Posted on 08/14/2011 3:26:46 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Just hours after Tim Pawlenty ended his presidential race, the race for his supporters was already well underway.
Many of the former Minnesota governor’s staffers, donors and volunteers said rival campaigns contacted them shortly after Pawlenty announced his decision Sunday. Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney all made direct phone calls to key supporters, while other campaigns put out more indirect feelers.
......Tricia Pridemore, Pawlenty’s Georgia finance chair, immediately got an e-mail from one rival candidate and a phone call from another on Sunday morning. Declining to specify who was reaching out, she said wasn’t ready to make a commitment either. “It’s a very sad time for everyone involved in the campaign,” she said.
But she floated one possibility: “It’s imperative that we nominate someone with executive experience and a proven record with great results. I think many of the Pawlenty supporters will take a strong look at Governor Perry and see where they want to go.”
...In a possible preview, former Ambassador Gregory Slayton, a Bush ranger who raised for McCain in 2008, abandoned Pawlenty last week for the Texas governor.
Though some Pawlenty supporters aren’t counting Romney out just yet — despite their candidate’s harsh criticism of his Massachusetts health care plan that he referred to as “Obamneycare.”
“It’s going to be a migration to either Perry or Romney,” said Ray Washburne, a Texas real-estate developer and restaurateur who raised money for Pawlenty. “None of the other candidates are getting our people.”
Washburne added, “Let’s get behind someone who can actually win.”....
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Simple, those losers, know people who write checks.
“Palin has more sense and patriotism than to hook up with an open borders candidate.”
LOL. LOL! OMG you are series? ROFLMAO!!!!!
JUAN MCAMNESTY RING A FRIGGIN’ BELL??????
:’)
To quote an old saying, its hard to make a silk purse........
Those PDS coyotes are beginning to feel the steamroller, we gonna show em some mercy? Naw! What goes around, comes around.
Perry/Palin the dream team
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Works for me, but, do you really think that Sarah would take the second spot again?
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