Good news: Pawlenty rounding up McCain strategists for 2012 run
posted at 9:34 pm on October 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
An all-star list of GOP strategists for his PAC’s first fundraiser. Hey — I thought Mitt was supposed to be the RINO candidate this time!
Among those interested in getting to know Pawlenty are Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Randy Scheunemann, two top policy advisers from the McCain presidential campaign who have joined the Minnesota governor’s host committee…
While Romney has a team of tested veterans to rely on if he runs again, Pawlenty is using his PAC to show off some who might come to his aid if he enters the race. Other McCain veterans teaming up with Pawlenty’s PAC are political strategists Bo Harmon, Jon Seaton and Terry Nelson, all of whom played roles in the 2008 campaign…
Earlier this month, Pawlenty rolled out a list of political and Web strategists who would serve as top advisers to his PAC — and, presumably, his eventual presidential campaign.
That list included Phil Musser, the former executive director of the Republican Governors Association; Nelson, a veteran of the Iowa caucuses who briefly served as Sen. McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign manager; Sara Taylor, President George W. Bush’s former political director; and Conant, a former press secretary at the Republican National Committee. The Web team includes Patrick Hynes, Liz Mair, Mindy Finn and Patrick Ruffini, all campaign veterans.
Randy Scheunemann? The same Randy Scheunemann who was Sarahcuda’s most loyal defender inside the McCain/Palin campaign? The same Randy Scheunemann who advised her on her Hong Kong speech? That Randy Scheunemann is hanging around with Tim Pawlenty now? At the very least, this means even her close advisors don’t know yet if she’s running. (Further proof that she’s not serious about politics?) At most, it means she’s decided against it and Scheunemann’s looking to latch onto someone else. Hmmmm.
Exit question: Seriously, why isn’t Mitt snapping these people up? He’s got the cash and much more name recognition than Pawlenty. Is his own campaign outfit already so well staffed that he doesn’t need any free agents?
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No McCain ninnys. None. Nada. Not ever.
Get rid of ‘em. Everyone of them, including the head ninny’s daughter. Out of town. Get out. Stay out. Don’t come back. STFU.
Get going and keep going. You worthless ‘tards.
pabarge on October 12, 2009 at 10:16 PM
He’d be a tough sell.
Weight of Glory on October 12, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Uh, yeah, good luck with T-Yawn, there, Randy.
Wake me when the ‘Cuda posts another FB to face bammy.
Palin/Rubio 2012!
sabu on October 12, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Pawlenty is not running for prez in 12, at best he is running for vp. Oh he may set up a campaign but it’s all for show and hoping he can get enough votes to show he can help a ticket.Sarah has a problem for vp, liz Cheney or John Bolton won’t help in an election but will be dynamite in her Cabinet.Would Romney play second fiddle to Sarah, slight chance. Huck is out so T paw has potential but has a lot to prove.Other possibilities for her VP-Pence,DeMint or mabye Rudy.
tim c on October 12, 2009 at 10:17 PM
honey, you seriously need to remove the stick from your behind, have a drink, and find some male company, or female company, or some small battery powered device, ok?
Ghoul aid on October 12, 2009 at 10:17 PM
It’s the economy stupid! Voters take their pocketbook as the ultimate arbiter of ballot decisions.
Like Carter, Obama has no economic expertise. By 2012 the majority of voters will oppose his policies. Anyone running against him as a fiscal conservative will win.
IntheNet on October 12, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Come on now, Ogabe is not a sure thing, he1l the boy barely squeaked out a win when everything was in his corner. He was chosen because he was “different” and by the time 2012 rolls into view, Americans will in the mood to kick his different butt straight to Mars.
Bishop on October 12, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Somebody call Ghostbusters.
Dark-Star on October 12, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Word in the Mormom community is that Romney and Co don’t think he can overcome the religion thing.
I’m disappointed because I like him; If we can elect a Muslim, how come we can’t elect a Mormon?
tee-hee
anniekc on October 12, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Give me a break. If Obama was white and his father was French, and he had spent time growing up in France would it be racist to make a comment about going back to France?
No. It wouldn’t.
Don’t assume racism without due cause.
jhffmn on October 12, 2009 at 10:20 PM
If not one is going to moderate the crazy racists on this thread… I’m out. Good night.
terryannonline on October 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
What they don’t want Steve Schmidt? Really bad mouthing the people you were supposed to support isn’t working for him?
Dr Evil on October 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Pawlenty? Or, Obama and my AR-15?
Sorry Timmie.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
terryannonline on October 12, 2009 at 9:54 PM
I’M SERIOUSLY THINKING THAT PALIN MIGHT NOT WANT TO RUN IN 2012
I would call this wishful thinking.
Think about it, what would stop her from running:
1) Money-she is now financially independent and has the ability to raise as much money as she needs
2)name recognition-who doesn’t know Sarah Palin?
3)a solid base of support: how about close to 1m in Facebook membership and a huge following among the “base”
4)Sarah Pac’s commitment to help conservative candidates in 2010
5)her momentum caused by the sales of her book
6)No preeminent Republican competition such as an Eisenhower (Petraeus has pancreatic cancer)who is a shoo-in
7)Payback or revenge on Obama for the Alinsky tactics he has used to try to destroy her and her family
C’mon get serious; Sarah will run unless there is a serious health issue in the family.
She understands you have to strike when the iron is hot. Sarah Palin will never be as hot as she is now.
technopeasant on October 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
There is no one in the republican party like that. Oh sure there are some who call themselves that. But no one who is actually committed to the principles of limited government, especially when they get into the office and take the reigns of Statist power, it is to intoxicating for them to turn away. The best you can hope for now, is a republican who administers the nanny state a little less heavy handed than a democrat. As I said, the slow screw…
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Pawlenty doesn’t really want the job, does he?
HAnthonyWayne on October 12, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Why the heck would any Republican sign on people who ran McCain’s campaign? Uh, he lost. So obviously, they didn’t do too good of a job in running a campaign. Then again, with Juan McVain, they didn’t have much to work with.
Sorry, Tim Pawlenty just seems like another wimpy “compassionate” RINO type. Gag. Romney is toast with Massachussett’s health care debacle. We’re screwed.
Special K on October 12, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Really? There’s a hottie from AK that’d prove you wrong, me thinks.
HAnthonyWayne on October 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM
There is not doubt that what ghoul said was racist. Absolutely sickening.
terryannonline on October 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I would not be surprised if T-Paw is positioning for the Veep spot. He actually would be quite good there with Sarah at the top of the ticket.
Makes you wonder why Schunemun is out there. Link between a Palin/Pawlenty ticket?
THAT would be a quite effective ticket.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM
It is just a matter of degrees, do you like it rough, or do you want to take it easy?
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Pawlenty will be a third tier candidate all the way through the primaries. Book it.
V15J on October 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Those are beautiful pics. I’m sure seeing that in person is 100 times better too. One day.
Boehner’s a tough guy. I realize a House member is a long shot…but against Obama in ’12? By then, he’ll have screwed up so bad…
JetBoy on October 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM
terryannonline on October 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Is it tomorrow already? You’re back.
kingsjester on October 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I do not believe T-Paw can beat Obama.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM
If someone doesn’t fire up the RNC its a hopeless cause. At least Dick Morris is running ads to defeat this sham going on with the DC thugs. What the hell is Michael Steele doing?
Forget the RINO’s. For anyone that wants what John McCain offers you didn’t learn a damn thing last November. Pull your heads out of your asses and as bambi would say get in their damn faces and tell the damn world what needs to be done. Screw the Muslims, the Europeans and the left wing appeasers. Get a plan to put people back to work. Force the transparaency that Obaman promised the people upon him and his crony administration and talk about this phony stimulus.
Talk about the unspent part that is waiting to buy votes on the socialist bills in congress and in the next election year. Again I say get your damn heads out of your asses.
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Palin will be the queenmarker…
Prediction: She will be more relevant than Mitt Romney and Tim Pot in 2016.
I don’t see how our dear leader gets voted out in 2012.
TimeTraveler on October 12, 2009 at 10:27 PM
lmao. weren’t you leaving? why don’t you hire a blimp to fly across the sky and reprint what i said for the whole world to see. good lord you are a freak!
Ghoul aid on October 12, 2009 at 10:27 PM
McCain’s advisors?
Wasn’t Bob Shrum available? How about Estrich, since we’re on the subject of reliable losers?
fogw on October 12, 2009 at 10:27 PM
You got another three years to build your hope and dreams into that. Might be a ton of disappointment there…
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:28 PM
You spew racists comments…and I’m the freak?
terryannonline on October 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM
hey terryann…..choke on that! AGAIN!!!!
Ghoul aid on October 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM
There is one person who may have the courage to try and that’s Sarah.
NOBODY else in the GOP has the guts to even try.
I told everybody here, she is the best due to her COURAGE.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Now no.
But by 2012 fiscal conservatism will be a campaign theme; the 2012 “Deficit” will be like the 2008 “Iraq War” touchstone. Republicans will discover fiscal conservatism and use Obama’s playbook against him. Far worse for Hussein Obama, the media will have turn against him by then… without a sympathetic media the Chicago rookie will lose the second term. Fiscal conservatism will beat him.
IntheNet on October 12, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I agree. I think it will be quite a while before the GOP fields a strong candidate again. If there ever is one that really causes a lot of excitement, the media will savage them, then his/her own party will savage him/her, especially the powers-that-be. The “we’ve gotta win moderates, independents and Hispanics” theme is there to stay.
ddrintn on October 12, 2009 at 10:32 PM
As usual Allah doesn’t do his research when it concerns Gov. Palin. Both Scheunemann and Biegun have or are advising Gov. Palin. What Allah you can only get half a story and run it to its pretzel logical end. Not a surprise coming from you when it concerns Gov. Palin.
Biegun, who helped with Palin’s Hong Kong speech last month and was her chief foreign policy aide during last year’s campaign, told Investor’s Business Daily that the former governor showed “great passion for foreign policy and national security” during the campaign, calling it “an area on which she has great instincts.”
She’s “free-trade oriented,” he says, with “a strong sense of the importance of American leadership in the world.”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=508714
Clyde5445 on October 12, 2009 at 10:32 PM
What if swine flu wipes out ACORN?
Hey TT, look at what Ogabe has done in nine short months. Imagine how many enemies he’ll have after four years have passed.
fogw on October 12, 2009 at 10:32 PM
They are not going to do this. The RNC is controlled by people who want what Obama is delivering right now, more government power. Sure they will put up a candidate that will run against him (not Palin), and sure they will talk fiscal conservatism and the eonomy, but in the end, they like big government too. The argument is no longer about republicans delivering less government, that is dead and gone. The argument now is only how to manage the new nanny state.
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Mitt Romney is a racist and he shouldn’t be given a chance at the nomination.
TimeTraveler on October 12, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Palin?Rubio 2012
bill30097 on October 12, 2009 at 9:46 PM
That’s my pick, don’t see anything on the horizon to touch this combo.
heshtesh on October 12, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Here’s how Tim Pawlenty could win the GOP in 2012?
Steps:
1)Mike Huckabee does not run and T-Paw inherits the bulk of Huck’s evangelicals
2)Romney continues his weakness among Bible-belt conservatives and “base” Republicans in general and it is determined he cannot win
3)The GOP establshment eventually abandons Romney (or Romney quits the race) and totally gets behind Pawlenty.
4)the state run media convinces indies and moderates not to back Sarah Palin or Sarah stumbles
Do I believe it will happen? No. But anything is possible especially if Romney falters.
technopeasant on October 12, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Who’s better? Seems the only ones who have balls on the conservative side these days are the women.
How about Ann? MM? Bachman? Better than any..ANY..guy out there intending to run. Romney? Look at his health care debacle. Pawlenty? Really? Outside of NY, how many more persons have ‘disappeared’ from one state in the US, only to turn up in some AQ training camp? Huckabee? PLEASE. Jindal? Maybe, IF he could read a ‘prompter better.
And anyone who makes waves in the MSM like these women do have my vote..and THEN some.
HAnthonyWayne on October 12, 2009 at 10:34 PM
First of all the article only says that Scheunemann is attending Pawlenty’s first fund raiser for his PAC, it doesn’t say anything about him joining Pawlenty’s political team. Hell maybe Pawlenty invited the guy because he has seen the good work he has been doing with Palin and wanted his advice. Or alternatively maybe Scheunemann is going as Palin’s representative with a potential donation from Palin for Pawlenty’s PAC. There could be a myriad of reasons why Scheunemann is attending this event and none of them are in anyway an indication that Palin isn’t interested in running in 2012.
Quite frankly this sort of speculation about Palin’s intentions is reminiscent of certain pundits pronouncing Palins political career dead when she resigned her Governorship several months ago. They were wrong then and I dare say they are wrong now. In fact a lot of the speculation about what Governor Palins intentions actually are seems to me to be a whole lot of wishful thinking in my opinion and I get the sense that no one will know exactly what Sarah Palin is going to do politically until she decides to tell us.
Hellrider on October 12, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Yeah, first one in and the first one out. He’ll be Romney’s VP candidate.
I don’t either. The GOP base is going to be alienated once again.
ddrintn on October 12, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I think Boehner is just too close to the epicenter of the Republican dissatisfaction. But who knows, it’s still a ways off and, really, the field is WIDE open.
Weight of Glory on October 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM
That is all ancient history, in 2012, they will argue about how to manage the new federal healthcare system, they will debate about how much cap n trade is good for the U.S., in 2012, the debate simply will be about managing the new nanny state, not about repulsing it, it aint gonna happen, America is gone, hello Amerika.
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Everyone is a racist! There… you happy? Labeling people “racists” without evidence is a tired boring habit of liberals… the last card from those with nothing important to say!
IntheNet on October 12, 2009 at 10:37 PM
I like this pick.
I also like Palin/Col. Allen West.
He’s a Washington outsider, solid conservative and he’s strong on national security.
Frankly, the only potential downside is his race since some tools will say that’s the only reason he’d be a good pick.
But if you take a look at him…look him up on Youtube and check him out, I think you’ll be impressed.
powerpro on October 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM
What we need is more people like Joe Wilson who can act like they own a set and speak their mind. Or on the other side of the coin is the folks like McCain who are disgusted that things like that can happen. Give me a frnc*cking break. I want someone who will kick bambis ass and not kiss it
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I agree, she is running.
Pawlenty is thinking Veep spot.
All the pieces are falling into place. Unless her book really slams the GOP and McCain so hard it is obvious she is not running, she will be running.
Nov. 17th cannot come fast enough.
:)
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Well….he wears magic underwear…
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Too true! I see some brave women candidates out there!
IntheNet on October 12, 2009 at 10:40 PM
He drank the global warming kool-aid a long time ago and he’s been the governor of a state where muslims have received supra-rights. He’s a mark sandford or george allen waiting to happen.
peacenprosperity on October 12, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Hey Pawlenty…um, you should hire Mark McKinnon…uh, yeah, he’ll work out great! (*cough*goodluckwiththat*cough*)
CP on October 12, 2009 at 10:42 PM
paulsur on October 12, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I heard that Charles Johnson likes to touch little kids but I can’t confirm it yet….
TimeTraveler on October 12, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Liz Cheney chews up liberals and then spits them out …. with such ease.
fogw on October 12, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Kicks the wall in frustration!
Crux Australis on October 12, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Sounds like barny Franks to me
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 10:44 PM
On the point that the field is wide open, I’ll agree 100%. A lot can, and probably will, happen the next couple years.
JetBoy on October 12, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I agree. That one is the best combo but contingent on Marco beating Crist in the GOP primary for Senator from FL.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Maybe Sarah and Pawlenty have a deal in the making?
heshtesh on October 12, 2009 at 10:46 PM
T-Paw barely beat DFL re-tread Mike Hatch in a 3-way race governor race.
The GOP is beyond deluded if they think our Timmy can ride the Johnny Mac Express to the WH in ’12.
Bruno Strozek on October 12, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Tim Pawlenty?
Really?
This is the same loser who stood by silent while ACORN stole the election for Stuart Smalley! Not a friggin’ word out of Pawlenty.
And anyone who thinks Sarah Palin isn’t running for President in 2012 needs their head examined! I mean a full psychiatric work up.
The fact that Randy Scheunemann is helping Pawlenty means nothing. It could simply be that Timmy is hiring and the ‘Cuda is not. I mean why should she?
Lets see, Sarah has both Rudy and Dick Cheney on speed dial, when the time comes, she’ll be able to assemble the best there is to help.
It will be 2011 AT LEAST before Sarah throws her hat in the ring. To do so any sooner is idiotic.
Sarah knows how this game is played better than most. She has proven that by how she deals with Obama. She also understands there is such a thing as peaking to early. When everyone else has worn out their welcome,Sarah will step in and that will be that.
gary4205 on October 12, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Alaska laws don’t allow the governor to run for the POTUS with all the restrictions.
Sarah will trounce Pawlenty in the primary. He is second tier and looking for a Veep spot.
If I was him, that is how I would position myself.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:49 PM
I don’t think that the angry white men has a chance in the next election. Boehner looks like that angry uncle that beats you in the backyard.
TimeTraveler on October 12, 2009 at 10:50 PM
If the RNC doesn’t get their act together I think you will see a third party form. The timing is right with all the independents leaving bambi. Two party rule in this country is a stalemate.
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Give the man more time, Ogabe I mean, he has managed to wreak quite the path of destruction so far and still has most of his term yet to go.
A state governor brings a lot to the table, even someone as potentially boring as Pawlenty, and by 2012 people will be saying “No more experiments, give us experienced and staid.”
Bishop on October 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Color me surprised. /s
Connie on October 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Could T-Paw be a stalking horse for Sarah Palin?
technopeasant on October 12, 2009 at 10:52 PM
The possibilities for delusion in the party of Mike Murphy are endless.
ddrintn on October 12, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Very ugly.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I still like Duncan Hunter, though I doubt he has even a snowballs chance in hell.
Palin/Rubio would be an awful ticket. If Palin does run, she needs someone with experience to bolster her. That is how you beat Obama/Biden who represent inexperience/incompetence. whether you like to admit it or not, America will be taking a chance with Palin and after 4 years of Obama’s bumbling around they will be wary of making the same mistake twice; she needs experience to back her up.
Daemonocracy on October 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM
JetBoy on October 12, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I don’t think that the angry white men has a chance in the next election. Boehner looks like that angry uncle that beats you in the backyard.
TimeTraveler on October 12, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Take it to the front yard and he’ll probably help himself. Look at the planned tactics of the other party on the newer post above this one. A better plan than the RNC’s. Nice guys finish last. Just ask John McCain, Lincoln Caffee and other eastcoast RINO’s who we all know. A lot of these comments coming from folks who were betting on Arlene Specter just a short time ago. You don’t have to look hard to find them, you can smell them.
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Palin could REEEALLY go Alinsky on Obama if someone would give her a 5-10 min weekly opinion slot on FOX. You hear me Hannity/Greta/Beck? We complain that the MSM doesn’t cover things, and they hate her so much that they couldn’t help themselves – EVEN if she evicerated Obama. Delicious.
marklmail on October 12, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Forgot that one. Thanks!
HAnthonyWayne on October 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM
We need “angry”. No matter who we’d like to see in 2012, we can probably all agree the lefties in DC have made us all very angry.
And Boehner doesn’t beat up lefties in the backyard, he does it right o the front porch :)
JetBoy on October 12, 2009 at 11:04 PM
It was not, it’s a fat that his father was born in Kenya and a lot of people believe that he was too…hence the birther controversy helped along by the fact he won’t show his bc…but my thing is not that but that you act like saying someone is fron Kenya is bad and to mention it is to be racist…get a clue…
CCRWM on October 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM
It was not, it’s a fat that his father was born in Kenya and a lot of people believe that he was too…hence the birther controversy helped along by the fact he won’t show his bc…but my thing is not that but that you act like saying someone is fron Kenya is bad and to mention it is to be racist…get a clue…
CCRWM on October 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Fact of the matter is to hell with the rules on qualifying and having to show documentation. Just take their word for it and go on with it. Maybe Chavez or Bin Laden will do it next.
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Are you blind?
I don’t see how Obama DOES get re-elected unless we end up with Pawlenty, Elmer Gantry Huckabee, or RomneyCare!
Past that, I think a ham sandwich could beat him!
2008 should have been a blowout for Obama, but it wasn’t. A LOT of water is under the bridge since then. People are sick of this guy and will be a lot sicker come 2012.
Of course, if we want a real blowout, a true mandate to not only roll back everything Obama and the rest of the communists have done, but everything a lot of administrations have done since FDR, we need Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin will win a Reagan type landslide, and have that mandate. No one else could even come close to that. People like Sarah Palin, true leaders, do not grow on trees.
BTW:
Reagan In A Dress:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=716654
gary4205 on October 12, 2009 at 11:09 PM
marklamil on October 12, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Sarah would be accused of being unfair of attacking Obama from a media slot and also would be a sitting target for the Far Left.
I predict Sarah will never take a steady slot with a network or have her own show. Instead she will remain flexible and not be bound by any TV schedule or constraints.
technopeasant on October 12, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I like Palin\Rubio too or Palin\Cheney (Liz)
CCRWM on October 12, 2009 at 11:12 PM
gary4205 on October 12, 2009 at 11:09 PM
here here or is it
hear hear
And to hell with this theory that she quit before her term was up. I’ll take that anyday over anyone who’s only experience was with ACORN. Still can’t believe that anyone was ever that stupid to buy that line of shit.
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Agreed. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean that you aren’t a racist. If somebody is calling Obama–who has never lived in Kenya–the “Kenyan” purely because his father was black and from Kenya, then I would say there’s a fair chance that such an idiot was racist. The best possible reason for saying something stupid like that is an obscene lack of intelligence. Pick your poison, either way you’re pretty worthless and I think I speak for the majority of people here in asking you to get the hell out.
Go hang out on a Klan site or some place like that where you’ll have someone to talk to.
DaveS on October 12, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Doesn’t anyone remember Boehner feeding us the infamous “crap sandwich” a few months back?
OhioCoastie on October 12, 2009 at 11:16 PM
This sounds about Pawlenty’s speed. DBag.
Jaibones on October 12, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Oh man, that’s the BEST!
gary4205 on October 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Obama’s policies are far more dangerous than his inexperience.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM
But where the hell are the jobs?
bluegrass on October 12, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Jet,
Quit being a troll. I like Boehner too. I saw him at the Cincy Tea Party.
However, he IS an insider and has little national charisma.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Watch the moves of Fred Malek. If he commits to someone other than Gov. Palin then we will know whats up. Also, IDB has Biegun on the record as helping with the HK speech. Politico on the other hand if I remember correctly phoned Scheunemann in HK. I would think IBD would have mentioned Scheunemann also helped with the HK speech. I would take the word of IBD over Politico any day of the week.
Clyde5445 on October 12, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Pawlenty is definitely a loser. How he stayed out of the ACORN and Franken mess, his environmentalism, and for TARP before he was against it, etc.
RINO.
Palin is smart not to have any of the McLame people working for her. Scheunemann surprises me. But he probably needs a job quick and might be Barracuda’s inside guy. HA!
Palin 2012 for me!
Besides, Mark Levin went off on Pawlenty last week on his moderate RINO ways. Hell no to Pawlenty.
cubachi on October 12, 2009 at 11:34 PM
I get it… T-Paw isn’t running, so he’s tying up the McCain strategists so no other GOP hopeful will make that mistake… Looks like Mr. Steele is thinking a couple of moves ahead…
phreshone on October 12, 2009 at 11:36 PM
AP does ask an interesting question: why hasn’t Mitt snatched these “McCain” folks?
technopeasant on October 12, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Thanks.
Oh, and anyone who doesn’t understand what was going on in Alaska, and how Obama’s thugs had made it impossible for her to do her job (and how they cost the taxpayers millions of dollars) is really too stupid to vote.
Sarah did the right thing for Alaska. A typical scumbag politician would have hung on to power no matter what. She’s already proven that she is just as powerful with no title, if not more so, than with a title.
As far as experience, I’ll go on record as saying she has more experience than any recent President has. Bush 41 was the last guy who had considerable experience before becoming POTUS. He was CIA director, and of course VP for 8 years.
Then you had Clinton. That guy had ZERO foreign policy/foreign trade experience as Governor of Arkansas.
Sarah has tons of foreign trade experience, and she managed a budget 3 times as large as Clinton did. Alaska is a lot more challenging state to Govern, as well.
Now Bush 43 had a good amount of Experience. He has business experience, both good and bad, as well as being Governor of Texas, no small job.
Where Sarah beats W is ideology. She’s the real deal. A true conservative.
That leads us to Teh Won. Here’s a guy who never run a city, never run a state, never run a lemonade stand. And empty suit with zero experience.
Sarah has nearly two decades of EXECUTIVE LEVEL experience in Government. And she was very successful every step of the way.
People that throw out the “inexperienced” meme are either ignorant of the facts, or disingenuous. Every job Sarah has ever had has prepared her to be POTUS.
Throw in the fact that she hates corruption, and took down the leaders of her own party over it, and you have the one we need to clean out D.C.
Palin is our gal.
The more I study it, the more I think we may see Rick Perry picked as her running mate. He’d make a good one. This is just a wild assed hunch. No actual data, just a hunch. Of course, Rick asked her way back in February to endorse him for re-election, and she’ll be coming to Texas to do so, but again, this is just a feeling.
I like Liz Cheney, a lot, but don’t think it would work. Same goes for Michelle Bachmann who is just awesome. In fact, either of those two would make me very happy as VP. I’m just starting to think it won’t work.
America will elect Sarah, a woman, but two women may just be a bridge too far. I know Conservatives would be 1000 percent behind it, but not sure about the rest of the country.
But no Pawlenty, no RomneyCare, nope.
gary4205 on October 12, 2009 at 11:44 PM
What could go wrong??
Herb on October 12, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Not strongly against T-Paw.
BUT T-PAW IS UNTESTED AT NATIONAL LEVEL.
Meaning?
He hasn’t yet experienced the 5-star ATTACK of the LEFT.
If he can survive that like Palin, maybe, he can.
TheAlamos on October 12, 2009 at 11:52 PM
FRED!!!
Bill C on October 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM
These people are normally SMARTER than the SMART Candidates. They are strategists …. for MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.
As for winning the Conservative cause? Definitely not. Just look at Schmidt.
So, what’s the use of these so called Strategists again?
TheAlamos on October 12, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Because, for all his money, he can’t buy a vote, and political pros know it.
irishspy on October 12, 2009 at 11:59 PM
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