{"id":4375,"date":"2011-03-22T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2011-03-22T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:09:09","slug":"tim-pawlenty-is-wrong-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/tim-pawlenty-is-wrong-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Pawlenty Is Wrong For America"},"content":{"rendered":"

In baseball, you get three strikes and you\u2019re out.  Tim Pawlenty became the first Republican anyone has ever heard of to formally declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President in 2012.  I have a lot more than three strikes on Pawlenty, enough to demonstrate that Pawlenty is wrong for America.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RepublicansFormer Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota became the first major Republican to enter the 2012 presidential race, announcing an exploratory committee on Monday that formalizes an ambition that has been steadily building for more than a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a brighter future for America,\u201d Mr. Pawlenty said in a video posted on his Facebook page. \u201cWe know what we need to do: grow jobs, limit government spending, tackle entitlements.\u201d <\/p>\n

In a two-minute message that was set to music, Mr. Pawlenty did not specify how he would address entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, but he introduced himself as a candidate with working-class roots who would focus on lifting the economy, creating jobs and limiting government intervention in business\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Pawlenty is a serial liar.  He has said how he would address Social Security and Medicare.  Here is what he wrote on July 14, 2010.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u2026Reform out-of-control entitlements. By far, the biggest long-term driver of the federal debt is entitlement spending, including Social Security and Medicare. These programs are going to have to be changed. And despite Beltway rhetoric, it can be done\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That is not his only lie.  Do you remember when that bridge collapsed Minnesota? Pawlenty lies and said inspections in 2005 and 2006 had showed no problems<\/a>, when a report did call the bridge structurally deficient<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Other lies include virtually reinventing himself to conform to Republican extremists.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOP2\"\u2026Since last year, Pawlenty has transformed himself into an orthodox Republican<\/font><\/a>, quickly shedding the forward-thinking, \u201cSam\u2019s Club\u201d conservatism he once personified as governor. Pawlenty has even come under fire for dropping his Minnesota accent<\/font><\/a> in favor of an invented Southern drawl while speaking to audiences in Arkansas. As he gears up for a 2012, Pawlenty has shown a willingness to do a complete 180 on a number of key policy areas:<\/font><\/p>\n

1. FROM CAP-AND-TRADE CHAMPION TO CLIMATE DENIER\u2026<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

2. \u201cNAKED CYNICISM\u201d ON A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN\u2026<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

3. REJECTED HEALTH CARE LAW EVEN WHILE ACCEPTING HEALTH CARE FUNDS\u2026<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

4. HYPOCRISY ON \u201cRECKLESS SPENDING\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

5. RAISED TAXES THEN CRUSADED AGAINST TAXES\u2026\\<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Pawlenty is not the only potential GOP Presidential candidate to move right<\/font><\/a> and obscure his record<\/font><\/a>…  [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n

Inserted From <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Please click through to see the details on each point.<\/font><\/p>\n

In an effort to prove himself sufficiently rabid for the Republican base, he has actually compared his term as governor<\/a> to that of the infamous Scott Walker of Wisconsin.<\/font><\/p>\n

And when speaking to CPAC in 2009 he identified himself with extreme Theocon fanatics.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"supplysid\"And the message he wanted to impart was the same one they already believe in their stone cold hearts. That America under Obama has fallen into sin, and is an evil place, one which God will punish mercilessly until the day they reclaim their position of power and authority over the rest of us. A profoundly un-democratic, un-american and un-christian message. But that’s the base of the Republican Party for you. That’s who he must appease, who he must satisfy, and to whom he must prove his "Religious Right" bona fides<\/strong>. So Pawlenty lied and lied and lied. He played to their resentment against anyone who disagrees with their cruel vision of America, and to their anger and their racial animus<\/strong> and their fear and their overweening pride that only they know what is right and good. That only they have the right to rule this country "under God."<\/strong> That the rest of us are godless atheists not worthy to share this land with them, the "Real Americans." [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Booman Tribune<\/a>><\/p>\n

Three strikes should be enough.  Pawlenty has these and far more.  These are just the ones I could find quickly.  Pawlenty is wrong for America.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In baseball, you get three strikes and you\u2019re out.  Tim Pawlenty became the first Republican anyone has ever heard of to formally declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President in 2012.  I have a lot more than three strikes on Pawlenty, enough to demonstrate that Pawlenty is wrong for America. Former Gov. Tim […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}