Signature Quotes: Politics, Part 11

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"...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best." -- John Ringo, There Will Be Dragons
"remember: [the GW Bush] administration, like some horrible rightwing Schroedinger’s cat, has the capacity for both world-manipulating genius and colossal stupidity - depending upon which eye our little lefty Heisenbergs decide to keep open at any given point." -- Jeff Goldstein
PS: Anyone starting to notice that the charges leveled by the right-leaning blogosphere have this odd habit of turning out to be... oh, what's the word...? ...100% f'n' correct, every time?

What's the Daily Kos' batting average, I wonder? -- Ace of Spades HQ


Expecting the mainstream media to exercise responsibility and integrity is like expecting a trout to perform calculus.
"Try thinking of the Libertarian Party as a rolled-up newspaper, useful in making the Republican puppy (I've given up on the Democratic bitch) go where he's supposed to -- not on that beautiful antique carpet we call the Constitution." -- L. Neil Smith, Bill Clinton's Reichstag Fire
"You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit." -- Ronald Reagan
When George Washington was elected President, there was a king in France, a czarina in Russia, an emperor in China, and a shogun in Japan. Only the office of President remains.
"Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.'" -- David Letterman
"Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974." -- Jon Stewart
democrats: The party of Spin, Posturing, Demonization, Fear Mongering, Racial Division & Class Warfare.
John Kerry's '180' on Form 180 - Meet the Press, Sunday January 30, 2005: MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180? SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will.
"Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her." -- Chris Rock hosting the Oscars, 2/27/05
DailyKos, the blogosphere’s most visited temple of lefty latte chugging Howard Dean worshippers.
"People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show." -- Alan Colmes. Red, White & Liberal. pg. 112.
Attempting to smear and destroy the reputations of those with whom you politically disagree is not satire. If that were the case, Richard Nixon's Watergate plumbers would all be writing for "Saturday Night Live." -- Bill O'Reilly
I'll bet France wouldn't be trying to sell weapons to every tin pot dictator in the World if they couldn't count on the US defending them from their customers, should they ever get the imperial itch.
"More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant." -- Dick Morris
"If pro-life Democrats care about kids after they're born as well as before, it's because they're pro-life, not because they're Democrats."
"It Takes a Village of liberals to Raise a Kid With A.D.H.D., Rage Issues, and an Eating Disorder."
The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist"
"It's little wonder that, in this interview with Nancy Soderberg, [Jon Stewart] gave himself the out of "Oh, if only Bush had told us ahead of time that what he wanted was to spread democracy instead of WMDs," which is quickly becoming the 21st-century equivalent of leftists proclaiming that all of America stood against the Soviets during the Cold War." -- Joel Engel
"It's a terrible thing, apparently, to consider yourself a member of the intellectual elite driven to effete obsolescence by a cowboy. Worse, though, is to believe that you're going to have a bestseller after being a featured segment on "60 Minutes," but instead current events have consigned you to six uncomfortable minutes on the conflicted Jon Stewart show." -- Joel Engel
"Dan Rather is ready to ride off into the sunset. It's easy to do when you're chased out of town." -- Tim Goodman
"...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up." -- Andrew Sullivan
"Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he’s right about freedom’s march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It’s an idea gaining more currency." -- Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, 8 March 2005
The way Bogart and Bergman "will always have Paris," liberals now tell themselves they "will always have Iran and North Korea." No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. -- Rich Lowry
"America has done more good for the rest of the world than any other society. The single biggest gift that America has shared with the impoverished billions on our planet is hope.
At the end of the Cold War, America made an awesome strategic error: It decided to behave like an ordinary country. There is nothing inherently wrong with behaving like an ordinary country, especially a peaceful ordinary country. The only problem is that, over the course of 200 years, America had succeeded in convincing mankind that it was an extraordinary country." -- Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore’s former Ambassador to the United Nation
When Juanita Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton of rape, Helen Thomas suggested that Broaddrick, not Clinton, should be prosecuted for lying to investigators.
"The media are generally inconsistent whether military service is a campaign issue. For Bob Dole, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush, military service doesn't matter. For Max Cleland and John Kerry, military service makes them qualified for the office they are seeking." -- Peter Swanson
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage." -- President Teddy Roosevelt
It's like the Condi Rice situation, they really think they can call her "Aunt Jemima" in one breath and then talk about their "great civil rights record" in another. I guess that's all you can expect from people who think serious debate is screaming "NAZI" at anyone who disagrees with them. -- Steve
"If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act." -- Liberal Massachusetts democrat Senator John Kerry, Op-Ed, "We Still Have A Choice On Iraq," The New York Times, 9/6/02
The trouble with conspiracy theories are that they assume the government is organized.
Mainstream: the mayor of San Francisco, the voters of San Francisco and vicinity, the gerrymandered Democratic majority in the California Legislature.
Out of the mainstream: the majority of voters. -- Best of the Web
This was a case of the liberal media unwittingly aiding conservatives. The whole Vietnam issue was always going to be a loser for Kerry, but the Democrats and their allies in the media kept reassuring each other that the opposite was true. And of course the proof is that George W. Bush is now serving his second term as president, while Kerry is holding little talks in which he pathetically rails against the "submedia." -- Best of the Web
"In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to "get things done" as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers." -- David Brin
"Liberals, and the left in general, are parasites on human society. Without the power to compel others to materially support them the members of the left would be compelled either to become rational and productive beings or literally die off". -- Leslie Bates
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is." - Ronald Reagan.
"Remember: for every anti-war protester you see today marching in opposition to the introduction of democracy into the middle east, there are literally thousands of people who aren’t quite so totally fucking insane." -- Jeff Goldstein
Five Reality Checks for democrats: Bush is not an idiot. Kofi Annan is not an oracle. Michael Moore is not Everyman. Women are not ovaries with feet. And to be an American is not an embarrassment.
"Never trust anyone who calls himself a "libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best." -- Glenn Reynolds
".... And if you're going to try to lecture me on the importance of tolerance and understanding, on appreciating differences and respecting others and their opinions, then it will not help your cause to start off with a tirade on "stupid, evil, ignorant, racist, misogynic, homophobic, idiotic, bigoted religious rednecks." -- Jenna
"The Constitution expressly establishes supermajority voting requirements for authorizing treaties, proposing constitutional amendments, and other specific actions. To confirm judicial nominees, by contrast, the Constitution requires only a majority vote - as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in United States v. Ballin (1892).
"I think it’s hilarious (in a devious sort of way) that when there’s a left wing protest, Starbucks is one of the first to get the brick through their window." -- Rob
Liberals love to trumpet their own compassion and to berate conservatives for lacking same. Could it be that, for some of them, the compassionate pose is a cover for a deep heartlessness?
"When the left hears the term "regime change," and responds with anxious whimpers about "destabilization," do we not detect a hint of what Marxists call negation? Who are the radicals here?" -- Christopher Hitchens
Clay Johnson III, the deputy director for management in the White House budget office and Mr. Bush's roommate at Yale, had a simple explanation for the president's [good] mood: "He never, ever has to run for office again."
"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi. But if you enemy has no conscience, like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer." -- Martin Luther King
"Pointing to the left's success in using tax-exempt organizations to raise funds, Mr. York puts paid to the meme that Republicans are the party bankrolled by the rich. Mr. York records that 92% of contributions of $1 million or more went to Democrats. Pro-Democratic 527s, meanwhile, spent more than twice as much as their GOP counterparts. Mr. York also deflates Michael Moore's self-serving claim that "Fahrenheit 9/11" was well-received in "red state" markets. (Not even close.)" -- Jacob Laskin on "The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy"
Michael Moore is a capitalist millionaire, getting rich off left-wing suckers.
"...there are other reasons why married parents might tend to vote Republican. One is economic. Married people with children are in or approaching their peak earning years, and they need all the money they can get, for raising children is expensive. The Republican message of lower taxes is all the more compelling to a voter with mouths to feed."
If the protesters had their way, Saddam Hussein, who murdered tens of thousands of Kurds, would still rule the country.
"Moore could edit the address, if he had the original video, and make it look like Lincoln was championing the cause of slavery and states' rights, and bemoaning the outcome of the Civil War. He's a crafty editor. He's full of shit, but you have to give him credit for his one talent." -- "octopus"
Charlton Heston marched with Dr. King in Selma, Ala., before it was either Safe or Fashionable to be for civil rights.
"Michael Moore's a "common man" the same way RuPaul is a "pretty woman." He grew up in an upscale suburb, now he lives in a Manhattan Penthouse. The scruffy jeans and flannel shirts are just as much drag as RuPaul's wig and heels." -- V the K
"When Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid accuse you of arrogance, it's like being told by a pig that you stink." -- GOP consultant Mike Collins.
"I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?" -- Clint Eastwood in an interview with the New York Daily News, November 19, 1997
"Every time I grow tired of the Republicans a lefty opens his mouth, suddenly I'm not quite as tired." -- C.J. Burch
"We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself." -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937 radio address.
"When they can’t win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called "the argument from intimidation." Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence." -- Don Feder
"Pelosi is the poor man’s Joan Rivers." -- Scooter
"...you’d do Wonkette- Oh sure, you'd do the classic "I'll call you (but not really)" maneuver, but you’d want to find out if she really did have those fetishes she purports to have." -- JFH
"Not only does Karl Rove pull the strings of the evil Bushhitler regime, but he controls the Vatican as well. I bet old Karl is sitting in his office giggling like a schoolgirl about how scared the nutjob left is of him." -- Somebody with a better sense of humor than the average troll in the DU.
"Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views." -- David Brooks
Marching if you're gay in support of "Palestine"--from which gay Palestinians try to escape to Israel before they're tortured and murdered for their sexual orientation--is many things (nuts, as well as hilariously ill-informed), but it is far from liberal.
Believing that ethnicity determines identity--and accusing anyone of being "a disgrace to his race" because his views fall outside what's considered orthodoxy--is many things (primarily racist), but it is definitely not liberal.
Shouting down speakers in the name of free speech is many things (fascistic, tyrannical, churlish), but it is not liberal.
Excusing Kofi Annan and the United Nations for the worst palm-greasing scandal in history--one that lengthened the reign of a tyrant and led to the deaths of countless thousands--is many things (inexcusable, also shameful), but it is not liberal.
What is very disturbing about Palestinian sympathizers is the easy moral equivalency they give to the Israeli act of firing a missile at a clearly identified terrorist, and probably causing collateral damage, and a homicide bomber who blows up a busload of commuters or a sidewalk full of cafe customers.
democrat Math
43% = mandate
49% = mandate
51% = redneck Christers and their Ashcroftian brownshirt brigades have stolen my country!
I’m moving to Canada!

"So I do think that there was a wing of ["mainstream left"] that is deeply reactionary and just essentially angry. There is a more professional wing of the movement and I would include in that the Democratic 527's, like America Coming Together, and I think they were motivated by their realization that McCain-Feingold had done enormous damage to their cause. They had to find a way to keep their millionaire donors in the game." -- Bryon York
"We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back." -- Eli Pariser, wthe political head of MoveOn speaking about the democrat party,
"Most [liberals] wouldn't know a Nazi, if it bit them in the ass. They love the race card and the Nazi card. It makes people scared and fear is the only tactic they can muster up, in the absence of substance." -- LASunsett
"Air America.... All the taste of Howard Stern, but without the naked chicks licking Jell-o off of some intern." - Laurence Simon
[Jane Fonda] expressed "regret" for one photograph, but remains proud of her Radio Hanoi broadcasts, her efforts to achieve a Communist victory, and her attacks on American servicemen as war criminals. She never uses the word "apology." -- Dexter Lehtinen
If you hate John Ashcroft, but love Fidel Castro, you might be a brain-washed leftist.
If you have ever used "jingoist," "reactionary," or "McCarthyist" as an accusation, you might be a brain-washed leftist.
"For all you dems out there, be honest with yourself, John Edwards is, at best, Dan Qualye with a better haircut." -- Mark Urbin
"I'm here to deliver a new glass house. Is there a Ms. Pelosi here? Did I say that right? Where you want it? Oh yeah, Maam I was supposed to remind you to be careful with stones around this thing. It says your warranty is voided if it turns out you've been throwing stones at your neighbor. Let me get you to sign right here, please." -- Large Bill
"Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators." -- Democratic Senator Zell Miller
"Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao’s tyranny. We will probably never know." -- Gary North
"A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream." -- Victor Davis Hanson
"Something is seriously wrong when the ACLU defends NAMBLA, and persecutes the Boy Scouts." -- Mark Urbin
"Hillary was wrong. It doesn't take "a village" to raises a child. It takes responsible parents. When the government can figure out how to fill all the potholes and eliminate crime, THEN maybe we can discuss them raising children." -- Josh
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an element without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." -- James Madison, Federalist No. 10
"The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army" -- Julius Caesar
"Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?" - Maverick Democratic Senator Zell Miller
Socialism or Death: For most Cubans it means the same thing
"Put down the hookah, friend. Sell crazy somewhere else. This isn't hard, okay? Republicans are in office because more people voted for them. They do things "that don't otherwise make sense" because -- and this is the tricky part for you Clintonite Dems -- they think it's right to do them." -- Warren Bell
"Far-left deaniacs support so-called "gun control" while being woefully ignorant that the history of "gun control" in the US is the history of racial violence against Black Americans."
"Let's see, in leftspeak progress consists of the total subjugation of the rational and productive population for the benefit of the self-appointed elite class of parasites.

When we open up our political institutions to talented individuals regardless of race or gender, that is in the vernacular of the Left, regressive or reactionary." -- Leslie Bates


"Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth." -- Charles Krauthammer
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