The Minnesota state GOP convention is happening this weekend. Like everywhere else and every other party, they will be nominating their candidate to run to replace Governor Tim Pawlenty.
Like most parties in power, they were addressed this morning by our departing governor, a Republican who appears to be giving serious consideration to running for president in 2012.
When Governor Pawlenty gives speeches he likes to throw out what he considers to be political zingers. I have no problem with that, I expect that from politicians of all stripes.
Today, one of his zingers was the following:
"More people died from the Hiawatha Light Rail line than from conceal and carry in Minnesota."
All I could think was that I sure hope none of the friends and loved ones of the people who died as a result of those accidents with the light rail trains here were sitting in the audience as delegates.
Time and time again,(Remember, he's the guy that said “We should take a page out of her playbook and take a 9-iron and smash the window out of big government in this country” referencing Tiger Woods wife on the day after a man flew his plane into a government building) Tim Pawlenty has shown that he is one of the least compassionate, most thoughtless politicians ever.
Does America really need a president who views people as a nothing more than part of a punchline?
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