Pawlenty Fishin' for VP spot

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Another name that pops up as a McCain VP pick is Minnesota populist Governor Tim Pawlenty. (Mitt vs Pawlenty in the MSNBC veepstakes, as a matter of fact). This guy sounds an awful lot like the ever-annoying, class-warfare, pastor populist Mr. Huck A. Bee (just substitute Romney for Sullivan in the reading below, for example) -- Huck, by the way, is whining "don't be mean to Barry Obama" again.

As it happens, it was Pawlenty--the son of a truck driver from the blue-collar enclave of South St. Paul--who first coined the Sam's Club [Republican] phrase back in 2001. At the time, Pawlenty found himself in a fight for the gubernatorial nomination with a millionaire political novice named Brian Sullivan. Sullivan had spent a minor fortune touting himself as the embodiment of conservative purity. Pawlenty's response was to paint Sullivan as an economic elitist. He wondered if Sullivan might reinforce "the stereotype of the Republican Party ... that we're all a bunch of wealthy snobs" and urged the party to reach out to member's of "Sam's Club, not just the country club."

full article: The New Republic

However, it was the not-so-funny sex joke about his wife that became legend... in an interview Governor Timmy said:

“I have a wife who genuinely loves to fish. I mean, she will take the lead and ask me to go out fishing, and joyfully comes here,” he told radio station WCCO. “She loves football, she’ll go to hockey games and, I jokingly say, ‘Now, if I could only get her to have sex with me.’”

FYI: Pawlenty supported McCain during the primary, but couldn't deliver the state -- because Minnesota loved Mitt. Romney beat McCain 41-22 % in record turnout.

One last Huck quote to make your day -- asked about his chances to be McCain's VP:

"You can't accept an invitation to the prom until the football captain asks you. So I'm not going to go out and buy the outfit just yet..."