Tim Pawlenty Finds A Way To Co-Opt Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin Rally

Here's a great catch by Wonkette's Jim Newell. Apparently, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was so bent on horning in on yesterday's Michele Bachmann/Sarah Palin "Ladies of Fearmongering" rally that he went out, bought the domain name BachmannRally.com and then redirected traffic to his own site.

Poor Tim Pawlenty. There was once a time where it looked like he might be the Republican presidential candidate that presented America with a portfolio of policy ideas and who could bring his conservative principles to the Rachel Maddow show and actually have a genial conversation, like a calm and reasonable adult.

But Michele Bachmann is so hot right now, and being way out on the fringe is the new new thing. So, Pawlenty has to do everything he can to remain relevant, even at the expense of, you know, being Tim Pawlenty.

Anyway, this whole effort is actually a huge search engine failure, because he also should have snapped up PalinRally.com, and, what the hell, TikiBarberGirlfriend.com, too.

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Comments

[dmsdzinr]

02:17 PM on 04/09/2010

Pawlenty for President in 2012! Catering to CRAZY!

[desertdweller]

12:59 PM on 04/09/2010

Sit down and shut up Mr. Pawlenty...

[desertdweller]

12:56 PM on 04/09/2010

Light in the loafers, as they say.....

[jjgg5]

12:09 PM on 04/09/2010

Pawlenty of nothin'.

[texastrixie]

01:27 PM on 04/09/2010

FANNED! So true. This guy has nothing to offer, even to the Republicans. Luckily, he will simply fade away.. How desperate do you have to be to co-op someone else's website name. Pawlenty=LOSER.

[EdBradly7]

01:30 PM on 04/09/2010

Pawlenty of the STOOOOOOOPID!

[justobserve]

12:04 PM on 04/09/2010

What is it that people have to latch on the two airheads to bring attention to themselves? Are we a nation of id*ots that only people like Bachman and Palin, the ex-half termed quitted governor of Alaska, can get attention? And Palin got paid hundred of thousands of dollars to attack everyone who is not like her.

[TruGal]

11:15 AM on 04/09/2010

Milquetoast.
Pawlenty.
Same thing.

[FunkyMaverick]

10:36 AM on 04/09/2010

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-health care reform
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-equality
-doing what is best for EVERY American

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- tax cut

[dmsdzinr]

02:18 PM on 04/09/2010

That should read - tax cuts for the rich

[FunkyMaverick]

02:23 PM on 04/09/2010

I stand corrected ..ty friend :)

[Nyla785]

06:43 AM on 04/09/2010

If Pawlenty hopes to appeal to the broad American mainstream, he's gonig to have to avoid being seen in the company of the GOP's crazy faction. Choose one.

[Christian McMorna]

10:57 AM on 04/09/2010

His dilemma is that the moment he begins to speak like a normal person, the teabaggers revolt. GOPers like Pawlenty are essentially extinct because they will increasingly find it impossible to withstand teabagger challenges. Pawlenty's experience is the principle reason why the future of the GOP as a legitimate national party in dim.

[cliffhammond]

06:35 AM on 04/09/2010

I keep thinking Michelle Bachmann is trying to sell me orange juice.

[Christian McMorna]

10:58 AM on 04/09/2010

Ha! That's perfect. Its tragic that you have to be as old as we are to get the joke.

[apoyo]

11:22 AM on 04/09/2010

Too true. I hadn't notice the similarity but that look in the eyes says it all.

[diamonds61]

12:25 AM on 04/09/2010

All this stupid idiotic people who belong to the GOP and the tea party movement need to stop complaining and crying and grow some balls so that they can really think about forming solutions to solve the many, many problems our country is facing. They should begin by looking into their own states and seriously taking action on this level. All they do is criticize the present administration and have not come up with positive ideas to help the America people live a better life. They think we are going to wait till 2012 and miracles will happen as soon as one of these idiots gets elected. The real people who care about our country and are doing good things are the volunteers (whether they are Republicans or Democrats or indedpendents) who give their time and money for a good cause in their communities. Wake up America and remember what President John F. Kennedy said" Ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you".

[waynesmyer]

06:25 AM on 04/09/2010

Hey there! Tea-Baggers, You will get my social security when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
Old Demos got guns too!
UP THE IRISH AND SCREW THE GOPers!

[cliffhammond]

06:36 AM on 04/09/2010

I can see that alcoholism is no respecter of party lines.

[desertdweller]

12:57 PM on 04/09/2010

I'm standing with you....

[chief wheelhouse]

11:55 PM on 04/08/2010

this man has no vision,no answer,nothing to offer but a regifted package.

[cliffhammond]

06:37 AM on 04/09/2010

It's that same old red tie that nobody likes and keeps giving away.

[Zapatista]

11:15 PM on 04/08/2010

“[in other news] ---> Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

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via The Onion”

[LeeCalif]

11:54 PM on 04/08/2010

eh eh eh eh eh

[cliffhammond]

06:37 AM on 04/09/2010

ROTF....

[mcnary]

10:42 PM on 04/08/2010

I hear he is growing his hair and taking up the ukulele...... is Tiny Tim.com taken?

[GaryCharles]

10:09 PM on 04/08/2010

Meet T Paw? I need a bucket...

[cliffhammond]

06:39 AM on 04/09/2010

You can borrow my tooth brush afterward if you promise to buy me a new one.

[Vetinari]

09:57 PM on 04/08/2010

for pawlenty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRNZEDi94uc&feature=related