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Subscribe to RSSMANCHESTER, NH -- Confirming that he will not be traveling to Virginia tomorrow for Mitt Romney's formal announcement of a running mate, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said late Friday night that he is "not disappointed" about not being on the GOP ticket.
Related: NBC: 3 sources indicate Romney will pick Ryan
"I didn't enter this thinking I was going to be the vice presidential candidate, so I'm not disappointed," Pawlenty said of his advocacy for Romney since endorsing him last year. "And I'm excited about his candidacy, and I'm excited about having him be the next president."
Pawlenty has four public events in New Hampshire tomorrow, a busy schedule which he said he will keep despite Romney's event to announce his running mate in Norfolk, VA.
NBC's Carrie Dann spoke with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who indicated he was not disappointed to not be chosen as Romney's Vice President, but said he is excited about Romney's canidacy.
"I am keeping my schedule in New Hampshire tomorrow, won't be at the announcement," he told reporters outside a hotel here in Manchester. "So you can deduce from there that since I'm keeping my schedule in New Hampshire, I can't also be in Virginia at the same time."
NBC News reports that three sources close to the Romney campaign have indicated that Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the GOP nominee's selection. Pawlenty would not confirm that but said that he is "excited" about Romney's choice, adding that he did know who the pick would be but could not reveal it.
"I can't say any more," he said. "We gotta now wait for Gov. Romney to make the announcement as to who his VP pick is and I'm sure it will be a great pick."
The former Minnesota governor, who was considered to be in the final three possible contenders for the VP slot, said that he did not receive a telephone call from Romney tonight but that he has spoken "regularly" with the nominee.
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Pawlenty has long been named as one of Romney's most loyal surrogates, making frequent television appearances and traveling the country on his behalf.
"This doesn't affect my attitude towards wanting him to be president," Pawlenty said Friday night. "I'm going to continue to work really hard to help him"
NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported that Romney's son Tagg had informed some of the also-rans that they would not be chosen for the job. The younger Romney was present at two fundraisers headlined by Pawlenty in New Hampshire Friday evening.
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Liar..
He is probably relieved...
Maybe his budget for 2013 wasn't as much in the red (800 billion with again no war funding so say 1 trillion) as Ryan's.
Seniors everywhere will be talking now. They might not like Obama, but touch their benefits and they will go nuts.
I thought he would choose His wife as VP. "So we can rule our kingdom together Darling!"
WOW! - If you didn't "feel a tingle run up your leg" (LOL) after Ryan's speech your either a socialist or an American Apologist or BOTH! (think Obama).
America bashing is almost over!
Either way, poor Obama is now going to be forced to have adult discussions regarding his failed policies - no more bumper sticker quotes from the Chicago thugster-in-chief!
"We get our rights from Nature & God, NOT government!" - Way to go Ryan!
Romney/Ryan 2012!
guess "Nature and God" will have to start providing police, firefighters, schools, medical care.
Nope....how are liberals THIS wrong ALL of the time?!?.......Us hardworking taxpayers will provide police, firefighters, schools & medical care for society and freeloaders! We always have and always will.
Have no fear, we'll take care of you, as usual.
He says, while crying into his bowl of Cheerio's!
Poor T-Paw, always the bridesmaid never the bride!
Herman/Eddie Munster 2012
Nobody cares - I'm from MN and it would have depressed me if he had been chosen......he blew it with our energy policy....couldn't imagine what T-Paw would have done on a national level....ish
You will soon discover that they are much better than the Oreo cookie you have now Baby!
PS......it must make your facial ticks flare up knowing the next Vice President of the United States lives less than two hours from ya DumbFux!......LMAO...Woot!
"We get our rights from Nature & God, NOT the government!" Right on, right on!
Pawlenty: 'I'm not disappointed'
Pawlenty is really saying 'I'm plenty (pawlenty) disappointed'
Mikey, so the federal grants that provide extra police and firefighters that will be pulled is now going to come out of your pocket? Sorry, but I don't believe a word you're saying. You already scream that your taxes are too high, but they will have to be raised at the local level to make up the shortfall. Of course, your idea of saving money is to pay all government workers, including fire and police minimum wage with no benefits. Tell you what, you tell me how it turns out when mall security has more training than your police force.
Thomas, BINGO!
Oh I'm pretty sure Pawlenty ISN'T disappointed but relieved! Who wants to stand with the ever sinking ship named Romney?
Thank you Mitts for picking Ryan. I can only believe you have even less intelligence than I thought before - and that wasn't much. Can we say "disaster?" Let's see - Ryan hates seniors; any programs that benefit those who are hurting right now; wants to do away with the minimum wage; and on and on.... Just how many votes do we think he just took away from Romney?
Again, thank you Mitts! You rarely disappoint! You're pretty much always good for a laugh!
Obama/Biden 2012
T-Puss probably never expected to be in the running for Veep, but he probably has his eyes on a Cabinet spot.
He was an absolutely terrible Governor and is an amazingly weak and pathetic specimen of human - giving somebody like him any power is a dangerous thing. The first time I met him, he was cowering behind Senator Coleman and being all submissive - even though he was the Minnesota House Minority Leader at the time he was acting like a scared child even though this was at a very small gathering. The guy doesn't have a pair and his political career needs to end now!
We gotta now wait???? Even the formerly elected teabaggers are illiterate!!
Poor little Tim. He's like the whore in high school that sleeps with the entire team and still can't find love...
I am glad it was Ryan and not Tim Pawlenty. Ryan is baggage for romney......and Pawhlenty may have squeeked by. Be sides unless you are really dumb why would you one to run with romney..
Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience
Well Tim -- I wouldn't be too disappointed either. What's been the political future of the VP pick on a losing ticket? Can you think of a single one over the past 50 years who went on to do anything in politics again? Notice that Paul Ryan is still running for reelection to his House seat so he may have a job after Romney loses.
Headlines here in Florida,"Will Ryan be a liability in Florida?" Yes he will, all the retirees down here don't want their SS or medicaaid messed with but Ryan wants the Cuban embargo ended wich will piss off the Cuban exiles who vote overwhelmingly GOP.
Personally I agree with that one. Why no doing business with Cuba but we do with China, a more repressive communist country. Also the stupid wetfoot/dryfoot policy. If your fleeing Cuba and make it to shore you get sanctuary. If your fleeing Haiti and its earhquake,no housing, food, medical care, disease etc. you are deported. GOP pandering to Cuban voters for years.
Probably grateful to stay off the losing ticket and avoid the losing VP fades into ignominy curse.
Way to keep it a secret, Willard. I'm sure you'd do even better with national security secrets, too. Just tell Ann and one other lackey and nobody will ever know.
Yes, but think of the campaign signs Rmoney and Pawlenty of it! Looks like Ryan wins by default.
mittens picked ryan becasue he was told to do so, not becasue he wanted to. I feel sorry for T-Paw, he tried so hard to make mittens love him. Poor baby.
This presidential election will be decided by Independents, not the lockstep voters. Women are also a large factor this time around, and women are concerned with money for education, infrastructure, financial institutions and Big Banking stealing American overall national well-being, outsize violence and crime that continues to eat away at the safety and quality of life in the U.S.
Pawlenty would've been the better choice for VP. But then, he would've been the better choice for GOP presidential nominee, over Romney, who won't win and cannot get Independent moderate voters, especially women. Right or wrong, a Mormon and a Catholic on the same ticket will turn off all but the hard line social conservative and evangelical. By Romney adding Ryan to the ticket, he lost a good number of old line fiscal Republicans who could give a rat's backside about snooping around other people's bedrooms and denying reproductive rights to women, and will be worried about Ryan being a key vote in all the BIG ticket Bush polices that drove up the national debt from 2000-2008.
Star, you forget Mittens already blabbed about his secret meeting with MI-6.
With this apparent pick, Romney will have irrevocably chosen to stick with hard "conservative" ideals over his Massachusetts experiences.
Ryan's budget, even if it works to fix a troublesome deficit and debt figure, does so callously at the expense of the very poor. It will whittle away the very safety net Romney says they have, at a time when they could not need it more.
This is it, Romney. Once you choose your VP running mate, there's little turning—or flip-flopping—back. Palin was merely an incompetent believer in abstinence, guns, and oil prospects; Ryan is willing (and if others in Congress don't resist, able) to hurt the quality of life of a whole class in the name of the Federal bottom line.
Reportedly it will take 28 years per Ryan's budget proposal to "fix the troublesome deficit."
Pawlenty was the best chance Romney had to get the Independent vote, but by picking Ryan whom the Conservatives wanted he's practically handing Obama a 2nd term on a silver platter. All Ryan's budget plan does is enrich the same people the 1st Heritage Foundation plan enriched. Conservatives got us into this massive debt and will take decades getting us out by penalizing the poor and middle class.
What I can't wait for is when Ryan tries talking about Obama's supposed "war on religion" over making sure all female American citizens had access to birth control. Then the clips start rolling of Ryan telling the Catholic church to shut up and do as he told them to do when they opposed his budget plan by saying he was a better Catholic than the church itself was.
Poor Timmy! Too many skeletons in your closet. And your inability to bring MN into the Romney fold is just plan embarrassing.
keep borrowing! keep spending in the name of helping the poor! keep electing someone lies his way to the top!
Anyoneoutdare - oh, we're not. We're re-electing Obama so you can rest easy!
Obama/Biden 2012
The Facts
First of all, under the health
care bill, Medicare spending continues to go up year after year. The health care
bill tries to identify ways to save money, and so the $500 billion figure comes
from the difference over 10 years between anticipated Medicare spending (what is
known as “the baseline”) and the changes the law makes to reduce spending. (Look
at slide 15 of this nifty tutorial on the law’s impact on Medicare by the
Kaiser Family Foundation to see a chart of the year by year savings.)
The savings actually are wrung from health-care providers, not Medicare
beneficiaries. These spending reductions presumably would be a good thing, since
virtually everyone agrees that Medicare spending is out of control. In the House
Republican budget, lawmakers repealed the Obama health care law but retained all
but $10 billion of the nearly $500 billion in Medicare savings, suggesting the
actual policies enacted to achieve these spending reductions were not that
objectionable to GOP lawmakers.
The Obama health care law also
raised Medicare payroll taxes by $113 billion over 10 years, further
strengthening the program’s financial condition, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Since about
half of the $500 billion stems from reduced outlays for Medicare hospitalization
expenses, the payroll taxes and those reductions would add about $358 billion to
Medicare trust fund balances.
(Lay aside, for the moment, any
suspicion that the trust funds are fictitious. On paper, at least, the program
would be strengthened. We have previously examined whether this apparent
double-counting makes sense.)
as a person who was present catering for both of the mentioned fundraisers tonight, we now know why Tag Romney left early during dinner lol
This entire election process with particular reference to our "severely conservative" candidate has simultaneously been enlightening, discouraging and bewildering. What has happened to our country - lies, distortions, hatred, greed, restrictions on voting, restrictions on women's right, destruction of natural resources, disdain for the "common man and woman?
And, now a possible VP who distorts his own religion and is possessed by the ghost of Ayd Rand.
"Here, Here"
So Mitt didn't even have the courtesy of informing Pawlenty, Portman, etc. of his decision, he had to have his son do it for him?
'Tis rather cowardly of you, sir.
Pawlenty not disapointed...ahahahahahahaha he has been grooming himself for the last 10 years to be VP...too funny. Lost to Palin and lost to Ryan......lost to Bachmann, Cain, Newster, Perry, Santorum, Ron Paul, lost to Romney.....LOST IN SPACE....Tim Pawlenty of nothing, and nothing is Pawlenty for me. The bridgekiller man...Losing to the man who wants to kill Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
Obama/Biden 2012
Starsailing,
Pawlendty has to put his smiley face on when he appears on Meet the Press tomorrow.
He should really just go back to Eagen and open a law office with his wife. He can use the pension he is receiving from the state for seed money to start his business.
corey? Did he go to throw-up?
I'd bet that Pawlenty is actually relieved to not be on that ticket!
I'm pretty sure pawlenty said that he wasn't interested many months ago. So he shouldn't be that disapointed.
Breaking new says it will probably be announced in Virginia, in front of The USS Wisconsin, that Romney will pick Ryan for his Veep, but I don't buy it.
If it was Ryan, they'd announce it in Wisconsin. They are announcing in Virginia, so I still believe it will be Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
The whole USS Wisconsin thing is a ruse to throw the pundits off track.
is when Romney goes to the GOP Convention, with his Veep running-mate and The GOP asks Romney to step down so they can nominate someone who actually has a chance to win.
Dude, type in:
romneyrubio.com
romneyryan.com
romneymcdonnell.com
romneychristie.com
romneyportman.com
romneyjindal.com
romneypawlenty.com
romneyhaley.com
romneythune.com
romneymartinez.com
Notice how the only one that redirects to the Romney website is romneyryan.com
Dude, Ryan is guarenteed to be the vp pick
Type in:
romneyrubio.com
romneypaul.com
romneyportman.com
romneypawlenty.com
romneyjindal.com
romneymartinez.com
romneymcdonell.com
romneywest.com
and
romneyhaley.com
Notice that romneyryan.com is the only one that redirects to Romney's page.
well if he takes ryan out of congress that will be a blessing because we all know that the v p is even more of a figure head than some presidents,, sort of like pulling their teeth ,, like the wimp boys and reegen,, if he really wanted a good working v p, then i think he could do so much worse than if he would pick president Clinton or Hillary for that matter and i believe a lot of the repugs think so as well
Funny. In some major left and rightwing newspapers online in the Netherlands, Paul Ryan is already declared the VP-pick for Mitt Romney.
He's happy someone else is going to lose in November. Then, along with other GOPers, he can second guess every decision Romney and Paul ever made. It'll be quite a circus -- reminiscent of the McCain/Palin disaster. Just how much more out of touch can the GOP get?
Below is what Pawlenty was really saying!
I am not dissapointed... that SOB... Mitt Rommey... l-o-s-e-r... did not choose me... f---in' idiot... to be his running mate. I look forward... to kicking his a$$... seeing Romney as President... freakin' homo. I have other engagements... like jacking off... that will prevent me from attending his formal announcement... I need to attend that event like I need a huge hemorrhoid... I give my full support... he'll need it after I break his legs... to Mitt Romney for President... not!!!
“A Nightmare on Easy Street…for Republicans,” a film by the American People:
President Obama is re-elected handily in November. The Democrats also reach a super-majority in the Senate and recapture the House.
Now the fun begins.
Hillary Clinton tenders her resignation as Secretary of State in early December,
effective at noon on Inauguration Day in January, 2013.
President Obama nominates popular and highly-regarded former U.N. Ambassador and ex-Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson to succeed Hillary at the State Department.
Eric Holder quietly resigns as Attorney General a few months into 2013, neutralizing the animus of the Right regarding Fast and Furious while at the same time effectively neutering chief inquisitor Darrel Issa himself, an act for which Holder is awarded the Medal of Freedom.
President Obama nominates New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to replace departing Attorney General Holder, effectively opening the door for Hillary Clinton to run for and win the Governorship of her home state, New York.
With her election to the New York statehouse, Hillary fills the only remaining gap in her resume, that of Chief Executive of a large mid-Atlantic state, providing her with the day-to-day managerial expertise which so many on the Right claim is essential to any legitimate national candidate possessing presidential aspirations.
As Governor of New York, Hillary leads the way for the wholesale statewide implementation of the Affordable Care Act, establishing a paradigm for other states across the nation while simultaneously fulfilling her lifelong dream, begun as First Lady in 1992, of providing affordable quality health care to a beleaguered populace.
Having comfortably and strategically distanced herself from the day-to-day operations of the ground-breaking Obama Presidency, Hillary positions herself for her own run for the Oval Office in 2016.
Secretary of State Bill Richardson is positioned to accept the nomination of his party as Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate in 2016, thereby blunting the attractiveness of Christie’s selection of either Rubio or Cruz to a growing number of Hispanic voters while at the same time energizing the Democratic base of the western states.
Upon their historic victory, powered in no large part by the unanticipated emergence of a coalition of bipartisan women voters who see in Hillary’s candidacy their greatest near-term opportunity to shatter once and for all the glass ceiling inside the White House, President Hillary Clinton now leads the way for the nationwide implementation of the Affordable Care Act, laying the groundwork for what will become within her second term the ultimate prize of Single-Payer in the form of Medicare-for-All.
Upon the anticipated death of an aging Justice Scalia or the unanticipated institutionalization of either Justice Thomas or Justice Alito within her Presidency, President Clinton sets another historic precedent by placing in nomination the name of a humbled and grateful former President Barack Hussein Obama as Justice on the Supreme Court, the first American to have served in each of the three branches of the federal government, effectively restoring a Center-Left majority which upholds and affirms Medicare-for-All, and while so doing publishes the most succinct majority opinion in the history of American jurisprudence, invoking the age-old populist axiom: “IT’S CONSTITUTIONAL, BITCHES!”
President Clinton and Vice-President Richardson serve through 2024, by which time the United States of America has succeeded in colonizing Mars under Space Admiral Newt Gingrich and the emotionless, pointy-headed science officer “Dr.” Rush Limbaugh, selected by President Clinton for the win-win potential of the appointments. Republicans migrate en masse.
The End.
No animals were injured in the production of this "Nightmare for Republicans".
The book was better...
MSNBCMFE - I kinda like that story.
Detroit - sorry I didn't read the book but this was GOOD!
Obama/Biden 2012
I give it 5 bags of popcorn.
finally Pawlenty and I agree I am not disappointed either.
He has Paw lenty of disappointments ahead of him if he thinks the GOP will regain the White House this November.
Now move to Mexico and start that tiki bar like you said you would do Tim. Get out of here.
Pawlenty doesn't even [YET] believe he is not the Governor of Minnesota much less his try for presidency and now a vice President candidate.YOU ARE A LOSER ,face it.
Funny how these draft dodging GOP Politicians always try to get publicity from a Military organization when actually they run if their time comes to be one who serves.
"Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney introduced his choice as running mate, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan"
It should say "Presumptuous presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney..."
So I was wrong all these weeks when I predicted Romney would choose Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. I admit it. I gave Mitt Romney more political credit than he obviously deserves. But, I was NOT wrong about one thing…
1. Ryan is from Wisconsin and there is no way on God's Green Earth Ryan being Veep will help his ticket take Wisconsin's Electoral votes away from Obama.
2. Ryan does not help Romney win any other votes in the Mid-West, which is solidly for Obama/Biden.
3. Ryan's Budget angered Baby Boomers and there are still more of that age group in the voting ranks than any other.
4. The state of Virginia was still in-play, and could have possibly swung to Romney with McDonnell. Not very likely, but possible. At least more likely than Wisconsin or the Mid-West with Ryan.
5. McDonnell on the ticket could have helped shore-up Republican base votes in the South, but Ryan is less effective there being from The Rust Belt.
and
6. Announcing this momentous decision early Saturday morning when most of America is still asleep. Who's brilliant idea was that? (Romney's?)
is when Romney goes to the GOP Convention, with his Veep running-mate Ryan and The GOP asks Romney to step down so they can nominate someone who actually has a chance to win.
Mitt the barber has been handed a size 40 short suit, but he likes his usual 44 long. He has to wear the uncomfortable ill fitting suit as a condition of being the GOP nominee.
The GOP right wing is concerned that he will try to return to his moderate roots so they have installed his handler to make sure that doesn't happen. Mitt will have to accept the discomfort of living the lie as a "real conservative" until the election.
But seriously folks! I am so
for having Paul Ryan as your new Veep candidate.
It is almost the best thing that could happen to insure the re-election of Obama/Biden! Palin would have been better, but Ryan is just as good.
I am so
for having Paul Ryan as your new Veep candidate.
It is almost the best thing that could happen to insure the re-election of Obama/Biden! Palin would have been better, but Ryan is just as good.
p.s. Thanks for NOT announcing your choice during Prime Time Mitt! This announcement wasn't worth interrupting The Olympics or any other good TV.
When you are a looser like T-Paw news of this nature is nothing new..
Besides am sure Romoney has a job planned for him in his vision of American Middle Class destruction..
So don't feel too sorry for T-Paw not being picked for CFO..
Either way he will continue too be a LOOSER...
oh yes he is!