Pawlenty on McCain: MSNBC 10/27/08

Tim Pawlenty on John McCain
"Race to the White House" 06:16pm
Commentary

TOPIC: leadership, taxes, republicans, liberal democrats

TRANSCRIPT:
DAVID GREGORY: Why [are prominent Republicans supporting Obama]?
TIM PAWLENTY: Well, I think theres a group of who perhaps are disenfranchised with what they perceive to be the Republican party or brand, David. But I think the thing to look at is, if you put Barack Obama in the White House with the Democrats controlling the congress you will have an unstoppable train of bad ideas rolling down the track. Therell be nobody there to bring it back to center, nobody there to balance it off and bring it to the mainstream. And for those moderate or centrist Republicans itd be very good to have John McCain there to bring whats going to be a very leftist congress if Barack Obama is elected, a rubber stamp for a leftist congress, to bring it back to center, to bring it back to the mainstream.
GREGORY: Governor what disqualifies Senator Obama from being president in your mind?
PAWLENTY: Well, I think it just goes to the issue of the differences of the issue positions and policy positions David. He said the other day when asked do you want to retract the statement about Joe the plumber and the redistribution of wealth, he said no he wants to keep that so hes proposed tot raise taxes on capital gains, on income, on depreciation, on dividends, on payroll, a fine or penalty on healthcare and on down the list. What thinking economist or person would say its a good idea to have those kind of tax increases when were in a recession. And I think if you look at most peoples concern, its their job and those would be job-killing initiatives. So those are just bad ideas, its not that Senator Obama is somehow, you know, a bad person or unpatriotic, thats not the case. The case is just he has a very different view of these policy matters than Senator McCain does
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Its not a matter of him being ineligible or disqualified, its just a very different view of the world.
GREGORY: Whats it going to take for a McCain comeback to become a reality?
PAWLENTY: I think hes gonna have to emphasize basically three things. Number one you dont want a runaway train of all Democrats running the whole country, thats not balance, thats not mainstream. Number two, you dont wanna be raising taxes in a recession, thats obvious, or anytime. And number three, Senator McCains got the requisite experience and judgment to be the leader of the free world

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