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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • November 27, 2012

    "The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates. [The new Florida law shortening the early voting period was] done for one reason and one reason only...'We've got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us.'"
    -- Jim Greer, former head of the Florida Republican Party

    "The only thing that makes any sense as to why this is happening and being done is voter suppression...It's frankly unconscionable."
    -- former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist

  • November 26, 2012

    "I would submit that scientists cannot tell us the age of the earth. The only way we can know the age of the earth is if we have eyewitness testimony of somebody who was there."
    -- Dr. Terry Mortenson, who has a Phd in the history of geology

  • November 21, 2012

    "I liked it the way it was. It's not going to be like that anymore."
    -- Dennis Miller on America

  • November 19, 2012

    "I'm not a scientist, man...Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."
    -- Marco Rubio

  • November 17, 2012

    "It all makes sense now, gay marriage and marijuana being legalized in Washington State on the same day. Leviticus 20:13: If a man lays with another man he should be stoned. We were just interpreting it wrong."
    -- recent Internet meme

  • November 16, 2012

    "She is an extremely good-looking woman. She is a marathon runner. She runs Iron Man triathlons. So she's out running with him and she's writing a biography. I think the term is 'propinquity.' There was a lot of propinquity going on. I mean, who knows. The man's off in a foreign land, and he's lonely. And here's a good-looking lady throwing herself at him. I mean, he's a man."
    -- Pat Robertson on the Petraeus-Broadwell affair

  • November 15, 2012

    "When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want."
    -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 2009

    "Using the Obama administration's own We the People website, nearly two dozen petitions have sprung up asking the Obama administration for permission to withdraw from the Union. The two most popular petitions, Texas and Louisiana, have both drawn more than 10,000 signatures each."
    -- from Politico story

    "If it means having no more presidents from Texas, it should be granted."
    -- from Comment on that story

  • November 14, 2012

    "Stop being the stupid party."
    -- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to his fellow Republicans

  • November 13, 2012

    "If another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue."
    -- former George W. Bush adviser Karen Hughes

  • November 12, 2012

    "The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head."
    -- Grover Norquist