- “That was always the advantage Clinton had. We never expected any better. He went from Skunk Trot, Arkansas, to Skunk Trot, Arkansas. Spitzer fell from Fifth Avenue to Skunk Trot, Arkansas.”—Ann Coulter, comparing the lives of Sick Willie and the freshly-disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, in her March 17 column in Human Events. (March 17, 2008)
- “The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.”—Ann Coulter, April, 2008.
- “. . .for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”—Michelle Obama, aspiring First Lady, on the campaign trail, Spring, 2008.
- “America dodged a bullet. . .Mrs. Clinton would have been a disaster as president. Mr. Obama may prove a disaster, and John McCain may be, but she would be. Mr. Obama may lie, and Mr. McCain may lie, but she would lie. And she would have brought the whole rattling caravan of Clintonism with her—the scandal-making that is compulsive, the drama that is unending, the sheer, daily madness that is her, and him. We have been spared this. Those who did it deserve to be thanked. May I rise in a toast to the Democratic Party.”—Peggy Noonan, author, columnist, and former Reagan speechwriter, writing about what she presumes is Obama’s victory in the Democrat primary election struggle, in the Wall Street Journal’s June 7-8, 2008, edition.
- “He has done more for the health care of others than just about anybody in history.”—Barack Hussein Obama, praising The Senator from Chappaquiddick, when work leaked of Teddy’s tumor. (June 16, 2008)
- “He’s sort of Horatio at the bridge.”—Paul S. Grogan, President of the Boston Foundation, quoted in the New York Times praising The Senator from Chappaquiddick and comparing him to the Roman warrior, when word leaked of Teddy’s tumor. (June 16, 2008)
- “Darwin, if he’d studied Russia instead of Galapagos finches, would have come up with the theory of “survival of the filthiest.”—P.J. O’Rourke, in an article in the June 16, 2008, issue of The Weekly Standard.
- “. . .if a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, the government will tax the timber industry and subsidize the purchase of Miracle Ears.”—P.J. O’Rourke
- “Can’t you get your goddamned friends off those buses?”—President John F. Kennedy, quoted by Washington Post columnist and author George Will, in a November, 2003, column. Will said Kennedy asked this question of his civil rights adviser, who was white, during a discussion of the “freedom riders” who were protesting across the country.
- “McCain-Feingold codifies two absurdities: Large contributions are inherently evil, and political money can be limited without limiting political speech. . .but then McCain-Feingold was written by incumbents to protect what they cherish: themselves.”—George Will, Washington Post columnist, commenting in November, 2003, on the still-controversial McCain-Feingold law restricting political campaign contributions.
Yellow Snow
- “The graphic arts had their origin in the free patterns made in the snow by Ice Age man with warm water. This accounts for the fact that there have been few good women painters. Lot’s wife, who looked behind her, may have been a pioneer, but we have had a head start of several million years.”—A. J. Liebling, in a New Yorker magazine column written in 1959, and reprinted in a compilation of his work, titled Just Enough Liebling: The Classic Work of the Legendary New Yorker Writer, published in 2004. Abbott Joseph Liebling died in 1963.
- “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.” —Harry Truman
The Republicans Have Already Tried This—And It Works!
- “The Democratic Party would nominate Daffy Duck (for president) if they thought he would win.” —Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show August 26, 2008.
- “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” —Hillary Clinton, on the campaign trail March 17, 2008. She was said to have been describing her arrival in Bosnia in 1996; however news film and other eyewitness accounts proved there was no sniper fire, no hint of danger. Film showed Mrs. Clinton calmly walking off the plane and being greeted by a local child.
- “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’ ”—Joe Biden, Democrat Senator from Maryland, while being interviewed by CBS’s Katie Couric on the campaign trail. Couric did not point out to Biden that (a) FDR was not president in 1929 when the stock market crashed, and (b) television was not available in American homes until a decade or more later, nor did she ask even one brilliant follow-up question of Biden. Couric’s response to Biden’s bizarre observations was, “Relating to the fears of the average American is one of Biden’s strong suits.” (From Ann Coulter’s column published October 1, 2008)
- “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.”—William Ayers, Weather Underground terrorist bomber and now “just a guy who lives in Obama’s neighborhood,” after learning that all federal charges against him had been dropped on a technicality, quoted in an early 1980s interview with David Horowitz and Peter Collier.
- “The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.”—Frederic Bastiat
Who Can Argue That Turnabout Is Not Fair Play?
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“For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president. Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.”—Ann Coulter, in her post-election analysis column. (November 6, 2008)
And Don’t Forget Eight Years of Dubya In Between!
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“In 1996 it was Bob Dole’s turn to run for President, and. . .(he) ran the worst campaign in memory. In 2008, it was John McCain’s turn. . .(and his) campaign was no better than Dole’s.”—Jed Babbin, writing in the November 10 issue of Human Events.