Your 5 best and worst Governors

[CPT MikeyMike]

This year. I'm not including outgoing or incoming ones yet.

1. Schwarzenegger (R-CA)
2. Paulenty (R-MN)
3. Henry (D-OK)
4. Bredesen (D-TN)
5. Manchin (D-WV)

46. Baldacci (D-ME)
47. Perdue (R-GA)
48. Perry (R-TX)
49. Fletcher (R-KY)
50. Corzine (D-NJ)

[MaC]

worst:
Granholm (only because I have to live under her regime)

best:
Sanford
Richardson

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1. Schweitzer (D-MT)
2. Lynch (D-NH)
3. Sebelius (D-KS)
4. Freudenthal (D-WY)
5. Henry (D-OK)

Not that many really really good ones actually, although the latest batch is promising (Spitzer, Patrick, Strickland, O'Malley)

46. Daniels (R-IN)
47. Fletcher (R-KY)
48. Perry (R-TX)
49. Blunt (R-MO)
50. Pawlenty (R-MN)

[adam]

Best:

1. Jodi Rell (R-CT)
2. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN)
3. Mark Sanford (R-SC)
4. Bill Richardson (D-NM)
5. Phil Bredesen (D-TN)

Worst:

46. Rick Perry (R-TX)
47. Bob Taft (R-OH)
48. Frank Murkowski (R-AK)
49. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI)
50. Jon Corzine (D-NJ)

(I used a few previous governor's).

[JSojourner]

Best...

1.  Richardson
2.  Lynch
3.  Lingle
4.  Schweitzer
5.  Kaine


Worst...

1.  Rounds
2.  Daniels
3.  Taft (outgoing)
4.  Blanco
5.  Murkowski

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Can anyone explain what is so great about Pawlenty? I never understood why Republicans loved him so much in the first place (he's more anti-tobacco than me!) and why they still do considering he has pretty much adopted the DFL platform for his plans for his second term.