Pawlenty recycles gags during Iowa visit
Monday, August 02, 2010 at 9:29 am
- 5 Comments
It was Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s fifth visit to Iowa in less than a year, but that’s not why some may have gotten a sense of déjà vu. It’s his repeated use of a line from the movie “Talledega Nights” to describe his wife, Mary. At a GOP event in Waverly, Iowa — as at a gathering of Iowa Republicans last November and at the Minnesota State Fair — he called the First Lady his “red-hot smokin’ wife.”
Mary Pawlenty said last December that she liked her husband’s word choice (he didn’t use the film character Ricky Bobby’s other descriptor, “stone cold fox”). This time, the governor and possible 2012 presidential candidate added: “Who, when they’re turning 50, doesn’t like to be called a red-hot smoking wife?”
A few other lines might’ve felt familiar to Hawkeye State Republicans as well:
On federal spending: “Watch the behavior of people at an open bar versus a cash bar. It is very different. That’s all you need to know about government. If you have an open bar, you’re going to have one set of behaviors, and we’ve got to get back — at least partially — to a cash bar.” (Used at the Minnesota State GOP Convention, April 30, 2010)
On why he believes Democrats have struggled creating jobs: “It’s pretty tough to be pro-job and anti-business. That’s like being pro-egg and anti-chicken. It doesn’t work so well.” (Used at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., Mar. 2, 2009)
Look for the Iowa Independent’s coverage of Pawlenty’s visit here tomorrow.
5 Comments
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 11:08 am
Barf.
When Pawlenty said he couldn’t get his wife to have sex with him, the only reasonable response is can you blame her? Who’d want to? He’s already screwed the entire state of Minnesota.
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
When Pawlenty told talked about his hot wife the first time, I figured he’s a sometimes funny guy, and everyone who tries to be funny falls flat once in a while. No biggie. But he keeps saying it? Does he have that little sense? Or is it his audiences that have that little sense?
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 12:45 pm
That “red hot smokin hot wife” comment ripped off from the movie “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” — about a NASCAR driver.
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/talladeganights/
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
“That’s like being pro-egg and anti-chicken. It doesn’t work so well.”
He just described the conservative reproductive rights policy.
It’s more than a little hard to grow an economy when you are pro-business but anti-everything else.
“Keep the golden eggs but don’t feed the goose” is not a policy that results in a healthy economy, which is why we have been spending hundreds of billions on life support while conservatives keep putting the cart before the horse.
Making sure someone feeds the geese and horses of the economy is a constitutional responsibility of government. You can find it in the preamble under “promote the general Welfare” in the list of reasons to have a government. Our government.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
