Tim Pawlenty: Time For Lies

So, Pawlenty's chosen his first little slogan of the campaign--"A Time for Truth." He repeated 'true' and it's cognates like mantras in the speech announcing his candidacy in Iowa. Like so many such slogans--e.g. McCain/Palin's "Putting Country First," the slogan is meant to indirectly assert that the other guys don't do it--don't put country first, don't tell the truth, etc.

Unfortunately, his announcement speech turns out--predictably--to have been laced with lies. Politifact even gives him a Pants-On-Fire.

I've become jaded enough that I know that I have to give every politician at least a small quota of lies, and just look the other way. And I do appreciate that Pawlenty said that ethanol subsidies had to go. But if you're going to build your campaign on the cornerstone that he's chosen, you shouldn't start off with egregious lies right off the bad. Bad form, Tim. Bad. Form.