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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • January 10, 2012

    "With regards to their ads, I haven't seen them."
    -- Mitt Romney on super PAC anti-Gingrich ads
    "The ad I saw said that you'd been forced out of the speakership. That was correct."
    -- Romney, moments later

  • January 09, 2012

    "We're going to see Iran move back in at literally the speed of light."
    -- Rick Perry on Iraq

  • January 07, 2012

    "Middle class? There are no classes in America. We don't put people in classes."
    -- Rick Santorum

  • January 06, 2012

    "It's probably that I'm too reasonable. And I should've responded to the negative ads sooner."
    -- Newt Gingrich, asked what his greatest weakness is

  • January 05, 2012

    "I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today."
    -- Newt Gingrich, on two early American hemp-growers

  • January 03, 2012

    "I think Tuesday night people are going to see a miracle."
    -- Michele Bachmann

  • December 31, 2011

    "I can't do modern politics."
    -- Newt Gingrich

  • December 30, 2011

    "I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented. It's a worldview and it's godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they've been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: they don't respect human rights...Columbine, remember that? They were believers in evolution. That's evidence right there."
    -- NH state Rep. Jerry Bergevin, on his bill requiring schools to include evolution scientists' positions on atheism

  • December 28, 2011

    "Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source."
    -- Gov. Rick Perry

  • December 26, 2011

    "How long do you think Sean Hannity's show would last if four times in one sentence, he made a comment about, say, the President of the United States, and said that he looked like a skinny, ghetto crackhead? Which, by the way, you might want to say that Barack Obama does."
    -- pundit Brent Bozell, criticizing Chris Matthews' characterization of Newt Gingrich as looking "like a car bomber"