Pawlenty tones down his ‘Tenther’ ardor on ABC’s ‘This Week’

Looks like Michele Bachmann has found a running mate.

This presidential candidate, a guy who seemed reasonable up until he was pushed aside in favor of Coleman for a Senate run years back …. won the governorship, governed more and more from the right, and now matches the rhetoric of the most extreme right wing commentators on the American political scene. Has Mr. Pawlenty’s politics always been truly deep-social conservative? Did he move that way consciously? Are we due for succession talk, as Gov. Perry of Texas has entertained?

Can the Governor really win the presidency pandering to the harshest, most right wing believers?

We need to know how he feels about the FDA, FAA, NTSB, Medicare and any federal funding to states… He’s been Gov for how many years now and he’s only now bringing this up?

What he “meant” was that it was another petulant partisan threat, not something that would have any chance of being taken seriously by the Courts.

In other words, more sabre rattling from perhaps the weakest excuse for a Governor in Minnesota history.

The republican party is going to shrink to nothing if they don’t start distancing themselves from the right-wing nuts. The GOP is looking more and more unfriendly to people of color. Minorities do not feel welcome in the republican party.

[...] may be part of T-Paw’s popularity problem, but endorsements from the likes of Karl Rove and flip-flops on invoking the Tenth Amendment and states’ rights probably don’t endear him to many Minnesotans [...]