Rand Paul’s Snarky Tweet On Education Reform Misspells ‘Frienship’

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks with the media at the Peppermill restaurant Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, in Las Vegas. Paul is a possible Republican presidential candidate. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took a jab on Twitter at former Govs. Jeb Bush (R) and Mitt Romney (R) over Common Core on Thursday but goofed it up with a misspelling.

In anticipation of a reported private meeting between Bush and Romney, Paul joked on Twitter that Romney would give Bush a Common Core friendship band to Bush, who has championed the academic standards, a favorite target of conservative Republicans. But Paul misspelled “frienship” in his tweet.

The spelling error wasn’t lost on Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell who poked right back at Paul.

Paul’s twitter deleted the tweet and resent a new one with the correctly spelled word.

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  1. Oh hell, I got nuthin besides the obvious.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    OMG, he’s modifying clip art…

  3. At least we know he did not plagiarize something this time.

  4. And in other weird-ass news:

    A group of concerned scientists just moved up the Doomsday Clock closer to our collective mass annihilation, to 3 minutes to midnight, due to recent concerns over man-made climate change, and ongoing denial by all these political jackasses. Good times. Let’s enjoy 'em while we got 'em people.

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