Uh Oh.......Tim Pawlenty has blasphemed the Great St. Ronnie

Pawlenty Says Republicans Need to Move Beyond Reagan (Update1)
By Heidi Przybyla


March 3 (Bloomberg) -- Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has a message for his fellow Republicans: Get over Ronald Reagan.

Like most Republicans, Pawlenty pays homage to the Reagan legacy. At the same time, he is urging his party to get beyond its Reaganite past. Pawlenty, 48, presented his vision of Reagan 2.0 at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last weekend.

The old Republican orthodoxy of limited government, lower taxes and conservative social policies needs an update if the party hopes to challenge Democrats on issues such as health care, energy and education, he said.

“We need to develop new Ronald Reagans and new reference points,” Pawlenty said in an interview after addressing CPAC. “It would be as if Barack Obama was going around and constantly talking about Truman or LBJ. It’s just become a reference point that isn’t as relevant for young people.”

The CPAC gathering is regarded as an open audition for Republicans with ambitions of national office and a prominent venue for candidates to raise their profiles. With Democrats ascendant in Washington, many Republicans are searching for a message and messenger to lead them back to power.

In a presidential preference straw poll taken before his speech, Pawlenty finished behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, among others. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a97T5pGNMgp8&refer=home

Burn the heretic! (Although, he's right).

Now you debunk him. I'm tired of debunking the superhuman Reagan as a complete fake.

Rush is stuck in 1984 in more ways than one. Even though that's a quarter-century ago, that's all they got.