Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Timmy Pawlenty is reportedly claiming that Michele Bachmann (aka “Krazy”) has a “nonexistent” record of accomplishment during her three terms in Congress; and so the GOTP political version of the Donner Party begins.

Pawlenty, who’s lagging far behind Bachmann in both polling (currently 8 points down nationally) and in fundraising, said that as a former Minnesota governor, he has executive experience and achieved results under challenging circumstances, whereas Krazy has done little to nothing in 6 years in the Congress.

To claim Krazy has done nothing is a bit harsh Timmy; she’s been very busy making wild accusations about the President’s birth and religion, lying about receiving income from a family farm and demonstrating how little she knows about U.S. history.

Concerning polls – all of which show him as a non-candidate – Pawlenty reportedly told this morning’s NBC’s “Meet the Press” that early polls aren’t good indicators of anything.

Well, sure they are Timmy; they’re an indicator of how almost no one on the right cares you’re in the race.

Timmy also reportedly said that over the next 60 days (the Iowa GOTP straw poll is on 13 August) he needed to show “significant progress,” and that he was going to prevail in that poll.

Well, on the first point Timmy is correct. He’s going to have to show some real “significant progress” very soon or it’s all over; if it was ever a race to begin with.

On the second point, yeah, that ain’t going to happen. It’s one thing to be a dreamer, but thinking you’re going to prevail in a straw poll in just over a month when you’re 16 percentage points behind the leaders (Romney 24%, and Bachmann 23%) is just being delusional. Truth is Timmy you were never a serious contender, and when you’re not even competitive against someone like Bachmann, well, yeah, you’re done. Timmy, you’ll be lucky if you’re still in this race by Labor Day.