One T-Paw post deserves another. From the Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman:When you pick up a glossy, multipage color brochure at a presidential campaign event, you expect to see a candidate's image on the front. The ones stacked on a table inside the Sports Page Grill, where Tim Pawlenty is appearing this morning, do feature that sort of photo. But it's not of Pawlenty. It's of Barack Obama.Related post:
This choice does not reflect a heroic sublimation of ego. The headline on the flier reads, "Leadership isn't about fancy speeches and empty promises." Pawlenty wants to convey a simple message: He is nothing like Obama, and that's an excellent thing.
The candidate, who is spending the week touring Iowa in an RV, stands in front of a banner reading "Results. Not Rhetoric." The contrast highlights his strength, his record as a two-term governor of Minnesota, while reminding voters of the limits of oratorical talent.
"We got into this mess, in large measure, because we elected somebody as president of the United States who had no executive experience," he tells an audience of 40 people. "And then he went into the Oval Office, and we wonder why it's not working."
Voters who want a candidate to make their legs tingle, his approach implies, are welcome to go elsewhere. But those who want a candidate to get things done — conservative things — need look no further.
T-Paw in Fairfield, Iowa on Tuesday; my 2010 posts about the town
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If Steve chapman lived in Minnesota a once progressive and healthy state he would realize what Pawlenty left us. He did not balance our budget. He just moved money around and delayed payments. He delayed payments to cities for school, he used up all our reserves for bad economic times, he took the tobacco money from our lawswuit away from programs to reduce smoking (and thus health care costs)to make him look good. Result he left us with a 5 to 6 billion dollar debt. Now we are scrambling to pay off the bill. He simply pushed it up the road. I voted for him once but he got in the pocket of the Tea Party. I will work hard to see he does not carry his home state if he gets the nomination. the way Minnesotans feel about him now it won't be hard. Best to really do your homework before you endorse him.
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