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Republican Tim Pawlenty ends White House bid

World Aug. 15, 2011 - 05:47AM JST ( 14 )

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globalwatcherAug. 15, 2011 - 09:34AM JST

Adios, goodbye, sayonara, Pawlenty.We won't miss ya. Pachi, pachi, pachi, pachi!!!
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plasticmonkeyAug. 15, 2011 - 10:08AM JST

Goodbye T-Paw. Perhaps you can become a "great president" in an alternate universe.
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abarenboshogun6Aug. 15, 2011 - 10:17AM JST

T-Paw did a great job of skewering Bachmann in the debate last week, but it was too little too late. He was dry and rather humorless on the campaign trail; his early drop-out is not a surprise. The Republican-Tea Party wants to put up a hard right, rabble-rouser for President next year. Bachmann, Paul, maybe even Cain. T-Paw just doesn't fit the bill.
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Taka313Aug. 15, 2011 - 11:45AM JST

Considering he had to cheat on his campaign promises just to beat Mike Hatch to be Minnesota Govenor, this early exit is not unexpected.

Taka
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TorafusuTorasanAug. 15, 2011 - 01:29PM JST

The problem for Pawlenty just with his own constituency wasn't bridges to nowhere, it was the collapse of the I-35 bridge into the Mississippi. This was around August 1 and Pawlenty's transportation czar was on summer vacation in Washington, D.C., and she tried to address it from there. I don't think Pawlenty ever was very popular after that, and then that was compounded by the problem of leaving the state with a much bigger debt load then when he started.

The Minnesotan who remains, Rep. Bachmann, is a lot more strident and risk-taking than Pawlenty ever was. Also, I can't see him adopting 23 kids. Is Bachmann still in contact with any of them?
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SushiSake3Aug. 15, 2011 - 05:57PM JST

WHAT? Another GOP quitter?

Last time it was Sarah P. This time it's Tim P.

Conservatives quit on good financial governance, quit on supporting their own old folk, quit on protecting America, quit on respecting global legal statutes, and now they are quitting on electing half-good presidential candidates.

Is quitting in GOP genes or something? :-)
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smithinjapanAug. 15, 2011 - 09:36PM JST

Aww.... poor Tim! Let the door hit you hard on the way out -- hopefully it will knock some sense into you and you'll stop being a Republican.
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MolenirAug. 15, 2011 - 10:31PM JST

Aww.... poor Tim! Let the door hit you hard on the way out -- hopefully it will knock some sense into you and you'll stop being a Republican.

So you're saying, the only way to make someone a dem, is to knock them senseless right? Heh.
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SerranoAug. 15, 2011 - 10:42PM JST

Wake me up when Sarah Palin announces.
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TorafusuTorasanAug. 15, 2011 - 10:59PM JST

When Sarah Palin announces what, the start of the moose hunting season?

Palin and Bachmann are more macho than Pawlenty (heck, they are almost at Jesse 'The Body' Ventura's testosterone level). Tim wasn't much of a hunter and probably was more serious about being a politician than in playing a character having reporters and TV producers following him around clearing brush, hunting big game, etc. That lack of a macho outdoorsy facade is one answer to his downfall.

I know someone is going to say "Obama doesn't hunt moose, he must be a Keynseian Kenyan Klansman"--but you have to remember that Obama goes after a different demographic of voters. Basically, the 99% of Americans who have never indulged in moose meat.
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smithinjapanAug. 16, 2011 - 12:02AM JST

Molenir: "So you're saying, the only way to make someone a dem, is to knock them senseless right? Heh."

Ummm.... no... did by chance you get hit by a door? You ever seen a movie or scenario when someone is going crazy and out of their mind and someone slaps them to bring them back to reality? That's what most GOP people and their supports need. Even then you can't guarantee they won't go mad again.

Torafusu Torasan: "When Sarah Palin announces what, the start of the moose hunting season?"

No, when she finally decides to announce, after a couple of years, what books she reads. It took her a while to pick one up after the Couric interview, I'm sure, but certainly she must have gotten through at least one book or magazine by now. Dictionary probably broke when she had to look up articles like 'the' or 'a', though.
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amerijapAug. 16, 2011 - 05:21AM JST

It's a dog-eat-dog world. PP(Poor Paw Lent Tea) was getting out of line after the debate. He's just not a fit-in. Odds are likely to be pulled out as an evil Redneck Platypus (Texas gov.) pitches in. Who's next? Cain, Bachman, or Huntsman?
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abarenboshogun6Aug. 16, 2011 - 09:55PM JST

amerijap: Who's next? Cain, Bachman, or Huntsman?

Thad McCotter.
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SerranoAug. 16, 2011 - 10:05PM JST

"Who's next?"

Obama? Hey, a man can dream, can't he?