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NATIONAL REVIEW: MCCAIN TO PICK PAWLENTY
By Michael B. Brodkorb | July 28, 2008
While I have been privately hoping that Senator McCain picks Governor Tim Pawlenty to be his running mate, I have posted much about the subject on Minnesota Democrats Exposed. This recent story on National Review warranted a post:
“A source tells me that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is John McCain’s choice, and that the announcement is coming very soon. But I checked with the American Legislative Exchange Council, who Pawlenty is scheduled to address Wednesday at 11:30. As far as they know, his speech is still on.” Source: National Review Online, July 28, 2008
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Since the rumors are flying right now about Pawlenty being picked, please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed and Party of Pawlenty for more information. These posts will depart from the advertised definition of Minnesota Democrats Exposed, but since it is my personal blog, I get to make the rules.
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July 28th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I have always believed that McCain would choose Mitt Romney. I am sticking with my pick.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I have always believed that Mitt Romney would never be a VP pick. But I’d be surprised of T-Paw gets it… happy, but surprised.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I just saw Jesse Ventura on Hannity & Colmes. I had no idea he was such a boor. Condolences.
Bob in Texas
July 28th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
several weeks ago i did not see where pawlenty would add much to the ticket, even though i believe he is a good campaigner, very polished and would be a good president if the need arises. my main concern was he would not offer much in the way of securing electoral votes, but now i am not so sure in that i am thinking he might actually bring mn to gop because with franken at the head of the state ticket a lot of moderates will move to gop.
also pawlenty might pull in some iowa votes; however, i am thinking mccain still needs ohio or michigan so romney would seem to fit that ticket.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
McCain and Pawlenty seem like tax raising Democrats to me.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I hate to be a downer, but I think Pawlenty is a poor choice for a V.P. candidacy at this time for the following reasons.
a. If Pawlenty runs as V.P. that means that we are much more likely to have a MN Dem Governor elected in the next election cycle. The Dfl will hammer Pawlenty breaking his word to serve his full term many times on record and now since after the bridge collapse leaving the lieutenant governor in his place would leave too much of an arsenal for the left to draw from.
Is it fair? Of course it’s not fair or justified but you and I know that is what the media and the left will exploit and feast on.
b. Pawlenty is still very young and has many chances for higher office in the future. It may be better for him to serve his second full term as Governor now and beef up his resume for a future cabinet post or U.S. Senate and even maybe a future Presidential run. He also has on record said many times said he will serve his full term. This is not his fault, I myself would have told Escola and La hammer to shove it, but than someone like me would never be elected even dog catcher of a town populated with 10 people and all related.
c. O.K. I will say it. I know people will chuckle and laugh and think I’m an idiot. Well, I don’t care (not much…maybe a little). I personally for over a year now have been convinced that Norm Coleman should be McCain’s pick (yes I predicted and stuck with McCain the whole way, although I had many moments of doubt). Kennedy in his spot should hop in the race and run again against a weak DFL candidate and a compromising to the left Independence party running Barkley. Coleman is a perfect choice because he has the most drive, political savvy and that all important x factor that makes him shine. He could easily be a future presidential candidate. Top it all off with the convention the convention in St. Paul and I believe you have a Kodak moment that doesn’t come about very often if at all. I think playing it too safe is a prescription for losing. We need to look down the road and choose today what will be best tomorrow.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
McCain likes Pawlenty- McCain is a crabby dude so for him to like somebody is a big deal. It’s disappointing to get another global warming Republican on the ticket, but McCain wants those evangelical Christian votes and he gets that with Pawlenty not with Romney. Alaska Gov would have been the only way for McCain to get out of the corner he’s painted himself into on energy. This is a safe bet with Pawlenty and if enough people vote against Obama (vs for McCain), they could feasibly win.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Why would anyone want to jump onto the straight talk express heading directly to a brick wall?
July 28th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I agree with shozzy and I like Palin. She would be the best choice.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I hope Pawlenty is the pick. Two years of Governor Molnau and Lt. Governor Metzen would be so much funnier than anything Jesse did.
Also, I love the idea of Norm Coleman being the pick, and Mark Kennedy jumping into the Senate race. Sure, it can’t happen legally, but Mark Kennedy is the Prissy Farris Lord of the republican bench. If the laws were suspended, and he were allowed to do it, he would stand a solid chance of coming in sixth.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Tuesday is the day! McCain will be announcing that Tim Pawlenty is his VP.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Come on, does anyone think Brodkorb is pimping Pawlenty for anything other than it would increase his stock in trade? Coattails and dollar signs are blinding MDE to whatever standards it purports to uphold.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Jason Lewis’s listeners were hoping that Senator McCain would pick Rep Michele Bachmann. I think that sounds like a fantastic idea. Let’s give Michele Bachmann a national platform!
July 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Nah,
Michael gave up on standards years ago. Now he is simply a dung tosser. Luckily, republicans always seem to need a good dung tosser, so he is highly employable.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Tuesday is the day. McCain will be announcing Pawlenty as his running mate.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Why isn’t it legal for Coleman, if picked (which he won’t) have someone else run in his place? I didn’t realize the election laws were so anal. When Lyndon Johnson ran for V.P. with J.F.K. he not only ran for V.P. he simultaneously ran for reelection of his U.S. Senate seat (he won both and his senate seat was filled by appointment by Texas’s governor. Leroy is this a fact? I know the filing date was July 15th but in the stepping down of a candidate can’t someone else step in? This seems if true ridiculous.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:53 am
McCain’s health is gonna be a big issue, the American people don’t wanna see their president getting chunks of his skin taken off his face to see if they are malignant every 3 months. Frankly it creeps me out… He has had Melanoma like 4 times now….
I doubt he lives to election day….
July 29th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Barack is 10 times more likely to die before election day then McCain,if you want to have that discussion, plus a 20 year age difference is nothing considering Barack smokes a pack a day.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Tell me it ain’t so even though I was afraid of it.
Tim I thought was going to get it because he’s loyal even though Mccain has shown no loyality to the Republican party and it’s ideas and because he believes in that global warming garbage.
A great vice President candidate will be Sarah Palin the governor of Alaska. She will allow us to run a campaign on the need to drill for oil the issue that will help us win the election. Tim has zero credibility for that type of a campaign.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
July 29th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Since this Ol’ Bear is gonna vote for McCain regardless of his VP pick, I’m not gonna tie my brain in knots worrying about every single nuanced implication of whether it’s Romney or Pawlenty or a player-to-be-named. A couple of observations from the bleacher seats, however. I think Pawlenty has a better chance of helping McCain carry Minnesota than Romney does of helping to carry Massachusetts. And as for Michigan, I think Pawlenty’s pragmatic South St. Paul roots might resonate better in that economically-bruised state than most Romney fans would guess. In the end, McCain should select a running mate who he trusts and who he believes can fulfill the duties of the Presidency if called upon to do so. Period.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:46 am
McCain needs an old school conservative and Pawlenty does not fit the bill. If he was chosen I imagine he would help keep more conservative voters home on election day then McCain would.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:47 am
J.P.
It is true. If Coleman were to die (ala Paul Wellstone) I believe there is a way to add a different name, but if he simply loses interest in the race and goes for another job, the republican candidate would likely end up being Jack Shepard, a convicted felon who is hiding out in Italy.
He could do an LBJ and run for both simultaneously, but I doubt his chances would be all that good at winning either. But, say he happened to win both, then the governor would have to call a special election to fill the seat, as there would be six years remaining on his Senate term.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Palin has a newborn son at home with Down’s Syndrome. She’s not leaving to head out on the campaign trail.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Wouldn’t you think this story would a) either be on Drudge; or b) maybe even be on the front page of the National Review?
July 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
MBB: “…I get to make the rules.”
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Are you sure that it’s not also that you get to BREAK the rules?
July 29th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Barack is 10 times more likely to die before election day then McCain,if you want to have that discussion, plus a 20 year age difference is nothing considering Barack smokes a pack a day.
congrats, that was the stupidest thing I have read this week! if that comment warranted a reply I would be happy to “have that discussion” but its just so stupid I’d rather save my typing fingers on legitimate arguments.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
“I’d rather save my typing fingers on legitimate arguments.”
Why change now, Yoni?
July 29th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Hey, don’t put down Jack Shepard Leroy.
I just saw Jack Shepard a week ago, he’s my dentist.
He pulled a couple teeth and crowned one back molar:)
July 29th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I like T-Paw but I don’t get what he’d bring to the ticket. McCain is a moderate senator so a moderate governor like Pawlenty wouldn’t do anything to rev up the base. Not sure who would do that, though. Probably the only chance of firing up the base is some more Obama preening.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I do hope Obama chooses a qualified VP if he should happen to win. Chestnut is correct. Obama is a smoker and is much more likely to become unable to perform his duties than McCain is. What I don’t understand is why Yoni thinks its ok to talk about McCain getting sick but not Obama?
July 29th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Obama’s not qualified. What makes anyone think he’d chose a qualified VP?
July 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
“Barack is 10 times more likely to die before election day then McCain”
Unfortunately, this is probably true, only because the republican party is full of racist, pillow case wearing, gun carrying crazies.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
PD you have crossed the line with that comment.
Get a Life!!
July 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
“the republican party is full of racist, pillow case wearing, gun carrying crazies.”
Huh. And here I thought you were the Democrat… the actual party of racists.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
“PD you have crossed the line with that comment.”
What? I’m not the one who made the comment. What possible increased risk of dying could Barrack face besides assassination? He’s not going to die of lung cancer before November.
And, I’m also sorry, but that risk comes from white supremest racists who don’t want to see a black president. What party do they usually belong? Ultra conservative republicans.
Look, I’ll take our licks for being a party with crazy pot smoking green peace boat driving hippies, but, I’d rather have them on my team then some of the crazy southern white republicans you have on yours.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“And, I’m also sorry, but that risk comes from white supremest racists who don’t want to see a black president. What party do they usually belong?”
They don’t belong to the Republican party, PD. They’re usually libertarians of some variety…
That said, white supremacists aren’t the only breed of racist. The Democrat party has a long, deep and proud tradition of keeping blacks down, exploiting them for political purposes… enslaving them for political means.
The Democrat party is as racist as it gets.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Who in Republican party ever rose to the high rank of Grand kleegal of the KKK?
July 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Sen. Byrde? … oh wait… he’s a Democrat!
July 29th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
For those into discrimination like Yoni and most other libs, STFU about McCain’s age, finally, will ya?
Take a look at his 95 year old mother. Pretty damned spry if you ask me.
Yoni and her (his? it?) ilk will kick and scream discrimination once old and denied a job. But right now, it’s convenient to talk about McCain with ageism. Typical liberal people.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
While the Democrats WERE the party of the racist south, I believe we all know what party the south turned to once the Democrats started talking about integration and equal rights in the 60’s. Hint, it’s the Republican party.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Why the heck are we talking about the South? It’s moronic. Was Franklin Roosevelt a racist because he was a democrat in a Republican dominated North? At the time racism was so abundant in the South, (and a good deal of progressive “humane eugenics’” policies of racism as well as ableism or you could call it handicapism), it was an epidemic. Are their some open racists in certain areas of the the south (as opposed to in certain areas in the North that are closet racists who favor eugenic programs.)These people are mostly of the left. You know the kind of people who vote a straight Democrat ticket. It’s good to be reminded of the open hostile racists and closet racists who live in this country. I tell you what I have met at least two democrats (not including ones who I sensed racist attitude toward certain ethnicities) who to my astonishment at the time learned were very anti-Semitic and very racist. People who contributed mind body soul and pocket book to racist and anti-Semitic groups (much in basic anonymity through web sites.) These two people are dye in the wool democrats. They hate the Republican Party.
Real life isn’t so simple. We have low-life’s that vote Republican then Democrat then Republican and then Democrat swinging back and forth. I have never heard a Republican say the n- word here in the Northstar state. Never in the 5 months I volunteered day in and day out in 2006 for the state republicans.
In much of the South there is strong democratic majority support in many southern states, but in the national election many of these same voters trend toward voting Republican.
I will say it once more and once more only: there is trash in both parties.
progressives created, marketed and financed the eugenics movement and today liberal supporting groups of “physicians” have recently been using the Federal deficit as a selling tool to promote eugenics all over again.
Because of Progressives over 150,000 people were forced sterilized because of certain handicaps that were assumed to be genetic or if they were the wrong ethnicity “race”.
Much of this if you liberals dust off your history books was motivated by Progressive fears of immigration spoiling the american “gene pool” meaning “white” gene pool and heavy racism against African Americans.
If you want an honest debate we Republicans and history are waiting. Up until 1968 the Republicans overwhelming drove supported and passed all the civil rights bills. Do you want to know when the Republicans lost the African American vote? It was after the Republican passage of the civil rights voting act. Around this time Kennedy and the Dems were forcing their party to shape up or shape out like the Dixie Democrats did. Nothing against President Kennedy it wasn’t his fault, but you Dems came around rather late to the party. Until 1968 Lyndon Johnson had to strong arm the civil rights bill that made it illeagal to discriminate in the work place, housing and education.
Again, let’s review, was Franklin Roosevelt a racist? Was Eleanor (she had been until after becoming first lady continued be technically a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy). Why didn’t she renounce from the organisation earlier? If she were Republican you would be accussing her of being racist. I can tell you (and I’m sure you agree) she was not a racist and for that time she lived a herioc life battleing racism.
Southern politics is a whole different history and almost a world distint from Northern history and reality. How dare you “PlymouthDem” smear all Republicans when Republican majorities (in the North,(all the South was lard-solid Democrat) passed all the civil rights Bills? How dare you take an incredibly complex historical political fruitcaked mixture of southern populism often that today often splits in vote in Federal elections due to national issues on gay marriage gun rights right to prayer in Public school vouchers and lower Federal taxes?
You liberals can’t type or talk when “thinking.”
Each major party’s broken up into many diverse factions: for instance in exit polling it showed that Gay Lesbian and Bi-sexual voters gave Bush gave 23% of the vote (now this shocked me since I figured it would be much lower.) But facts are facts; of course if the information from Wikipedia is off then it is not a fact is it? Then I would adjust my view.
This is something Democrats seem to have trouble doing. When you here something you like no matter how mistaken or false it is found later you keep on the same Pavlovian path. You are believers for life. Many other groups (including those not officialy organised like married women and people who have graduated from college) represent different occupational generational and local topological and geological interests. If the democrat thinks hard enough he/she can figure out that most politics is local by using their own patented amazing unique type of “critical thinking.” To all you closet racists…go to hell. You good Dems I respect where your heart’s at.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Pawlenty is in bed with McCain re. their immigration amnesty policy. He is a strong supporter of McCain’s failed immigration giveaway bill. Their immigration policy would eliminate the Republican party.
Pawlenty is also sleep inducing. Even witless Biden will have him for lunch.
McCain needs someone more lively, intelligent, and productive as his VP, and that’s Romney. Romney is actually the only one in either party that has actually ever worked for a living–he is NOT a career political hack, like all of the others.
Again, Biden will clean Pawlentys clock, and bring nothing to the ticket, just a younger, sleepier McCain.