With Tim Pawlenty as President and Al Franken as Senate Majority Leader Minnesota will finally wield the power to run the nation that it has long deserved.

A Polaris Snowmobile in every snow covered driveway!

Another candidate with a chance at winning the nomination. The one thing Pawlenty has going for him that John Thune and the other Senators running don't have is that he's served in an executive capacity in government, and he comes from a Democratic-leaning state. That shows that he can win in areas that aren't always favorable to Republicans.

He's rising quick on the radars of a lot of national activists, and my bet is that if he doesn't win the nomination, he will get the VP nod. He should have gotten the vice presidential nomination last year, but McCain made a dumb decision by going with Palin. He will likely finish in the top three.

I just can't get past this guy's ethanol laws. 15% ethanol by 2013 in his state! It is worse gas-mileage in most cars, and thereby more expensive. I am for cleaner, but not the Pelosi-type "greener."

On other issues this guy is very formidable, but I'd just can't concede to the idea of him in the whitehosue at this point. BUT - if I had to guess who the next president would be, this guy is up there in the list.

I live in MN where he is a governor and he sucks at his job. things are being cut so much that ther is a huge number of people at one bus stop. my daughter has asthma and can't walk that far without her asthma acting up. I am so angry! Her stop use to be right infront of the house now it is a couple blocks away. She is already having issues with it and it isn't even winter yet! Her class sizes are huge... there are 40 some kids in her classes! Her teachers can't help that many kids at one time. He is the George Bush of government! I will not vote for this ass. Tim Pawlenty Is a jackass! I would have to have a gun to my head for me to vote for such an ass.

I do not even know who this is.

Would be my second choice behind Ron Paul. Educated but not someone to solve our current and future economic problems.

Honestly, I don't see him winning the nomination. He's sort of bland and boring.

Underrated. Rising star. Owes his political future to not being anchored to the 2008 campaign. Young. . .looks will melt the underwear of sexually-frustrated GOP wenches. Would probably be a force in the midwest. I'd keep an eye on this guy. Unless he winds up in a sexual scandal he'll be in the mix in 2012. His only serious drawback is trying to sell his obligatory cleaned-up ahm-not-a-bush-republican message to the northeast in 2012. Still, he's an interesting guy to watch at this point.

Pawlenty will no doubt gain traction for a run, but he would be McCain all over. Perhaps he would be even worse because he could not campaign as hard on experience.

could be a good choice...seems to have the "presence" of a conservative!

He was actually pretty funny in the bit that did with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the Republican Convention. I'd give him a shot.

Whom everybody expected McCain to choose as VP. Boring as dishwater, and too moderate for the GOP as it stands.

Tim Pawlenty is a young, handsome, enthusiastic, and ambitious governor who has a very best profile to run for the country against the popular superstar-like Obama. 1. He was very popular in job creations, anti-abortion and visiting his state troops worldwide in his blue state; 2. He doesn't carry President George W. Bush's unpopularity (He is an outsider (governor)); 3. He is a handsome tall babyface experienced old guy; 4. He is a typical formal Protestant. 5. He is a centrist right-wing Republican. These of his personal details make centrist and left-wing fans around the USA.