Nay, nay, nay. He waited until after it became glaringly obvious to anyone, even the most thickheaded Republican toady, that Mitt Romney is not, not now, not ever, going to be President of the United States. He would have kept on kissing his ass if he or anyone with half a brain, thought Mitt could possibly, maybe win.

Could have been a little bit proud of him if he'd said fuck you while there was still a slim chance that he was saying it to the next President, but all he's done here is tell off a guy who has, and will always have, nothing to offer.

After Romney loses he's going to be even more reviled than John Kerry was, and for far longer.

Well, now I'm imagining him walking out cradling the job offer in his arms like Richard Gere at the end of An Officer and a Gentleman. "Up where we belong," indeed.

Nope. The first rat to scramble off a sinking ship isn't the smarter or more virtuous rat. It's still just a fucking rat that was closest to the exit.

The post is fun, but its central idea is shaky:

Any job of that caliber can wait a month and a half, until after the election.

Pawlenty's main selling point to this lobbying organization is that he is a nominally respected, moderately prominent, and fairly noncontroversial failed politician. They have an opening for someone who fits that description, and they're willing to pay the person they hire a lot of money.

You know what there's going to be a lot more of in about seven weeks, and still more after the new year? Nominally respected, moderately prominent, fairly noncontroversial failed politicians, that's what. Pawlenty was smart to make sure the job was his before it could have been claimed by Scott Brown, to name just one example. And if the Dems were to have a really good election, a failed Republican politician might not seem like such a hot commodity, anyhow, and Ben Nelson might get the job instead.

@ 4, the idea that they need a lobbyist so bad that they'd ask him to leave a hugely important job like co-chair the Republican presidential nominee's campaign is what's shaky. A prospective employer would ordinarily regard someone eager to jump ship before a job is finished with suspicion. Who's to say he wouldn't also leave them in the lurch on a whim?

No, Paul is undoubtedly closer to the mark, if not right on it.

Must be a day for 'Fuck You's". Reid earlier stated that senate republicans were rigging today's schedule so that Brown could get out of his debate tonight with Warren (in line with Brown's own announcement that he would be blowing off the debate this eve if there's a vote). So Reid cancelled voting for the rest of the day and told Brown he wouldn't be dodging out tonight.

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I'm not saying that his new employers were unwilling to wait to fill the slot. I'm saying that TPaw must be aware that if he were to wait seven weeks to start working his new employers might reconsider their hiring decision or the salary, given that after the election there will be a greatly changed field of available job candidates and potentially a changed political landscape might alter the type of job candidate wanted.

His name is perfect for slogans. How's this: "Not enough for the Poor. Pawlenty for the Rich."

@ 7, it amounts to the same thing. No one would be impressed with someone ditching a major, highly visible job like that before it's finished under ordinary circumstances. They wouldn't entice someone away from such an important job under ordinary circumstances. You're positing ordinary circumstances.

But let's put that aside for the moment and consider what you're saying. There may well be other GOP pols who will lose their elections, but they'll still be on the job until January. TPaw is already available before any of them. The opportunity you're thinking about will not change or disappear in the next seven weeks. More than likely they agreed on all that anyway and it's too late for the organization to change their mind.

So it comes back to Why now instead of after the election? And the only answer that makes sense is that TPaw is getting the hell out of Dodge.

The Republican Party is sinking... better take the money and run.

50 plus 1 percent, I wish! We don't have a popular vote for President; we have an electoral college. Theoretically you could win the presidency with a bare majority in the smallest states comprising half the electoral college. This is actually less than 25% of the popular vote, thanks to the Constitution giving two senators to each state.