T-Paw Attacks Palin

[ClydeR]

Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty this morning added to the political debate about the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by taking exception to Sarah Palin's use of cross hairs on a 2010 election map.

More... (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/01/gabrielle-giffords-tim-pawlenty-2012-presidential-race-/1)

Former Governor Pawlenty may think he is helping himself by piling on Governor Palin, a 2012 opponent for the Republican nomination, but he will learn the hard way that by flouting Reagan's 11th commandment he merely weakens his own prospects.

[Cephalopod]

Palin herself has broken that commandment many times, though...

[NocturnalRob]

Pawlenty has no chance of winning the nomination. Neither does Palin. The whole situation is moot.

[ClydeR]

Pawlenty has no chance of winning the nomination. Neither does Palin.

Well, Pawlenty doesn't have a chance now that he dumped on Palin. But Palin consistently polls as one of the top favorites among likely Republican voters.


On the Republican side, it’s a dead heat between the ex-governors – Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Sarah Palin of Alaska, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary voters.

Asked who they would vote for if the Republican presidential primary were held today, 20% say Romney, 19% Huckabee and another 19% Palin. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Romney and Palin are tied among male GOP voters, while Huckabee has a slight edge among female voters.

More... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2010/gop_voters_like_three_candidates_best_for_2012)

[Parkbandit]

Pawlenty has no chance of winning the nomination. Neither does Palin. The whole situation is moot.

I hope you are right. I thought the same thing about McCain in 2008....

I mean heck, we still have DONALD TRUMP to elect!

[NocturnalRob]

I mean heck, we still have DONALD TRUMP to elect!
I quite literally cringed when this came up.

And then laughed when this did:

http://www.gifsoup.com/view1/1470037/trump-hair-o.gif