama is a failure. They want a Republican whom they can use as a straw man against Obama. Plus if Romney wins, they know he’s not a Conservative and will not change much economically from Obama. There will be some foreign policy changes in regard to Israel, but not much else would change. He received soft ball questions all night. The key moment was when Romney downplayed the threat of Sharia law in the country, despite the fact it’s been used in some criminal cases. He also said he welcomes all faiths. Despite the fact that Islam is a totalitarian political ideology like Nazism and Communism. Imagine Reagan saying that Communism isn’t a threat and he welcomes all ideologies? Nope, because he had principles, unlike Mitt Romney.  Clearly CNN had a Pro-Romney agenda last night.

CNN went after Herman Cain and were giving him hard questions. He would answers and the host John King would twist his answer. Cain had to correct him a few times. Clearly they went after Herman Cain because he’s a proud black man who isn’t a mental slave to the left. CNN had an agenda against Herman Cain.

Ron Paul was Ron Paul. Although I agreed with many of the things he’s said, he’s still crazy!

Newt Gingrich got it right on Islam. He rightfully compared it to Communism and Nazism. During the Coldwar and WWII we didn’t coddle these two ideologies like we coddle Islam. He was right about the importance of a space program as well, but Newt is washed up and yesterday’s news like Charles Johnson.

Tim Pawlenty was boring and lame. He chickened out from going after Mitt Romney on Romneycare. This shows he would be a Bush-like Republican, scared to fight back. No thanks, we had that for 8 years. Turning the other cheek gave us Barack Hussein Obama.

Rick Santorum was sharp, but he’s damaged goods and his stance on preventing abortions for rape victims is sick.

Michele Bachmann was the surprise of the debate. She had a clear command of the issues and was quick on her feet. I was a skeptic of hers, but she was really impressive. If Bachmann keeps up the sharpness and knowledge of the issues, she will be very formidable. Clearly, she has a bright future in politics ahead of her. I would not be shocked if she runs for either the Minnesota Senate or Governorship.

Overall, it was an interesting debate, but CNN had a clear agenda to help Mitt Romney.

Update: Meanwhile Barack Hussein Obama was in Miami. He had a fundraiser in a 2,200 seat concert hall. Only 980 people showed up!

MIAMI, Fla. — A low-dollar fundraiser here Monday felt like a throwback to the 2008 campaign.

There was the same old soundtrack – including “City of Blinding Lights” by U2, the president’s 2008 anthem — the enthusiastic organizers and the abundant appeals for supporters to rally behind President Obama.

The one missing element? Overflowing crowds.

Granted, it was a fundraiser, not a free rally. But the empty seats were hard to miss.

The top level of the 2,200-seat concert hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts was entirely empty, as were the seats along the side of the second and third levels.

The magic is clearly gone and the fact the media is now reporting the low turnout for the Obama event indicates the cocoon is crumbling. 

Obama also might be realizing the game is up for him. He said his family would be OK with one term.

Asked about his family’s reaction to his wanting another term, Obama said: “Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, `You know, guys, I want to do something different,’ They’d be fine. They’re not invested in daddy being president or my husband being president.”

Do us a favor President Hussein and make your family happy. Don’t run for re-election please.

Tim Pawlenty running for President

by Phantom Ace ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Republican Party at April 12th, 2011 - 11:00 pm

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has announced that he will run for President in 2012. Keep in mind, he was governor in 2008 when AL Franken stole the Senate seat. He’s also into Green technology and supported Sharia finance for Somali immigrants. He’s the poster boy of Compassionate Conservatism.

(CNN) – Former Republican Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told CNN’s Piers Morgan Tuesday he’s in the race.

“I’m running for president,” Pawlenty said in an interview set to air Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on “Piers Morgan Tonight.” “I’m not putting my hat in the ring rhetorically or ultimately for vice president. I’m focused on running for president.”

Tim Pawlenty is lame.