http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26084607Long before the polls began suggesting that Republicans could face trouble in November, Mr. Pawlenty, now in his second term, was urging his party to become “the party of Sam’s Club,” not just the country club.
“We need everybody — to grow the party and to move forward,” Mr. Pawlenty explained in a recent interview. “One of the most powerful reasons people go to Sam’s Club or Target or Costco is they want value, and Republicans are well suited to be the party that says, ‘We’re going to have a limited but also effective government.’ ”
Mr. Pawlenty can talk about such things from experience. He now lives in the well-off suburb of Eagan, but holds blue-collar credentials. He grew up in South St. Paul, then a working-class town where life revolved around the stockyards, where his father drove a truck, where he played hockey, where his mother died of cancer when he was still a teenager, and where he went on to become the first in his family to graduate from college.
Article has more, but the article isn't going to cut much ice. Especially with the offshoring of blue collar jobs and white collar jobs increasingly looking like blue collar ones too.
And on record, Mr. Pawlenty would rather give money to the Twins (who can surely afford their own stadium), cut taxes (so things can't afford to be fixed), and help Best Buy set up shop outside of Minnesota than to keep piddling things like bridges intact.
The article seems to nothing more than put a different name on the same ideologies that sound nice, but have - to date - and particularly regarding running Minnesota (never mind the national press, which suggests he wants to be VP or has a gigantic ego) - shown to be ineffective, empty shortcuts, or outright untruths.
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