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Pawlenty quits as Romney campaign co-chair
Yahoo! News ^ | 9-20-2012 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 09/20/2012 7:45:15 AM PDT by Vaquero

Tim Pawlenty quit as co-chair of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Thursday to become one of Wall Street's top lobbyists in Washington. Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, will lead the Financial Services Roundtable.

The move came with Romney's campaign struggling to find its stride with just seven weeks left before Election Day. Polls show the former Massachusetts governor running neck and neck with President Barack Obama in a contest both sides predict will be very close

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anotheratthetrough; pawlenty; romney; romney2012; romneycochair; wallstreet
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Dont know how to read this....obviously the MSM reads this as rats jumping ship....
1 posted on 09/20/2012 7:45:21 AM PDT by Vaquero
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To: Vaquero

I read it as “Wall Street types would not blow their money on a top Republican as a lobbyist if the smart money was expecting a Democrat to win”


2 posted on 09/20/2012 7:46:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Vaquero

Well, if he is responsible for the milquetoast approach, good riddance to him!


3 posted on 09/20/2012 7:46:39 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
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To: Vaquero

Wall Street Lobbyist....wonderful.


4 posted on 09/20/2012 7:47:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Vaquero
Polls show the former Massachusetts governor running neck and neck with President Barack Obama in a contest both sides predict will be very close

LOL!

Neck and neck, just like 1980 and 1984 were up until election eve. ; )

5 posted on 09/20/2012 7:47:23 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Vaquero

I read it as winner Romney is placing people where he needs them


6 posted on 09/20/2012 7:48:19 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Vaquero

“Wall Street”. Terrific imaging. Couldn’t Pawlenty have waited 2 months to announce this?


7 posted on 09/20/2012 7:49:28 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Vaquero

Pawlenty going to be lobbyist just tells me he was special interest guy from the start. For once will someone run that has the American people interest first. The debt these politician have created is unheard of.


8 posted on 09/20/2012 7:50:14 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

They are all whores.


9 posted on 09/20/2012 7:50:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I think the so-called Milquetoast method is working. The MSM and Dems are massaging the numbers for all its worth and they still cannot make a winner out of Barrack.

If Mitt Romney were to take the powerful approach, as you suggest, he’d likely lose most of his independent support, who are reluctant Republicans at best.


10 posted on 09/20/2012 7:50:50 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I read it as campaign shake-up. Pawlenty was running a McCain style campaign, and I think Mitt knows he has to start throwing punches. This is addition by subtraction.


11 posted on 09/20/2012 7:52:13 AM PDT by henkster (With Carter, the embassy staff was still alive.)
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Neck and neck, just like 1980 and 1984 were up until election eve. ;)

Damn, if Romney loses by THAT much, that truly says volumes about the mindset of this country.

12 posted on 09/20/2012 7:53:49 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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To: Vaquero

Further proof that being in government is a stepping stone to the ultimate goal, becoming a lobbyist.


13 posted on 09/20/2012 7:54:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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Tim Pawlenty

may be a nice guy, but he seems ineffectual.

14 posted on 09/20/2012 8:01:27 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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Who really unchained Wall Street?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2919263/posts

Bush - 1,300 convictions;

Clinton - 1,000 convictions;

Obama - Zero attempts.

some whores are more whorish than others...


15 posted on 09/20/2012 8:02:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Vaquero

And to think many wanted him as the GOP candidate.


16 posted on 09/20/2012 8:03:21 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Wealth = Net Worth ///// Income = Net Work)
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To: Vaquero

Pawlenty was worthless anyway. And his timing is always bad. He quit the presidential race, not after any actual votes were cast, but after a straw poll was cast. Had he stayed, he may have rallied support as all of the others did.

Romney’s probably better off without his moderate advice. He has enough of his own, after all.


17 posted on 09/20/2012 8:06:19 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Orange1998

“For once will someone run that has the American people interest first.”

Keep hope alive. It’s a depressing scene. Is this how the fall of Rome felt?


18 posted on 09/20/2012 8:06:22 AM PDT by quesney (e)
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To: Vaquero

That explains the unfocused message.


19 posted on 09/20/2012 8:07:01 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Vaquero

Tim P yawn lenty? WHO CARES?


20 posted on 09/20/2012 8:08:16 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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