How Long Can Pawlenty Stay in the Race?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 14th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
How Long Can Pawlenty Stay in the Race?
Tim Pawlenty, “low on cash and reeling from a distant third-place finish at Ames, will hold an early-morning conference call Sunday with top campaign staff and donors to discuss his next move,” a source tells Politico.
“Pawlenty and his senior aides signaled Friday that they’d retrench but stay in if he didn’t do well at the straw poll. But with Rick Perry in the race and little money in the bank, the former Minnesota governor is facing a difficult decision.”
Andrew Sullivan: “Pawlenty has proven he’s simply out of his depth here. He’s neither insane enough to capture the fevered soul of the current GOP; nor charismatic enough to win them over with star power. Bachmann has two out of two. Ron Paul is just, well, Ron Paul. T-Paw picked a fight with Bachmann here and she chewed him up and spat him out. Put a fork in his campaign.”
