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May 22, 2011
Tim Pawlenty: "I'm running for president" [VIDEO]
Tim Pawlenty makes it official."I'm Tim Pawlenty, and I'm running for President of the United States," the former Minnesota governor says in a web video released this evening. Finally. Pawlenty's been telegraphing his intentions for months, racking up frequent flier miles to make speeches i ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
DOA: Pioneer Press runs Tim Pawlenty presidential announcement on obit page
Tim Pawlenty's presidential campaign is Dead On Arrival, according to his hometown newspaper.The St. Paul Pioneer Press hilariously ran the announcement of T-Paw's presidential campaign on the Obituary page this morning.
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May 23, 2011
Tim Pawlenty strangely silent on tornado damage to Minnesota
This man has better things to do than worry about a national disaster in his home state.Look, we know Tim Pawlenty has more important things to worry about than the death and destruction in North Minneapolis--what with his presidential campaign kicking off today and all--but would it kill him to ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Pawlenty flunks "tell the truth" presidential speech
If you're going to announce your presidential campaign based on a speech that declares, "I'm going to tell you the truth," then the least you can do is -- well -- actually tell the truth. Tim Pawlenty didn't, as an Associated Press fact check of his Iowa speech today demonstrates over and o ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Tim Pawlenty makes pub crawl joke even though his staffers have DWI arrests
One of these guys is running for president, and the other three are drunk drivers who are trying to help him.Tim Pawlenty is so desperate to be interesting he's turning his campaign into a deleted scene from Beer League.Today, T-Paw flailed at Obama on Twitter, making an unfunny joke about Barack ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Tim Pawlenty would rather cancer patients suffer than smoke a little reefer
Arguing against government meddling in health care, while simultaneously arguing for it.It's probably too much to ask a presidential candidate who once outlawed bong water to take an enlightened look at the benefits of medical marijuana. But when it comes to a drug that can make life more b ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
George Will tells Tim Pawlenty to knock off the "dime store Teddy Roosevelt" act
Gadhafi: Best known for slaughtering his own people. Pawlenty: Best known for being Minnesotan.Tim Pawlenty has the whole Libyan civil war thing dialed. Screw the United Nations and the Arab Spring, it's time to Cowboy Up. "I would tell Gadhafi he's got X number of days to get his affairs in ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Team Pawlenty hammers "pain in the ass" Bachmann, Part 2
Not so happy together.On the record, Tim Pawlenty's people say everything's hunky dory with fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachmann, even though she leads him in most GOP presidential polls despite his carefully planned assault on the White House. "Any suggestion that this isn't a good relations ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Pawlenty's massive corporate tax cut is NOT a special deal
He's telling the truth. Trust him.It's the "Truth" tour: Tim Pawlenty went to Iowa and told corn farmers they didn't deserve ethanol subsidies. He went to Florida and told the oldster-heavy state the Social Security and Medicare ride was over. And now he's telling Wall Street the bailout da ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty is Haagen-Dazs vanilla to Fox News
Tim Pawlenty and Haagen-Dazs vanilla, the preferred flavor of Fox News.After almost a half-hour of challenging Tim Pawlenty's voodoo economics on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace echoed Bill O'Reilly and wondered aloud whether Pawlenty was just too nice to be a presidential candidate. Maybe he'd b ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Pawlenty coins "Obamneycare," no one laughs
Watch out Mr. Romney.It's on! Tim Pawlenty, seizing the rhetorical moment by the throat, is getting down to some gutter level insults ahead of tonight's Republican debate in New Hampshire. He's summoned up all his courage and coined a devastating soundbite. "Obmaneycare."
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June 14, 2011
How Pawlenty did at last night's Republican debate
Pawlenty had a chance to face down Romney on Obamneycare, and he turned away.Tim Pawlenty showed everyone Monday night during the Republican debate on CNN why Bill O'Reilly pegged him as a vanilla ice cream salesman. Instead of getting in Mitt Romney's face and smacking him around with the m ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Pawlenty banks on voters forgetting the Obamneycare wimp-out
Team Pawlenty says we'll all forget why Mitt Romney was smiling Monday night.Tim Pawlenty branded his presidential campaign, "Tell The Truth." He titled his book, "Courage To Stand." And then he wimped out in the Republican debate when offered a chance to confront Mitt Romney about "Obamneyca ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Tim Pawlenty gets glittered in San Francisco [VIDEO]
Screen shot from Politico Reporters snapped the aftermath of the glitter attack on T-PawFirst Newt Gingrich, now T-Paw: the glitter rainbow is everywhere. Our former governor and current GOP presidential contender was signing books in San Francisco today at a conference on health care. That' ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Tim Pawlenty: Twitter Tough Guy
The Courage To Stand -- on Twitter.Tim Pawlenty didn't have the "Courage To Stand" against Mitt Romney and Obamneycare during the Republican debate, and apparently he knows it. So instead of just waiting to let his humiliatingly weak moment on CNN blow over, like his campaign spokesman said he w ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Tim Pawlenty is broke
Pawlenty's fighting for cash.Tim Pawlenty's surrogates are batting back reports this morning that the campaign is broke, with aides and consultants working for little or no money for months on end, and the candidate himself failing to keep pace with front-runner Mitt Romney's fundraising prowess. ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Tim Pawlenty easy favorite in National Association of Evangelicals poll
Tim and Mary Pawlenty on the Christian Broadcasting Network earlier this year.All his tack-to-the-hard right rhetoric with right wing Christian TV and radio shows is paying off. In the battle for God - or a conservative evangelical God anyway -- Tim Pawlenty appears to have the upper hand. L ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Pawlenty doesn't want to stand with Bachmann any more
This plea for cash used to be on Pawlenty's website. It's gone.Back in friendlier times, before Michele Bachmann was trouncing Tim Pawlenty in the polls, and before Pawlenty's surrogates were calling Bachmann a pain in the ass, the two were tag-teaming on the fund raising front. Such was the ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Tim Pawlenty is the solution to Middle East peace
Pawlenty gets his hawk on.Tim Pawlenty is the forgotten Minnesotan in the presidential race these days, the guy standing in Michele Bachmann's shadow, trying to get noticed and raise money despite languishing in polls from Iowa to New Hampshire. So today he showed up at the Council on Foreig ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Pawlenty raises $4.2 million in second quarter, a fraction of Romney's expected haul
When Tim Pawlenty publishes his second quarter fundraising disclosure on a Friday afternoon heading into a long holiday weekend, as reporters are cracking beers along with everyone else, you know he'd rather the story just die a quiet death. But it hasn't. That's because T-Paw hauled in just ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Team Pawlenty walks back on transit union tough talk
Tim Pawlenty's "Truth" campaign is a bit blurry.Tim Pawlenty keeps having to back away from his tough guy talk. This time, he was caught making up nonsense in Tennessee about facing down "the unions" in the "longest transit strike in the history of the United States." That certainly would ha ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Tim Pawlenty brags about shutting down Minnesota in new campaign video
"Pawlenty won." How'd it work out for you?Tim Pawlenty wants credit for shutting down the state government in 2005. In a new 30-second campaign ad (below), Pawlenty says the state government froze in 2005 because he was too tough for Democratic legislators. Even if it wasn't good for Minnesota, ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Pawlenty lost his mojo, friends say
The old Tim Pawlenty would never let this old lady get away with that.Tim Pawlenty's close friends and allies can't figure out what happened to their charismatic Minnesota Governor.Pawlenty has changed from a charming, reliable local to a flat national figure since he decided to run for president ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Michele Bachmann has "sex appeal," top Pawlenty aide says
"Why do you hate to say it, Vin?"Michele Bachmann is beating Tim Pawlenty because she's sexy, one of Pawlenty's top aides said yesterday. In an interview with "The Hill," former 6-term U.S. Rep. Vin Weber, now a co-chairman of Pawlenty's doomed presidential campaign, explained Bachmann's politica ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Tim Pawlenty loves Gaga, Springsteen, says conservatives don't offer up much in the music world
Tim Pawlenty took a break from campaigning for his GOP presidential candidacy in Ames, Iowa, yesterday to answer some "fun" questions from pop culture-heavy political site Gliterazzi. After answering a question about his favorite music artist of all time (Bruce Springsteen) and his nickname T-Paw ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Fitch downgrades Minnesota's credit
Minnesota's excellent credit rating got knocked off its feet yesterday by Fitch Ratings, thanks to the government shut down. We've gone from a triple-A rating to double-A plus. The upshot is that the state will have to pay higher interest rates when it borrows money. But before everyone sta ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Pawlenty: Bachmann's record of accomplishment is "nonexistent"
If he's going down, he's taking Bachmann with him.If Tim Pawlenty's campaign is doomed, at least he's going down swinging. In his Sunday appearance on Meet the Press, T-Paw defended his own campaign, which many have declared hopeless. When he got the chance, he took a shot at Michele Bachmann, wh ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty loves God, but not enough to sign Iowa marriage pledge [VIDEO]
The Pawlentys smile at each other, a lot, in his new ad.Tim Pawlenty won't sign the FAMiLY LEADER's pro-marriage, pro-slavery and anti-porn pledge, but not because he doesn't agree with them. "I prefer to choose my own words," Pawlenty said in a statement, explaining why he wouldn't sign th ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Bachmann to debate on Twitter, Pawlenty bows out
Pawlenty won't show off his excellent Twittering tomorrow.Crippling headaches won't keep Michele Bachmann from participating in the first-ever "Twitter debate" tomorrow. Tim Pawlenty, who feels no pain, will sit this one out, along with the Mormons -- Mitt Romney and Jon Hunstmaan -- and the cran ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Tim Pawlenty runs for NHL Commissioner in new ad [VIDEO]
Pawlenty loves hockey more than America does.Tim Pawlenty's new ad, which starts running in Iowa today, is all about hockey. Clips of the U.S. national team from the 1980 Olympics, the famed "Miracle on Ice" -- including Al Michaels' line, "Do you believe in miracles?" -- and other hockey a ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Tim Pawlenty violated copyright with new campaign ad, receives cease and desist order
Tim Pawlenty pirated ABC Sports footage for this ad.Tim Pawlenty flagrantly violated ABC Sports' copyright in his new campaign video, attracting a cease-and-desist order that will likely remove it from the Iowa airwaves.Pawlenty violated the copyright of ABC Sports by using footage from the "Mira ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Bachmann, Pawlenty leading in Iowa, according to laughable poll
Bachmann is first in a lot of polls, and Pawlenty's rooting for fifth.That Michele Bachmann has made a swift, terrifying rise to the top of the Republican candidate pool is not in dispute. But Tim Pawlenty finishing second in a new poll of Iowa voters should be stunning to everyone, including his ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Tim Pawlenty says Bachmann lied, used false quote to disparage him
Pawlenty says he never said the quote Bachmann is using against him.Tim Pawlenty says Michele Bachmann quoted a line he never actually said to attack him, and he's tweeting like a maniac to set the record straight. In an interview with well-respected radio journalist Rush Limbaugh in May, Pawlent ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Tim Pawlenty, dodger of fights, calls Obama "chicken"
kusabiTim Pawlenty, a guy too Minnesota Nice to call out his opponents in person, wants to know if President Barack Obama is "chicken." During an appearance on State of the Union with Candy Crowley this weekend, Pawlenty threw down a bar stool challenge to a man who probably has better thing ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
Tim Pawlenty's ads are working so well he's not running them anymore
Moments like this will be missing from Iowa televison.Tim Pawlenty's campaign ads have made us laugh, they've made us cry. They've confused us, they've scared the hell out of us, they've induced our seizures. Now, they're going away.In the clearest sign yet that the Pawlenty for President campaig ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Pawlenty books Playboy-endorsed folk-rockers, Auto-Tuned Christians for Ames Straw Poll
SONICFLOOd: Probably not Pawlenty's first choice for Ames.Tim Pawlenty has booked two musical acts for the Republican Straw Poll in Ames next weekend: The Nadas and SONICFLOOd. As you might guess, his choices aren't exactly about the music. Otherwise he'd have probably booked Lady Gaga and B ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Tim Pawlenty's 5 most regrettable expenses
Tim Pawlenty: Can you spare a dime? Tim Pawlenty is broke. Or at least, that's what everyone's thinking, now that he's decided to stop running his majestic campaign ads on Iowa TV stations in the run up to the August 13, Ames Straw Poll. Winning voters on just radio ads and on foot is a gre ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Tim Pawlenty is "Sarah Palin in a suit"
This is either Tim Pawlenty or Sarah Palin. Hard to tell.Paul Krugman doesn't think much of Tim Pawlenty, and let everyone know yesterday in a piece that compared T-Paw to a certain former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. The New York Times columnist is amazed that media coverage of Pawlenty has at leas ... More >>
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August 14, 2011
Tim Pawlenty quits presidential campaign [VIDEO]
Tim Pawlenty: You won't have T-Paw to kick around anymore.Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty announced this morning that he is quitting the presidential race after his disappointing third place finish in the Iowa straw poll yesterday.Once considered one of three likely front-runners, T-Paw's ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Tim Pawlenty's 10 greatest misses
Tim Pawlenty: Thanks for the memories.Tim Pawlenty is not going to be president, and it's all his fault. Over the weekend, T-Paw's campaign ended, as it started, with a whimper. Since he officially declared his candidacy in March, Pawlenty's campaign for president has been a roller coaster ride - ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Tim Pawlenty: How to get rich by running for president for three months
Tim Pawlenty: Sad, but rich.Anyone feeling bad for Tim Pawlenty in the days since he pulled out of the presidential race -- well, don't.Pawlenty turned his bid for the Republican nomination into a pretty lucrative side gig for the first half of 2011, according to financial disclosure forms releas ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Stephen Colbert hosts Tim Pawlenty's comeback [VIDEO]
Tim Pawlenty, Stephen Colbert: A comedy duo? Three weeks after pulling out of his presidential campaign, Tim Pawlenty made a triumphant return to the national stage. Fox News, you presume? Hardly. In a bold move, Pawlenty sat down with Stephen Colbert last night, joining the man who'd so artfully ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Tim Pawlenty endorses Mitt Romney [VIDEO]
Tim Pawlenty endorsed Mitt Romney, thus guaranteeing... probably nothing.Tim Pawlenty waited only a month after dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination before endorsing another candidate. This morning, Pawlenty made his announcement on Fox News, choosing to throw his s ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Tim Pawlenty rejected by Fox News for support of Mitt Romney
Tim Pawlenty, Roger Ailes: Not seeing eye to... jowls.Tim Pawlenty wanted to be the latest in a slew of former, current, and future Republican presidential candidates to join the crew as an analyst at Fox News. But there was a complication. Pawlenty had already decided to throw his support behind ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Tim Pawlenty's fascinating official portrait unveiled [IMAGES]
Tim Pawlenty's portrait is more interesting than Tim Pawlenty.Tim Pawlenty's portrait will not hang in the White House unless he staples it to the wall during a civilian tour. But now the beloved former governor will forever haunt the hallway of the state Capitol, thanks to the unveiling of Pawle ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
Tim Pawlenty: "That may be the first nice thing anybody at City Pages has ever said about me" [AUDIO]
What, Tim, was it something we wrote?Tim Pawlenty marked his glorious return to Minnesota with an appearance to the Minnesota Public Radio , where he sat in for a full show with the state's most lovable voice, Gary Eichten.During yesterday's broadcast, Pawlenty opened up about his failed presiden ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Tim Pawlenty, $454,000 in debt, needs help paying Nick Ayers, everyone else
Tim Pawlenty, Nick Ayers: Debtor, creditor.Tim Pawlenty's campaign ended more than two months ago, coming to an abrupt stop that was like when a party host throws on the lights at midnight and says, "Party's over, everybody out!"Now that we all had our fun at his expense, Pawlenty is stuck with t ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Tim Pawlenty is the least influential person alive, according to GQ
Tim Pawlenty: So obscure, it's not even funny.Hey everybody, check it out: Tim Pawlenty came in first place at something. Our former governor took the number-one spot in GQ's list of the top 25 least influential people on planet earth, right up there with Hank Williams Jr., MSNBC's Ed Schul ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Politico: Pawlenty made one of worst political blunders of 2011
Tim Pawlenty's ill-fated decision to pin the fortunes of his Presidential bid on the Ames straw poll was one of the top ten political blunders of this year, according to Alexander Burns of Politico."Pawlenty advisers now reflect with some frustration that if they had treated the Ames contest for ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
New poll: Bachmann, Pawlenty unpopular with Minnesotans
Pawlenty better hope Minnesotans change their minds about him if he ever hopes to hold elected office again.The ill-fated presidential campaigns of Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty cost them the support of Minnesotans. That's the conclusion that emerges from recent polling conducted by Public Po ... More >>
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