So, Netzach, what is the inside skinny on Governor Pawlenty

Great pick.

Consistent with the McCain campaign thus far.

Does anyone remember an effing bridge falling down on the news?

8 years of tax vetoes at work.

Good luck there, GOP.
 
T Paw is a typical youngish gun Neocon gov. with a strong STRONG "conservative" fiscal appeal. Basically, he's decimated every program that made MN stand out in quality of our public education, quality of life, quality of social safety net - everything the state has in reputation as a progressive, pleasant place, and yanked the funding on it so that we're pretty much Nebraska with fond memories of being more cosmopolitan than that.

If I sound grumpy and like the guy's done everything but drain the lakes, you should talk to some of the clients I had that had to work with the SOB.
 
I will probably be staying in town just to check out the size and scope of the Ron Paul rally - a nuisance I think people are seriously underestimating.
 
Because Colbert is only on TV to poke fun at the holes in the rhetoric used in everyday politics.
 
But he was reelected in a horrible year for republicans. Well, wasn't so bad in Georgia.
 
Ron Paul all the way.

I'm taking my own sharpie to the polling booth because I know that New Mexico will probably magically forget to give us write in ballots again.
 
But he was reelected in a horrible year for republicans. Well, wasn't so bad in Georgia.

By 22,200. That's -- that's half a pussy hair. This was, of course, prior to I-35 and no taxes whatsoever sounded like a better deal to enough antisocial bougies.

Mike Hatch was a pretty polarizing guy, too, he should have lost much worse. If there was an election tomorrow there is no way TPaw would hold onto his seat unless the opposition were Miley Cyrus or Beelzebub or a slice of Kraft Single.
 
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I heard the Governator being floated - dude, I think the campaign needs a terminator on its side. There is no superficial glamor T&A fluff to the McCain side, NO bread or circus. Strategically I think it would be great.

They still have this deranged notion that ONLY Abortion and ONLY Gay marriage (as I see some of the moderate left FINALLY smarting up about guns) can help them. I think that's a shrinking market segment and they're going to have to begin talking to the wallet and the brain paths that connect to it. There's a significant advertising component to elections, and frankly, other than "be scared of Obama" there's no product.
 
Back to topic, this weeks City Pages (citypages.com) has a pretty good paint by numbers rundown on TPaw's performance. Basically it's a veto fetish without regard to content, polling, even READING the legislature half the time.

If you think that 7.15 is too high a min wage in a state where liveable is defined as 12.50, think that partner benefits for state/city workers should be MADE ILLEGAL, and like medical credit checks to see if you can have a procedure based on whether you're projected to be able to pay for it, this should be up your alley. Because we need less access to health care than we have. A few more or less dead bodies are fine as long as no one pays for it, just close your eyes and pray when you take an overpass.
 
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Well he wasn't born in America. That might be a problem. I'd like to see a woman. Or a black. Or a black woman.

But I don't think it would be a bad thing to have lots of republicans lose and start over with a conservative movement. With Harry, Nancy, and Barry it's going to be liberalism gone wild for the next two years.
 
Fuck em all, I say we just hire a big league CEO from a successful fortune 500 company to run the U.S. for a while.
 
Well he wasn't born in America. That might be a problem. I'd like to see a woman. Or a black. Or a black woman.

But I don't think it would be a bad thing to have lots of republicans lose and start over with a conservative movement. With Harry, Nancy, and Barry it's going to be liberalism gone wild for the next two years.


I didn't think your thing for Condi carried that far.

You're right. I'd love to see a gay man in the whitehouse, even if he's already married. Those fine family values folks who want to take away your sex toys should be rimming the asses of people like you, WD, you truly help them. Hell, they'd love it, though I'm not so sure you would.
 
I didn't think your thing for Condi carried that far.

You're right. I'd love to see a gay man in the whitehouse, even if he's already married. Those fine family values folks who want to take away your sex toys should be rimming the asses of people like you, WD, you truly help them. Hell, they'd love it, though I'm not so sure you would.

Oh I like rimming. I used to go see a playground chick who was married but they didn't sleep together or fuck even. She wouldn't fuck me either but would suck on my ass for hours. As far as orgasms go, it doesn't get much better than a tongue up your ass and a hand job at the same time.
 
It's not "downsizing", it's "closing the under-performing investment portfolios."

That's easy for you to say. Isn't Alberta one of those Canadian provinces that has plenty of oil under foot? I'd say you're pretty safe even if the Canadian government took Bett's advice.
 
Well there you go then. I think your pendulum swing will happen super quickly if the family values guys would just rim constituents instead of aides.
 
That's easy for you to say. Isn't Alberta one of those Canadian provinces that has plenty of oil under foot? I'd say you're pretty safe even if the Canadian government took Bett's advice.

Oh don't worry, we'll get milked long past our best before date because we are so good now that we give beer goggles to everyone and lead everyone to economic ruin.

But meh, running a company is not that different from running a country, just that running a company is easier because it is smaller.
 
Oh don't worry, we'll get milked long past our best before date because we are so good now that we give beer goggles to everyone and lead everyone to economic ruin.

But meh, running a company is not that different from running a country, just that running a company is easier because it is smaller.

Actually, there is a huge difference in that running a government is like running a conglomerate where all the different companies under the "control" of the top administration may not be- and cannot be forced to be - interested in cooperating with the top administration. And, for the most part, these other "companies" (i.e., the legislative branches as well as many of the large agencies under the executive) are essentially self-supporting and don't really need the top administration. The many tails are fully capable of wagging the dog and many in the country (call them the shareholders) like it that way.
 
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