Tim Pawlenty took a daring step towards explosive rhetoric recently: he declared the country’s mounting debt a “pile of poo.” Try not to look too offended. “Clearly, the guy running the bleep button for the GOP primary debates isn’t worried about Tim Pawlenty,” quips Jonah Goldberg of the LA Times. And that is Pawlenty’s problem: “He’s boring. He’s so boring, he could have replaced James Franco at the Oscars without making the awards any more interesting.”
The GOP has a clear divide this year, between dull-but-substantive fixers like Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, and, “depending on what persona he assumes this week,” Mitt Romney, and partisan warriors like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Mike Huckabee, who are “expert bomb-throwers, not ham-fisted poo-flingers.” It’s a lot like the Democratic field of 2004. Democrats wound up picking dull John Kerry over fiery Howard Dean, and regretted it. To avoid their fate, Republicans will have to find a candidate “who is both fighter and fixer.” (More Tim Pawlenty stories.)
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