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I don't usually follow American politics but if one of these kinds of people become president, I fear that the apocalypse is nigh... (the 1st is and was not in the Presidential running but the sentiment is horrific nonetheless). It'd all be so funny if it wasn't so f***** up.

''My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.''

—South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer (R), arguing that government food assistance to lower-income residents, including food stamps or free school lunches, encourages a culture of dependence, Jan 24. 2010

''It's a good issue to keep alive. It's fun to poke at him.''

—Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, suggesting that President Obama's birth certificate is a fake, Oct. 26, 2011

''Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.''

—Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), recalling in a 2006 speech that pursuing tax law wasn't her choice, but she did so at the urging of her husband because she was certain God was speaking through him 

''I have two grandchildren — Maggie is 11, Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.''

—Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in March 2011

''There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.''

—GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, explaining in 2011 why he cheated on his first two wives. He carried on the first affair while his wife was suffering from cancer, and the second while he was orchestrating Bill Clinton's impeachment.

''A poet once said, 'life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it's never easy when there's so much on the line.'''

—GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, quoting lyrics from the theme song to 'Pokemon: The Movie 2000.' The ''poet'' who wrote those lyrics was disco queen Donna Summer. (GOP presidential debate, August 2011)

''Death panels are the bureaucracies that President Obama is establishing where bureaucrats will make the decision on who gets health care and how much.''

—Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Newsmax interview, Sept. 10, 2009

''PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.''

—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2007, responding to criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals following revelations that he had once strapped the family dog to the roof of his car during a 12-hour road trip

See also http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/