Tim "Ronnie Reagan" Pawlenty's "beer-sharing niceness" makes him qualified to be president

[Minnesota Raindog]

Tim Pawlenty is being positioned as the presidential candidate you'd like to share a beer with. Nice makeover for this soulless prick. Here's the text from his latest fundraising letter:

I wanted to pass along Michael Gerson's column in today's Washington Post: Tim Pawlenty: Minnesota's Ronald Reagan? I thought you might find it of interest.

Gerson writes: "Something is happening for the first time of my adult life," Pawlenty continues. "Average people, not activists, are openly talking about debt and the deficit with an understanding that it matters. They know something is amiss. One of the driving sentiments is that government is out of control...

If the problem is deficits, Pawlenty believes he is the solution. From 1960 to 2002, state spending in Minnesota increased by an average of 21 percent every two years. As governor, Pawlenty has held the growth of spending to just over 2 percent annually. Last year, he cut state spending in real terms -- the first time that has happened in 150 years. "We cut everything except public safety and K through 12 education," he says. "We changed the entitlement structure." All while moving Minnesota off the list of the top 10 most heavily taxed states.

Pawlenty is the successful conservative governor of one of the most liberal states in the union -- as if Ronald Reagan had been elected in Sweden. One explanation is his disarming, beer-sharing niceness, which is among Minnesota's main exports to the nation (exception: the seething Sen. Al Franken)...

And Pawlenty's fiscal record may fit the moment, particularly if his daughter's worries about public debt prove widespread. "Change has to come," he says. "It is a matter of junior high school math. Entitlement spending is going up. Revenues are likely to be flat, even as the economy recovers. The outcome is certain; it is just the timing that is in question. When President Bush attempted entitlement reform , the country wasn't ready to take up entitlements. Congress wasn't ready for reform. But they're warming up. There is a saying: 'When the pupils are ready, the teacher will appear.' The pupils are getting ready."

Please join Governor Tim Pawlenty on Facebook today, support us if you can, and keep in touch.

Sincerely,

Phil Musser

Senior Advisor
Freedom First PAC

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Timmy the Tool is not "nice."

Nice people don't eliminate funding for programs for sick poor people so the rich don't have to pay more taxes. Timmy is just another reptilian, soul-sucking bastard. Don't be fooled by his "nice" demeanor; he's every bit as vicious as any teabagger out there.

[dflprincess]

4. He's worse than a teabagger

those people have some beliefs (even if they have been maniupulated into them).

Timmy only believes in Timmy and would run his grandmother over if it would get him another vote.

[trotsky]

2. TP is "nice"? The "seething" Al Franken?

Sure is easy to be a Republican. Just make shit up.

[dflprincess]

3. Successful?

How do they figure that? The state is deteriorating daily.

:puke:

[Bosso 63]

5. He's not qualified to watch my cat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I wouldn't let him anywhere near my cat.

[glinda]

8. my cat told me he hates TP

[geardaddy]

7. Isn't Gerson confusing Ray-gun and shrub?

Pukelenty is trash, pure and simple.

[mascarax]

9. That was my 2nd thought

I'll leave the first (my thought about TPaw) out...

He's going to go out swinging...doing whatever he can to hurt this state.