TPAW NH Bound - guess the gear lever is moving out of Park
Good thing we take our politics seriously here. Local elections, special elections, gearing up for the mid terms, 2010 Federal....what could be missing....hmmmmm....oh, wait - nothing!
UL is reporting that Tim Pawlenty ("TPaw") is inbound:
Concord – Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will unofficially launch the New Hampshire 2012 presidential campaign when he visits the first-in-the-nation primary state in December.
UnionLeader.com has learned the Republican will be the keynote speaker at a fund-raiser on for the Republican Senate Majority Committee PAC on Dec. 16 at the Courtyard By Marriott Hotel in Concord. It’s unclear at the moment if he will make other stops.
While Pawlenty has not explicitly stated that he is considering running for President, he has taken several steps that strongly indicate he’s headed for an eventual campaign.
He unveiled his Freedom First Political Action Committee in October to help elect conservatives in the recent election and in 2010. And he has been traveling the country with campaign-style speaking engagements, railing against President Barack Obama and the Democratic congressional leadership, mostly on health care and the economy.
Last weekend, Pawlenty visited the state that hosts the nation’s first presidential caucuses when he spoke to about 500 Iowa Republicans at a fund-raiser in Des Moines. He is scheduled to speak at The Forum Club in Florida on Friday.
Pawlenty’s Iowa speech was billed as the first high-profile event of the early presidential season in that state.He took aim at Obama and the Democrats, telling the Republicans, “We’ve got Congress -- Democratic-controlled Congress -- messing around with a miserable health care bill. They should be focused like a laser on jobs, not acting like a manure spreader in a wind storm.
“They can’t even get us, in a reasonable time, a vaccine for the H1N1 virus,” he said. “How are they going to manage our health care?”
We participated in his blogger call announcing his FreedomPAC a bit ago - and for our liking, he is putting Freedom and Liberty near the top of the philosophical structure. TEA Party, baby, TEA Party words to be sure.
Iowa...now NH. New PAC. Talking...writing. Prognostication is not my specialty, but I can read a map ("Your destination is on the right in...1 mile......You have arrived...").
