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With shipments heading to both coasts, it was a good weekend for Minnesota’s leading export: rightwing political rhetoric. In California, a conservative group took delivery of a 36-minute speech from Gov. Tim Pawlenty. (Note to Customer Service: T-Paw’s speech was “too long” but those who heard him said they “still didn’t know a lot about [...]

Tim Pawlenty travels the country, speaking to whoever will invite him about the GOP’s future and other topics. He’s refrained from announcing any extramarital affairs or his impending resignation. But the Minnesota governor’s support as a 2012 presidential prospect among Republicans nationally remains low, according to a new Gallup Poll.

Michael Steele, the current chairman of the Republican National Committee, says he preferred Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty as the party’s nominee for vice president last year. He didn’t say who he likes for president in 2012, but Steele’s remarks, as well as Palin’s at an anti-abortion rights event last week [...]

The morning after Rush Limbaugh repeated his “I hope Obama fails” during the keynote to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told TV’s “sabbath gasbags” (Calvin Trillin’s term) that Limbaugh “is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.” But Minnesota’s self-described senator-elect called that [...]

We’ve had “Representation WITH taxation,” faith-in-God-in-government, Franken-Coleman to the Supremes, ”Michael Steele, you be da man. You be da man” and “You be da man (Remix).”  To cleanse the palette, here’s one last set of comments by a Minnesotan from last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): Gov. Tim Pawlenty on his wife, Norm Coleman and [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty spoke of his faith at the CPAC conference on Saturday, stating that God is the foundation for the government. Pawlenty, an evangelical Christian who says his faith guides his public policy decisions, gave a rousing speech that ranged from the topic of “the traditional family” to his belief that the founding fathers [...]

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, Victory Solutions Oasis and Rebuild the Party held a post-dinner party with a special guest, Gov. Tim Pawlenty. After the governor gave a short speech, he took one question: “What about Norm Coleman?”
That’s in litigation. I will tell you this — there’s multiple levels of court [...]

It was bound to happen: After Rep. Michele Bachmann’s CPAC shout out to “da man,” RNC chair Michael Steele, generated guffaws on weekend TV, City Pages’ Kevin Hoffman finds a hip hop remix of the utterance.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, no stranger to the national spotlight, found herself a topic of conversation among the talking heads this weekend. Her comments to RNC chair Michael Steele at the CPAC conference, “You da man, Michael Steele. You da man!” were panned by Republicans and Democrats alike.

“Michael Steele, you be da man! You be da man!” That’s how U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann praised the new chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) at last night’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), blending street lingo into her repartee as emcee that already included innovative reinterpretation of what the Boston Tea Partiers said. [...]