Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota weighed in last Sunday on fellow Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina: Any time you have leading figures who are engaged in behavior that is sad and troubling and hypocritical...It certainly hurts the brand . The brand? Interesting word choice, and Republicans have been using it quite a bit lately. We all know that political parties must be sold like shampoo or a new car. Yet politics is a somewhat different commodity. The coin of its rea

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