Video: Governor Pawlenty on McCain’s Relationship with Evangelicals
June 30, 2008
Minnesota Governor and Vice-Presidential shortlist candidate Tim Pawlenty entered The Brody File earlier this morning. We’ll be moving video excerpts throughout the afternoon. In the clip above, Pawlenty talks about how McCain still has some work to do with his Evangelical Christian outreach. Watch above and read the transcription below.
Governor Tim Pawlenty : "John McCain is a person of faith and he is a committed Christian and he is somebody that I think is probably less comfortable being overt about that than perhaps some others might be but his value system and his belief in Christ I think is something that is part of who he is as a person and I think he is somebody who would be well received by Christian leaders and Evangelical leaders and I just want to encourage the McCain campaign to make that effort and to reach out and they are but I think there are a lot of Christian leaders, evangelical leaders who haven’t yet been contacted or who haven’t been part of meetings who are feeling perhaps, are they going to reach out to me and at a minimum we want to make sure that he is speaking on issues of concern to them and I think you’ll see perhaps more of that in the summer and fall."
Brody: "So there is somewhat of an acknowledgment that he does need to do some more outreach in this area especially because Obama is going after that Evangelical vote?"
Governor Tim Pawlenty: "Yes, well that has been of course a big part of the Republican coalition, the conservative coalition for years and I think that’s an important stakeholder group and it’s also one that lines up with Senator McCain’s beliefs sand so it is not an unnatural fit or an inauthentic or disingenuous fit. There’s a natural connection point there and hopefully that will be able to be made.”
The Governor is a straight shooter and this is a real accurate assessment. More outreach needs to be done and the McCain camp can not just assume that Evangelicals will head to the polls just because McCain lines up with them on more issues than Obama. You have to court a little too. You can be the most handsome guy in the room but if you don’t ask the girl to dance you’re not getting too far.
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