Tim Pawlenty on Eve of Iowa Straw Poll Admits He Will have to “Reassess” Campaign Future if He Does Not Do Well – 8/12/11

Nothing like confidence.

Reports indicate that Gov. Tim Pawlenty is now admitting that if he does not do well in the Iowa Straw Poll tomorrow, he may have to “reassess” the future of his Presidential Campaign:

DAILY CALLER: As Republican presidential contender Tim Pawlenty and eight other GOP hopefuls prepare for Saturday’s Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, the former Minnesota Governor may be showing the first signs of pessimism. Asked during a Friday morning breakfast event whether he might scale back his campaign infrastructure if the straw poll went badly, Pawlenty acknowledged that would be considered.

“We may not have any choice if it went that way,” Pawlenty said. “Would we have to retrench in some fashion? Probably, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

He nevertheless conceded, “If we do really bad, we’ll have to reassess.” . . . . Read More

Pawlenty must be seeing the handwriting on the wall to have made this kind of admission on the eve of the Straw Poll! Even if you think that, why would you say it just hours before you are asking people to show up and vote for you? Pawlenty’s entire campaign has been an incredible disappointment. He has gotten a lot of press. Many pundits tried to put him in the top-tier of candidates from the outset. But his polling has never been good, and is now at 2% nationally in three recent polls.