The Plank

Pawlenty Courts the NASCAR Vote

... by quoting Talladega Nights at an Iowa GOP fundraiser:

Thank you, Lord, for my red-hot, smokin’ wife.

I know T-Paw is pushing his "regular guy" appeal as he positions himself for 2012, but this seems rather to overshoot the mark. No word on whether he also promised to come at Barack Obama "like a spider monkey."

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