Political Quotes: Kiss My Grits
I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me."
~ Mitt Romney, in Pacagoula, Mississippi quoted on Huffington Post
"He (Romney) had blue jeans on, he likes grits. I like to see a man when he’s holding a baby, and he looks like he’s held a baby before.”
~ Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on important reasons to vote for Romney quoted on WSJ Blog. The Gov possibly forgot that Romney has five children and around 15 grandchildren.
"Unlike one of my competitors, I have had grits before....I figure if you don’t understand grits there’s a pretty high likelihood that you don’t understand the rest of the South either."
~ Newt Gingrich in Mobile, Alabama, quoted on MSNBC
"There must be nobody left at Walmart this afternoon.”
~ Newt Gingrich, remarking on a large crowd in Dothan, Alabama, also quoted on MSNBC
Mitt is doing great with voters who describe themselves as being 'totally freaked out by Rick Santorum.'”
~ Conan O’Brien
There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due respect to governor Romney, who is obviously the frontrunner... he's not garnering a lot of that enthusiasm right now.
~ Sarah Palin on Fox Business
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"There is no question as to the fact that Israel is the promised land. That's what the Bible tells us. My guess is, other lands are promised to other people."
~ Mitt Romney on the "Rick and Bubba Show" in Birmingham when asked if America is the promised land, quoted on CBS News
"People say, 'Well what’s gonna be the most important, oh jobs, jobs, jobs.' Well maybe not. We’ve got a country in the Middle East that’s about, potentially about to explode a nuclear weapon, which would change the face of our Earth."
~ Rick Santorum, speaking to Missouri voters, quoted on MSNBC
They're not hiding the ball any more at all, guys. God bless them, they're saying exactly what they believe. This is going to be the starkest choice the American public is going to make in a long, long time.
~ Vice President, Joe Biden, from a speech in Florida, quoted on Political Ruminations
Oh, there is Hope for our Nation again
Maybe the First time Since we Had Ronald Reagan
There will be Justice for the Unborn
Factories back on our Shores
Where the Constitution rules our land
Yes, I Believe... Rick Santorum is our Man!
GAME ON! Change is at hand
Faithful to his Wife and Seven Kids - He'll be Loyal to our land
~ Song by the homeschooling Harris Family of Oklahoma, Video Here. No word yet on whether these kids actually study the Constitution in their home, but they might want to look into that. Perhaps they should stick to music.
The election of President Obama seems to have pushed the far-right wing of the GOP across some sort of political event horizon and into its own version of Wonderland. Like Lewis Carroll's original, this Conservative Wonderland is home to all sorts of strange creatures - Randologists, goldbugs, neo-Confederates, birthers, science deniers, and sundry survivalist bunker denizens.
~ Editorial in the Shreveport Times entitled "Republicans Through the Looking Glass"
The problem is not a conservative talk show host, but conservatism itself as presently construed. It has become a landfill. Limbaugh is just a seagull circling the top.
~ Leonard Pitts Jr. from a column on Lubbock Online
Suggestions for "What's in Rush Limbaugh's Heart" from Comedy Central's Indecision Forever Blog
~ Mitt Romney, in Pacagoula, Mississippi quoted on Huffington Post
"He (Romney) had blue jeans on, he likes grits. I like to see a man when he’s holding a baby, and he looks like he’s held a baby before.”
~ Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on important reasons to vote for Romney quoted on WSJ Blog. The Gov possibly forgot that Romney has five children and around 15 grandchildren.
"Unlike one of my competitors, I have had grits before....I figure if you don’t understand grits there’s a pretty high likelihood that you don’t understand the rest of the South either."
~ Newt Gingrich in Mobile, Alabama, quoted on MSNBC
"There must be nobody left at Walmart this afternoon.”
~ Newt Gingrich, remarking on a large crowd in Dothan, Alabama, also quoted on MSNBC
Mitt is doing great with voters who describe themselves as being 'totally freaked out by Rick Santorum.'”
~ Conan O’Brien
There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due respect to governor Romney, who is obviously the frontrunner... he's not garnering a lot of that enthusiasm right now.
~ Sarah Palin on Fox Business
Read More
"There is no question as to the fact that Israel is the promised land. That's what the Bible tells us. My guess is, other lands are promised to other people."
~ Mitt Romney on the "Rick and Bubba Show" in Birmingham when asked if America is the promised land, quoted on CBS News
"People say, 'Well what’s gonna be the most important, oh jobs, jobs, jobs.' Well maybe not. We’ve got a country in the Middle East that’s about, potentially about to explode a nuclear weapon, which would change the face of our Earth."
~ Rick Santorum, speaking to Missouri voters, quoted on MSNBC
They're not hiding the ball any more at all, guys. God bless them, they're saying exactly what they believe. This is going to be the starkest choice the American public is going to make in a long, long time.
~ Vice President, Joe Biden, from a speech in Florida, quoted on Political Ruminations
Oh, there is Hope for our Nation again
Maybe the First time Since we Had Ronald Reagan
There will be Justice for the Unborn
Factories back on our Shores
Where the Constitution rules our land
Yes, I Believe... Rick Santorum is our Man!
GAME ON! Change is at hand
Faithful to his Wife and Seven Kids - He'll be Loyal to our land
~ Song by the homeschooling Harris Family of Oklahoma, Video Here. No word yet on whether these kids actually study the Constitution in their home, but they might want to look into that. Perhaps they should stick to music.
The election of President Obama seems to have pushed the far-right wing of the GOP across some sort of political event horizon and into its own version of Wonderland. Like Lewis Carroll's original, this Conservative Wonderland is home to all sorts of strange creatures - Randologists, goldbugs, neo-Confederates, birthers, science deniers, and sundry survivalist bunker denizens.
~ Editorial in the Shreveport Times entitled "Republicans Through the Looking Glass"
The problem is not a conservative talk show host, but conservatism itself as presently construed. It has become a landfill. Limbaugh is just a seagull circling the top.
~ Leonard Pitts Jr. from a column on Lubbock Online
Suggestions for "What's in Rush Limbaugh's Heart" from Comedy Central's Indecision Forever Blog
- The lingering ghosts of now-departed sponsors
- So many pills
- Tin foil
- The creepy twins from The Shining
- Delicious candy, because he's a pinata
- Voldemort's horcrux
- Lard. Nothing but lard.