Gives a new meaning to "Smear Campaign", don't it?

I'm still holding out for Mittens and the all-spoiled rich white boy ticket.

The glaring flaw with Pawlenty (which is good from our perspective) is that the 35W bridge collapse will come up again and again.

Also, because he was a practicing lawyer, there are probably clients that he can be hit hard on.

But don't make fun of the mullet.  Mullets are cool.  They are business in the front and party in the back.

Plus, I would pay money to see Pawlenty vs. Biden.

Seriously, he's been running for vice president since he took office here.  Nearly everything he does has to pass the "national aspirations" test before he puts his name on it.  

There are some serious negatives to choosing Pawlenty.  

The I-35W bridge dropped on his watch.  He shares at least some of the blame for the disaster because he never properly funded MN-DOT and put his incompetant Lt. Governor, Carol Molnou, in charge of the agency so he would have more control and wouldn't have to pay the salary of an agency director.  

His Taxpayer League cred is largely smoke and mirrors.  We have had a few tax increases since he took office, despite his pledge not to raise them.  He covers by calling the taxes "fees" instead; even the Taxpayer League has called him out on this.  The state legislature made him look like an idiot when six Republicans crossed over and supported a veto override of a gas tax increase for infrasturcture rebuilding earlier this year.

Pawlenty cannot deliver Minnesota.  If he were to become VP, then Lt. Gov. Molnou would be our Governor; Molnou was a farmer without a college degree before becoming Lt. Gov, and is widely hated (the state senate ousted her from her role as head of MN-DOT earlier this year).  Pawlenty only won his last re-election against a weak DFL challenger by 1% with 46% of the total (we like our 3rd party candidates here).  Hell, we went for Mondale in '84.  We ain't flipping no matter what McCain does.

The worst thing about him in terms of his national ambition is that he's a real conservative and is a major penny pincher; I honestly don't think that he would dole out government contracts at the rate that the neocon Republican secret masters would appreciate.  Considering McCain's age and 12,000 pages of health records, I'm not sure they want someone who practices real fiscal conservatism instead of the oligarchal favortism that is synonymous with the Republican agenda.

Change the green (poster) to a brownish yellow.

Now please excuse me while I vomit.

The Clintons--who are apparently now loved in Obamaland--were defamed as racists for making fairly innocuous comments during the course of the campaign.

But snide, homophobic remarks such as "light in the loafers" seem to be perfectly OK. This kind of hypocrisy often surfaces in campaigns which are based on personality, rather than conviction and issues.

Pawlenty would give a 4/4 prediction success.

Has Rob Portman been disqualified already? I've heard he was a front-runner and suspect he's the one.