JONATHAN CHAIT FEBRUARY 19, 2010
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"It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out."
--Tim Pawlenty, speaking at CPAC (via CQ Political Wire)
5 comments
Unlike T-Paw, Tiger Woods apparently didn't have any trouble getting women to sleep with him.
- wildboy
February 19, 2010 at 11:58am
Now here's something you don't see on People.com "MORE ARTICLES ON: Tiger Woods, Tim Pawlenty"
- Lymon1
February 19, 2010 at 12:01pm
Even in jest, political journalists should not suggest that Pawlenty is "reasonable" or "moderate." The man led the far-right social conservative takeover of the Minnesota Republican Party in the late 1908s and 1990s. He was a major mover behind the campaign of Jon Grunseth in 1990, and also behind the Allen Quist's primary campaign against incumbent Republican governor Arne Carlson, whose social moderation and small-government fiscal responsibility were unacceptable to the radical right. Imagine a combination of Karl Rove and James Dobson becoming governor of a state; that is exactly what Pawlenty is.
- rhubarbs
February 19, 2010 at 12:41pm
Ah, Pawlenty's ill-advised campaign for 2012. Bring on the attack ads showing the Minneapolis bridge collapse! I think they'd be well-enhanced with Pawlenty CGIed in, standing over it with a golf club...
- janus
February 19, 2010 at 1:50pm
What was left out was "and like Tiger's wife, we could get at the black man in the drivers seat and bash his head in." Actually, a milquetoast like Pawlenty probably couldn't even break the window. The guy projects softness.
- blackton
February 19, 2010 at 2:13pm