By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 1/11/11 6:25 AM EST Updated: 1/11/11 10:42 AM EST
Possible Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty took a jab at Sarah Palin, saying he wouldn’t have used gun crosshairs to target Rep Gabrielle Giffords and others.
“It would not have been my style to put the crosshairs on there,” he said on Good Morning America on Tuesday, referring to a map like the one posted last year on Sarah PAC’s website showing crosshairs on Giffords and other lawmakers who supported health care reform.
“But then again, there’s no evidence to suggest that had anything to do with this mentally unstable person’s rage and senseless acts.”
“I wouldn’t have done it,” the former Minnesota governor told The New York Times on Monday when asked if he would have created a map like the one posted last year on Sarah PAC’s website showing crosshairs on lawmakers who supported health care reform.
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