Look, I completely agree with the guy, but I wish he had bothered to mention this during the 2006 election season, it would have saved us many a breathe:
“If you look at my record as a whole, it’s clearly conservative,” Pawlenty said. “This idea that it’s moderate is, I don’t think, a very full look at it.” [The Hill, 6/16]
It’s just funny how a guy who spent months talking about his moderate credentials would now do a 180 and start bragging about how conservative he is… I wonder what’s changed… As regular readers know, Tim Pawlenty is no moderate and a smiggen of pro-environment rhetoric has not been enough to cover up that key fact to the keen observer. Another quote from The Hill article:
With vice presidential jockeying now in full swing, Pawlenty has been burnishing his conservative credentials on the national scene. They include signing conceal-and-carry legislation into law and setting a record for vetoes while facing a heavily Democratic legislature.
Ughh… Well, if we have to run another gubernatorial election against him in 2010, I’m glad we’ll be able to use the Governor’s own words to define his ideological leanings…
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I have to wonder about some of the more breathless statements in the excerpts you quoted. “Heavily Democratic legislature”? Yes, there are now DFL majorities in both houses, but a veto cannot be overridden without the support of (career-suicidal) Republicans. Also, conceal-carry was signed in 2003. Has Gov. Pawlenty really been burnishing his credentials that long?