Pawlenty lays groundwork for 2012 on Daily Show

Pawlenty’s problem is that he’s a tweener. Like a 6’7″ power forward.

The republicans don’t think he’s conservative enough and the democrats think he’s a right-wing nut.

How can he cry out about the debt in one breath and in the next moan the loss of the Bush Tax Cuts. He merely puts a friendly face on The Dick Army talking points. They don’t have to make sense they just have to be sincere. Like the Republican Saint Ronnie Regan, a smile a hearty handshake and a perfectly sincere, “aw shucks,” while his associates shove a dildo the size of Rhode Island up the middle class and gang rape Labor Unions. I don’t trust anyone who talks out of both sides of their mouth. They don’t look sincere they look scary like Barack Obama.

It’s was interesting that he could not answer the common sense observation that Clinton raised taxes and it did not stifle growth and it did reduce the deficit. He wants to govern based on the faith based idea that tax cuts will cure the deficit, which makes no common sense whatsoever, and is also contrary to history.

His pandering to the audience was nothing short of pathetic. “Hey, guys! Doesn’t it suck to have to get up at 9 am just so you can listen to some boring old professor in a classroom? Enroll at Pawlenty University, and for $199 you can download your class to your iPhone!”

That’s just nuts to suggest an iPad is going to replace classrooms. If he wasn’t looking forward rather than back, it would be the equivalent of Sue Lowden’s comment about paying medical bills with chickens and house painting.

How’s Pawlenty’s “gummint so small you could drown it in a bath-tub” workin’ out for those Gulf Coast Republican governors?

No, no, you misunderstand G.O. Republicans want a government small enough you could drown in a bathtub, not a gargantuan one that has the effect of one so small you could drown in a bath tub.

The Obama administration’s no-show in the gulf is making the republicans’ point about the incompetence of big government.

Pawlenty’s been laying groundwork ever since he decided to run for Governor. He’s not making any outright overtures because his numbers are so low even among conservatives in spite of all his efforts.

The game has changed radically since he began his quest for power. It is not that he missed his window, it is that someone is burning down the building.

All of his decisions lately that have harmed our state have been made to make him look more conservative for his presidential running. He is absolutely one of the worse governors I can remember in my lifetime.

We’ve all seen the spending graphs for previous administrations. Would have liked the governor to be more honest about the spending during the final years of george w.’s administration. There was nothing conservative about it. The bush family has always been quite liberal when spending our money. Where exactly did that money go, and why would we hire a new president (read vote for) who supported bush in his great military debacle?

When the governor said – it’s just math, what I heard was, “So sorry. We gave away all your hard earned tax dollars to the big cats during the previous republican administration. There’s nothing left for Obama to spend, so you common folk will have to take the hit.” Feels pretty crummy.