Favorite Dumbass Republican Quotes

This site has a "match the quote to the Republican" quiz:

http://www.pledge-drive.com/lesterandcharliesurvey.html

Snip:



Something tells me that the DU crowd has a lot of favorites - from Hoover to Reagan and Quayle to Palin.

Let's hear 'em!

"Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."

(Clearly the studies she was looking at were conducted by trees.)

and let her see how CO2 is not "harmful" ...

"Not all creatures are created equal."

"And what a bizarre time we're in, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it."

"If we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."

...is a dolt. "I support the women's movement, especially when I'm walking behind it." Well, he can ogle my ass if he must, as long as I don't have to return the favor.

-If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

"To waste it."

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."

And of course, if you teach a child to read, he'll pass a literacy test!

Starting with:

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles."

That packets of "Ketchup were a vegetable" ??

He also had this to say about the hippies:

"They dress like Tarzan have hair like Jane and smell like Cheetah...."

And Ronald Reagan, back in his California governor days - before the media went all amnesiac and soft-focus on him - thus mocked the insurgent hippies of Berkeley: "They dress like Tarzan, have hair like Jane, and smell like Cheetah."

http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Was-President-Reagan-briefed-about-extraterrestrial-life

Raygun's administration did try to get ketchup and relish classified as a vegetable so they could save billions on school lunch programs for poor kids. So even though he didn't actually say it, his evil henchmen were trying to make it happen for very nefarious reasons and only abandoned the effort after quite a bit of public embarrassment.

Evidently happened while he was flying in a commerical airliner --

UFO was sighted by Reagan -- and other passengers -- and I think Captain?

And if I recall correctly stayed with the plane for a long time -- 1 hour?

...(though I could be wrong on that).

IIRC, it came up through regulations or guidelines on school lunches: what counted as servings of meat, vegetables, etc.
The Reaganites came into office, and suddenly ketchup was on the vegetable list.

More from Wikipedia:


full article at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking
about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."


George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Aug. 5, 2004


Who knew? It turns out he really meant it. :shrug:

Most people wanted to shrug off his comments(like the one about being a dictator) as a joke.

He meant every word...if we could ever get a decent translator :evilgrin:

to be here in the great state of Chicago"
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

... but traveled a lot. I can't tell you how many times people said "is that in Chicago???"

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. "

"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."


http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2006/06/your_own_person/

I miss Ted.

I went and read the whole thing.
I was sure I was reading something from the early 90's (that might at least be understood), but nope - 2006.

At least he kept up with the latest technology. :)

  No, she!  Yes, right, second row.  Next to the guy in the blue shirt, holding her left hand up.  It's a he?  Sorry about that.  Gotta be careful.  I'm very sorry.  Go ahead! I'm, excuse me, I'm very sorry. Go, ah, I, a thousand apologies, go ahead."
- George Bush Sr., Former U.S. President, at a press conference

"Inflating your tires helps big oil."

"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."

"I want to repeal the New Deal."

Quotes hijacked from "Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error" by Mark Green & Gail MacColl
http://www.amazon.com/Reagans-Reign-Error-Mark-Green/dp/0394756444

Reaganomics:
"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time, May 17, 1976

Get'cher "Flip-Flopping" Here!:
"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965

"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966

Dept. of "What do you mean 'our', white man?":
"The moral equal of our Founding Fathers."
President Reagan, describing the Nicaraguan contras, March 1, 1985

The Friendly Grandpa:
"A faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
Ronald Reagan, 1965. (Reagan describing Medicaid recipients.)

The Modern Republican:
"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
California Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1966

The Boehner Award Winner for Outstanding Work Ethic:
"They told stories about how inattentive and inept the President was.... They said he wouldn't come to work--all he wanted to do was to watch movies and television at the residence."
Jim Cannon (an aide to Howard Baker) reporting what Reagan's underlings told him, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President: 1984-88

"Reagan's only contribution throughout the entire hour and a half was to interrupt somewhere at midpoint to tell us he'd watched a movie the night before, and he gave us the plot from WarGames, the movie. That was his only contribution."
Lee Hamilton (Representative from Indiana) interviewed by Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife."

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), advocating a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in a speech Thursday to the Heritage Foundation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43048-2004Jul11.html

"So to sum this up, it will take 2/3 of both houses + 2/3 of the states to say that 2 straight parents are better than two gay parents which is equal to a guy screwing a turtle."

I had not read/heard that one, it is priceless and, as usual, Stewart sums it up perfectly!

:rofl:

"They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God. This is an affront to God."

you're willing to kill." George W. Bush May 19, 2003

Maine Senator Collins, the supposedly moderate Republican who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, fumed about the pandemic funding: "Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we should not."

Even now (after the influenza pandemic has spread worldwide), Collins continues to use her official website to highlight the fact that she led the fight to strip the pandemic preparedness money out of the Senate's version of the stimulus measure.

More, including mocking video here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/gop-stripped-flu-pandemic_n_191732.html

by G.W. Bush:

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen
And uncertainty
And potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the internet
Become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish
Can coexist.

Families is where our nation finds hope
Where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher!
Make the pie higher!

OK, you made that up ... genius. I wish everyone could read this!

Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base.” -- George W. Bush

Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? - Barbara Bush