Easy, buddy

Seriously, Mike, ease up. After the horrible stories that DFL candidates have had in the media in the past couple of weeks, this isn't helping. The first rule of finding yourself in a hole is stop digging, and you are forgetting that.

Plus, nobody likes a candidate with no sense of humor. It's a parking ticket! Laugh it off. Joke about how if reporters keep on digging, they are going to discover his last place finish in a karaoke contest twenty years ago.

Voters don't like Pawlenty and Republicans in general. Democrats, give voters a reason to like you. It isn't all that hard!