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Pawlenty Refuses To Say That He’s ‘Glad’ Olympia Snowe Is In The Republican Party
thinkprogress.org - 18 days ago
Pawlenty Refuses To Say That He’s ‘Glad’ Olympia Snowe Is In The Republican Party
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) appeared today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the ideological direction of his party. Pawlenty, a late backer of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, has increasingly staked out a far right position within the GOP. He recently reversed his position on ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11 days ago
Pawlenty Moves Raise Questions
— voices.washingtonpost.com — By Dan Balz Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is widely regarded as one of the Republican Party's rising national leaders. The runner-up to Sarah Palin to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate, he is a conservative whose blue-collar roots, amiable ... (more) Pawlenty Moves Raise Questions

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thehill.com - 21 days ago
Pawlenty bucks GOP, endorses Hoffman
— thehill.com — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty became the latest Republican to buck his own party Monday, wading into a New York special election to offer support for Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman instead of the GOP nominee. Pawlenty, who has raised his ... (more) Pawlenty bucks GOP, endorses Hoffman

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blogs.desmoinesregister.com - 14 days ago
Pawlenty thanks Lord for ’smokin’ wife’
— blogs.desmoinesregister.com — Pawlenty thanks Lord for ’smokin’ wife’ (more) Pawlenty thanks Lord for ’smokin’ wife’

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The New Republic blogs:  Pawlenty Walks Back Criticism of Snowe

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Pawlenty Walks Back Criticism of Snowe
The New Republic blogs — Minnesota governor and potential 2012 presidential nominee Tim Pawlenty made headlines yesterday when he criticized fellow Republican Olympia Snowe for her "deviations" from conservative GOP orthodoxy, and refused to say whether or not he was happy that she was a Republican. Snowe ...

David Brooks, John Thune, and the Death of GOP Reform-ism
The New Republic blogs — ... structures and new ideas, and the cycle of conservative ascendance will begin again." But a year into the GOP's exile from power what we see is the emergence of the Tea Partiers and Glenn Beck et al. Even if Brooks had steeled himself for a long struggle, the real difficulty of the project may just be dawning on him. (And it's not just Brooks. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a man Brooks and Douthat and Salam once held up as a model for "Sams Club"Republicanism, sounds a lot like a standard-issue right-winger these days.) The second thing to say ...

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MSNBC's Scarborough, Mitchell See New 'Litmus Test' In Scozzafava Repudiation
newsbusters.org 19 days ago — "A test that uses a single indicator to prompt a decision." That's how the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines "litmus test" when it's used as a political metaphor (emphasis mine). That makes ...
A Storyline for Robert Gibbs & MSNBC to Run With! -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez — The Corner on National Review Online
From " First Read ": Ideological Civil Wars Don’t Help You Win Elections : In NY-23, Republicans snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a district they’ve controlled since the 19 th century after prominent conservatives -- Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Club for Growth, Tea Party ...
Pawlenty: GOP U.S. Sen. Snowe better than a Democrat but... — Rantburg
Big tent GOPer Gov. Tim Pawlenty perhaps became a former big tent GOPer this morning during an on MSNBC . He said the former GOP candidate for New York's special congressional race didn't "minimum standard" for a Republican candidate but added Minnesota U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen and ...
— The Rude Pundit
Today's Vote Will Tell Us Nothing About Barack Obama : On today's Morning Starbucks with Joe over on the MSNBC, the thirty or so people on the air were talking with Republican Minnesota Governor Tim "My Name Sounds Like Something Elmer Fudd Would Say" Pawlenty about the upstate New York ...