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    Courage to Stand: An American Story
    Courage to Stand: An American Story
    Courage to Stand: An American Story
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    Courage to Stand: An American Story

    Written by Tim Pawlenty

    Narrated by Todd Busteed

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    Long before he was considered a top prospective presidential candidate for 2012-even before he landed on John McCain’s short list of potential running mates in 2008-Governor Tim Pawlenty had already earned legendary status in conservative circles. In his hard-left-leaning home state of Minnesota, the man known as “T-Paw” somehow erased a $4.8-billion budget deficit while simultaneously reforming health care, creating jobs, improving education, and supporting renewable energy reform-all without raising taxes.
    In Courage to Stand, Pawlenty reveals, for the first time, how he found the resolve to get the job done, taking readers all the way back to the lessons he learned as a boy in the gritty meatpacking town of South St. Paul. From the devastating early death of his mother to the struggle to work his way through college and law school and his epic political battles as governor, Pawlenty opens up about his deepest beliefs and shares his vision for a better America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateJan 11, 2011
    ISBN9781414366722

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      After voting for Pawlenty twice, I thought I would be impressed by this book. I was not. This book cast Pawlenty in a particularly bad light. Although Pawlenty tried to portray himself as a moderate governor, and often had conservatives against him, that was all gone in this book. Indeed, this book read as a tea party make over to re-image himself for the current prevailing winds of the 2012 Republican presidential nomination contest. Of course, now we know that was all for not.

      His book was full of all the current tea party talking points: he doesn't use teleprompters, 47% of Americans don't pay taxes (those mooching elderly bastards!). He repeated half truths (I only raised the budget 1.7% a year, compared to the historical average of 21%).

      You could tell from his writing that he thought very highly of himself. He rarely made a wrong decision, and if he did it was usually the liberals fault, not his own.

      As governor, he writes about how he tried to remake the state in his own image. He picked battles that he won small victories on, but ultimately lost, never his fault, no doubt. He stepped down as governor leaving the state with a 4.7 billion dollar budget deficit, and a dramatic but insignificant period of the Minnesota state history.