Pawlenty campaign in $ trouble?

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Some of Tim Pawlenty’s top aides working for little or no pay, source says
Washington Post ^ | Wednesday June 22, 2011 | Amy Gardner

At least five top advisers to former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty have been working for little or no pay for several months, a campaign source said Wednesday.

The news establishes with more certainty the emerging portrait of Pawlenty as struggling to keep up with the larger and better-funded operation of his main rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

It also raises the question of whether Pawlenty will have the necessary resources to compete in a long, state-by-state campaign against Romney as well as other GOP candidates who have better-established fundraising networks, including former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.).

While some staffers are temporarily forgoing a larger paycheck, others signed up with the understanding that they would volunteer their time for the long term, said the Pawlenty aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.

[Soul Crusher]

Going nowhere.  Too impish. The gop needs to go after obamas disastrous record like the dogd of war.

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Tim Pawlenty neocon, Ron Paul anti-neocon; the great GOP clash
By Brent Budowsky - 06/28/11 09:29 AM ET
TheHill.com


"The latest new Tim Pawlenty is the born-again neoconservative moving to the far right on warmaking issues, destined to clash with Ron Paul in the presidential debates. Actually, Pawlenty is not a born-again neocon. This is his first birth as warmaker in his latest version of Pawlenty. By contrast with Ron Paul, who has always been Ron Paul.

Pawlenty was last seen declaring war against ObamneyCare, a war Pawlenty surrendered before the first battle. What a wimp! The latest Pawlenty, after heading for the hills in his war against Romney, is now escalating his war for Afghanistan. His new neocon position directly contradicts the long-held position of Ron Paul, setting the stage for a huge clash in the coming debates.

There will be a mano-a-mano, head-to-head, face-to-face clash between the neocon version of Pawlenty and the anti-neocon view long held by Paul. It will be debate fireworks galore!

The other candidates will be trapped in the middle, and it will be fascinating to watch them maneuver. Which Mitt Romney will come to the plate about Afghanistan? As usual, Romney is still deciding what he is for and what he is against, and in what order.

Which way will Michele Bachmann swing on the war issues? When Bachmann figures out that what I am writing here is true, she will rush to the briefing books and summon her consultants and take her stand on war and peace.

Perhaps in Sarah Palin's next film about herself, or book about herself, in her endless obsession with herself, she will be forced to take a stand on the serious matters.

Make no mistake, Pawlenty's latest maneuver to the neocon right sets up a direct and high-visibility clash with Paul, the only directly anti-neocon Republican in the 2012 race.

It's probably worth a money bomb or two, and will be a sight to behold, along with the sight of the other Republicans taking their polls and trying to figure out whether they stand closer to Pawlenty or Paul.

Then again, Ron Paul will always be Ron Paul. But we will see how long the neocon Pawlenty lasts, how far nature will allow Romney to straddle on war and peace, and what Michele Bachmann's briefers come up with, for her to say, as the Pawlenty-Paul clash becomes red-hot.

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T-Poor's money numbers come out tomorrow.

Likely, we will see him getting pwned by bachmann, who has been running for 5 minutes versus his 5 months.

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