Robert, Pawlenty’s understanding of theology, history, and golf-club weaponry is what it is, but when I read that the governor “appealed to the tea-party movement, calling its critics a ‘brie-eating’ elite from ‘Ivy League schools’ who don’t like ‘Sam’s Club Republicans’ who ‘actually like shopping at places like Wal-Mart,’” I thought just one thing: The guy’s a phony.

And patronizing, too. Good grief.