Only Nixon can go to China, only a Republican can tell the truth...

[JackRiddler]

Killed Wellstone? Sure, what's the big deal?

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Rolly and Wells: Rally has odd sense of humor

Rolly & Wells
Tribune Columnists

Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells
Salt Lake Tribune Columnists

During a Feb. 5 meet-the-candidate night for the newly formed College Republicans U. chapter -- not to be confused with the older and more established College Republicans -- representatives for several candidates revved up the jovial crowd with such statements as "We need to put an end to the liberal Matheson era" and support "the Democrat killers."

As the audience giggled off and on, Mike Clement, representing congressional candidate Tim Bridgewater, spoke excitedly about Republican successes when College Republicans work hard, citing the victory of Norm Coleman in the 2002 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

As Clement bantered with the audience, one Republican gadfly noted that they defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale in that race, adding: "We had to kill off Wellstone to get it." He was referring to the death in a plane crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his family before the election.

An audio tape captures laughter. But both Clement and Danielle Fowles, acting chairwoman of the club, said they did not hear that comment and believe the laughter was just a continuation of the ongoing banter.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/feb/02202004/utah/140572.asp

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& THE FOUR BEST BUSH QUOTES
(in which he tells the truth)
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"Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit."

G.W. Bush, State of the Union speech, 1/28/2003

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"This would be easier if it was a dictatorship. But only if I was the dictator."

G.W. Bush, 12/18/2000
On his appointment by the Supreme Court

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"Lucky me, guess I hit the trifecta."

Standard Bush joke about the 9/11 attacks (late 2001)

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"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."

G.W. Bush to UN General Assembly, 11/10/2001

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