TOP 20 ALL-TIME STUPID REPUBLICAN QUOTES

[TheCoxwain]

Found this on daily kos -- worth a read

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/22/223842/31



20. The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing." --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on criticism of his management of the Iraq war

19. If you’ve seen one city slum, you’ve seen them all.-- Spiro Agnew

18. A good many things creep around in the dark besides Santa Claus.--" Herbert Hoover, US President

17."I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire." --California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

16. Capital punishment is our way of demonstrating the sanctity of life."-- Orrin Hatch

15. It’s like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here." --Alan Keyes, on the Chicago neighborhood he chose to rent in after moving to the state to run for the U.S. Senate

14. If you think the United States has stood still, who would have built the largest shopping center in the world?-- Richard M. Nixon

13. It may come as a shock to you who live out in the real world, but occasionally we do something up here. Not often, I admit, but sometimes. For example, I think the House has passed National Peach Month so far this year and we expect to act on it soon." --Senate Majority Leader (and Presidential candidate) Robert Dole of Kansas in 1982

12."If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.—Gerald Ford (on Nixon and Watergate)

11.The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory---George Herbert Walker Bush

10. Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. They may say they don’t like but from my experience I know they like it.-- Richard Nixon

9. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?" --Sen. Rick Santorum

8.These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes. President Eisenhower commenting on racial segregationalists after the Brown vs. Board of Ed decision.

7. "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable, and we're going to do something about it" --President George W. Bush

6. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But I didn't live in this century." Vice President Dan Quayle

5. "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."--Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, testifying before Congress
(Quick! Somebody phone Al Gonzalez and tell him there were no phones or electricity during the Washington and Lincoln administrations)

4. I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people." -- Attorney General John Ashcroft

3. I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."- Vice President Dan Quayle

1. Hmmm, uhh, hah -- ummm -- I, the answer is -- I haven't really thought of it that way, heh, heh. Heh. Here's how I think of it. Ummm -- heh heh. First I've heard of that, by the way, I, ah -- uhh -- the, uhh -- I, I guess I'm more of a practical fella. Uhh. I vowed after September the 11th that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. And, uhh -- my attitude, of course, was affected by the attacks.ha ha ...ummm Let me see... I knew we were at a war. I knew that the enemy, obviously, had to be sophisticated, and lethal, to fly hijacked airplanes, uhh, into -- facilities that would, we would, killing thousands of people, innocent people, doin' nothing, just sittin' there goin' to work."--President George W Bush, after being asked if the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism are signs of the apocalypse

[uppityperson]

1. Great list and I have got another by mrbush (not a bushism)

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

[tavalon]

25. A liar from the git go, eh?

[mrcheerful]

2. Has a conservative ever said anything smart?

[samsingh]

14. No - conservatives are stupid morons, terrified of their shadows

smelly, whiny and disgusting. they are traitors to freedom and hypocrites.

i am not being over the top here. conservatives will say and do anything - lie through their teeth - for more money or to keep other people from benefiting. conservatives are the filth of the planet and the enablers of evil.

[KansDem]

29. C'mon, don't sugarcoat it. Let us know how you really feel!

;)

[krispos42]

3. Only two each from Bush and Qualye?

And the Gonzo quote is priceless!

[Hav]

4. .

I almost forgot what a creep Santorum is.

[Winterblues]

5. I find the quote by Ashcroft unbelievable

It just doesn't ring true..

[lakercub]

15. I'm with you

I looked it up online...and the only place I could find that quote was on lists of quotes like this list. I can't find any original source, and I doubt very much there is one. Ashcroft would never have called it illegal out loud.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Number 4 is quite scary

and Number 12 is right on the money--Lincoln, after all, was an intelligent, decent, and honest person. He wouldn't recognize the Republican Party of today.

[sufrommich]

7. I have to believe that Dole (#13) was being sarcastic. nt

[TheCoxwain]

8. I laughed my backside off on 3)

[ChickMagic]

9. LOL

11.The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory---George Herbert Walker Bush

Yes, George. We want to perform aural sex on you.

[happydreams]

10. "If the American people where to ever find out what we have done", said GHW Bush.....

"we would have been chased down in the streets and lynched".

quoted in Sarah McClendon newsletter (1992)

[Echo In Light]

17. Yes. I recall that one! Plus, the elder Bush's infamous "NWO" references in speeches

[HughBeaumont]

11. I think the only reason there were no Reagan quotes . . .

. . . is that Dutch could have his own WING in the Stupid Quote Hall of Lame:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6106690

[valerief]

12. Great list. Here's Quayle's list.

http://barelybad.com/quayle_allquotes.txt.htm

[happydreams]

13. Bush and Goebbels quotes

"Americans are asking ``Why do they hate us?'' They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. " George W. Bush, 20 September, 2001

<http://www.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/national/2001/sept11/transcripts/0921bush.html>


From Goebbels' New Year address to Germany


They hate our people because it is decent, brave, industrious, hardworking and intelligent. They hate our views, our social policies, and our accomplishments. They hate us as a Reich and as a community. They have forced us into a struggle for life and death. We will defend ourselves accordingly. All is clear between us and our enemies. Goebbels 31 December 1939

<http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb21.htm>

[LynnTheDem]

18. Duhhhhbya vs Einstein

"Peace can never be achieved by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." Albert Einstein

"If you wanna keep the peace, you gotta have the authorization to use force." George W. Bush

[lpbk2713]

16. "That's working quite well for them." ... Babs (aka Mother of all that is Evil)

I don't remember ... Gonzo

We could go on all day with quotes from Shit-for-Brains and just a couple of the RW Media Hatemongers.

[needledriver]

19. No electricity?

5. "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."--Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, testifying before Congress
(Quick! Somebody phone Al Gonzalez and tell him there were no phones or electricity during the Washington and Lincoln administrations)

Quick, somebody tell TheCoxwain that telegraphy by Morse Code over electric wires was invented in the 1840's! During the Civil War, you could intercept messages by listening in on the wire. That qualifies as the first example of "electronic surveillance".

It doesn't diminish the absurdity of the quote - I doubt that Lincoln specifically "authorized" it - but if the truth is going to have a well known liberal bias, the least we can do is get the facts right.

[TheCoxwain]

20. Do doubt if it existed during Washington's time

[damntexdem]

23. I dunno -- was Franklin's flying of his kite really electronic surveilance?

That's the key to it.

[zbdent]

21. well, it must be true ...

no debunking by snopes ... yet ...

[damntexdem]

22. I think #13 is sarcasm. It sure sounds like it.

But don't excise it, just use it as a place holder -- I'm sure the GOP will come up with something else soon that you'll need a space for.

[tavalon]

24. That Kossack must have had a hell of a time culling it down to twenty

My hats off to the Daily Kos reader!

[Better Today]

26. The entire speech by Sen Grassley with his legends and storytales

and cartoon cutouts ranks #1 for me right now. I mean really, comparing real life issues to fairy tales and fantasy stories?

[Bucky]

27. I'm not sure I see the stupidity of the Hoover quote.

I appreciate the attempt at creating some historical balance in this collection, but is the OP seriously suggesting Santa Claus doesn't sneak around in the dark? I mean, remember, back in the 1920s there weren't as many streetlights in most cities.

[LeftishBrit]

28. Great!

Here are two from British Tories:

Maggie Thatcher: Every Prime Minister needs a Willie (actually referring to her Deputy PM Willie Whitelaw, but could have been put better!)

Bob Dunn, Tory MP in the 1980s: My Honourable friend may like feeling himself, but I prefer to hold it in my hand! (I *think* he meant he preferred facts to emotions, but....)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

30. Thanks to my palm, I no longer have a face.

Sweet Spirit of Nitre that's some powerful stupid.

[BreweryYardRat]

31. Was that Eisenhower quote intended to be sarcasm?

Anyone have an actual recording of it where we could hear his tone of voice?