everything i say is good for my boy tim pawlenty. i am still betting on my boy pawlenty. >> we know with reasonable certainty that standing up there on the west lawn of the capitol on january 20th, 2013 is pawlenty or dan el -- daniels. >> well, i thought he had the way to go all of the wi, but he dropped out after the straw poll in iowa. it is safe to say that if pawlenty had stayed in the running long enough and as troubles developed in rival campaigns others might have looked at each other and said, now why was it that we didn't like tim pawlenty? joining me now is former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, and thank you so much for joining me tonight, governor. >> well, lawrence, it is an honor to be with you and i'm sorry, you were wrong for so long. >> it is personal with me and you know. this on that day after the straw poll in iowa and you were making the decision to drop out, el the many that there was a moment when you just thought, whoa, this is going to be really tough on o'donnell? >> well, it is actually the lawrence o'donn

the official position of this show is that tim pawlenty is going to be the nominee. lenty wins theory -- pawlenty wins everything on this show, by the way. it's the theory of the show. this show has officially declared tim pawlenty to be the nominee. tim pawlenty, who on this program, and nowhere else, is considered the front-runner for the republican nomination. we'll talk about how the republican landscape would be different today if pawlenty had just stayed in there. joining me tomorrow night, tim pawlenty. you can have the las

tim pawlenty is generic republican. charlie cook calls him the placebo. >> mike allen. thank you, your ebook once again, "the right fights back." i can't wait to read that. i'm downloading it. >>> next, willie's news you can't use. we're back in a moment. [ male announcer ] xbox 360 with kinect, this season's hottest games and...sweatbands. [ grunting noises ] ahh! this is gold. [ mom ] woo! [ game ] snaps up the ace. i'll never be popular. [ game ] next game decides our winner.

. >> i want to talk about tim pawlenty. >> don't.-- >> i of course thought i would go bold and go early. so i predicted tim pawlenty would be the republican nominee. every once in a while i couched it as tim pawlenty has the best chance to be the republican nominee, simply by a process of elimination. there was something wrong with everybody else, romney, health care, gingrich -- they had something serious wrily wrong w them and romney is the last man standing. i thought pawlenty would be the last man standing and i said it on the show, up until about a minute before he dropped out. >> the man was actually only running for president for less than three months. could he in this current race? >> he would be the guy. does he hear us, tim pawlenty. >> he was on my show last week and he refused to feel sorry for himself publicly but you know he's home crying about this, how stupid was this, i should have hung in there. >> i think for pawlenty it all kind of unraveled at the debate where he was given the opportunity to come out against mit

you know quite a bit about the case. >> in the rough and tumble case of cable news, tim pawlenty and re cordial. this is a hand gesture a person makes behind their own back when they're not telling the truth. shortly after governor pawlenty and i had a good guest experience together he started running for president for the 2012 campaign. his campaign tried to reinvent him as a politics equivalent of an action movie star, as a bit of a heman. >> if prosperity were easy, everybody around the world would be prosperous. if freedom were easy, everybody around the world would be free. if security were easy, everybody around the world would be secure. they are not. >> governor pawlenty's presidential campaign despite those awesome ads did not go that well. it never really went anywhere in the polls and he quit after the ames, iowa, straw poll in august. even now that he's just a surrogate for mitt romney, a man he spent years running against, governor pawlenty is sticking with heman persona as best he can. >> tell her to come out and let's get it on. >> that was ono'donnell" november 10th. t

learn more at lipitorforyou.com. >>> coming up, tim pawlenty is here.an who would be at the top of the polls tonight if he hadn't dropped out in iowa them man who could be in the gingrich position. he is out but he is here. and he is coming up next. nd he . . . [ female announcer ] secret scent expressions combines great odor protection with a lavender scent. amazing microcapsules absorb and neutralize odor releasing scent anytime you need it. all day long. secret scent expressions deodorant/antiperspirant. also in body splashes. [ man #1 ] i was fascinated by balsa wood airplanes since i was a kid. [ man #2 ] i always wondered how did an airplane get in the air. at ge aviation, we build jet engines. we lift people up off the ground to 35 thousand feet. these engines are built by hand with very precise assembly techniques. [ man #3 ] it's gonna fly people around the world. safely and better than it's ever done before. it would be a real treat to hear this monster fire up. [ woman ] i think a lot of people, when they look at a jet engine, they see a big

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. >> we are here to support tim pawlenty. political circus. >> bret: quite a show. 16,000 people turn out. 2,000 more than in 2008. >> i am a supporter of michele bachmann right now but i'm keeping an open mind. >> michelle offers the best hope. >> you did it. >> it was bachmann. >> thank you, everyone. >> who got the most votes. slightly more than ron paul. >> you have just sent a message. >> wow spent a lot of money there ahead of the straw poll. was it worth it? >> bret: a lot less than other candidates. other candidates had been there for years and spent multiple millions. >> like her fellow minnesotaen, tim pawlenty who dropped out the next day. to the chagrin of supporters like jim kirkpatrick. >> not a surprise he pulled out, just that he did so quickly. probably take a day or two to digest things. >> bret: iowa claimed the latest victim. none of the surviving candidates seem closer to closing the deal with undecided republicans like robin. >> we're kind of looking for somebody else to join in. you know, because maybe

romney's decision not to contest in the straw poll gives jim kirkpatrick hope for his candidate, tim pawlenty is quite a show. 16,000 people turn out. 2,000 more than in 2008. >> i am a supporter of michele bachmann right now. but i am keeping an open mind. >> michelle is our best hope. >> you did it. >> it was bachmann who got the most vote, slightly more than ron paul. >> have you just sent a message. >> you spent a lot of money there, ahead of the straw poll. was it worth it sno. >> a lot less than a lot of other candidates. other candidates had been there for years and spent millions. >> like the fellow minnesotan, tim pawlenty, who dropped out the next day, to the chagrin of supporters. >> it wasn't a surprise to me, just that he did so quickly. i thought -- he would take a day or two, and he was just -- >> iowa claimed the latest victim. but none of the survivingand candidates seemed closer to closing the deal with the undecided republicans. >> i think we are looking for somebody else to join in. you know? because maybe we are not ceived with what everybody else is telling us at this po

romney's decision not to contest in the straw poll gives jim kirkpatrick hope for his candidate, tim pawlenty. >> we are here to support governor pawlenty. >> it is quite a show. 16,000 people turn out. 2,000 more than in 2008. >> i am a supporter of michele bachmann right now. but i am keeping an open mind. >> michelle is our best hope. >> you did it. >> it was bachmann who got the most vote, slightly more than ron paul. >> have you just sent a message. >> you spent a lot of money there, ahead of the straw poll. was it worth it sno. >> a lot less than a lot of other candidates. other candidates had been there for years and spent millions. >> like the fellow minnesotan, tim pawlenty, who dropped out the next day, to the chagrin of supporters. >> it wasn't a surprise to me, just that he did so quickly. i thought -- he would take a day or two, and he was just -- >> iowa claimed the latest victim. but none of the survivingand candidates seemed closer to closing the deal with the undecided republicans. >> i think we are looking for somebody else to join in. you know? because maybe we are not ceiv

romney's decision not to contest in the straw poll gives jim kirkpatrick hope for his candidate, tim pawlenty. >> we are here to support governor pawlenty. >> it is quite a show. 16,000 people turn out. 2,000 more than in 2008. >> i am a supporter of michele bachmann right now. but i am keeping an open mind. >> michelle is our best hope. >> you did it. >> it was bachmann who got the most vote, slightly more than ron paul. >> have you just sent a message. >> you spent a lot of money there, ahead of the straw poll. was it worth it sno. >> a lot less than a lot of other candidates. other candidates had been there for years and spent millions. >> like the fellow minnesotan, tim pawlenty, who dropped out the next day, to the chagrin of supporters. >> it wasn't a surprise to me, just that he did so quickly. i thought -- he would take a day or two, and he was just -- >> iowa claimed the latest victim. but none of the survivingand candidates seemed closer to closing the deal with the undecided republicans. >> i think we are looking for somebody else to join in. you know? because maybe we are not ceiv

romney's decision not to contest in the straw poll gives jim kirkpatrick hope for his candidate, tim pawlenty>> we are here to support governor pawlenty. >> it is quite a show. 16,000 people turn out. 2,000 more than in 2008. >> i am a supporter of michele bachmann right now. but i am keeping an open mind. >> michelle is our best hope. >> you did it. >> it was bachmann who got the most vote, slightly more than ron paul. >> have you just sent a message. >> you spent a lot of money there, ahead of the straw poll. was it worth it sno. >> a lot less than a lot of other candidates. other candidates had been there for years and spent millions. >> like the fellow minnesotan, tim pawlenty, who dropped out the next day, to the chagrin of supporters. >> it wasn't a surprise to me, just that he did so quickly. i thought -- he would take a day or two, and he was just -- >> iowa claimed the latest victim. but none of the survivingand candidates seemed closer to closing the deal with the undecided republicans. >> i think we are looking for somebody else to join in. you know? because maybe we are not ceived

romney's decision not to contest in the straw poll gives jim kirkpatrick hope for his candidate, tim pawlentyt governor pawlenty. >> it is quite a show. 16,000 people turn out. 2,000 more than in 2008. >> i am a supporter of michele bachmann right now. but i am keeping an open mind. >> michelle is our best hope. >> you did it. >> it was bachmann who got the most vote, slightly more than ron paul. >> have you just sent a message. >> you spent a lot of money there, ahead of the straw poll. was it worth it sno. >> a lot less than a lot of other candidates. other candidates had been there for years and spent millions. >> like the fellow minnesotan, tim pawlenty, who dropped out the next day, to the chagrin of supporters. >> it wasn't a surprise to me, just that he did so quickly. i thought -- he would take a day or two, and he was just -- >> iowa claimed the latest victim. but none of the survivingand candidates seemed closer to closing the deal with the undecided republicans. >> i think we are looking for somebody else to join in. you know? because maybe we are not ceived with what everybody els

for more on the stakes in the strategies, i spoke to tim pawlenty in atlanta up a short time ago. governor, we were just hearing in a report from north carolina that the presidential election is really barack obama's to lose. why is it in the country at 300 million people that your party is having such difficulty finding at candidates? >> the party that is out of power goes through a process of sorting to their potential candidates maybe. is no different this time. it is hard for anyone candidate to break out. but clearly mitt romney is one of the front runners. i would dispute the premise that it is barack obama's to liz. his numbers nationally, particularly along independent voters, are not very good. >> there are very big things at stake. are people looking for inspiration? is mitt romney really providing that inspiration? >> the overwhelming issue for most americans is the economy and jobs, and when they think about you is best situated based on knowledge and experience in other things and do the things that are going to help businesses start and grow and provide jobs, mitt ro

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