Republican presidential candidate Pawlenty bends his truth-telling
By Dana Milbank
WashPost
Monday, May 23, 6:12 PM
It was Tim Pawlenty’s moment of truth. Actually, several moments of truth.
“We’re going to have to look the American people in the eye and tell them the truth, and that’s what I’ll be talking about,” the former Minnesota governor proclaimed to Erica Hill on CBS’s “Early Show” on Monday as he formally began his quest for the Republican presidential nomination.
“President Obama unfortunately doesn’t have the courage to look the American people in the eye and tell them the tough truth,” Pawlenty informed Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show. “I’ll do that.”
In a phone interview with Hot Air blogger Ed Morrissey, he promised “a serious, tell-the-truth, courageous message.”
(More here. LP NOTE: Some in the GOP look at Pawlenty as an attractive candidate because he was elected twice as governor in a usually Democratic state. What is not well known is that both Pawlenty victories occurred in multi-candidate races where there was one very strong third party candidate but no constitutional process for a runoff. Thus, in both instances, Pawlenty, like his predecessor Jesse Ventura, only won by a slim margin with a plurality of votes, never a majority.)
WashPost
Monday, May 23, 6:12 PM
It was Tim Pawlenty’s moment of truth. Actually, several moments of truth.
“We’re going to have to look the American people in the eye and tell them the truth, and that’s what I’ll be talking about,” the former Minnesota governor proclaimed to Erica Hill on CBS’s “Early Show” on Monday as he formally began his quest for the Republican presidential nomination.
“President Obama unfortunately doesn’t have the courage to look the American people in the eye and tell them the tough truth,” Pawlenty informed Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show. “I’ll do that.”
In a phone interview with Hot Air blogger Ed Morrissey, he promised “a serious, tell-the-truth, courageous message.”
(More here. LP NOTE: Some in the GOP look at Pawlenty as an attractive candidate because he was elected twice as governor in a usually Democratic state. What is not well known is that both Pawlenty victories occurred in multi-candidate races where there was one very strong third party candidate but no constitutional process for a runoff. Thus, in both instances, Pawlenty, like his predecessor Jesse Ventura, only won by a slim margin with a plurality of votes, never a majority.)
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