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TIM PAWLENTY ANNOUNCES BID FOR PRESIDENCY

Donate Your Freedom—And, You Know, Money!!—To The TPAW-2012


Have you checked out TimPawlenty.com today yet? Oh, please do! Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who self-identifies as TPAW, has made up some new thing called “Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC.” It sounds like a mid-range BBQ place on a highway somewhere, but it is not! It is, according to TPAW, an “organization dedicated to putting freedom first again in America. By helping candidates and translating our ideas into policies that everyone can relate to and support, we can turn back the growth of Washington and renew the promise of freedom.” As you can see, this is markedly, markedly worse than a BBQ place.

It is also not FreedomFirst.com, a previously established credit union that predates “TPAW’s Freedom First PAC” and differs from it in that the former is existing and real. So anyway, how stoked are you guys to tell TPAW all about your personal relationship with freedom? N.B.: Your epistolary TPAW fan fiction could be just the opinion scoop document that’s needed to LITERALLY WIN the Washington Post’s pundit mid-term election competition!

[Marc Ambinder]


10:07 AM on Thu October 1 2009
By Juli Weiner
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  1. “TPAW”? Isn’t he some kind of furry rapper?

  2. norbizness says at 10:14 am, October 1st, 2009

    Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.’s?

    Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.

    [Immediately, an R.O.U.S. sets up an exploratory Presidential committee]

  3. T-Paw puts the Dumb in Freedom!

  4. ManchuCandidate says at 10:15 am, October 1st, 2009

    We know this isn’t going to end well.

    Judging Pawlenty’s record, I’m guessin’ the first freedom is the freedom from gravity and the 2nd freedom is the freedom from being associated with falling highway bridges.

  5. magic titty says at 10:16 am, October 1st, 2009

    I’ll just keep calling him TP, thank you.

  6. PineyWoodster says at 10:16 am, October 1st, 2009

    Freedom means to me keeping government’s nose out of me buying my candy apple flavored dip and not hassling me for smoking dope with a prostitute.

  7. pink triangles says at 10:16 am, October 1st, 2009

    TPAW IS a furry rapper that’s gonna eazy-e all our problems with the sweet, sweet robotic hymns of autotune.

  8. rocktonsammy says at 10:17 am, October 1st, 2009

    Has TPAW written a book yet?

    I’m withholding my money until I read it.

  9. Monsieur Grumpe says at 10:18 am, October 1st, 2009

    That’s where Timmy went. We’ve been missing a Governor in the wonderful state of Minnesota. Not that he really has been doing anything when he is here.

    This guy started as a moderate Republican. Remember those? As he gets closer to declaring his run for POTUS his wingnut pandering has become more extreme. Last week, he switched from his past views and joined the global warming conspiracy crowd. Next week, Pawlenty the birther?

  10. hobospacejunkie says at 10:19 am, October 1st, 2009

    Jesus fuck, these chicken-diddlers can’t take a dump without using the word freedom. FREEDOM BOWELS: CAN YOU FEEL THE EVACUATION!?! TPaw makes him sound like he’s got a mangled monkey appendage for a right hand. This dull midwesterner is 2012’s Fred Thompson. Doorknobs excite a crowd more than Gov. Milquetoast. Zzzzzzzzzz…

  11. TimeCubist says at 10:20 am, October 1st, 2009

    FMA: Isn’t Tpaw some Vulcan grandee?

  12. norbizness says at 10:23 am, October 1st, 2009

    And didn’t T’Pau have that song Heart and Soul? That was the middle-school roller-skating jam back in the day! As for Captain Crumbling Infrastructure here, feh.

  13. tootsieroll says at 10:24 am, October 1st, 2009

    “TPAW! im really happy for you, and imma gonna let you finish, but Hopey Obama had the best campaign of all TIME!

  14. Ducksworthy says at 10:24 am, October 1st, 2009

    Is Paul Reubens TP(wee)’s body double?

  15. wx insider says at 10:26 am, October 1st, 2009

    Good luck, TPAW! Please bring us “hope” and “change”.

  16. You know how like old people, in the eyes of teh youngz, are lame purely by the nature of their advanced age, right? Like, mom and dad will never, ever be cool. Sorry. Game over.

    So these fucks, these politician fucks, it’s like they’re your parents trying, without irony, to be cool. And just like your lame parents trying to be cool, they are just as fucking clueless about how idiotic they look.

    Tweeting utilizing worse grammar than a 13 year old schoolgirl? “TPAW?” Motherfucking “TPAW?” I mean, are you kidding me?

    It’s like a goddamn circus of ignorance up there. They are trying to do what all the cool kids are doing, and failing about as hard as you can fail at it.

    Jebus Christ.

  17. dum librul says at 10:28 am, October 1st, 2009

    I liked their original name better. “Freedom at Some Point Down the Road Maybe PAC” just rolls off the tongue.

  18. hobospacejunkie says at 10:30 am, October 1st, 2009

    norbizness: And don’t you make me beg for more!

  19. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 10:31 am, October 1st, 2009

    TPAW/SkoalRebel 2012! Restoring idiocy to Amerikkka, one dip at a time.

  20. finallyhappy says at 10:32 am, October 1st, 2009

    TimeCubist: no, Ithink that was the woman Spock was supposed to marry. And Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose

  21. Bernie Madeoff says at 10:33 am, October 1st, 2009

    I can’t wait to download “I am TPAW” for iPhone!!!

  22. Larry Fine says at 10:34 am, October 1st, 2009

    This guy better get some plastic surgery and a makeover, becasue he sure don’t look presidential.

  23. bored with gravity says at 10:34 am, October 1st, 2009

    TPawing. Sounds like another term for teabagging.

  24. Renew the promise of freedom? Like under G.W. Bush?

    Here’s a tip, wingnuts: The fact that people haven’t been rounded up for attempting to incite riots or bringing weapons to Presidential events proves that we’re free.

  25. Voyou Charmant says at 10:35 am, October 1st, 2009

    How many of you have explained to TPaw that Freedom is Flavored dee-ip, Truck Nutz and no Jews in the Whitehouse.

  26. Not_So_Much says at 10:35 am, October 1st, 2009

    I heard TPAW shot Biggy….*and* Tupac.

  27. Joshua Norton says at 10:36 am, October 1st, 2009

    So does the wingnut pols Freedom include “freedom” to spy on any American citizen they damned well please? Or how about the “freedom” to steal everything that’s not nailed down?

    They seem to have the bastardized the definition of “freedom” to mean “doing what ever the F*** I please and mowing down everyone else who disagrees”. Yay free-dumb!!!

  28. Joshua Norton says at 10:41 am, October 1st, 2009

    They probably think “TPaw” sounds hip and totally with-it. It sounds more like some half-wit goomer who can usually be found sitting on a porch step drinking from a jug and whittlin’.

  29. Why are we supposed to give money to obtain Tim Pawlenty’s freedom first? How about we arrange for everyone else’s freedom, then we can turn to freeing the Paw?

  30. jodyleek says at 10:43 am, October 1st, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: Monkey appendage? TPaw is Bob Log III? God, I hope not. I love “Boob Scotch” and I will be so pissed if I have to scrub that video from my hard drive.

  31. freakishlystrong says at 10:44 am, October 1st, 2009

    No thanks, I’ll wait for AGray to set up his PAC.

  32. hiphophitler says at 10:45 am, October 1st, 2009

    Yoyoyo T-Paw!! Know what freedom means to me, homes? Big butts!! i LIKE BIG BUTTS AND i CANNOT LIE!

  33. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Everyone knows that.

  34. badmuthagoose says at 10:47 am, October 1st, 2009

    Oooo yay! I was looking for an opportunity to fuck with someone today. Too bad it’s not more direct. But anyway: should I go full retard in my freedom essay? Or go the more subtle route?

    WHAT AM I SAYING? LULZ! They don’t get subtle. Ok then, full tard it is.

    ::skipping merrily away, forgetting all common spelling patterns, usage rules, and logic!::

  35. SayItWithWookies says at 10:47 am, October 1st, 2009

    Our values and principles are being tested. What we believe as conservatives is being tested.

    Reality’s tough that way, TPAW. But don’t worry, we’ve evolved to handle it. Oops, sorry about the e-word — didn’t mean to challenge what you believe as a conservative.

  36. I’m pretty sure the “TP” stands for “toilet paper”. Still working on the “AW”.

  37. teebob2000 says at 10:48 am, October 1st, 2009

    Anyone know how to send a turd on-line?

  38. V572625694 says at 10:48 am, October 1st, 2009

    Does Michelle endorse TPAW? In that case, count me in. If not, not.

  39. jodyleek says at 10:50 am, October 1st, 2009

    WadISay: Ass Wipe, natch.

  40. Link:
    http://timpawlenty.com/
    What does freedom mean to you?
    “More free cheese. Few Mexicans.”

  41. Ducksworthy: In his video, Timmeh looks much like Mark “Gov. Luv” Sandford. Separated at birth? If so, I hope painfully.

  42. The Huffington Pogue says at 10:57 am, October 1st, 2009

    Tim “Anagram of TWAP” Pawlenty and Rick “Santorum” Santorum ‘12!

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twap

  43. OReillysVibrator says at 10:57 am, October 1st, 2009

    Freedom first, Norm Coleman second.

  44. Come on TPAW, grow the mullet back!

    WE WANT THE MULLET, DAMMIT.

  45. The only reason this fool is Minnesota Governor is because he was up against a Democrat and a tree/hugger in both 2002 and 2006. He always got less than about 46% of the vote, and only about 1% more than the Dem. Don’t Minnesotans know that we are not Europe, and that it confuses people when they have to choose between a douche and two douchebags? In America its always one douche, and one douchebag. Alas, Minnesota is the same state that gave us Michelle Bachman. How’s that turning out for you, children of Rose Nylund?

  46. Jim89048 says at 10:59 am, October 1st, 2009

    Since I lost so many freedoms–and my job–during the last ill-fated reptard’s reign, I have nothing left with which to enrich this one. Kristofferson was right.

  47. badmuthagoose says at 11:01 am, October 1st, 2009

    Whatever “weening” is, it sounds gross. From his site:

    Minimum government intervention in our lives. Having a balance budget…No forced govt programs. Fix existing programs and start weening people from govt dependency…

    Andrea Graham Duluth, GA

    GROSS ANDREA. THIS HERE’S A FAMILY SITE.

    See, that’s why I’m not a Republican. They’re such pervs.

  48. WickedWitch says at 11:03 am, October 1st, 2009

    If TPAW is what Steele meant by making the GOP hip to the children of America, then I have to say it: Epic Dumbshit Fail.

  49. glamourdammerung says at 11:04 am, October 1st, 2009

    I would rather donate to repair Minnesota’s decaying bridges.

  50. DirtyHarriett says at 11:06 am, October 1st, 2009

    WadISay: Toilet Paper Ass Wipe…..

  51. randomsausage says at 11:07 am, October 1st, 2009

    norbizness:

    Good shout out for T’Pau, the band
    With their slapper of a singer, Carol Decker
    I had her once you know
    A back alley in Liverpool
    China in Your Hands
    That was one of theirs

  52. glamourdammerung says at 11:07 am, October 1st, 2009

    “Our values and principles are being tested. What we believe as conservatives is being tested.”

    I would say when cars started falling in the Mississippi of the I35 bridge, that your “values and principles” were indeed tested and found quite lacking.

  53. x111e7thst says at 11:09 am, October 1st, 2009

    Stare deep into those beady eyes and you will know that this miserable rodent has struggled all his life with questions of sexual identity.

  54. norbizness says at 11:14 am, October 1st, 2009

    x111e7thst:

    Homer: Oh, Marge, my loyal wife, of course not. [Lisa walks up] And Lisa, my little princess. [Bart walks up] And who could forget dear Ratboy?

    Bart: Ratboy? I resent that. [starts chewing the door frame]

    Marge: Bart, I told you before, stop gnawing on the drywall.

  55. Cape Clod says at 11:15 am, October 1st, 2009

    glamourdammerung: Indeed. ‘What they believe as conservatives’ is that we can eliminate all taxes and Jesus will magically hold up all our bridges.

  56. Crank Tango says at 11:20 am, October 1st, 2009

    glamourdammerung: fuck’em. they need to learn that sooner or later them bridges are gonna fall down, those were the last ones we were ever gonna build, and they have been wiened off of government dependency, for freedom. I suggest they go back to using ferries made of log rafts. Free market freedom bitches!

    Bit of advice tho, from the immortal words of Chris DeBurgh “don’t pay the ferryman, until he gets you to the other side” for freedom.

  57. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 11:20 am, October 1st, 2009

    x111e7thst: I thought the same thing! You can tell it’s been a struggle, too, given Timmy’s deep-set smile lines and Grand Canyon-esque crow’s feet, which no gay man would ever allow to be that visible.

  58. Icemelter says at 11:23 am, October 1st, 2009

    Yes. Herein I say it. Freedom means 44,789 dead Americans a year.

    Sincerely,

    Peggy “PNoon” Noonan

  59. Freedom means not having to wear a tie with a sport coat in a campaign add shilling to the rubes who would support TPAW’s pathetic candidacy.

  60. the problem child says at 11:46 am, October 1st, 2009

    TPAW = The Patriotic Ass Wipe

  61. teebob2000 says at 11:46 am, October 1st, 2009
  62. the problem child says at 11:47 am, October 1st, 2009

    the problem child: (Single-ply, and scratchy as hell).

  63. Weaned. Just say’n

  64. chaste everywhere says at 11:48 am, October 1st, 2009

    T-Paw. Sounds like a basketball player desperate for some attention. Does Minnesota have basketball? Is T-Paw an octaroon?

  65. Uncle Glenny says at 11:54 am, October 1st, 2009

    Freedom first? Back-translated from Republicanese, that means French First.

    He’s a secret French-Manchurian candidate, we’re all going to have to speak French!!!11! Oh, and free cheese…

  66. Sweet Baby Cheeses says at 12:04 pm, October 1st, 2009

    He’s got that “aw shucks/duh” look down pat.

  67. vladster says at 12:07 pm, October 1st, 2009

    I just sent TPAW a love note and told him I think his little blue bird should be a little red bird. The whole thing is color-coded so the wingnuts send thier war bonds to the right goddamn freedomer.

  68. This Cat says at 12:09 pm, October 1st, 2009

    Mike Steele is going to help “TPaw” relate to the hip hop generation. A little bling and some phat rhymes and he’s got this thing sewn up!

  69. saralovesyou says at 12:26 pm, October 1st, 2009

    JSDC007: Not to get all “uppity Minnesotan” or anything, but we also gave you Keith Ellison.

  70. hockeymom says at 12:45 pm, October 1st, 2009

    saralovesyou: and Franken and Wellstone (and Ventura, so I guess, never mind)

  71. George Oscar Bluth says at 12:56 pm, October 1st, 2009

    Let’s just get this out of the way: T-PAWN

  72. assistant/atlas says at 1:40 pm, October 1st, 2009

    “…who self-identifies as TPAW” ….the ghey’s acronym is too long already and now they’re adding four more letters? They just won’t stop until they’ve gayed up every letter of the alphabet!

  73. davesnothere says at 1:42 pm, October 1st, 2009

    This should silence all you Michael Steele RNC naysayers. Remember, they laughed at Fatty Arbuckle, too.

  74. zaccapeters says at 1:47 pm, October 1st, 2009

    TPaw-tay like it’s 1899! How about freedom to grow one’s own medicinal herbs there, Sparkay? Should save Medicare a couple billion a year now and many billions more in the very near future.

  75. bitchincamaro says at 2:26 pm, October 1st, 2009

    So many Minnesota turd-weazles, so little time.

  76. BerkeleyFarm says at 2:45 pm, October 1st, 2009

    TPM says that T-Paw has hired Rove aide (and US Attorneys scandal key player) Sara Taylor to run his PAC.

    Looks like he’s gone Full Retard.

    He seems to be someone who takes the fall for Republican fuckery a lot; I wouldn’t be surprised if they let him run in ‘12. Ironically, if McCain had picked him in ‘08, the past election would have been a lot closer.

  77. Jukesgrrl says at 3:04 pm, October 1st, 2009

    badmuthagoose: I don’t think subtle is the way to go. Remember, your competition is probably SkoalRebel and his northern cousins.

  78. Jukesgrrl says at 3:08 pm, October 1st, 2009

    TPaw, I’m feeling really backed-up lately, so freedom to me would be a good dump. Do you recommend Colon Cleanse? Good luck to you.

    Jukesgrrl, Tucson, AZ

  79. Sussemilch says at 3:08 pm, October 1st, 2009

    Yeah, it’s all about freedom. My freedom to speak in opposition of your freedom to fuck us sideways.

  80. Suds McKenzie says at 4:31 pm, October 1st, 2009

    Freedom means not cutting off your mullet for anything or anyone. For shame Tupac, for shame.

  81. slowuncle says at 4:58 pm, October 1st, 2009

    Geez what a gay photo— friggin’ spritzer looks like a cross between Jim Naybors and Kenneth the Page

  82. bozofish says at 6:18 pm, October 1st, 2009

    I so opposite of heart him. He is free to roam the country, but seems to have an aversion to actually attending to state business. What a DPaw-bag.

  83. We just call him Timmy…Timmy the mullet head.

  84. martinette says at 10:24 pm, October 1st, 2009

    Interesting combination, this phony sack of shit. He’s both ex-Catholic and ex-Polish.

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