Pawlenty urges GOP outreach to 'Sam’s Club voters'

[Are_grits_groceries]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday that Republicans must do a better job of reaching out to working class voters, a group he said agrees with the GOP on most issues, from gun rights to heath care to education.

The problem, Pawlenty said, is that lower and middle income voters — a group he terms “Sam’s Club voters” — don’t believe Republicans “are for the working person.”

He said the party must stress its commitment to job creation and market itself “with a feel and concern and tone and an understanding of the importance and the challenges of the working class of this country.”

“And it doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice our principles to do it,” Pawlenty said.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/02/pawlenty-urges-gop-outreach-to-sams.html

Sam's Club voters...... I wonder how many people at CPAC have a Sam's Club card? More than he thinks obviously.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The reason the "Sam's Club voters"

don’t believe Republicans “are for the working person" is because they aren't. And most of the Sam's Club voters have finally figured that out.

Timmy the Tool continues to display his toolishness.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. “And it doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice our principles to do it,”

Pretty candid, huh?

[Deja Q]

4. They have principles?

:wow:

[Peacetrain]

6. My thought also...

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Apparently.

And do his audience the claim; "the party must stress its commitment to job creation and market itself “with a feel and concern and tone and an understanding of the importance and the challenges of the working class of this country.”"

... runs counter to those principles.

Look on the bright side, as a Democrat I don't have to be convinced that concern for the working class really *is* consistent with my principles.

[TahitiNut]

11. It's how they collect their interests.

:dunce:

[Catshrink]

16. Yes -- tax cuts. Always tax cuts.

But only for the wealthy, eg capital gains taxes. Nothing of course about cutting payroll taxes.

[pinto]

5. Precisely.

Was just going to note that.

[Deja Q]

3. Well, actions speak louder than words.

And, no, it's not *our* problem.

Indeed, it's been mentioned in the press that Timmy's budget is scant on any job creation proposals. Now I'm no economist, but if the economy and government both depend on the flow of money, jobs are invaluable as a source of generating money.

:shrug:

[Hello_Kitty]

7. Proud to be a Costco voter!

One of the best run companies in the world and their CEO pays himself a salary far lower than his peers.

[glinda]

9. Costco supported Kerry, Sam's Club IS Walmart

[mamameow]

15. sam walton= no

sorry sam, your kids have brown noses, brown from the ass kissing they have given to the gop. your philosophy have been lost to greed. no more sam's for me, as soon as i can move from arizona and get close to a different store in florida. yuma, az is fading, population under 100,000, becoming poor with many stores closing, but we have 3, count them, 3 walmart's and a sam's club. they are the only game in town. no more sam's club, it will be costco for me in florida. costco is on the other end of the political scale from sams/walmart. they support dems.

[Hello_Kitty]

19. That sucks. Sorry to hear that. I'm in Phoenix and we have several Costcos.

One advantage of big city life is there are plenty of alternatives to Wally World. Not that it stops the dumbasses here from keeping them in business too.

[Urban Prairie]

10. "the party must stress its commitment to job creation"

Via the message of tax cuts for the global corporate capitalists and the wealthy, and recreating the Reagan-era trickle-down and supply-side economic theories through more clever reworded spin.

SOS.

[TahitiNut]

12. The only jobs created by corporate income tax cuts are OFFSHORE jobs.

Think about it. Domestic jobs are a DEDUCTIBLE expense.

[Deja Q]

13. We needed job creation in 2002, 2005, and now.

Each time it has, for Minnesota, being a magical shifting of funds* than anything that generates anything stable. Even I know that.

* A more colloquial definition is "Cooking the books", or perhaps "enronizing"?

[mediaman007]

17. Minnesota creates new jobs by encouraging a company to move

from Minneapolis to St. Paul. This idea that getting a company to move from one area to another to create jobs is pure Republican.

[underpants]

14. Spinning their wheels-they already have then

at least a majority of them

[radfringe]

18. “And it doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice our principles to do it,” Pawlenty said.

but they want us to sacrifice our first borns for their principles...

[Stellabella]

20. I hate that son of a bitch.

He's pure slime. And cross-eyed, too.

[ThoughtCriminal]

21. "Marketing" isn't going to fix it Gov. - nt