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Here Comes Tim Pawlenty

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Posted on May 23, 2011
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Here we have another politician claiming to have a close relationship with the truth. Sure about that, T-Paw?

As expected, erstwhile Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has come rumbling into the ring to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012. In launching his bid, T-Paw ran through the GOP’s list of top gripes with the current administration: the bailout, the stimulus and, of course, “Obamacare.” And he’s going to tell the truth!  —KA

Los Angeles Times:

Blasting what he described as the president’s “fluffy promises of hope and change,” Pawlenty sought to cast himself as a truth teller and argued that spending in Washington was driving the nation’s economy off a cliff. He chided the president for backing a “pork-filled stimulus bill,” financial bailouts for well-connected businesses, and called the Democratic healthcare plan “an unmitigated disaster for our country.”

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By TDoff, May 24, 2011 at 3:29 pm Link to this comment

Wow! You gotta look forward to a presidential candidate who promises to tell the truth. But if he keeps that promise, he won’t last past his first speech in the race, when he starts out ‘Listen, you a**hole voters, I’m not qualified to be President, but you’re not qualified to be voters, so that evens-out’. And I’m a GOPer, and you’re GOPers, and seeing as how you fell for fellow GOPer ‘W’ a few years ago, and his old man and Ronnie before that, I figure I can bamboozle you, too. Now, here’s what I’m gonna do…’
(Allow time for large hook to encircle his neck and yank him from stage)

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By Lew Ciefer, May 24, 2011 at 12:19 pm Link to this comment

Paw who?

Good god! My dog Killer, a Yorkie, could out debate and win against the Democrat’s Wall Street mascot and in the whole of the GOP they can’t get anyone that can beat my dog.

And Jesus wept!

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By Inherit The Wind, May 24, 2011 at 8:48 am Link to this comment

Teaparty: “We don’ need no stinkin’ bridges!”

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By Gil, May 24, 2011 at 5:30 am Link to this comment
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Pawlenty would be even less exciting than McCain.  Maybe he could convince Palin
to join the Republican national ticket again, or he could move over to her Tea
Party and take second place himself.  It’s obvious the Republicans can’t find
anyone with any substance.  Look at the disaster their people continue to promote
with their suicidal economic talk in Washington.  And Pawlenty sitting demurely in
Minnesota waiting to be coaxed into a declaration and genuine effort just isn’t
going to do it.  Sadly, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a credible
opponent to Obama.  Everything Obama continues to do since last November’s
debacle, including killing Osama bin Laden, has been his 2012 campaign in full
swing.  He’s throwing all his “Democratic” oratory at us again.  If you think he was
a traitor to his 2008 campaign, just wait until his wins in 2012.  During his
inaugural speech in 2013, he’ll probably announce that he is really a Republican—
as if we didn’t know that already.

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By Clarissa, May 24, 2011 at 3:28 am Link to this comment
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Daily Kos: Pawlenty pardoned serial child molester so wife could open up day care center
http://www.dailykos.com

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By berniem, May 23, 2011 at 4:19 pm Link to this comment

Oh, and don’t forget his record for infrastructure maintenance, especially bridges!

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By Inherit The Wind, May 23, 2011 at 1:06 pm Link to this comment

Whoopie shit!  The man who turned Minnesota from a fiscally sound state into a massive deficit-ridden state. Just what we need as President: Even LESS economic competency!

Are we sure his name isn’t really Wesley Mouch?

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