Three Reasons Republicans Can Cheer for T-Paw

Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has been doing the rounds lately, promoting his new book and signaling quite clearly that he is going to run for president. He’s still pretty much an unknown quantity among the mass public, but I think there are a lot of reasons for conservatives to take a close look at him. Here are three.

(1) He’s good on budgets. This is a huge deal for the Republican Party. For the last ten years, the party has spent way too much, diminishing its brand identity in the political market. The GOP has to get back to being the party of fiscal responsibility, so that means they’re going to need somebody who can make the tough choices. Somebody like Pawlenty: