Pawlenty Annouces Presidential Exploratory Committee

[Selene]

Clearly Carol's early favorite!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B8BKJV6Xyg

He also has an excellent campaign manager who used to be in the Romney camp.

Adam

[caroljane]

Clearly Carol's early favorite!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B8BKJV6Xyg

He also has an excellent campaign manager who used to be in the Romney camp.

Adam

Yesss! I will instruct my 19 American cousins to get behind him immediately.

Note how the sun in the clip was shining gloriously strong and free from the north.

[Jonathan]

Pawlenty did some good, pro-freedom things while governor, but he also often contradicted the principles he gave the impression of having while campaigning. In short, like a typical politician, he talks the talk but doesn't always walk the walk.

Having said that, his wife would make an awesome First Lady. She's known here in Minnesota as "Her Smokin' Hotness."

J

[Selene]

Wall Street Journal:

"One of the immutable laws of modern American politics is that no candidate who wants to win the Iowa Presidential caucuses can afford to oppose subsidies for ethanol. So it's notable—make that downright amazing—that former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty launched his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination Monday by including a challenge to King Corn.

On The Trail Columnist John Fund looks at the long shots in the GOP presidential field.

"The truth about federal energy subsidies, including federal subsidies for ethanol, is that they have to be phased out," Mr. Pawlenty told a crowd in Des Moines. "We simply can't afford them anymore."

He's certainly right about that, though that hasn't stopped nearly every other candidate from deploring the federal deficit while supporting the most egregious of corporate welfare subsidies. This marks a change for Mr. Pawlenty, who over two terms leading Iowa's northern neighbor first fought farmers on subsidies but later supported their push for a 20% ethanol mandate for gasoline. But in refusing to stick to the script for candidates looking to harvest votes in February's Iowa caucuses, Mr. Pawlenty has passed an early test of fortitude. By opposing ethanol despite the political risks, Mr. Pawlenty will also gain credibility to tackle other energy subsidies that drain the federal fisc to little good effect.

Intriguingly, Mr. Pawlenty said he's also ready to take on other taboos of modern politics. "Conventional wisdom says you can't talk about ethanol in Iowa or Social Security in Florida or financial reform on Wall Street," he said. "But someone has to say it." Maybe this Presidential season will be more interesting than we've imagined."

He also got an A rating from Cato.

Jonathan, Pawlenty stated that he ended the Ethanol subsidy in Minnesota? True?

Adam

Post Script:

[Mike Renzulli]

As it turns out, Pawlenty may have to contend with a scandal that can have HUGE implications. This news item was reported by Politico in which they picked it up from a news report in the Minnesota press in December:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55413.html

Pawlenty did some good, pro-freedom things while governor, but he also often contradicted the principles he gave the impression of having while campaigning. In short, like a typical politician, he talks the talk but doesn't always walk the walk.

J

[caroljane]

Do they use ethanol in the Zambonis?

I did not check out the scandal but really, you know in your heart that to know hockey is to know highest values, true morality and rational passion.

Some of my cousins are grumbling that they are not Republicans or even American citizens, and they don't want to move to Iowa, but most of them will do the right thing. Blood is thicker than water.

[caroljane]

Iowa is the right state, isn't it?

Edited May 24, 2011 by daunce lynam

[caroljane]

Just need to let cousin Eugen know, he is a leading activist for Political Rights of the Incarcerated and applying to move wherever he can get out the soonest, on grounds of being near family, so they will be near him wherever it is.

Freedom transcends geographyafter all. And the tantra o the hockey stick has powers we know not of.

Edited May 24, 2011 by daunce lynam

[Selene]

Iowa is the right state, isn't it?

Yes - Iowa is one of the first and as the current occupant of the White House's campaign operatives showed, a "victory" can be easily stolen by packing the caucus's [cauci??] and employing goon tactics as they did in 2008.

Adam

[caroljane]

Iowa is the right state, isn't it?

Yes - Iowa is one of the first and as the current occupant of the White House's campaign operatives showed, a "victory" can be easily stolen by packing the caucus's [cauci??] and employing goon tactics as they did in 2008.

Adam

Packing cauci? Goon tactics? We're in! Cousin Eugene has great contacts!

Well, there's no doubt now, the tantric powers of the hockey stick cannot be denied. Notice that Sister Claudine and Brother Joel are now Members of Parliament, and they sure did not do anything to deserve it, and that is not without the influence of a hypothetical panarctic Brotherhood which does not exist, Brother Adam.