T-Paw is done

[Keystone Phil]

I think Phil was being sarcastic, brtd

I absolutely wasn't. I've always liked Pawlenty. He was my second choice until Perry got in.

[krazen1211]

T-paw is gunning to be Perry's veep.

[milhouse24]

I hope he at least made a deal with Romney to be his VP for dropping out this early lol
If he stuck it out, he might be able to get a talk show or a book deal.  
I guess he just wants to stop wasting donors money even if he didn't have any left

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Pawlenty made Brownback look like a charismatic and exciting candidate.

I was right. He was Brownback 2.0, as I predicted!

[Torie]

I am surprised he quit.  He did respectably enough and came in first in the straw poll of the "establishment" candidates.  Only thing that makes sense is that some of major fundraisers must have set an Ames threshold for him to exceed to continue bothering and he didn't clear it.

I'd think most of his support goes to Perry for now.  As the new kid on the block, Perry is the candidate that it would make sense for the backstreet fundraisers to be insistent that T-Paw shut hs operation down.

$$$$.  It dried up, and when that happens, it's over.

[Eraserhead]

I'm not sure why everyone here is surprised by this. He spent everything on this poll and his showing was dreadful. He needed to go. Some of the others should follow suit.

[King]

I'm not sure why everyone here is surprised by this. He spent everything on this poll and his showing was dreadful. He needed to go. Some of the others should follow suit.

Indeed.  But it's kind of sad.  (Dan) Rather, I think it means just shows how much time has passed already with both this campaign and Obama's rather disappointing Presidency.  I would like to have thought Pawlenty's drop out date would be a different scenario than the Pawthetic joke it ended up being.

[Akno21]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

[You kip if you want to...]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

[Akno21]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

[Keystone Phil]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Akno, you are a hero to sane people everywhere.

[King]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Akno, you are a hero to sane people everywhere.

No, Akno is not a hero.  Rick Santorum, he's the real hero.

[J. J.]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Akno, you are a hero to sane people everywhere.

Absolutely, though the loss will be hard to overcome.

[Eraserhead]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Pawlenty won in a swing state in 2006. His opponent also seemed pretty moderate to me although he did lack the popular father.

[Mechaman]

Well I guess this answers my question.

EDIT: Damn it I've been slipping.

[Landslide Lyndon]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum is insane.
Pawlenty was just a tool that shamelessly pandered to the unwashed masses that we call "Republican primary electorate".

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Cool, now we can quit pretending that he was ever a serious contender.

[Angel of Death]

That's what you get for trying to out-Romney Romney.

How do you mean?

The entirety of Pawlenty's modus operandi consisted of trying to get himself equated with Mr. "Generic Republican" in the eyes of the electorate. There was simply nothing else.

[King]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum is insane.
Pawlenty was just a tool that shamelessly pandered to the unwashed masses that we call "Republican primary electorate".

Santorum clearly showed himself to the left of the field of Ames at the debate by acknowledging the possibility that liberals are also human beings and should be negotiated with instead of fed to wolves.

Pawlenty was probably also very liberal on this issue, but was too busy trying kill Bachmann as a hired assassin of the Romney campaign.

[Akno21]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Pawlenty won in a swing state in 2006. His opponent also seemed pretty moderate to me although he did lack the popular father.

Pawlenty also did a lot more straying to the left of Republican orthodoxy back in his day than Santorum ... which one would think would work in Santorum's favor.

[Associate Justice PiT]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Pawlenty won in a swing state in 2006. His opponent also seemed pretty moderate to me although he did lack the popular father.

Pawlenty also did a lot more straying to the left of Republican orthodoxy back in his day than Santorum ... which one would think would work in Santorum's favor.

     Also Pawlenty was a Governor whereas Santorum was a Senator. Gubernatorial races are as a rule much less partisan than their Senatorial counterparts.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

T-Paw isn't anti-gay to a radical degree and doesn't have his last name as a dirty word.

[Akno21]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

T-Paw isn't anti-gay to a radical degree and doesn't have his last name as a dirty word.

And positions on gay rights have been a major issue in this campaign since when, exactly?

[Keystone Phil]

What did Pawlenty bring to the table that Santorum didn't? I never understood why Pawlenty was treated as a super-serious candidate and Santorum a complete joke.

Santorum's defeat will always haunt him.

Aren't we smart enough to understand what swing state + moderate opponent with popular father + Republican in 2006 equals?

Oh yeah, and remember how he was the least popular incumbent Senator? That probably had something to do with it too.

Purposely miss quoting someone is ban territory, dude. Good move.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

sh**t, I meant to post that myself as my own reply.