Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty brought down the house in a speech to the state Republican convention here, a change of pace from his sometimes-dull speaking style when he ran for President last year.
Pawlenty came out of the gate swinging. “North Carolina, have you had enough of Barack Obama’s painfully high unemployment,” he boomed as the crowd, caught slightly off-guard, broke into thunderous applause. “North Carolina, have you had enough of Barack Obama,” he asked. “YEAH,” the more than 1,000 attendees responded.
Pawlenty sharpened his own campaign stump speech and incorporated some elements of Romney’s, declaring “You can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business…that’s like being pro-egg and anti-chicken.”
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