Yes! Fantastic!  J-Mart, we could kiss your feet for being the deliverer of such marvelous Thursday news! Well, to be more precise, marvelous Tuesday news that we’ve just discovered, hidden away in Politico’s news vaults like a sparkling, 4-carat diamond in the rough…

As it turns out, Minnesota Gov. Timothy “T-Paw” Pawlenty — one of John McCain’s most competent vice presidential finalists — is scheduled to deliver a speech at the RNC later this month to familiarize “state-level activists and party donors” with his politics. That is, just in case he launches a 2012 presidential bid, counter Newt, Mitt and that other walking Alaskan disaster who we’re pretty sure doesn’t know what she’s talking about, ever.

Pawlenty, one of the few non-hyperbolic politicians within the GOP who genuinely understands what it means to be a conservative, has advocated most recently for the restoration of “big-tent Republicanism” and other initiatives that will help the Grand Old Party appeal to a wider, more diverse demographic.

We’re not going to get too excited just yet (see: the 2008 transformation of John McCain). But we’re looking forward to seeing a fresh face that can uplift Republican rhetoric with new ideas rather than the McCarthyist mudslinging that has (up until now) dominated Washington politics.

Now what about Charlie Crist? I’d vote for that smiley bastard any day.

Moderates, emerge!

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