GQ Magazine selects Tim Pawlenty 'The Least Influential Person Alive'

[WI_DEM]

The Least Influential Person Alive
GQ gives the honor to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R).

"Every election season produces a number of hilariously pointless candidates who have no chance of winning. Some of them have value as novelty items. Look! It's Alan Keyes, the token black Republican! And over there! It's David Duke! He's a racist! These are the fun, fringy candidates. The Sharpton Sector, if you will. Then there are folks like Pawlenty, who fail to register even as novelties. T-Paw (as he calls himself) spent much of 2011 as a six-foot-tall paperweight, an aggressively forgettable fellow perfectly suited to the role of debate filler. The $1 million he spent to lose the Iowa straw poll might as well have been burned in front of a group of orphans."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/11/29/the_least_influential_person_alive.html

[LynneSin]

1. Damnit, I thought I had that title all wrapped up this year

:rofl:

[razorman]

5. I'm not even influential enough to be in the running for the title.

[Blue Owl]

2. I think he's in a dead heat with Santorum

JMHO.

[The Genealogist]

3. Does he really call himself "T-Paw?"

Like that rapper/songwriter/actor T-Pain?

[Angry Dragon]

7. Yes he does

[hifiguy]

4. Mr. Insignificance.

The tag always hung on the last guy picked in the NFL Draft. :rofl:

And my state had to suffer through eight years of that pathetic little twerp. The damage he did here was enormous. :grr:

[Tracer]

6. Saw him last night on O'Donnell.

He twisted himself into a pretzel trying to explain away that Romney ad that lied about Obama saying "if we talk about the economy, we lose."

[louis-t]

8. "He's the Least Influential Person Alive, he bowls....overhand"

"Sharks have a week dedicated to him." "I don't often try to influence anyone, but when I do, I prefer to fail." T-Paw

[Karenina]

9. He's baiting Rachel to raise his profile!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#45471142

:spray: :rofl::rofl::rofl:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#45471158

[qb]

10. Thanks for giving my day a lift!

:rofl:

[Brickbat]

11. Honestly? As a Minnesotan, I find him much more embarrassing than Bachmann. Any state can drum up

its own batshit crazy. But to have someone run a state into the ground, defund a department until a bridge falls down, and THEN think he can make it look like he's running for president when he's actually desperately hoping someone, anyone, will ask him to be a VP candidate...well, that's a great example of some prime home-grown stupidity.

[Snotcicles]

12. Lawrence O'Donnell did a good job getting Tim Pawlenty's smarm flowing last night. nt