By Baxter
Wow, we cats are amazed at how the GOP Iowa straw poll granted almost all our wishes yesterday.
Yup, "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann won — but only in a squeaker. Ron Paul, our first choice, was a very close second. Just 200 or so votes separated them. Excellent!
The pathetic Tim Pawlenty was a way, way distant third. And our favorite man-on-dog guy whose last name you cannot safely Google, Rick Santorum, was fourth! With Herman Cain fifth!
Even better — although we know that despite a personal appearance at the state fair, he didn't seriously contest this silly event — bringing up the rear was Mitt "Corporations Are People" Romney, who with 567 votes came in behind a write-in candidate, Rick Perry, with 718.
So we cats were feeling pretty good last night — only to awaken to the fabulous new news this morning that that irritating fake from Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, is dropping out of the race. A few post-Pawlenty observations:
- Since they were supposed to have had such a great organization, the Pawlenty campaign must have bused in a whole bunch of straw-poll attendees who promptly voted for, um, someone else.
- His departure will free up literally hundreds of dollars in contributions to the remaining candidates.
- With a performance like this, you have to wonder why John McCain didn't select him as his Vice Presidential running mate in 2008. (Remember whom he did select.)
- Finally, Pawlenty has all but doomed his chances to be anybody's running mate in 2012. So what's the best he can hope for in the next Republican administration, whenever that may be? Some post in charge of — gulp — infrastructure?
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