Typical for moderates. Jack Thompson has a great story over at Human Events of what went down at the Republican Governors Conference. What it boils down to is envy of Sarah Palin. Governors like Pawlenty of MN, Crist of FL and Perry of TX got their noses out of joint because support was high for the conservative message from Palin and Sanford (SC) during the conference. For the wishy washy moderates? Not so much. Apparently the media turned out in large numbers for this conference because of Palin and those moderates weren’t too happy that Gov Palin was so popular. Pawlenty and Perry came off as jerks with their panties in a knot. Boo hoo!

Pawlenty in Miami was publicly angry, agitated, and even cranky, possibly because he found himself at odds with the far more conservative tone of every other speaker here. Hundreds of RGA members, who paid thousands of dollars to attend this Conference, wildly applauded “red meat� conservative pronouncements by speakers and not the more moderate and conservative-jabbing words by Pawlenty. And then there’s his “Palin problem,� real or imagined, that hit the fan yesterday in front of the national media, possibly upon the insistence of Pawlenty himself, as the above-reported comments to CNN by an anonymous presidential aspirant indicate.

Don’t miss reading the comments, Jack Thompson adds more info in the comments in response to some of the commenters.

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