Watching Tim Pawlenty on Morning Joe this morning and it is like had a lobotomy. In this case this is not a bad thing. While Pawlenty was never a fire breather on the stump he was a Conservative who had seemed to lose some of his Minnesota nice recently.
After finishing third in Iowa, losing to his colleague from Minnesota Michelle Bachman he stepped out of the race. Long seen as a viable, strong, candidate for President Pawlenty never gained traction.
A former two term governor who was clearly a Conservative one wonders why. Watching him on Morning Joe this morning he was a changed man. He was intelligent and clearly still a Conservative. Now, however he was freed from the neccesity of pandering to the far right. He spoke well, he was civil with those that disagreed with him, he was not calling the left and or Obama treasonous. In short he was acting like he should.
Why is it so difficult to disagree without being disagreeable. Pawlenty was more attractive to me today than he ever was as a candidate. He had a sense of humor, he was thoughtful, and he was intelligent.
Why does it have to be this way that candidates have to fit inside a box to be candidates when we all know that our problems will require cooperation and perhaps some out of the box thinking.
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