“Now, we may not in this room have ‘tiger blood’ like he does, but we do have something else in common with him. There’s going to be a lot of winning on the Republican side in 2012.”
– Former Minnesota governor and potential GOP presidential contender Tim Pawlently, trying to identify with college students by making reference to Charlie Sheen in his keynote address at an Iowa College Republicans event in Des Moines on Friday. According to Radio Iowa’s Kay Henderson, T-Paw also tried to make the crowd laugh with a Lady Gaga joke about President Obama‘s relationship with Republicans being something like a “bad romance”. That attempt was less successful.

