Tim Pawlenty named "Least Influential Man Alive".

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/201112/25-least-influential-people-alive/#slide=2

Every election season produces a number of hilariously pointless candidates who have no chance of winning. Some of them have value as novelty items. Look! It's Alan Keyes, the token black Republican! And over there! It's David Duke! He's a racist! These are the fun, fringy candidates. The Sharpton Sector, if you will.

Then there are folks like Pawlenty, who fail to register even as novelties. T-Paw (as he calls himself) spent much of 2011 as a six-foot-tall paperweight, an aggressively forgettable fellow perfectly suited to the role of debate filler. The $1 million he spent to lose the Iowa straw poll might as well have been burned in front of a group of orphans.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

TPaw's problem is that the jmfcsts can't remember a single word he ever said...probably because they were never listening to begin with

[Bacon King]

On paper, he was a great candidate. I have no idea why he received such little traction.

[Badger]

As someone recently (and cogently) pointed out, he must be kicking himsefl for not hanging on for the game of "anti-Romney" musical charis to start. He coulda been a contender (maybe).

[Phony Moderate]

The charisma just jumps right out at you, doesn't it?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I thought it was Huntsman...

[Meeker]

On paper, he was a great candidate. I have no idea why he received such little traction.

He's really, really boring.

[© tweed]

I lol'd.  at least, I laughed as much as I laugh now-a-days... one of the effects of it all, I don't laugh much anymore.

[Username MechaRFK]

This story has more charisma then any speech Tim Borelenty ever made in his entire life on planet Earth. He makes Bob Dole speaking skills look like Jack Kennedy.

[© tweed]

This story has more charisma then any speech Tim Borelenty ever made in his entire life on planet Earth. He makes Bob Dole speaking skills look like Jack Kennedy in comparison to Pawlenty.

Ramsey Clark would be one of my heroes/idols if I had heroes/idols.

[milhouse24]

If he kept the Mullet, he would have done better with the redneck crowd perhaps.  It would have made him more interesting. 

He was just positioning for VP anyways.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Seemed like a nice guy...just too fake. No one bought his macho-Tea Party-ovethrow the ruling class sh**t.  His canned jokes in debates, he was trying too hard

[BigSkyBob]

Tpaw wasn't exactly my cup of tea. That said, this piece is a snarky pile of steaming pseudo-journalistic feces. The only question it raises in my mind is what is this "journalist's" beef with the man.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Because GQ is so known for their cutting-edge journalism.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I thought it was Huntsman...

He fills our token Centrist/moderate role when Mitt falls short.

[All Along The Watchtower]

On paper, he was a great candidate. I have no idea why he received such little traction.

He's really, really boring.

Which is sad, really, that a candidate's "charisma" factors into people's voting decisions.

[Ban my account ffs!]

On paper, he was a great candidate. I have no idea why he received such little traction.

He's really, really boring.

Which is sad, really, that a candidate's "charisma" factors into people's voting decisions.

It's not just charisma.  Pawlenty is just a smarmy gimmick whore underneath all that boring.

Uh oh.. I hope I don't get sent to the principals office!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It brings me a lot of pleasure to see him reduced to such a joke after dealing with him for 8 years.

[BigSkyBob]

It brings me a lot of pleasure to see him reduced to such a joke after dealing with him for 8 years.

Being the target of a hit piece of journalism doesn't make one a joke.

[Joe Republic]

It brings me a lot of pleasure to see him reduced to such a joke after dealing with him for 8 years.

Being the target of a hit piece of journalism doesn't make one a joke.

Indeed, his presidential campaign achieved that for him rather well on its own.

[BigSkyBob]

It brings me a lot of pleasure to see him reduced to such a joke after dealing with him for 8 years.

Being the target of a hit piece of journalism doesn't make one a joke.

Indeed, his presidential campaign achieved that for him rather well on its own.

Tpaw, was taken seriously as a real contender early in the process. When he failed as a first tier candidate, he withdrew from the race. That places him with the likes of Haley Babour, and Mitch Daniels. He was more influencial than Gary Johnson, for instance.

[Mr. Taft Republican]

On paper, he was a great candidate. I have no idea why he received such little traction.

He's really, really boring.

Which is sad, really, that a candidate's "charisma" factors into people's voting decisions.

He also didn't have a record really. Remember when him and Bachmann were seen as competing early in the debates? Bachmann pointed to a Lightbulb freedom Act (Srsly, wtf?), and Pawlenty pointed to stuff that Bachmann could spin and throw in his face. Really. Bachmann.  It takes a special man for that to happen to.

[Joe Republic]

It brings me a lot of pleasure to see him reduced to such a joke after dealing with him for 8 years.

Being the target of a hit piece of journalism doesn't make one a joke.

Indeed, his presidential campaign achieved that for him rather well on its own.

Tpaw, was taken seriously as a real contender early in the process. When he failed as a first tier candidate, he withdrew from the race. That places him with the likes of Haley Babour, and Mitch Daniels. He was more influencial than Gary Johnson, for instance.

Releasing a series of hilariously overdone campaign ads, pointlessly feuding with Michele Bachmann, making some awkward Lady Gaga references, and then dropping out after coming third in a non-binding contest (which is so non-indicative of how the race will play out that since then, the order of the top 8 finishers has now pretty much flipped upside down).  That pretty much sums up Tim Pawlenty's joke of a campaign.

[courts]

It brings me a lot of pleasure to see him reduced to such a joke after dealing with him for 8 years.

good christians don't gloat

[King]

Tim Pawlenty: "More Serious Than Gary Johnson"