Frigging Pawlenty!!

I wanted this blog to mostly steer clear of politics, but doggone it what Pawlenty is doing is local for me and it really ticks me off!

A quick background - Pawlenty is the current governor of Minnesota, and he used to be a moderate Republican, which to me explains how he got to be the Governor of a moderate state, my state, Minnesota.  I know that the rabid wacko right would claim Minnesota is a radical left-wing state, but Chuck you Farley, because Minnesota is actually moderate, and Minnesota only looks radical to you because you are so extremely right-wing.

One of the things I really really like about my state is that, for the most part, we have been pretty sensible and pragmatic about politics, we usually tend to go with what works in the long run, and we usually avoid scum and scandal and political corruption.  For example, we used to have mandatory exhaust testing, but after a couple years we realized the vast majority of the cars were passing the test, so we stopped the testing.  We could restart it again if we needed it.  To me this showed that our government bureaucracy did not automatically grow out of control.

But Pawlenty is now a special case, because he has declared that he will NOT be seeking re-election here, and he has begun trying to woo the national Republican powers so he can run for the Presidency  as a Republican in 2012.  Ironically he has some pretty good national likeability stats because he has been pretty moderate to date but now he has to become radical to get the Republican nomination so now he is caught in a tough spot.  He has to try to play it both ways.

But that is his fault, and I give him no pity.  Indeed, this past week Pawlenty has pissed me off big time.

First he goes mouthing off about Governors using the 10th amendment to keep their states from adopting any new health plan the US government adopts, and then he flew to Virginia and stumped for the loony Bob McDonnel who is seeking the governorship of Virginia.

Bob McDonnell wrote his college thesis in 1989 stating that "working women and feminists were a detriment to traditional families."  The thesis also argued that "government has a right to discriminate against 'cohabitors, homosexuals and fornicators' to protect heterosexual, two-parent families. "

Of course now Bobby is trying to backpedal and soften his image to get elected, but like Pawlenty he is trying to play things both ways.

I've got two statements to make.  The first is to Bob McDonnell:

From an immoral but practical standpoint I suppose it seems okay to discriminate against homosexuals, because there really aren't that many of them, but if you discriminate against cohabitors and fornicators you'll be lucky if there are 10% of the people left over to vote for you. 

To Tim Pawlenty:

How dare you do this while collecting pay from Minnesota taxpayers?!  Either shut up or stop your freeloading and follow Palin's lead.  Resign from the Minnesota Governorship!

Speaking of Palin, can you imagine Palin as President, Pawlenty as Vice President, and Michelle Bachman as speaker of the house?!  Oh, baby, would that be something to see, and I don't mean in the good way.

Yikes!