Comments on: Santorum: Pawlenty engaging in ‘class warfare’

By: Zera Lee

Zera Lee — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:03:59 +0000

Pawlenty has been preparing his run for President for three years now, and has a Rolodex full of fair-weather friends and 3% support to show for it.

Santorum is working right out of the GOP playbook:
Deny the problem exists. You cannot talk about class warfare if there are no classes.
Blame someone else. Democrats first, but other republicans are fair game if they get in the way. Very post-Reagan.

It doesn’t solve any real problems, it usually creates them. But it does win elections.

By: ma

ma — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:22:57 +0000

at the very least Mr. Pawlenty has the understanding that you can’t spend what you don’t have, somehting both our state and federal govenrment needs to deal with. Look out people of minnesota lower income, mid income or top income they are comming for MORE tax dollars to support themselves and the sweet deals for those employed there. While the rest of us are stuck supporting it in a worhtless economy….

By: Mill

Mill — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:34:10 +0000

Dunno. Mr. Pawlenty wants to cut compensation for middle class workers who are federal employees. He may have blue collar roots, but he acts the country club Republican when he goes after the middle class, while ignoring the excesses of Wall Street billionaires.

I guess you have to be an actual country club Republican, like Santorum, to see even a dime’s worth of difference between himself and Mr. Pawlenty.

By: JN

JN — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:04:37 +0000

Can’t help but notice he says “People are lower income or middle income,” and doesn’t have a third group for UPPER. So if you make >$200 million a year, you’re still “middle income,” I guess.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:48:22 +0000

Gotta agree with Rick. Pawlenty’s also the guy who coined the term “Walmart republicans” for the same reason. It’s a sore spot with him. Given his upbringing, he resents the false notion that the republican party is called the party of the rich. The only really rich people I know personally vote democrat and all the republicans I know are “middle income.”

Look at the governor’s race. The two rich guys in the race are the democrats. Of course, it’s instructive that neither of them actually earned their wealth.