by folkbum
Jack LaLanne may be, finally at 96, dead, but let us all thank jeebus that there's this guy who will save us all from, what? an asteroid? Tojo? something.
Showing posts with label Tim Pawlenty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Pawlenty. Show all posts
Monday, January 24, 2011
Friday, August 29, 2008
There's Pawlenty to love about this
by folkbum
The buzz around the intertube-weblings is that John McCain has probably selected Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to be his running mate. Here's what we know:
(Of course, I could be wrong and it could be Mitt Romney, the dog-abusing shape-shifter who thinks McCain lacks the temperament to be president. That won't be any fun at all, except for noting that McCain and Romney together probably has a higher net worth than many of the red states that will vote for them. I'll have more comment after work this afternoon once the selection is official ....)
The buzz around the intertube-weblings is that John McCain has probably selected Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to be his running mate. Here's what we know:
- Tim Pawlenty has never even won a majority in his own state
- Tim Pawlenty polls horribly in neighboring states that McCain needs if he wants to win
- By selecting Pawlenty, McCain is turning his back on [pick one: Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, other] and the millions of voters who supported him in the primaries over John McCain
- By selecting Pawlenty, McCain is turning his back on Hillary Clinton and the 18 million Americans (more Americans than voted for any Republican) who feel that it is Hillary's time--not to mention the Clinton-turned-McCain crowd (Debra Bartoshevich and the nutballs at No Quarter)
- By selecting Pawlenty, McCain shows that he's [racist/sexist] because he purposely overlooked all the many qualified [minorities/women] in the party
(Of course, I could be wrong and it could be Mitt Romney, the dog-abusing shape-shifter who thinks McCain lacks the temperament to be president. That won't be any fun at all, except for noting that McCain and Romney together probably has a higher net worth than many of the red states that will vote for them. I'll have more comment after work this afternoon once the selection is official ....)
Monday, August 25, 2008
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let Pawlenty be the VP Nom!
by folkbum
When last we checked in on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's chances to be John McCain's running mate, we found that Palwenty was the worst possible choice, poll-wise, for McCain in Wisconsin. (Note the distinct lack of Biden in that polling.)
Today we find Pawlenty dissing Joe Biden as Obama's choice:
Pawlenty would be an awesome running mate: a blunderer who tanks McCain's polls in neighboring states, who has never even won a majority in his own state--what's not to love for Democrats?
(On the plus side, even if Tim Pawlenty is not tapped to be co-pilot of the Straight-Down Express campaign, we can always ask him why he didn't criticized John McCain for not choosing Gen. Petraeus.)
When last we checked in on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's chances to be John McCain's running mate, we found that Palwenty was the worst possible choice, poll-wise, for McCain in Wisconsin. (Note the distinct lack of Biden in that polling.)
Today we find Pawlenty dissing Joe Biden as Obama's choice:
Pawlenty, on a three-day, two-state swing through Pennsylvania and Ohio that included Saturday stops at a sportsmen's club to discuss the Second Amendment and the economy, thought Obama picked the wrong running mate to support his campaign of change. [. . .]Aside from exhibiting the Petraeus idolatry that we have come to expect from chickenhawks like Pawlenty, he also demonstrates a distinct, shall we say, overwhelming ignorance of what ought to be common knowledge. Military personnel not only are supposed to remain (actually, they are required to remain) apolitical in uniform, but active-duty personnel are forbidden from campaigning for or holding public office.
Pawlenty said he believed Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, would have been a better choice for Obama.
Pawlenty would be an awesome running mate: a blunderer who tanks McCain's polls in neighboring states, who has never even won a majority in his own state--what's not to love for Democrats?
(On the plus side, even if Tim Pawlenty is not tapped to be co-pilot of the Straight-Down Express campaign, we can always ask him why he didn't criticized John McCain for not choosing Gen. Petraeus.)
Friday, May 30, 2008
Wisconsin dislikes Pawlenty
by folkbum
One of the kind of dumb things about SurveyUSA's polling of potential full-ticket (i.e., president and vice president vs. president and vice president) matchups between McCain and Obama is that most people in the country have no idea who, for example, Kathleen Sebelius or Tim Pawlenty are. (The biggest dumb thing is that the odds of any one of the people polled as potential ticket-mates being the actual veep candidate are pretty slim. I mean, Chuck Hagel as Obama's running mate? Come on!)
In Wisconsin, we should actually have a good idea who Pawlenty really is, though. He is Minnesota's governor, which means that probably more people in Wisconsin have heard of Pawlenty and what he's been up to than in other state besides Minnesota itself.
The results? We don't like him. In polling of Wisconsin released today, McCain-Pawlenty loses the state to Obama in every permutation, and McCain-Pawlenty provides the worst matchup of all for the GOP, losing to Obama-Edwards by 15%. Here's the graph; click on the image for a link to SUSA, where you can see the cross-tabs and so forth.
I can't wait for the SUSA poll of Minnesota. (Of note, googling around for this story, I found Minnesota Monitor, which is keeping good track of Pawlenty's VP odyssey here.)
One of the kind of dumb things about SurveyUSA's polling of potential full-ticket (i.e., president and vice president vs. president and vice president) matchups between McCain and Obama is that most people in the country have no idea who, for example, Kathleen Sebelius or Tim Pawlenty are. (The biggest dumb thing is that the odds of any one of the people polled as potential ticket-mates being the actual veep candidate are pretty slim. I mean, Chuck Hagel as Obama's running mate? Come on!)
In Wisconsin, we should actually have a good idea who Pawlenty really is, though. He is Minnesota's governor, which means that probably more people in Wisconsin have heard of Pawlenty and what he's been up to than in other state besides Minnesota itself.
The results? We don't like him. In polling of Wisconsin released today, McCain-Pawlenty loses the state to Obama in every permutation, and McCain-Pawlenty provides the worst matchup of all for the GOP, losing to Obama-Edwards by 15%. Here's the graph; click on the image for a link to SUSA, where you can see the cross-tabs and so forth.
I can't wait for the SUSA poll of Minnesota. (Of note, googling around for this story, I found Minnesota Monitor, which is keeping good track of Pawlenty's VP odyssey here.)
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