Earlier this week Tim Pawlenty (We call him Tpaw) said to Minnesota Public Radio that he thought Donald Trump sometimes used bad language but that he’s done great things for America.
This is the same Tpaw that called Trump unhinged, unfit, and uninformed when Trump was running for election to the Presidency.
Here’s what Tpaw told MPR’s Cathy Wurzer:
“And those comments that I made were after the TMZ Hollywood tapes. I was concerned on my own behalf and on behalf of my daughters and my wife and many others that shared that concern about some of the language that he used relative to women. And so I spoke strongly about that.”
“Since then, I of course admire and appreciate and respect a lot of what he's done on policy, in terms of his role as president and his time as president. But like a lot of Republicans, and I think many other Minnesotans, I'm concerned sometimes about his behavior and his language. But in terms of his policy priorities and areas of focus, I agree with many of them, most of them.”
So, like so many Republicans, Tpaw is ok with The Donald insulting and degrading women as long as they get their tax cut.
While Tpaw was telling MPR how much he respects what Donald Trump has done another American of dubious moral character was in Texas telling the Baptists about the wonders of the Trumpian Presidency.
"You know, the President likes to say, in his words, that we're a Nation of faith," Vice President Pence told the 161st session of the Southern Baptist Convention . "The truth is, Southern Baptists have always worked to bring about renewal of America, and new beginnings. And as I stand before you today, I believe that our Nation is in the midst of a time of renewal."
Pence, in particular, told the gathered Christians how proud he was that Donald Trump stood up for the sanctity of life.
The Baptists applauded that comment because they understood what it meant. It was a political dog whistle, as they say.
Do you know in what way The Donald has stood up for the sanctity of life?
While Tpaw was saying how much he admired the policies of The Donald and the sycophant Pence was telling the Baptists that America was in the midst of a renewal, especially because Trumpians respect the sanctity of life, Marco Antonio Munoz hung himself in his Starr County Texas jail cell with his sweater.
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| Marco Antonio Munoz |
A few days earlier United States Border Patrol Agents forcibly removed Mr. Munoz’ three year old child from his arms. Munoz was simply asking that these agents of Donald Trump protect his baby son and his family from the murderous criminals that now rule Honduras with the permission of the United States.
A renewal indeed!
I once visited with a Salvadoran couple on the U.S./Mexican border. This young couple had fled El Salvador in fear of their lives. As they crossed Mexico everything they owned was stolen. Then when there no more to steal the man was held at gun point while his wife was repeatedly raped. They stumbled on. She was raped before him again. Finally they reached the border river. They were naked. Their clothes had been stolen. They crossed the river and were rescued by a church group. When we met them the woman’s therapy was to tell her story. And again. Her eyes were dead and she would let no one touch her. But somehow she had not given up.
I have no reason to believe Mexican criminals are less cruel today then they were before. Mr. Munoz and his family suffered like the Salvadoran couple did certainly. And then Donald Trumps agents kidnapped his child.
We are all soiled by Pence’s renewal and Pawlenty’s respect.
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