[Speed Gibson,
Sunday June 12, 2005 at 11:06pm]
Pawlenty and Eibensteiner
I've sorted through the blogs' analysis of the GOP shakeup, and I came to a sudden but obvious conclusion. Tim Pawlenty is just plain incompetent as our Governor because he can't stop acting like a Legislator.
Pawlenty lost my 2006 vote months ago. He did this wrong, he flip-flopped on that, and he just isn't acting like a conservative. And then he breaks his no new taxes pledge. Clearly, many of these quirks swayed many of the delegates. Pawlenty tried to save Eibensteiner, and left angry when he failed. And he seems not to know why.
My number one reason in opposing candidates Gore and Kerry is that they both were so obviously lacking in executive ability. Neither could even run their campaign offices. This is why, perhaps unknowing, voters prefer Governors to Senators as Presidential candidates.
And this explains Pawlenty, totally. Everything I find puzzling, inconsistent, or just plain wrong flows from a negotiating, compromising, "cake and eat it, too" Legislative mentality, which is fine if you are indeed a Legislator, not a Governor. Al Quie had the same problem years ago, to the point where the disgraced Rudy Perpich found new political life.
Pawlenty just isn't executive material and being Governor is an executive position. He has reached his Peter Principle level of incompetence, or as they say these days, jumped the shark. Any thoughts of a Presidential bid should scare you.
Pawlenty is not a casualty of Chairman Eibensteiner's defeat. Quite the reverse: he is the very cause of it.
Pawlenty lost my 2006 vote months ago. He did this wrong, he flip-flopped on that, and he just isn't acting like a conservative. And then he breaks his no new taxes pledge. Clearly, many of these quirks swayed many of the delegates. Pawlenty tried to save Eibensteiner, and left angry when he failed. And he seems not to know why.
My number one reason in opposing candidates Gore and Kerry is that they both were so obviously lacking in executive ability. Neither could even run their campaign offices. This is why, perhaps unknowing, voters prefer Governors to Senators as Presidential candidates.
And this explains Pawlenty, totally. Everything I find puzzling, inconsistent, or just plain wrong flows from a negotiating, compromising, "cake and eat it, too" Legislative mentality, which is fine if you are indeed a Legislator, not a Governor. Al Quie had the same problem years ago, to the point where the disgraced Rudy Perpich found new political life.
Pawlenty just isn't executive material and being Governor is an executive position. He has reached his Peter Principle level of incompetence, or as they say these days, jumped the shark. Any thoughts of a Presidential bid should scare you.
Pawlenty is not a casualty of Chairman Eibensteiner's defeat. Quite the reverse: he is the very cause of it.