“That is disappointing and further bolsters the Pawlenty stereotype as milquetoast establishment.”

Finger in the wind.

I sure hope Sarah Palin’s endorsement causes a splash. Conservatives who are paying attention to conservative radio the past few days, or conservative leaders like Sarah and Fred will know who to vote for.

No way the media can avoid this race now. Hope their servers are ready for it.

Big, big move by Sarah. She stepped into the leadership vacuum and ..
F I L L E D I T !

I will NOT vote for anyone in 2012 who is not standing up for us NOW when it’s the most important…in my mind, there are only three candidates that should even be considered…Sarah Palin, Liz Cheney and Governor Perry. The Repubs out there now are now going to swoop in near the end after being silent all this time. NO WAY.

Sorry, but… WTF?

“I just don’t know anything about it. I haven’t taken the time to study their positions, their records, so I haven’t taken a position on it.”

Mr Pawlenty, there is but one congressional election going on right now and it is one where the fault lines are quite clear when it comes to conservativism vs. the establishment. How can you NOT be aware of the situation on the ground if you purport to run a leadership PAC to support true conservatives?

My read: he’s either clueless or ball-less, and either way his position as a serious player in the conservative resurgence is to be questioned.

I pity anybody who ever for one second thought that Tim Pawlenty was worth a damn.

I don’t particularly like or trust Palin but at least she’s useful. Hopefully we’ll now finally get to see just how much so.

Not so much as in raising Palin’s stock, but more so in terms of lowering Pawlenty’s. This certainly doesn’t help the MN Governor build momentum.

His position as a “conservative” and a “serious player” has always been in question.

And, though I supported Romney last time and still like him, I will support Sarah. He is the only one with, as you say, the wherewithall to stand up and fill the leadership vacuum. God bless her. Let’s get busy so we can elect her.

Sometimes, when your team is in the middle of a losing streak, you need a few calls to go your way. It seems like that is happening. In Florida, the polls are showing Rubio taking a bite out of Crist, and Charie has got nowhere to run and hide. In Virginia, McDonnell and Co. are already takin’ names. In New Jersey, the new info implying Corzine corruption, may help Christie hang on. (Not that Christie is a pillar of Conservatism, but he is pretty solid for Jersey). And now this in New York. Sarah’s got great timing. Now we just need a WIlliams appointment from down here in Texas.

Criminy, if Pawlenty would just spend a few minutes a day checking out RedState, other blogs, or just good old political news websites, he would be up to speed on this. Yeh, this shows he is utterly clueless.

You can tell by looking at him he is a nice sincere guy who has a spine as thick as a spaghetti noodle. He is worried if he jumps the ship here and backs Hoffmann (who is NOT a Republican remember) that will come back to bite him in 2011 during the primaries.

He’s a good solid slightly to the center Republican. It isn’t his job to support another party’s candidate. His job is to run for President in 2011 and hopefully win in 2012.

That’s just the facts.

Palin, on the other hand, is trying something new and I hope the best for her. We’ll see in time how the two different approaches work out.

Wants us to think he doesn’t know anything about one of the hottest issues amongst conservatives in the country right now? The blogosphere is full of articles about this race, from KOS to Red State to Hot Air. Even the Wall Street Journal had a piece as I recall.

Pawlenty does himself no favors serving up a “huh?” piece of BS. He’d have been better off taking a stand one way or another or saying he was going to remain neutral based on blah blah blah. If he’s that far out of touch that he doesn’t inform himself on an issue this important to the base…. says a lot.

because he wants the money & backing from the same failed groups behind Dede Scozzafava. Pawlenty is showing his hand and he has nothing. Wasting time & money on Pawlenty is just that…….

That’s who is and always has been. Back in 2002 Pawlenty was going to run for the Senate and Coleman (who had just lost a run for governor against Jesse Ventura (gag) and Skippy Humphrey ) was also running in the primary. So Bush and Rove interfered asking Pawlenty step out of the race for Coleman. Coleman won, then Pawlenty ran for Gov in 2004. Bush and Rove took the choice away from Minnesotans. Pawlenty went along to get the backing of the National Party. It was under his governance that MN elected an ACORN Secretary of State candidate which drove the illegal voting to elect Al Francken defeating Coleman.

The Democrats would love for the GOP to have the bland, go along to get along, Pawlenty as a candidate in 2012.

as Bob Dole and the fecklesness of John McCain. What’s not to like?

and character. No wonder Democrats despise her, she’s the exact opposite of their scummy selves.
The Republicans ? More than touched with the disease of the weak, pragmatism, understood as a severe spinal condition, namely it’s absence. Very dispiriting & not conducive to writing out contribution checks,

What? pay czar cutting pay? Don’t know nuthin. $1.4 TRILLION deficit? huh?

Great for Sarah Palin. Great for Doug Hoffman. Great for America.
I hope Sarah has her ticket ordered for a 3 or 4 day visit to New York 23 to campaign for Doug Hoffman. That should be enough for Scozzafava to dry up and blow away!

Duh..acorn? Duh…nope, nope, nope. I don no nuffin bout acorns. nope, nope, nope.

This all too convenient “ignorance” excuse will not fly.

…not for Gibson. …not for obama. …and not for Pawlenty.

Per Robert Stacy McCain….

Since yesterday, when the Palin Rumors first surfaced?

Hoffman’s Campaign took in $116,000.00 in one day.

Don’t tell me that Palin didn’t have an effect.

Other 2010 Cycle Republicans are going to see this and are going to get on the phone to Robert Bennett and Meg Stapleton as fast as they can.

They want that Pixie Dust.

The tough call for Sarah remains Crist/Rubio, however. Charlie was a perfect gentleman to her last year, but her principles tell her to support Marco.

Especially now that Huck has already gone into Marco’s corner.

of “socialism-lite”, a far left liberal democrat who just happens to be running as a republican. If this is the best kind of candidate our Northern brethren can attract, I say cut them loose and run people with the courage of their convictions, even if it means running against liberal North and Northeastern republicans.

However, I can’t believe how many people have come out to make claims to the effect of “Tim Pawlenty is a socialist, Sarah Palin is our white knight”, when neither of those statements are particularly true. I’m glad that Palin has stepped up to the plate in stumping for Hoffman, and am disappointed (read: p***ed) that Pawlenty has chosen to go linguini spine on us on this race as well, but do we really have to paint Pawlenty as some sort of evil socialist-lite/McCain-like figure on that alone, without any proof? While we’re on the subject, do we really have to further extend the Palin mythos, where she is painted as some sort of conservative crusader who cleansed AK of the eeeevil corrupt Republicans and brought justice to the land? It does the given politicians, the conservative movement, and Redstate no good when we make hyperbolic claims of that nature.

Too little too late, but at least maybe he is reading us - or more likely a staffer does.

Has anyone seen the article out yesterday about the “tests” that were done on men that voted for McCain. The results showed that those that did had low testosterone levels before the vote and after the vote, or something like that. One of the comments after the article was from a guy that said “his boys were fine, he voted for Palin.” I think those facts were first reported on ABC.

and go listen — then donate — to the Independent Expenditure radio ads, one on http://www.minutemanpac.com and one on http://www.LifeandLibertyPAC.com airing to help Doug Hoffman.

They have been running in NY 23, along with a pro-Hoffman ad that Eagle Forum PAC cut.

All these citizen PACs need to raise small-donor contributions to keep buying more ad time through November 3. They can say things about all three candidates best NOT said by the Hoffman campaign itself.

This race is a huge test of grassroots seriousness and muscle; if we want to turn the GOP off its pitiful path of me-too liberalism, we MUST win its attention and respect by playing some hardball politics. Come on conservatives, LET’S WIN!