Tim Pawlenty: Boring Enough to Win?
So Tim Pawlenty has announced his candidacy, and the guy is so boring you can hardly read his name without yawning. But I was thinking: Wouldn’t that be a huge advantage against Obama? Obama was supposed to be this exciting candidate who would change everything, and now people know what a crock that would be. So wouldn’t the perfect antidote to that be some super boring candidate with absolutely no cult of personality? The American people are just going to want someone competent in place of Obama, and we pretty much just assume that boring people are competent. And with a boring person, we’re definitely not going to get all our hopes up just to have them crushed as happened for many people with Obama.
So maybe Pawlenty is a really good idea. I probably should read up on him… but it’s just so hard to care, you know?
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March 22nd, 2011 at 3:28 pm
That explains why we keep that DamnCat around, isn’t it?
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I’d vote for Pawlenty. Of course, I’d vote for almost anyone the GOP throws up there: Palin, Huckabee, Barbour. I’d even hold my nose and vote for Gingrich, probably. About the only one they are talking about as a potential candidate that I will not vote for is Romney. If I wanted a tax-and-spend, big government liberal from New England, I’ll vote for the one who’s got the guts to call him- or herself that.
No, If Romney gets the nomination, I’m voting for a third party. I’d rather have four more years of Obama that a potential eight years with someone who says they’re not Obama, but really, they are.
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
No. Nay. Never.
His name is no cellar door, moreover, Obama isn’t exciting. Even his crackpot followers have removed that illusion from their minds. Pawlenty, Romney, Daniels, BARF Huntsman, all strike me as Yankee George Bushes.
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Frank needs a visit from Fred!
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:09 pm
I would like to tell you about Pawlentzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:11 pm
I like him better than, Romney, Hucksterbe or Newt for sure. But I like Marko’s dopey dog more than those guys.
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:11 pm
TPaw took classes boredom from Senior Professor of Borology Mitch Daniels…who also teaches advanced shortness and myopia. Mitch is a triple-threat candidate!
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Gore and Kerry are perhaps the two most boring people alive, and how did their candidacies turn out?
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Tim Yawn-a-plenty is running for President? Yawns-a-plenty over that bit of news.
His biggest attribute is he isn’t Obama. Do I have to repeat how I’d vote for a pile of used kitty liter or a roach dropping over Obama? I didn’t think so.
Marko’s German Sheperd for President!
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Pawlenty’s actually my number one choice at the moment. He actually has a pretty solid conservative record (in Minnesota, no less), and he can be an acceptable candidate to all the conservative factions. He’s not radioactive to independents, and I feel like he could win in the general.
We’ll have to see how the rest of the Republican field shakes out, but for now I think more conservatives ought to check out Pawlenty’s record instead of dismiss him as boring.
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:53 pm
He’s so exciting, he should change his name to Tim Yawnplenty.
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Tim Yawnplenty: So boring, and He won’t crush your expectations; because there will be none.
March 22nd, 2011 at 6:00 pm
So, let’s review…now we’re saying that Palin or Bachman are too exciting and Pawlenty’s too boring? Do I need to remind anyone that the GOP candidate will be running against a guy from Indonesia that can’t wish his daughter a happy birthday unless someone writes it down first for him to read, who’s screwed up everything he’s been allowed to touch? Boring can beat stupid.
March 22nd, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Tim Yawnplenty: Like A Good Mattress; The Sleep Will Do Us Good.
March 22nd, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Hey, he was my Governor! So what’s the probzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:28 pm
“President Timothy Pawlenty”
Sounds funny but, hey, right now even Dennis “Tinfoil” Kucinich would be better than numbnuts.
(Ok, maybe not, I don’t know.)
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I think we should elect a bag of shit to be our next president. Think about it. Though it’s true that this bag of shit wouldn’t have any good ideas, it is also just as true that it wouldn’t have any bad ones either – and at this point that is a lot better than what we have had for quite some time.
I’ll supply the bag, if someone else will supply the other stuff.
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:56 pm
I will vote for Yawnplenty if he runs with Herman Cain, just so that we can condemn anyone who points out Mr. Cain’s lack of gubmint experience as RAAACIST!!, screaming until we turn purple and fall down, after which we can blame them for hating on purple people. Cain worked for Coca Cola and Pillsbury before he made pizzas – he’s as all-American as a bacon cheeseburger, and you know he will leave fat kids alone. Eat pizza for lunch if you want, my little pretties – here’s one made with bacon! Mmm, bacon.
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:37 pm
By god, I like your idea, Crabby. I’d vote for Herman Cain because his slogan would be:
“A Chicken In Every Pot.”“A Bacon Pizza on every table!”And that has a helluva lot higher chance of happening than Obama’s Skittles-crapping Unicorns.
Come to think of it, Cain/Thompson would be way cool. Fred could relax as VP and act as the nation’s equivalent of Mr. Spock.
“Analysis, Fred.”
“Annihilation, Herman. Total, complete, absolute annihilation.”
(You all knew it is Shatner’s birthday, right? He’s 80!)
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Which ever candidate makes the following promise….”If elected my first official act will be to fire Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano.” will get my vote. Period, end of story.
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:25 pm
How can you say Tim Pawlenty is boring? He used to play hockey! I think we need an hockey player in the White House. If he’s willing to punch out another hockey player, he’d probably punch a hippie or a liberal without thinking twice. Since Jim de Mint probably won’t run, Pawlenty would be my first choice.
March 23rd, 2011 at 1:20 am
We need Ronald Reagan. Sadly, I don’t see him anywhere.
March 23rd, 2011 at 4:55 am
What’s Hockey?