Hillary Rodham Pawlenty
Jonathan Chait has been arguing that Michele Bachmann is positioned something like Obama in 2007: she does best among those voters "most attuned to the campaign."
If Bachmann is Obama, Tim Pawlenty seems to be lining up for the role of Hillary Clinton:
'I like Congresswoman Bachmann. I've campaigned for her, I respect her, but her record of accomplishment in Congress is nonexistent. It's nonexistent. And so we're not looking for folks who, you know, just have speech capabilities, we're looking for people who can lead a large enterprise in a public setting and drive it to conclusion. I've done that, she hasn't.'
Hitting Obama for being merely a silver tongue with a thin legislative record and no executive experience worked great for Hillary, didn't it?