Posted by
KsReaganite on Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:47:46 PM
As promised in my previous post, here is further on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's bonafides.
Timothy Pawlenty is the archtype of the Reagan Democrat with which the GOP is trying to reconnect. Granted that Pawlenty is a Republican, however, his background screams 'Reagan Democrat': blue collar roots, ethnic Roman Catholic parents (though the governor, being a guy of course, followed his good wife into the Southern Baptist oriented evangelical churches), family involvement in labor unions, ardent hunter and angler. As a governor he continues to play ice hockey with his brothers on a charity team, often stops by small burger joints and pubs, and hosts a radio show. He is one of the 'guys'. That may be the reason, perhaps, that in the Republican debacle of 2006, Pawlenty was getting reelected in a very Democratic state over a very popular liberal Democrat challenger. If symbolism matters in elections, and we know it does, Tim Pawlenty is our guy. Plus, some polls suggest strongly that he may help carry Minnesota for us (No Democrat has ever won the White House without carrying Minnesota in the last sixty years).
This guy will firmly underline the fact that today, it is the Republican Party that is the party of the average American who works hard, loves his country, goes to church, and has a beer or two while watching NASCAR races. Tim Pawlenty's nomination will underscore what everyone but the mass media knows now: the Democratic Party is the party of over educated, snobbish, wine sipping, French film watching, Catholic hating, secular elitists who consider gun owning and church attendance as examples of the bitterness of racists.
And lest it come up, Governor Tim and Judge Mary Pawlenty have been married for a long time, their first and only marriage, and are blessed with two children. Mary Pawlenty, who recently resigned as district court judge to become head of a mediation service, is of course the type of woman who frightens liberal Democrats to the core. A reputed trial lawyer, who was appointed judge in her own right by former Governor Arne Carlson, Mrs. Pawlenty has never shied away from being a woman of faith and has always maintained that her family comes first and foremost in her life. Suffice to say, that in her reelection campaigns for judgeship, she received not a dime from the Womens National Lawyers Association (WNLA), Planned Parenthood, or Emily's List. This is a woman who is her own person, not beholden to anyone for success but to her Creator. She'd be an awesome Second Lady of the United States of America.
Let's roll!!!!
John McCain-Tim Pawlenty 2008
The winning ticket for real America