The 2012 Election's Bad Quotes; Did they Really Say That?

Quotes From the 2012 Election Cycle

Our campaigns can be long with candidates on the road 24/7 often with little sleep. They may let slip spontaneous ill-spoken statements out of exhaustion. They may also let slip Freudian remarks. And then there are the maliciously calculated statements. Sometimes we don’t know which are which.

Here is a sample of statements during this election cycle. Take them as they are, and then add your own..

Governor Romney

     I like being able to fire people

     I’ll bet you $10,000

     The answer is self-deportation

    My job is not to worry about 47% of the population

President Obama

     The private sector is doing fine

     If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build it

     I guess there weren’t that many shovel ready jobs after all

 

     Vote for me out of revenge

     You can’t change Washington from the inside

     You know. Children have good instincts.They look at the other guy and say 'That's a bullshitter. I can tell'

Vice President Biden  (can only do a sample)

     There’s never been a day in the last four years that I’ve been proud to be his Vice President, not a single day

      How can they justify raising taxes on the middle class that’s been buried the past four years?

      Where is it written that we cannot lead th world in the 20th Century in making automobiles?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

       He’s [Romney] coming to a state [Utah} where there are a lot of members of the LDS Church. They understand that he is not the face of Mormonism

Congressman Paul Ryan

     It would take me too long to go through all the math

Newt Gingrich

      I don’t think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering

Stephanie Cutter

         Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony. Or, he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people to avoid the consequences of his investments.

David Axelrod

      President Obama’s exhilaration “is coming from his loins”

John Burton, Chair of the California Democratic Committee

     “They [Republicans] lie and they don’t care if people think they lie. Joseph Goebbels – the Big Lie…..”

      Congressman Ryan told a “bold-faced lie, and he doesn’t care that it was a lie. That was Goebbels, the Big Lie.”

Rush Limbaugh

      What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a Congressional Committee and essentially says she must be paid to have sex, What does that mean? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.

                Post-election Quote

Daniel W. Isaacs on Senator Kirstin Gillibrand

      She is so in over her head, to me it’s unfortunate she is a U.S. Senator. It’s an example of why we are where we are as a country that we don’t have people of substance who really can step up She’s Chuck Schumer’s lap dog

   

Chris Matthews

      “I’m so glad we had that storm last week…. No, politically I should say – nothing terms of hurting people. The storm brought in possibilities for good politics.”

       (Just think; he got a tingle up his leg four years ago)

                                      The Despicable Quotes

     

Congressman Todd Akin

      If it’s a legitimate rape, then the female body has ways to shut the whole down.

Indiana Secretary of State Richard Mourduck

     I just struggled with it myself for a long time but then I came to realize that life is a gift from God. That I think even if life begins in the horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen