Posted: 12/18/09 00:20, Edited: 12/18/09 09:45
by Dave Mindeman
Pawlenty's courtship with the far right has some stumbling blocks to overcome. Oh, he's saying all the right things to appease them, but conservatives keep finding one little problem -- his record.
At some point Pawlenty has to make a choice.... he either has to completely disavow his past record or he has to meld an explanation of his past record into his current rhetoric. Either way, it turns him into a weak candidate for President.
The reason I bring this up is this American Spectator blog post, which brings this contradiction into focus:
Pawlenty, who as chairman of the Midwestern Governors Association enthusiastically led an agenda to fight global warming, entered his state into the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord -- and it remains there...
If that doesn't sound like the economy- and jobs-killer that likely presidential candidate Pawlenty says he now opposes, I don't know what does. So when will he withdraw Minnesota from this commitment?
It's not just us liberal critics who notice these contradictions, Governor. Your conservative friends seem to have a problem with it as well.
It looks a little odd to make the swing from a green promoting governor to a climate change denying Presidential candidate.
And by odd, I mean they don't believe you T-Paw. You have a lot of explaining to do.... pretty much to everybody.
