Phrases I never want to hear again after this election...

[regnaD kciN]

"hockey moms"

"Bradley effect"

"Joe the plumber"

"transformational"

"drill, baby, drill"

"talk me down"

"pitbull with lipstick"

"a socialist group called the 'New Party'"

"surge"

"'real' America"

"associations" <-- in the context of people a candidate may have crossed paths with at one time or another

"redistributionist"

...and, of course...

"maverick"

You are invited to add your own...

ON EDIT: Also, any description of political events in baseball terminology, particularly "home run" and "grand slam."

[donheld]

1. "Under the Bus"

[ddeclue]

55. Are you throwing "under the bus" under the bus?

I like that phrase...

[hisownpetard]

2. Can't believe you left our "My friends"!!

[rasputin1952]

The stooge doesn't have enough "friends" to put him over

the top...even Palin and JtP left him in the dust...:rofl:

[DJ13]

Thrown under the bus

Caribou Barbie

[BlueManDude]

3. "Puma"

[napi21]

4. "MY FRIENDS!" THAT drove me NUTS!!! n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. "My friends, My friends, My friends, My friends, My friends, My friends"

ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

NO MORE MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[az chela]

9. This is the one I was going to add.Thanks

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. You're welcome, my frie.......aw damn, never mind.

[az chela]

20. Now thats FUNNY

[SwampG8r]

76. you can say that again!

[az chela]

21. Now thats FUNNY

[SwampG8r]

77. thanks!

[paregdem]

40. Drinking Gamers Favorite Phrase! : ) n/t

[Hokie]

6. "She connects with real people"

As used in reference to Palin connecting with bigots, racists and morons.

[denem]

7. "My fellow prisoners"!

[ailsagirl]

96. No-- that's a keeper. Anything that came make John Cleese

convulse with laughter is definitely worth keeping!! :rofl:

[ailsagirl]

97. That's not patriotic

[SoonerPride]

8. Republican party

Can't we just make them go the way of the Whigs?

Seriously.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. "We've got them right where we want them" is one we should keep

THAT is a classic.

[No Elephants]

15. Don't want to hear from Rudy-911, from McCain-POW

[Lost-in-FL]

12. "Reach across the aisle"

:argh:

[all.of.me]

66. Agreed. Barf.

[Mariana]

13. Spread the wealth.

[Doityourself]

14. "too and also" in the same damn sentence! n/t

[puerco-bellies]

16. Re-distributionists.

Jingoisms vs ideas. Finally the good guys won.

[shaniqua6392]

17. The fundamentals of the economy are strong!!

Although that one was kind of funny. My friends.....I hated that one the most. I hated his retarded "thumbs up" and "air quotes" gestures. I wanted to punch him in the face after a while and I am a very peaceful person!! :grr:

[rocktivity]

18. .

:headbang:
rocknation

[cyndensco]

29. Guess that one has been answered !

:bounce: :bounce:

[alsame]

19. Bush.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

22. You Betchya...

:grr: :argh:

[LaydeeBug]

23. "I'm concerned" and "Thank you for your concern" nt

[CTyankee]

24. "cone of silence" (altho that makes me laugh)

"guys and gals"

"you betcha"

[paregdem]

25. "I'll get 'em. I know where he is, I know how..."

Dear John,
It's time to STFU!

[TheCowsCameHome]

36. That was as lame as his candidacy. Nice catch.

[blue_onyx]

26. After watching a lot of news during this election...

the one thing that annoyed me was how everyone started an answer to a question with, "Look...." Why does everyone do that?

[woolldog]

81. lol, I've noticed Obama does that all the time.

[tularetom]

27. "3 AM phone call", "first dude"

"cling to guns and religion"

[Trajan]

28. I dont agree .... And here is why :

Those terms are associated with a derelict party ticket that is now viewed as one of the WORST campaigns ever run ....

You can be sure that Republicans want to squash those cultural references even more than you do ...

I say we shove it in their face ....

I say we whip them for years with those symbols of failure ...

It benefits us for these references to be visible ... It benefits THEM to hide them in the attic ...

[cyndensco]

30. "palling around with.." anyone.

[Jennicut]

31. "Game Changer!" SO tired of that little phrase

He needs a game changer, was this a game changer, that was defiantely a game changer. And the "hail mary."
Never want to hear it again!

[regnaD kciN]

34. "Game-changer" seems to have become...

...this year's variant on "knockout blow," a common phrase from elections past that apparently vanished this time around.

[senseandsensibility]

32. Going "rouge"

although my hubby and I can irritate each other to no end using it to describe almost anything. It has its comedic value.

[AZSlacker]

46. Is that like puting on makeup?

You probably meant Rogue.

:hi:

[senseandsensibility]

53. yeah

:blush: editing time has elasped, gosh darn it.

[NYC_SKP]

33. It's a mightly fine list ya got there, but kinda short. So, if ya want some....

I'll try to find ya some and I'll bring 'em to ya!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpb7z_PjbAs

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

35. "At the end of the day"

[JoePhilly]

37. "America is a Center-Right country" ... we have to fight this one!!

[Sebastian Doyle]

47. Bingo!

That statement is the biggest load of horseshit since "Iraq is the central front in the War on Terra"

[calimary]

100. Yes we do. With EVERYTHING we've got. America is NOT a center-wrong country.

Try Center-LEFT.

The NEW "right" is decidedly LEFT.

LEFT is the new "right."

Right is the new WRONG.

[TheCowsCameHome]

38. "A shout-out to the third grade class..."

Palin's best line of the debate.

[TheCowsCameHome]

39. "She ran a city"

(that alone makes her qualified, of course)

[Tesla]

42. "That One"

[TheCowsCameHome]

45. ..turned into "That " won.

[cameozalaznick]

94. And the all-important corrallary...

"Executive experience"

[denem]

41. EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

[Radical Activist]

43. "blue-collar workers" as a euphemism for racist whites.

[Sebastian Doyle]

48. Or "white working class voters'

[AZSlacker]

44. Acorn

[PseudoIntellect]

49. "pals around"

[CitizenPatriot]

50. scorn, "the health of the mother" nt

[ZombieHorde]

51. "Zombie movies suck." That one was the worst.

[paregdem]

52. Joe Six-Pack and those annoying McCain air quotes n/t

[1Hippiechick]

54. NEW one getting old FAST: "May God have mercy on our nation." and "God help us." HE DID, IDIOT!

[camera obscura]

56. in the tank, pork barrel, close the deal, take the gloves off, silly season, Joe Lieberman

[begin_within]

57. "republican victory"

[seaker]

58. Ready on day one

[PBS Poll-435]

59. Low-Information Voters

[road2000]

60. I could do without this one:

"In what respect, Cherlie?" I recall that as perhaps the first card of public perception to topple.

And here's another: "cracks in the glass ceiling." (And that's not a shot at Hillary, but at Palin.)

[seaker]

61. Fill in the blank with

a first name(Joe?) -the- fill in the blank with a trade title (Plumber?)

[seaker]

69. Cooper the snooper?

:hi:

[seaker]

74. I did not post this comment

[Pirate Smile]

62. "why can't O connect with (white) working class people"

[janx]

63. George Orwell,

where are you?

[ecstatic]

64. Joe ANYTHING (except for "Joe the Biden" of course) nt

[chappydog26]

65. My worst list

Joe the Plumber
McCain's a POW
My friends
Pork, pork barrel
Anything Palin says in that voice of hers

Thank God it's over, I don't think I could've taken anymore :argh:

[Canuckistanian]

67. "You will know their names"

We've got our OWN little list already, John........

[TayTay]

68. I've got some too

"Unitary Executive"

"President authorized torture"

"Suspend Habeas Corpus"

"Secret Military Tribunals"

[seafan]

70. Glad you asked. Here are a few more words and phrases to jettison.

1. permanent republican majority

2. he/she lost because he/she wasn't conservative enough

3. USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!

4. swiftboating

5. Diebold/ES&S/Sequoia/Premier

6. 'limousine liberals'

7. 'Democrat', when used as an adjective

8. Lee Greenwood

9. Guantanamo

10. who cares what you think?

11. decider

12. 'No weapons over here.... maybe under here..'

13. 'You work three jobs? Uniquely American!'

14. 'You gonna ask a me question with shades on?'

15. unitary executive

16. David Addington/John Yoo/Jay Bybee

17. 'Get over it.'

18. I assert my fifth amendment rights

19. serve at the pleasure of the president

20. diapers on a congressman

21. signing statement

22. Bush's Brain

23. the Dukester

24. Tom DeLay

25. Jack Abramoff

26. school vouchers

27. anti-gay rights

28. war criminals in power

29. Attorney General Mukasey

30. Senator Dole

31. Tom Feeney

32. Marco Rubio

33. torture ordered by an American president or anyone else

34. Goldman Sachs/JP Morgan Chase/Citigroup

35. taxpayer-funded bailout

36. Homeland Security

37. Joe Lieberman

38. voter caging

39. home foreclosure epidemic

40. rising unemployment

41. mountaintop coal mining

42. uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and other national park wildlands

43. privatization

44. 'that being said'

45. 'at the end of the day'

46. Speaker of the House Pelosi

47. Fox Nooze

48. Rush Limbaugh

49. O'Reilly

50. David Gregory

51. Alan Greenspan

52. crony capitalism

53. the pig ranch

54. clearing brush

55. her beautiful mind

56. 'My Pet Goat'

57. Rudy '911' Giuliani

58. Grover Norquist

59. James Dobson/Ralph Reed/Pat Robertson/televangelism

60. Racism

61. Dana Perino

62. class wars

63. 'death tax' (--->inheritance tax)

64 'partial birth abortion' (--->late term abortion, to save the health and life of the mother)

65. Wal-Mart

66. warmongering

67. expansion of settlements

68. suicide bombings

69. melamine

70. hurricane homeless

71. crumbling bridges

72. 'the surge is working'

73. 'my friends'

74. maverick

75. talk me down

76. bill-o the clown

77. Jeb Bush and his devious plans

78. Tim Mahoney

79. outsourced jobs

80. Kenneth Blackwell

81. Michelle Bachman

82. Norm Coleman

83. Ted Stevens

84. Saxby Chambliss

85. Sarah Palin

86. first dude

87. youbetcha

88. diva

89. snow machine

90. enraged shouts of "Kill Him", "Terrorist" at political rallies

91. people who are stuck on stupid

92. 'sprint to the finish'

[LeftishBrit]

87. I like your list!!! My little UK contribution:

Private Finance Initiative

OFSTED (roughly, our answer to NCLB)

Internal market (one of the ways Thatcher weakened the NHS

Compulsory ID cards

42 days detention

UKIP

British National Party

Daily Mail

[Milspec]

71. hubris

And "I voted for Sarah"

[MrsBrady]

72. they totally freaking ruined "maverick"

bastards.

awesome word, totally crapped out.

[ailsagirl]

99. no, no-- they spelled it as "mavrick"-- a totally made-up word

We can still keep "maverick" in our dictionary.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

73. Real Americans

[Clio the Leo]

75. "dog" or "puppy" or specifically "Labradoodle"

The man spent 30 mins talking about his plan to save our economy and all we can talk about is the flippin' dog.

[Hekate]

78. "... also ... too ... also"

[Hekate]

79. "Why can't Obama close the deal with voters?" in plaintive tones, by the idiot MSM.

[tabbycat31]

80. executive experience

especially now that Barack Obama was the executive of a very successful presidential campaign.

[enigmatic]

82. "Talk Me Down", and it isn't close

Never again.

[lamp_shade]

83. Love you Joe but I don't think I could handle many more "ladies and gentlemen". n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

84. Read My Lipstick

I never want to see that on a t-shirt or sign again.

[treestar]

85. The polls are tightening

game changer

misuse of the word "socialism"

war hero

[Ganja Ninja]

86. "In other words ..." "People gotta understand"

[Solomon]

88. "Unamerican"

What the hell is that?

And it's step-brother "anti-American".

[Rosa Luxemburg]

89. I have "post election word stress disorder"

Every time I see or hear those words.... aargh!

[maxrandb]

90. Red States, or Blue States

"value voters"

"Limbaugh"

"Hannity"

"tonight on Fox News"

"socialist"

"dog gonite"

"field dress a moose"

"Main Stream Media Gotcha Questions"

[qwlauren35]

91. BABYKILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That one makes me pretty sick.

[qwlauren35]

92. Anti-Christ

Did this one make the list?

[tabbycat31]

98. I agree with you WRT babykiller

I was at a Biden rally (got lots of good pics from it, the link is in my blog) in PA last Thursday (before the election) and while we were waiting to get in, there were about a half a dozen protesters standing outside calling us babykillers.

I asked them if they were willing to personally adopt all the babies that would have been lost to abortion, or if they had a plan to have a state-sponsored orphanage to raise them until 18 and then send them off to fight in McCain's 100 year Iraq war. That shut them up.

I'm normally not blunt like that, but I spent a lot of this election season (i just discovered these forums) reading conservative forums trying to understand the other side. One of the conservative forums i read was for conservative Catholics, many who see abortion as their be all end all issue. My response was partially to them.

[qwlauren35]

93. Bomb, bomb, bomb...

[Sorceress]

95. "elitist", "What Senator Obama doesn't understand..." and "Georgetown Cocktail Circuit"

[ailsagirl]

101. Now Joe, there you go again

[xxqqqzme]

102. 'Bradley effect' - outdated, over inflated

typical corporate media trash. I figured out, when this phrase re-surfaced, a person born in 1982*, would be voting in their 3rd presidential election in '08. They probably had never heard of the 'Bradley effect' and care not a whit!



*"...The Bradley effect, less commonly called the Wilder effect,<1><2> is a theory proposed to explain observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some US government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.<3><4><5> Instead of ascribing the results to flawed methodology on the part of the pollster, the theory proposes that some voters tend to tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, and yet, on election day, vote for his white opponent. It was named after Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in voter polls going into the elections.<6>..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Effect

[Raschel]

103. Don't forget "shore up the economy" and "top brass" (Palin's new words)

[loyalkydem]

104. Shouldn't

this be drinking phrases? :)