NBCNews: Tim Pawlenty to step down as national co-chair of Romney's Presidential campaign

[TroyD]

BREAKING: Tim Pawlenty to step down as national co-chair of Romney's Presidential campaign.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews

[deutsey]

1. I'm sure it's only because he wanted to spend more time with his family.

[johnlucas]

16. Must have heard that order from Guile: "Go Home And Be a Family Man!"

A little Street Fighter II humor there.
A gamer's joke.
Ask your kids.
John Lucas

[deutsey]

28. What's this "gamer" that you speak of.

Does it involve the ether frolics?

[johnlucas]

29. Gamer...for Videogamer, deutsey

Videogame joke.
Street Fighter II by Capcom (1991).

A character on the game named Guile, a U.S. Special Forces dude with a tall flattop.
When you won with him, he would say the line "Go home and be a family man!"

Like this see?



No ether involved. Just a lot of Sonic Booms & Flash Kicks!

John Lucas

[deutsey]

30. I see symbols here, apparently organized in such a way intended to convey meaning

but does not compute.

[Humphrey2]

2. sinking ships

time to re-arrange the deck chairs

[Jennicut]

3. He is going to take a lobbying job.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/K-Street-Files-Tim-Pawlenty-Taking-Lobby-Gig-217724-1.html?pos=htmbtxt

[TroyD]

4. LOL. Couldn't he have waited to announce that?

It's bad enough for a Campaign Co-Chair to pack it in 6 weeks before the election, but to take a lobbying job right away on top of that?

Makes the outgoing head of the Romney campaign look incompetent AND corrupt in one announcement.

[rurallib]

8. and surely that job didn't need to be fill Nov. 1

they surely would have held it open for a while for Pawlenty.

[PoliticalBiker]

25. Me thinks

TPaw wanted to bail on a fail campaign

[Jennicut]

9. He is jumping ship like a rat.

I don't blame him though. Who wants to be stuck working for Rombot?

[CTyankee]

20. You said it, Troy! Those two were made for each other, weren't they?

Serves them both right...

[BeyondGeography]

5. From getting bounced out of the primaries by Michelle Bachmann to this

Does it suck to be TPaw, or what? Guy just gets rag dolled over and over again.

[CoffeeCat]

6. So that's who has been repeatedly backing the ship...

...into the iceberg.

Seriously. I wondered who was running this thing.

Tim Pawlenty. Really? He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who could run a campaign. Has he ever had any experience in doing so?

[TroyD]

7. He's a loser even in his own state

I couldn't believe it when people thought he was being considered for V.P.

As Nate Silver said at the time, Pawlenty has terrible approval ratings in his OWN STATE of Minnesota. He is disliked there and Nate said Obama's numbers would have even gone up in MN if Pawlenty had been chosen.

And I believe the Minnesota Supreme Court recently struck down one of his former budget cuts as unconstitutional or something.

[CTyankee]

21. Maybe having that bridge fall down had something to do with the bad

feelings that MN folks feel for the guy...

[Zoeisright]

24. Oh yeah. And his smirking announcements of MNDOT cuts before the collapse.

And how he cut funding for protection of abused children. And how he cut funding for healthcare for the poor. The guy is a complete horse's ass.

[PoliticalBiker]

10. Pffftt!

Re-Make in progress

[mojo2012]

11. Debates

Wasn't Pawlenty helping Romney with the debates playing Obama?

[TroyD]

14. I think that's Rob Portman's role

From what I remember reading.

[mojo2012]

15. ahhhh.....

Thanks!

[Blue Owl]

12. I didn't think it was possible to step down to a lower level...

n/t

[skip fox]

13. I think we know who lost a power struggle.

[WeekendWarrior]

17. This is rather telling. nt

[greenymac]

18. When the ship starts sinking...

the rats start running...

[flamingdem]

19. Thank you Tim Pawlenty for the Rmoney campaign FAIL!

If that is the power struggle, sure we'll know soon enough maybe from a tell all book.

[cash__whatiwant]

22. he's becoming a bank lobbyist...

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pawlenty-bank-lobbyist-financial-servies-roundtable-20120920,0,6279069.story

[TroyD]

26. Doesn't he realize how bad that looks?

You step down as Chairman of a Presidential campaign to become a Wall Street lobbyist?!

[Zoeisright]

23. The weasel abandoned the sinking ship!

I hate that prick.

[progressivebydesign]

27. This just in! Rats CAN swim! Hope he doesn't hit any other rats in their haste to escape nt