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?

23 Comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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!)

  9. 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.

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