Pawlenty For VP?

I shudder when I think of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, on the short list in John McCain's "veepstakes", being a heartbeat away from the presidency. How can you take seriously a governor who takes his barking orders from someone named "Grover"? T-Paw (he is actually called this - how white can one man be?) as VP would leave Carol Molnau as governor of Minnesota. Given her record as head of MN-DOT, we'd be in for a heap of trouble here in Minnesota. (Oh wait, there hasn't been a bridge closing this week ... yet.) (Not to mention the McCain presidency - yeah THAT guy can get the economy going again.)

And over at The Minnesota Independent, I saw this picture of Governor Timmy that made me take pause. He probably had to wear it after he chose the Gophers over the Sioux in a bet with the governor of North Dakota. No doubt it was a big game, you don't bet about wearing a rival's jersey on some game in January. Hmmm ... Sioux vs. Gophers in big games during the Pawlenty administration ... 2005 Frozen Four Semifinals and 2007 Western Regional Finals - in both games the lower-seeded Sioux won (and 2005 was a spanking). So this brings up a question about Pawlenty's supposed working-class credentials ... I thought this guy actually knew something about hockey? Give him props for making the bet, but hey - he was just a mark to the governor of North Dakota.

And Minnesota Republican hockey fans are no doubt very thankful that Pawlenty didn't bet with Massachusetts governor (and also current GOP VP hopeful) Mitt Romney a couple years back on that Minnesota vs. Holy Cross game. The shame of the Gophers pulling off the perfect choke job was enough - why dirty a whiteboy with national ambitions who "knows" something about hockey?