re: #1 Thanos

Agree. David Frum may be one of the more reasonable voices in the partisan pundit-o-sphere, but he still wants to put lipstick on the pig, so to speak. Perhaps he has resigned himself that if he is going to have to live with a party that is embracing all the planks of the RR platform then Pawlenty is a less-bitter pill to swallow than Palin or Bachmann.