Mullet-Americans Rally Around Pawlenty

Mullet-Americans are “cautiously optimistic” about rumors that mulleted Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty may soon be named Senator John McCain’s vice presidential running mate.
“It would obviously be historic, and it could really balance the ticket, what with McCain’s embarassing lack of hair below the cervical vertebrae,” said mullet-American activist Billy Rae Cyrus.
Still reeling from the [...]

Another Data Point…Or Four

Quinnipiac, along with the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, has today released head-to-head survey results from four battleground states:

COLORADO: Obama 49 - McCain 44
MICHIGAN: Obama 48 - McCain 42
MINNESOTA: Obama 54 - McCain 37
WISCONSIN: Obama 52 - McCain 39

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, President Bush’s approve/disapprove ratings in those states are abysmal:

31 [...]

Pawlenty and the veepstakes

I’m pretty sure I dislike the word “veepstakes.” But anyway…
The New Republic has an interesting piece that dissects what makes Gov. Pawlenty tick and what his chances might be for becoming Sen. McCain’s running mate.
I love the lead of this article, and I learned some things about Pawlenty I didn’t know. The piece seems to [...]

Pawlenty Shows His Chops as VP Hatchetman

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is auditioning for the traditional role of VP nominee — the guy with the hatchet. In the Strib this morning he’s quoted saying this: “He said Obama ‘is someone who continues to show a lack of experience and judgment’ and belittled his resume as including ‘a professor of some type and a [...]

Pawlenty Avoids the Cattle Call

“After twelve years in the minor leagues, I don’t try out,” says Crash Davis to Annie Savoy in Bull Durham.
That’s pretty good advice for front-leading VP candidates as well and explains why neither Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty or Mike Huckabee made it to Senator McCain’s ribfest this weekend (yes, yes, yes, I know they both [...]

Where’s Tim?

U.S. News and World Report’s James Pethokoukis has posted today a single-sourced report that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is at the top of a short list of potential VP candidates. The article, which appears to be based on the anonymous comments of “a top McCain fundraiser and longtime Republican moneyman who has spoken [...]

Strib Gets Bent

The Star Tribune’s Tony Kennedy deserves some love for his story pointing out the bent I35W bridge gusset plates in photos that apparently were in the hands of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) five years prior to the I35W bridge collapse.
In mid-January of this year, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that flawed [...]

Do I detect a strategy here?

Could it be that Minnesota’s Democrats in the legislature are actually following a plan? How unlike us.
Today’s Minnposting by Sharon Schmickle on the upcoming stem cell debate certainly suggests that the Dems are trying to bring up a series of politically volatile issues that either 1) split the Republican party (the transportation bill); 2) embarrass [...]

More Barriers Crashing Down

The atmosphere over Minnesota’s own Governor Tim Pawlenty becoming Senator John McCain’s running mate is absolutely electric.

And why not? Imagine at long last breaking through America’s highest and hardest glass ceiling by making Pawlenty the first mullted American in the White House!
- Loveland