Tim Pawlenty jabs Sarah Palin over 'crosshairs'

[cali]

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 1/11/11 6:25 AM EST Updated: 1/11/11 10:42 AM EST

Possible Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty took a jab at Sarah Palin, saying he wouldn’t have used gun crosshairs to target Rep Gabrielle Giffords and others.

“It would not have been my style to put the crosshairs on there,” he said on Good Morning America on Tuesday, referring to a map like the one posted last year on Sarah PAC’s website showing crosshairs on Giffords and other lawmakers who supported health care reform.


“But then again, there’s no evidence to suggest that had anything to do with this mentally unstable person’s rage and senseless acts.”

“I wouldn’t have done it,” the former Minnesota governor told The New York Times on Monday when asked if he would have created a map like the one posted last year on Sarah PAC’s website showing crosshairs on lawmakers who supported health care reform.

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[Urban Prairie]

1. Doesn't matter, Timmy

You and those of your ilk would render over a third of the nation homeless and starving, if you could get away with it.

[cali]

2. true enough, but it matters. It helps splinter the right when comments like this are made

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Translation: Having it both ways.

"I wouldn't have done it," to those Repubs who see themselves as too sophisticated for a Sarah Palin-type, "But there's no evidence that it helped cause a mentally unstable person's acts," to those Repubs who don't. In conclusion, "Wherever you stand, I'd like ALL your votes. Thank you"

[Peregrine Took]

4. Hahhaha - the Freeps are going after him. Love it.

He's clever enough to know he has to separate himself from the loons and crazies if he has a ghost of a chance for national office.