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Tim Pawlenty Drops Out Of Presidential Race A Day After Iowa Straw Poll

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Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is ending his presidential campaign today, after coming in third place in the Iowa straw poll yesterday.

Pawlenty delivered the news to supporters via a conference call earlier today, and is expected to make the official announcement on ABC’s “This Week.”

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  • HowardNY

    I guess he just wasn’t crazy enough for the GOP. 

  • gordonbloyershow

    I love the way the insane people are calling the sane people crazy.
    Crazy is trying to raise taxes during a recession.
    Crazy is passing Obamacare when no one wants it.
    Crazy is spending money to control the Earth’s temp.
    Crazy is believing that the American people support union thugs supporting public employee unions by marching with Communists.
    Crazy is lying libs hiding behind phony names to support Obama Marxism.

  • Lemonlimey

    PAWLENTY never saw a billionaire he never wanted to build a stadium for using taxpayer money or a bushel of corn he didn’t want to subsidize turning into ethanol.

  • resist we much !

    Howard Dean?  John Edwards?  Dennis Kucinich?  John Kerry?  Harry Reid?  Barney Fwank?  John Conyers?  Jim McDermott?  Maxine Waters?   etc. etc. etc.

  • Anonymous

    He’s only 51, he’ll be back when the batsh*t crazy nuttiness phase in this country blows over and the tea-party critters crawl back under their rocks

  • Epzw

    BYE BARNEY FIFE.

  • Anonymous

    So crazy is doing what some 80% of the electorate wants?  And doing exactly what you said you would do prior to getting elected?

  • Anonymous

    clearly youre still the dumbest asswipe on this site….youre gonna pay ya taxes, no matter how much you cry about it….po brokes ass trailer park conservatives like you defending ya daddies dollas….PAY UP….TPAW down and more to come

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Red States use more Federal Dollars than Blue States. It’s the blue states like New York who give you guys money. So, why don’t you shut the hell up with your sanctimonious bs.

  • Anonymous

    Wouldnt that be the same as……say, ummmm, ‘any Politician using taxpayer monies to subsidize everything they do?’

  • Anonymous

    clearly you have no idea what you say because you contradict yourself in the first attempt at a sentence.
    You claim he’s broke – but yet he doesn’t want taxes raised – major problemo there dude.  
    Trailer park conservative?  Is that your attempt at marginalizing a group of people?  Again, I would venture to guess that most trailer parks would be more democratic than republican – so again your credibility is shot.

    I’ll let you in on a little secret – neither republicans nor democrats need people like yourself with not a clue what they are spewing but they spew.  Either start posting like an adult or perhaps form a breakaway party where your type of moronic rhetoric would be appreciated.  

    I see you have a fan and surprise – you now can start recruiting more members who really don’t understand that you are judged by the company you keep.

    Ta ta and good luck

  • Anonymous

    what 80% are you referring to lilly?

  • Anonymous

     stealing a quote from Andy Borowitz: “the Republican race is quickly turning into the survival of the dumbest”

  • HowardNY

    Bachmann? Gingrich? Santorum? Perry? Cain? Palin? Romney? Paul?

    Many of the people on your list may be weak-kneed and has-beens, but they ain’t crazy. Furthermore, the people on my list are not only in the Republican mainstream, but one of them is going to get the nomination. Anyone who doubts that the GOP is now a sick, irrelevant and marginal party, need only consider that these are the contenders for the nomination.

  • Anonymous

    You haven’t won anything , Mrs. Obama . Before long , you and King Obama will have to pay for your own vacations . Your own french fries and ice cream .

    Why don’t you and Barry buy a Chevy Volt and set an example ?

    And clean up your nasty mouth .

  • Anonymous

    I knew Barney Fife.  Barney Fife was a friend of mine.  Epzw, Governor Pawlenty is no Barney Fife.

  • Rio

    That’s that “progressive” tax rate you all like so much, how’s it working out for ya?  Drop the Obama tax cuts and you’re going to be on the hook for more, heh.

    Blue staters damn well pay their fair share for all the fed projects, defense installations, fed highways, dams, electrical grids, etc. that benefit them, not to forget the librul land grabs to prevent energy exploration out in the red states.  Take those millions and millions of acres out of the hands of private citizens and off the tax rolls and what do you get?  You want it, pay for it.

  • HowardNY

    Crazy is thinking that tax cuts are a magical cure-all, when the Bush years proves that they’re not.
    Crazy is trying to derail Health Care Reform with lies about death panels.
    Crazy is sticking your head in the sand about climate change, which scientists agree is a REAL threat.
    Crazy is declaring war on the American worker by calling them commies.
    Crazy is conservatives thinking that the GOP presidential contenders aren’t a bunch of insane hacks.
     

  • Anonymous

    The Governor is a good guy. He should definitely get a spot in a Republican administration. However, nice won’t  cut it this election

  • Anonymous

    And eat your peas!

  • Rio

    Any one of them will do just fine, even Sarah.  Obama will have to leave the teleprompters  behind, that’s obviously all it takes, as long as the teleprompter is loaded properly all goes well.  As experience has taught us these past couple of years, without one you get stuttering or a stumbling,  mumbling, canned stump speech.  It’s his teleprompters that have the high IQ.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    I didn’t say anything about progressive taxes. By the way, I think progressive taxes are necessary. But it’s just hilarious when Conservatives can’t practice what they preach.

  • Rio

    Did you say tax cuts?  Christina Romer, remember her? from Obama’s crazy cabinet?  She says we need a big tax cut right now and cut spending by $1 to $2 trillion over the next 10 years.

    Yep, here she is:
    http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/08/12/n_romer_velshi_intv.cnnmoney/

    and that crazy Obamacare, did you know the Post Office is opting out of it?  and it didn’t do so swell in court this week either, heh.

    Climate change……..and the e-mails……oh well.  More and more scientist are speaking out against the work of their so-called “peers.”  Well H..E…double hockey sticks, how crazy is that?

    American worker or a vocal percentage of union members that have bought into the economy crushing propaganda?  You know, the ones that threaten and physically attack their fellow Americans because they don’t like an opposing message?  Solidarity, free speech be damned.

    Don’t think I would call you crazy, you may be, not my call, but you do plunge head first into hackery as evidenced by everything you have posted here.

  • Anonymous

    A shoe will beat Obama.

    I never lived through Jimmy Carter, but as someone in my 20s, I’m betting that Obama’s worse.

  • Anonymous

    What are you paying in taxes?

  • Anonymous

    Crazy is HowardNY.

  • Hagen619dj

    What did you just say?  Not sure any of it made any sense at all!! You must have a lisp.

  • Hagen619dj

    Well then why has Obam-bam decided to keep the tax cuts. Cause his poor babies in the lower class would whine continuously.
    Wait till your mother or an older loved one or maybe yourself has to be “let go” and then you’ll understand what the death panel is all about.  By the way,  it is in the Obamacare pkg.
    Climate Change:  good grief, we all know that’s a bunch of hooey. Another typical democrat trying to alarm the public with his stories. He sure got rich off of it tho…and he’s dumb enough to still keep talking.
    Never heard the commies remark EVER.  Remember Obama saying “I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas”. or maybe”if you don’t have enough money, we shall bail you out”…remember that crap?

    Maybe that “could be” why you think war was proclaimed on the American worker.  Open your eyes.

  • Hagen619dj

    Of course they use taxpayer money. That’s what makes this country run. Their pet projects are all paid for by taxpayers. All the more reason to get the buzzards out of Congress. If you want to call people names for using taxpayer money….look in the mirror. There isn’t one of us who haven’t used it one way or another, knowingly or not.

  • Hagen619dj

    It’s a nice thought. The governor may be a nice guy but because of his poor governing and the next using his left-overs is why Minnesota had to shut down. Granted Dayton isn’t a bright guy but neither will he get my next vote either.  Can’t build democracy on being a nice guy. today it takes being an honest guy.

  • Anonymous

    ‘If you want to call people names for using taxpayer money….look in the mirror’….hmmm, ‘and who did that?’  ‘There isn’t one of us who haven’t used it one way or another, knowingly or not’….thats something, I truely agree with you on!

  • Anonymous

    Pawlenty would have been just as bad a President as Obama currently is.  Now if Newt gets out this week everyone would be better off. 

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