Is Tim Pawlenty Crazy like a Fox

When former Mayor of Saskatchewan announced his economic policy last week, based upon fantasy projections, tax cuts for rich folks and deregulation, I wondered which former Bush Administration official he used to put it together. It had to be one of them – hence a sad joke. Nobody would take more Bush Administration economics seriously, would they?

But maybe there was a method behind the madness of styling himself as the second coming of George Bush.

Maybe its strategery:

Had Pawlenty delivered a remotely plausible economic policy speech, very few people would have paid attention to it, and it would have reinforced the view that Pawlenty is so very boring. No one’s saying that now. Some people are saying that Pawlenty is the new incarnation of George W. Bush, and some are saying that he is a con-man, but at least they aren’t still talking about how “nice” and boring he is. The most significant thing that Pawlenty may have done by giving this speech was to differentiate himself as a presidential candidate from the rather dull Minnesota governor that he has been until now.

Plausible I guess. But maybe Pawlenty just digs the Bush Administration.