Tim Pawlenty can win the youth vote if he sticks with his Charlie Sheen and Lady Gaga jokes, according to Stephen Colbert.
In a recent speech to college Republicans, Pawlenty said that Obama had tricked young voters into supporting him by making campaign promises he has not delivered on. Pawlenty then made a series of pop culture references — such as saying that, like Charlie Sheen, Republicans would be doing a lot of “winning” next year — in an appeal to his young crowd.
“Yes, Obama duped young people by not doing every single thing they want,” Colbert said on his show Tuesday night. “So now, they’ll all vote Republican.”
“It’s like when I want some bread, I won’t settle for half a loaf. Instead, I will have a muffin made of broken glass.”
Colbert then brought out an “average Republican youth” — a middle-aged man who skateboarded into the studio wearing a baseball cap and — and asked him what he thought about Pawlenty.
“Radical,” the young Republican, Glenn, responded.
“Why won’t [Obama] get jiggy with this budget, and say I’m too sexy with the deficit?” Glenn added.
Watch the video below:
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