Casual Observation

7 Comments

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   Second Nature on June 22, 2008 at 8:54 pm

   Know what burns even more?  Having no idea what “prole-chic” means….

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     BooMan on June 22, 2008 at 8:57 pm

     prole comes from the book 1984 and is an abbreviation of proletarian.  

     So, it means proletarian-chic.  And that is apparently what you call a Republican whose father was a truck driver.  Of course, most people would just call him a damn-fool.

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       Second Nature on June 22, 2008 at 9:02 pm

       I saw him on with Wolfgang Blitzkreig this morning and he seemed rather dimwitted.  He tried to repeat the mantra of Obama raising taxes and Blitzer kept clarifying that it would only be on those earning over 250K and that actually he’d cut taxes on the middle class.  Pawlenty was sort of speechless without that script…

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         boran2 on June 22, 2008 at 9:10 pm

         They wouldn’t want to have anyone that could outshine the outstanding genius that is John McCain.

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           Sawgrass on June 22, 2008 at 10:38 pm

           Just read a story how the Bush administration buried Quayle in small-town venues after the GOP convention in 1988.  They realized Quayle could only hurt Bush, never help him.

           Maybe McCain should follow the “Quayle” strategy for himself and his entire campaign–stick to the small towns.  Even Quayle would probably do better on the campaign trail than McCain.

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         RandyH on June 22, 2008 at 9:25 pm

         I saw that too. I lived in Minnesota when he was last re-elected and it was REALLY close. He squeaked it out with scare ads put out by pro-life organizations in rural areas just days before election. He’s such a sweet, polite, young-man-next-door type that people think he might even be smart. He’s not. And much of the state didn’t want him re-elected because he was spending more time traveling around with McCain than he was spending inside the state, running for VP. That pissed Minnesotans off big time.

         When the bridge collapsed on I-35W in Minneapolis, he was even disgraced by the (ultra-republican) state chamber of commerce for not backing the gas-tax increase that they (and most Minnesotans) even supported, which would have addressed the major highway problems they have in the state. Driving in the twin cities is almost as bad as L.A. at commute time and getting much worse every year.

         I think he may very well be McBush’s “Dan Quayle” VP choice. Perfect. It makes it that much easier for Obama to win. And if McBush thinks choosing Pawlenty will help him win states like MN, ND, WI, etc, well… guess again. That part of the country is SO ready for Obama. And MN will be upset that he lied to them when he insisted he wasn’t running for VP.

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   tommurphy on June 22, 2008 at 9:05 pm

   I’m not suprised to hear that Governor Pawlenty is on the short list. Here is what I wrote in the Vote Hemp Report: A Victory in Vermont? on June 10th:

   Election year politics are especially hard on hemp legislation. Minnesota had a hemp farming bill introduced in March of 2007 which was carried over to 2008, the second part of their two-year session. The bill was well-received and passed out of two committees, but it was stuck in a third committee when the House adjourned, thus killing it.

   An agriculture committee omnibus bill was also introduced in the Minnesota House earlier this year that passed and included a section on “Industrial Hemp Development and Regulation.” There was a companion bill that passed in the Senate, but without the hemp language. The related section from the House bill was added to the Senate bill in conference committee, but was then removed at the insistence of the State Patrol and Governor Pawlenty’s Washington, DC lobbyist. The omnibus bill was ultimately signed by the Governor, but without any hemp language.

   Wouldn’t want to confuse people and make them think you’re pro-drug by signing a bill with a hemp study in it. ;>)