We're not really sure how he did it, but last night on Fox News Pawlenty decided to one up the other Republican candidates by assuring the Fox audience that he was the first person to call for a no-fly zone.
We have a situation where I called for a no-fly zone, I think one of the earliest, maybe the earliest person to do it, some weeks ago.There you have Pawlenty's problem in one quote. He's a milquetoast candidate trying to distinguish himself enough from the rest of the pack. As The Hill explained, his strategy is to win by process of elimination, the least bad of a pretty poor field of candidates. It's uninspiring but to distinguish himself he's going to exagerate his record when he's on the stump or when he's giving television interviews and it's going to be a pretty damaging meme.
Tim Pawlenty, Real Man of Genius (TM).