Pawlenty Now Card Carrying Lunatic Fringer

Here we go. Governor Pawlenty has just declared himself to be a card-carrying member of the lunatic fringe.

If it were not so clearly true, what Mencken said, that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American populace, you'd have to expect that the GOP was well on its way to marginalizing itself completely, but the ability of sharp practicers to use Goebbellian propaganda techniques to get millions of people to strongly believe all kinds of nonsense that's totally inimical to their own interests is demonstrably real.