Bad news for Pawlenty, Power Line didn't like his CPAC speech

Needs a new speech writer, GOP blogger says

February 20, 2010 at 4:16AM

The Democratic National Committee did a round up of reactions to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's speech Friday to the Conservative Political Action Conference but missed this one from on the widely read Republican Power Line blog.

Among the phrases the blogger used to describe the speech: "weirdly inappropriate," "cheesy," "so...80's."

Here's the link to the whole post entitled, Time for a New Speechwriter.

Questions: Pawlenty does well in many settings but how do you think he does at the big speech? What was the best speech you've ever seen him give?

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