Comments on: Tim Pawlenty Most Likely Gov To Become President? http://donklephant.com/2009/06/26/tim-pawlenty-most-likely-gov-to-become-president/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ExiledIndependent http://donklephant.com/2009/06/26/tim-pawlenty-most-likely-gov-to-become-president/comment-page-1/#comment-495910 ExiledIndependent Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:08:20 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15353#comment-495910 Another lesson we should learn from this last political cycle is the effect of the outgoing administration. If Obama's fiscal and foreign adventure chickens come home to roost too early (right now they're aimed at keeping the popped bubble artificially inflated until after the 2012 race. As for Afghanistan....exactly what is the plan again?), the Dems are going to have a categorically more difficult time with any GOP candidate, substantive change or no. Another lesson we should learn from this last political cycle is the effect of the outgoing administration. If Obama’s fiscal and foreign adventure chickens come home to roost too early (right now they’re aimed at keeping the popped bubble artificially inflated until after the 2012 race. As for Afghanistan….exactly what is the plan again?), the Dems are going to have a categorically more difficult time with any GOP candidate, substantive change or no.

]]> By: kranky kritter http://donklephant.com/2009/06/26/tim-pawlenty-most-likely-gov-to-become-president/comment-page-1/#comment-495875 kranky kritter Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:12:36 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15353#comment-495875 There's probably a market in this somewhere. So y'all can place your bets. Personally I think Palin is an embarassingly lightweight figure who not only can't think well on her feet, but occasionally has trouble connecting the dots when delivering the usual canned content. So, she is bound to look substantially different if she is unveiled as the figurehead of a serious 2012 GOP effort at the White house. Vocal coach, different mannerisms, practiced schticks to use as verbal delay while she picks the right answer from the memory library. She needs some re-branding. Fortunately, her beauty contest background should serve her well. What she needs to do is translate the notions of poise and grace from the physical to the rhetorical and to political body language. I agree that dems think they want her. The 2008 iteration would get her clock cleaned. I'm curious to see what we get with Palin's makeover, which if not subtle, will get shredded by the media.What the makeover needs to transmit is that she has learned from her time in the spotlight and is now ready: poised, polished, patient, clear. Not shrill, not showing anger, not sounding confused or lost. And not sounding quite as small-town parochial as she has. There’s probably a market in this somewhere. So y’all can place your bets.

Personally I think Palin is an embarassingly lightweight figure who not only can’t think well on her feet, but occasionally has trouble connecting the dots when delivering the usual canned content.

So, she is bound to look substantially different if she is unveiled as the figurehead of a serious 2012 GOP effort at the White house. Vocal coach, different mannerisms, practiced schticks to use as verbal delay while she picks the right answer from the memory library.

She needs some re-branding. Fortunately, her beauty contest background should serve her well. What she needs to do is translate the notions of poise and grace from the physical to the rhetorical and to political body language.

I agree that dems think they want her. The 2008 iteration would get her clock cleaned. I’m curious to see what we get with Palin’s makeover, which if not subtle, will get shredded by the media.What the makeover needs to transmit is that she has learned from her time in the spotlight and is now ready: poised, polished, patient, clear. Not shrill, not showing anger, not sounding confused or lost. And not sounding quite as small-town parochial as she has.

]]> By: patrikios http://donklephant.com/2009/06/26/tim-pawlenty-most-likely-gov-to-become-president/comment-page-1/#comment-495486 patrikios Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:28:33 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15353#comment-495486 I think Dems DO want Palin nominated, as she is very popular with Republicans, and ONLY Republicans. She probably hurt McCain with independents, especially with her performance in interviews and the VP debate. I think Dems DO want Palin nominated, as she is very popular with Republicans, and ONLY Republicans. She probably hurt McCain with independents, especially with her performance in interviews and the VP debate.

]]> By: Ted http://donklephant.com/2009/06/26/tim-pawlenty-most-likely-gov-to-become-president/comment-page-1/#comment-494832 Ted Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:03:26 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15353#comment-494832 Get real. Sarah Palin is THE super star. Barring some unforseen circumstance, she'll get the GOP nod. Clearly Dems, like the NPR guy don't want Palin, so they downplay her. Get real.

Sarah Palin is THE super star. Barring some unforseen circumstance, she’ll get the GOP nod.

Clearly Dems, like the NPR guy don’t want Palin, so they downplay her.

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