What's the most outrageous thing you've heard a RWer say?

[BushOut06]

What's the most outrageous, worst thing you've heard from a conservative? Can be a politician, talk show host, or even a relative or someone you know.

I was listening to Jim Phillips (a semi-liberal talk show host here in Orlando), and some lady called in talking about her son who just returned from Iraq. She said that while we're at war, we should all "stand behind" the president, and should not criticize him. They got into a huge heated argument, and finally Jim pressed her and asked if people should be allowed to criticize the President during war. Her answer was an emphatic, resounding "No."

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. "I don't care if a woman who has an illegal abortion dies"

Male wingnut I was stationed with in the Navy about 10 years ago.

[Ken Burch]

4. And if he was a sailor, he probably CAUSED a few illegal abortions along the way...

Which makes his comment even worse.

[Skittles]

2. "Christian" church-going guy who studies Bible at work

when I told him about the 1000th US troop death in Iraq he said, "So? That's what soldiers are supposed to do - die."

[Ravy]

3. "I voted for GW Bush!" nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Twice

That's the one that gets to me.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

8. And if they still don't regret it. The Backwash. n/t

[Kelly Rupert]

6. "Thanksgiving is the only Christian holiday left in America!"

[originalpckelly]

50. That's a hoot!

:rofl:

[HappyWeasel]

64. I guess that is because Christmas celibrates the birth of an apostate in the neo-clowns's eyes

[warrens]

7. Kill every Muslim

[BushOut06]

I've heard that before also

How often do you hear RWers say that we should nuke Iraq or Iran?

[Bluzmann57]

9. Hard to know where to start for this one

But a guy at work said, when the invasion of Iraq started, "We oughta blow up all those ragheads." This guy was in the military, so I cut him just a little bit of slack. But not much. I tried to explain to him that classifying all people of one race as good, bad, or indifferent was just as bad as saying that a person who has been in a situation where he had to seek help for depression is crazy. He did seek professional help after his first divorce. It happens to the best of us, but it was the only thing I could come up with at the time.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

10. Not a bad response

I doubt if he could make the connection, though. One thing I've noticed about wingnuts is they always find loopholes for themselves.

[HappyWeasel]

65. or Absolutionists all the sudden become nihilists and relativists...

[LibDemAlways]

11. "No matter what you think of Bush....you have to

admit that you thanked God he was President on 9/11."

I told the guy he was out of his mind.

[Starlight]

80. I've heard that one, too. WTF? They must be parroting some RW talking point.

[LibDemAlways]

111. This was a while ago and even after I told the guy that

Bush didn't even bother getting up from reading "My Pet Goat" when told of the attacks, the guy came back at me with, "He just didn't want to scare the children."

When you are dealing with that level of stupidity, you can only shake your head and walk away.

[CardInAustin]

12. So many statements so little time....

I have probably heard more outrageous statements than the one I am about to mention, but this is the one that sticks with me. Perhaps because he wasn't mad or angry when he said it. Rather, he said it very matter of factly as though it were obvious:

"Stereotypes are true....that is why they are stereotypes"

I just stared at him with my mouth open (we were at work). The amazing thing is that he is hispanic. The temptation to rattle off a dozen different horrific stereotypes that would apply to him was almost overwhelming.

[Ellis Wyatt]

13. I like to smell my own farts

It wasn't political, but it was pretty outragous and unsettling. He was a guy I used to live with, and he was right wing and completely serious.

[LSK]

14. i couldnt tell

I was being bombarded with words like "looney", "kook", "moonbat", "terrorist lover" etc etc etc

I frequent the yahooboards so I probably have seen it all.

[InvisibleTouch]

15. "Wilderness land creates more pollution than industry."

No lie. The really scary thing is, this guy didn't come across as stupid, otherwise. He was articulate, passionate, and focused; he could spell, punctuate, capitalize correctly, and had a solid grasp of the rules of grammer. He expressed complete thoughts and wrote in paragraphs rather than in sentence fragments. And was completely and totally screwed up in what he absolutely "knew" to be the truth. Freakish.

[Greyhound]

122. Reminds me of saint rayguns "leaf litter" idiocy. They never change

and they never learn.

[Bandit]

16. "We would rather be feared than loved"

and they are...

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Or Not, Bandit

Perhaps they are neither feared nor loved. Maybe they're just hated. Then the whole sentiment is rendered moot.
The Professor

[movie_girl99]

17. "Liberalism is a disease that can not be cured"

my ignorant RW brother told me that.

[OnionPatch]

86. That's the first time I was glad to hear

that a "disease" was incurable. :applause:

[tavalon]

88. Much like compassion and caring about the brotherhood of man

Totally, blessedly incurable. I'm not sure if liberalism leads to those other odious traits or if those traits lead one to become a liberal. It's mostly uncurable because it isn't a disease, it's an outlook on life that is more other centric, less me centric. It's hilarious to me that the rethugs think they have the spiritual angle because they convince the right wing kooks that they pray just as hard but when you look at basic spiritual tenets, it's the Democrats who have so many spiritually centered values.

[AspenRose]

18. That 'ballots for bullets' comment heard on C-SPAN recently.

eom

[Clark2008]

95. Wonder if they know that came from Malcolm X

This afternoon we want to talk about "The ballot or the bullet." The ballot or the bullet explains itself. But before we get into it, since this is the year of the ballot or the bullet, I would like to clarify some things that refer to me personally -- concerning my own personal position.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxballotorbullet.htm

[Stanchetalarooni]

19. "Theyre not protesters. They're traitors and should be shot."

The best neighbor in the world for over twelve years until he saw a protest of the war in Irac.

[HappyWeasel]

77. Are the Schaivoites(those who hate family rights) traitor I want to say so-

but they are not.

[Zavulon]

20. "The next time al-Qaeda hits, let's hope

it takes out some liberal bastion like Boston or San Fran. Wouldn't be much of a loss."

[HappyWeasel]

70. Actually, I can see the neo-clowns trying to aid and abett that plan for they would feel that they

are reacially purifying america.

[lastliberalintexas]

102. Oh, as opposed to the right wing bastions of NYC and DC?

Not that I wish any city or area to get hit, but to ignore that 2 liberal cities were *already* hit is just :crazy:

[stlsaxman]

21. Just last week- "Well, Clinton is a serial rapist..." from a "Rushie" fanatic at work.

I stopped the conversation right then and there and walked away shaking my head. :crazy:

[valerief]

22. Mission Accomplished. nt

[KansDem]

23. It's not so much one outrageous thing, but a series of outrageous things...

I've worked with this colleague for nine years. I know she is a rapid GOP right-winger, so we avoided discussing politics. But for some strange reason after the election this month, she opened up with a rant criticizing Dems.

Her: The Dems will become appeasers. Just like what Chamberlain did with Hitler, we'll do with Saddam!
Me: But Saddam had no WMDs!
Her: He had them!
Me: So where are they?
Her: He transported them out of Iraq!
Me: Really? Where to?
Her: Syria!
Me: Where is the proof? The evidence?
Her: I don't know, but that's what he did!
Me: You mean to tell me that, with billions of $$$ in spy satellites in space, the US couldn't get one photo of Saddam transporting WMDs out of his country?
Her: He had them and he secretly transported them out of Iraq!
Me: You do know that he had, according to Bush's SOTU speech, over 1 million pounds of biological and chemical agents that he could use for WMDs?
Her: Yes, he had them!
Me: I like to know how anyone could transport a million pounds of anything without detection!
Her: I'm just proud that GW Bush is president!
Me: You do know about his family's relationship with the Saudis, don't you?
Her: That's just liberal propaganda!
Me: You do know that 15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 carried Saudi passports, and that Salem bin Laden financed early business ventures of GW Bush, don't you?
etc...etc...etc

So it's not really only one thing, but how they can string along a series of stupid, outrageous remarks, usually loosely based around a single topic, that leave me exhausted in pointing out just how stupid and outrageous they really are!

[Kerrytravelers]

116. Notice the change of subject...

Me: I like to know how anyone could transport a million pounds of anything without detection!
Her: I'm just proud that GW Bush is president!


How has being proud bush :puke: is our president :puke: have anything to do with millions of pounds of anything being transported without our notice?

Typical rethug moran... :eyes:

[DrRang]

24. In honor of World AIDS day--I had made an elderly Mississippi cousin's head explode

by mentioning that Jesus didn't say a world about homosexuality in the Gospels. She replied, "Well, but God meant AIDS to be a gay disease because it started in Africa with black men having sex with monkeys." I was laughing so hard I forgot to ask her if that meant the monkeys were male.

[peanutbrittle]

25. 19 year old Christian fundamentalist, RW Bush supporter.....

Working on our construction job site.

I asked him- "So, shouldn't you be helping out over in Iraq? They need your help you know. I will print out and bring your sign up papers for you tomorrow."

His answer - "I believe God only calls certain people to serve in war."

Me..astounded and laughing - "And who is that---the poor?" ohhhhhhhhhh

I couldn't believe it

[HappyWeasel]

67. try to speak his language...

I would reply by stating that "I am him that God has sent to take you".

[Starlight]

81. LOL, sounds good to me. "Talking in tongues."

[BushOut06]

26. I've heard quite a few openly racist statements also

From the same RW-wingnut

On New Orleans: "What do you expect from a n****** mayor?"

On black quarterbacks in the NFL: "Have you ever seen a n****** QB who wasn't trying to hog the spotlight?"

But this guy claims he isn't racist.

[bumblebee1]

54. Guess who's a bigger hog of the spotlight on and off the field?

That's right, Peyton Manning, a white man. Christ, he's in almost every commercial on tv.

Quite a few years ago, my borther-in-law and nephew were having an argument about black QBs. My brother-in-law asked the question of what team has ever won the Super Bowl with a black QB. He then said no NFL team won the Super Bowl with a black QB. I then said, "Funny, the Washington Redskins won the recent Super Bowl with a black QB. His name was Doug Williams."

[BushOut06]

63. How about the biggest spotlight-loving QBs of all time?

Joe Namath and Jim McMahon. You could take Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, and every other current black NFL player, and their combined egos wouldn't even begin to touch Jim McMahon's.

[Road Scholar]

27. Fox is the only "Fair and Balanced" news. The others are liberal.

Somehow, Faux news is turning our population into idiots.

[HappyWeasel]

72. Faux news is a sentient alien plague that...

...feeds off of a planet until resources on that planets are unusable. Then the plague either dismantles and heads of to another world or, if the current planet can sustain the demon, the demon will simply spawn a child to consume another planet.


A typical infectee of fox news...

[snowbear]

84. Oh man... that is ONE UGLY DUDE !!

Happy Weasel, that is too much!

[kestrel91316]

119. Hey! That almost looks like an actor I know who does lots of

what he calls "rubber head" shows!

[Starlight]

82. It's bizarre how many Fox viewers seriously don't realize they're getting distorted news.

[Road Scholar]

117. It's like they're waiting in line to get a glass of Kool

aid and have some smoke blown up their ass. They seem to e very proud of their stupidity. I don't understand it either.:shrug: :shrug:

[Greyhound]

123. Much as I'd like to agree, the other networks have worked toward this goal

for many, many, years before Faux even existed.

[Jed Dilligan]

29. "America needs to conquer the world

so we can get to Star Trek."

[HappyWeasel]

71. Thats along the line of we need to murder all people who are darker than x tone...

I personally think that Star Trek will happen when the neo-clowns(if they, or their decendants regain control) are violently reacted against and in the aftermate of said nuclear war, people will abandon the Westphalian-Adams system.

[FVZA_Colonel]

79. What that man forgets is that in the Star Trek Universe

the nations of Earth were devastated by a nuclear war, and only afterwards did we finally begin to get our shit together (though a nuclear holocaust might just be up this person's alley).

[Jed Dilligan]

30. "America needs to conquer the world

so we can get to Star Trek."

[cboy4]

31. I'm the decider.

:eyes:

[VOX]

32. "Either you're with us, or against us."

:grr:

[laundry_queen]

33. "Sure Bush has made a few mistakes...

but if we let the Democrats get in, the Muslims will take over the U.S. They won't rest until we are all either dead, or wearing burkas and reading the koran, you know. I'm glad we have George Bush to keep us safe from them. We're in a war for western civilization."

:crazy:

[HappyWeasel]

75. NExt time I hear this, I will reply criptically...

stating that "sometimes, when it comes to sacrificing certain people in the face of your enemies, you will be serving yourself and your family and community a double service"

[OnionPatch]

87. That one gets me too.

The idea that some people really believe that Muslims could actually take over the US blows my mind. What's worse is them thinking that if that were to actually start happening, that we liberals wouldn't fight against it. They are living in some sort of alternate universe.

[Clark2008]

97. Muslims taking over the US?

That is insane on its face. For one thing, Islam is a religion. The only way a religion can take over the United States is if, say, someone used nefarious actions via electronic voting to install leaders who only cater to the 20 or so percent who are religiously insane and those people then went about trying to force the rest of us to believe in their particular brand of religion by denying rights to individuals who...

Oh...

:crazy:

[Flying Dream Blues]

34. Right after the whole "Mission Accomplished" farce,

I had one smugly tell me, I'm sure all you Democrats wish that more people had died! (Like it was over...like we would wish that just so we could be "right.")

Man, it was all I could do not to hit this person...my knees got weak I was so mad. I still get sick thinking about it.

[LondonReign2]

35. "We can't be torturing those people, because we don't speak the same language"

I was flabergasted by this "logic".

Apparently, the thinking was, we weren't torturing them because we couldn't understand what they said, so therefore there wasn't any motive to torture them because we couldn't understand what they said. Or something.

[Cleita]

36. My pharmacist said that we should bomb the Hell out of North

Korea. Since when is killing the victims of a totalitarian regime an American thing to do? Since when do we approve of ethnic cleansing? But this is how right wingers think. Since Kim Il Jong's regime is like what they are trying to bring us here, you'd think that they would all be busting down the ticket counter at the airport trying to get there instead of talking about bombing them to smithereens.

[DaveJ]

37. "Hitler was the best man for the job"

The person who said this is a very financially successful RWer in my family. I asked him to confirm that statement several times -- it wasn't just a slip of the tongue. He thinks anyone representing a popular sentiment is an appropriate leader. Qualifications are meaningless.


I also think Limbaugh makes such statements daily, like, "it's arrogant to think humans can affect the climate" and "Michael J. Fox was just acting." And all his statements encouraging people to buy SUVs.

[OhioChick]

38. "Bring 'em on" n/t

[EnviroBat]

39. Ken Blackwell will easy win the Governorship of Ohio...

I can't wait to see that Ann Coulter wannabe again. I'm gonna smack her down but good!

:rofl:

[Mz Pip]

40. Lying about a blowjob

was worse than lying about the WMDs. Unbelievable.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[AliceWonderland]

41. "Nuke Baghdad" - though substitute any call for genocide

"Make the desert glow" is another one I've heard. I've heard some pretty atrocious things from radio talk show folks on the public airwaves too, even just between songs. And I do mean atrocious... as in, advocating mass atrocities like, "turn Baghdad into a sheet of glass," said casually, with guffaws. I prefer online streaming radio stations now.

[Alamom]

42. "I think the war and killing are terrible. I completely disagree with

that, but I know B*sh is a good christian man and a great president. I would vote for him again." :crazy:


My husband's X wife.

[Pyrzqxgl]

43. a RW lady named Florence Joiner once wrote a letter to the San Diego Union!

the letter was about the switch to Daylight Savings Time. She said "The Liberals & Communists are fooling with our God given time". I could just picture God handing down an alarm clock to Moses. I don't know if thats the worst (she once called down a "Mottled Pox on Congress") but it certainly is weird enough.

[doc03]

44. More Americans get killed in traffic accidents then in Iraq

[sakabatou]

96. Well that is true...

[Kerrytravelers]

45. "George W. Bush is a great President."

"My time in Vietnam was real. John Kerry is a liar and he only putted around on a little boat."




This was written by my father-in-law in a hate email he sent in 2004 when Mr kt politely asked him to stop sending political email to us from now on. The email was full of personal attacks on us, as well. They can't stand anyone not agreeing with them.

We did not speak to them for six months. And to this day, I say "hello" and "goodbye" and very little else.

[lanlady]

46. Pro-Life. Pro-Bush.

One of my neighbors has that on a bumpersticker.

:banghead::banghead:

[mitchum]

47. "Things were better when they had to take a reading test before...

being allowed to vote"
"They" being southern blacks
Said by a former coworker earlier this year
Incredible

[seabeyond]

48. before election 2004, sitting in a chapel with fundamentalist female friend

heart of gold, always going to church like 3,4 times a week said to me before i had ever heard it before.

we are fighting them THERE so we dont have to fight them here.

that immediately and forcibly offended me so strongly, my mouth dropped open and i just stared at her trying to absorb what she said, where we were, who she was. and i shout out..... we are SUCH cowards. what a cowardly people we are. how totally unchristian to be willing, to ok killing those innocent babies over there so our innocent babies dont die. are you suggesting to me our babies are more valuable, worth more than an iraqi child? what cowards we are.

[Pathwalker]

49. Even if George Bush is the Anti-Christ, it just proves

how much he loves Jesus. My fundy cousin said that.

[tavalon]

90. WhaaaaFaaaa?

Is he on meds? Good strong antipsychotic meds?

[fishwax]

51. the kids at kent state had it coming

A former supervisor of mine, and the most conservative man I've ever known. Actually, that's not the worst thing a former supervisor of mine ever said, but I don't want to pollute the thread with some of his other greatest hits. Another gem--we got into an argument about a local skate park, and when I said that if my hypotheticl kid should become interested in skating, I might buy him a skateboard, he called me a fucked up, anti-american, marxist piece of shit. :rofl:

[HappyWeasel]

74. The thought of missing an oppurtunity to bend another to your will....angers a neo-clown.

[opihimoimoi]

52. They have been INFECTED with a disease called CONSERVATISM

THERE IS NO CURE at the moment....

Look at Rush....he is the Picture of a Pub....Ann C too,,,,,BillO too....damn...the list is too long...

[lonestarnot]

53. heh heh heh "Get over it." heh heh heh

:rofl: Yeah when hell freezes over, I'll get over it! LOL :rofl:

[HappyWeasel]

69. now its their turn...and something tells me that 08 wont be that much different

[brettdale]

55. on a country music forum

That Jesus would bomb Iraq.

That John Kerry is the anti christ, (the signs were there apprently)

That Bush had done more for Humanity than any other human on earth.

That global warming is non existent.

That Poor people dont want a raise in the Minunum wage.

That the democrats have rigged every election getting dead people to vote and illegal immigrants to vote.

That there has been hardly any deaths in Iraq and its just a lie from the media.

That America has slipped further into destruction if we allow the Koran to be used to be sworn in on.

That Xmas will be banned along with the bible if thier is a democrat president in 2008

My personal favourite: Fox news should be banned along with olielly because they are so extreme to the left that they are communists. Another poster disagree and said "they are the most honest and open news channel and I tell all my friends to watch it"

[threadkillaz]

56. "I think we'll hold onto the House and Senate in 06"

nt

[Nevernose]

57. "Kill all the niggers...

...and there'll be no more crime."

Now, I'm a redneck from East Texas, and I grew up used to hearing racist shit, but I had NEVER heard anything like this guy said. He was a cop from Chicago, the Liberal North, and he was so racist it was insane. Went on all night like that. Thank god the wedding reception I was at had an open bar...

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

61. That comment doesn't surprise me one bit.

There are still certain neighborhoods in the City of Chicago that any black man or woman wouldn't be comfortable living in. Two on the southwest side of the City come to mind, in particular Mt. Greenwood and Garfield Ridge.

There are some real diehard racists types in both of these neighborhoods. It's sickening and absolutely disgusting. I know some of these people, I grew up with them... :puke: :puke:

[HappyWeasel]

66. I've heard that before...

also, I found something very repulsive today when I saw that some people want to build concentration camps for American muslims.

Msyogeny and Homophobia are expected from neo-clowns, but I have met some people further to the right than Hitler. I am certain that about 10% of adults in our country would fall into the Nazi Party.

[Starlight]

83. Yep. These people would absolutely support the Nazi party if they had a chance.

[etherealtruth]

115. It amazes me that its always

"Kill all the "

To be motivated by hatred and the desire for violence ... I can't fathom being of that mindset.

[lpbk2713]

58. Tune in to Limbaugh or Hannity any day of the week (If you can stand it)

The mentally deficient mouth breathers that call in are something to behold.

They all profess to have the solution all the world's problems. Everything from full scale nuclear war to deporting anyone who doesn't see things their way.

It must really hurt to be that stupid.

[NMMNG]

59. "We should just nuke the hell out of Iraq and be done with it."

:scared:

[Dastard Stepchild]

60. "I wish you wouldn't do social work....

It's such a waste of time helping THOSE people."

Something to that effect. :)

[Moloch]

62. "If they wouldn't have taken our guns away....

We would've won the civil war!" (talking about the confederacy)

Its amazing what will spew from one of these creatures if you get them drunk.

[wickerwoman]

68. "If English was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for the Mexicans."

I've heard this more than once...

[TroglodyteScholar]

104. This doesn't surprise me...

Aramaic? Ain't that the mountain where they found proof of Noah's Ark?

[WernhamHogg]

73. "Those people don't value life the same way we do"

From a right winger immediately after he told me that very, very, very few innocent civilians are being killed in Iraq. It shocked me because this guy looked like he REALLY believed what he was saying.

Or course, one of the most disappointing things I ever heard was from a former boss/former friend when he told me and a few other co-workers about how the "moon landing was a hoax". I had never heard that "theory" before and I was worried that my friend had developed some sort of brain tumor. We eventually lost touch, but at the time I was shocked that someone who I admired, respected and really cared about truly believed that the moon landing was a hoax. :crazy:

[PassingFair]

76. We didn't ATTACK them...we LIBERATED them.

:wow: :spray: :puke:

[Bhaisahab]

78. "i'm not an idiot."

on a yahoo discussion thread.

[OnionPatch]

85. "We should just blow the whole place up!"

That one always freaks me out. Especially when remembering that they're supposed to be the party of morals. And yet I've heard more than one of them seriously advocate destroying an entire country, innocent children and all. :wtf:

I usually answer that I thought killing innocent people was terrorism. But I guess that's only if you're from the middle east. :eyes:

[shanine]

89. Those Katrina victims should have paid attention to

their geography lessons in school and not lived in a place below sea level.

[Perky]

91. Falwell saying that Clinton had Vince Foster murdered

and putting it into a video he sold for $40.

[sakabatou]

92. FSTDT has the outrageousness

[DemReadingDU]

93. Clinton was President when we were attacked on 9/11

from an acquaintance of a friend

[salin]

94. "Jesus was the greatest American ever" (on the History Channel's

comment section on their 'vote for the greatest american' promotion. She seemed puzzled that Jesus wasn't among the choices - because... (insert her quote).

[lastliberalintexas]

105. Makes you wonder how she functions, doesn't it?

And the scary part is that her vote counts as much as yours...

[salin]

109. not to worry...

if she doesn't vote when she can't find Jesus on the ballot. Seriously the post seemed to be puzzled about that not being an option for the vote.

In fairness we have some equally and intentionally uninformed folks all sides. For example, I was walking to a campaign event for Pres Clinton in 1996 to which I and a friend had tickets. A lady who heard about the event on the radio had come to the area in hopes that she could score a ticket. As we walk she starts telling us how much she loves the President... and then... she asks "so how did he do?" We don't get her question, as he hasn't spoken yet and the question seemed to be about the speech. In response to our silence she continued "I mean how has he done as President? I haven't paid any attention and was just wondering how he is doing as President".... aye yi yi...

[skipos]

98. "Homeless people should be rounded up and shot."

He was a friend of a friend.

[Mendocino]

99. A RWnut at work:

"We need to conquer the world with ruthless force if necessary in order to protect our freedom".

"The world was made for white people, god is white and we were made in his image".

"My dad didn't serve and get wounded in WWII, just so a bunch of ACLU godless liberals can whine about the rights of a few".

"Taxes are legalized theft, they take it from the hardworkers and give to the worthless bums".



I keep my distance from this loon.

[TroglodyteScholar]

100. "I hope it killed a whole lot of poor people"

About the tsunami. I shit you not.

[lastliberalintexas]

101. God put Bush in office so that Jesus could come back

I kid you not. Of course, I then pointed out that would mean that Bush is the Anti-Christ, so she might be right. I have no patience for pseudo Christians who don't even know their own freaking holy book.

[WhollyHeretic]

103. "We could cut down all the trees for all I care"

My uncle

Hey asshole, ya like breathing?

[neebob]

106. A couple of knee-slappers from my mo-mom:

"Dick Cheney seems like a nice guy."

"I wish we'd just send some mercenaries down there to beat the tar out of those boys and find out where {Natalee Hollway} is. We have mercenaries, don't we?"

Edit: I keep forgetting that square brackets don't show up.

[knitter4democracy]

107. Oh, I heard more than a few in college.

It's "fun" to go to an evangelical Christian college when you're one of the most liberal students there. :eyes:

In chapel the day before the election in 1992:
"I'm not going to tell you how to vote, but if you vote for Clinton, you're voting for a murderer." This from the preacher, and it got worse from there.

Same election:
"You can't vote for Clinton because Gore is the Anti-Christ. He'll find a way to kill off Clinton and then take over the government and bring in the New World Order." That was the beginning of a ten minute long rant that got even more crazy after that.

In a philosophy class during a debate on abortion:
{crying} "I've marched! If you haven't marched for life, to protect those poor little babies, then you aren't pro-life! I've marched! You are all going to hell!" Then he just subsided into sobbing in his chair. Odd. It all started when I had the audacity to question why it was okay for the mothers to die in back alleyways (which he said they deserved) if it weren't okay for the babies to die.

In an American History class:
"If you really think it wasn't okay to nuke Japan in WWII, you hate America! How dare you?! Have you ever travelled? I was in the Marines, and I can tell you it's worse in other places. If you hate America so much, just leave!" We'd been having a class debate on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I had been saying that I was not okay with my government vaporizing people and that a demonstration would have at least given the Japanese governmnent a chance to surrender first. I called him a fascist, and he left the room.

Oh, there are many more . . .

[Brewman_Jax]

108. "Sure, I wouldn't mind being black!"

from a wingnut at a church breakfast, who was agreeing with another racist wingnut. The standard wingnut beliefs that "those people" are getting affirmative action and all sorts of handouts. Nothing makes them madder than to think that "those people" are getting something that they aren't. :eyes:

He recanted later, but the damage was done. :(

[whyzayker]

110. blow them all away

“I’m for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.”

[CrispyQ]

112. Not political, but

years ago a co-worker told me "Since 95% of people believe in god then it's only logical to assume that god exists." Generally, I try to be kind when retorting to a comment this ignorant, but I told her that was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard.

:eyes: :crazy: :wtf:

[ganeshji]

113. "If you vote for a Democrat it is like you are coming to my house in

the middle of the night to kill my children. After all, Democrats would let Muslims come into this country and do just that." That timeless thought from a "Christian" woman in my world literature class of all places. She just randomly blurted this out as if she had been working up the nerve to say it for a long time.
edited to add that the same woman said that "killer bees should be unleashed upon the whole of Arabia to cleanse those pagans from the holy lands of this country's forefathers." :wtf:

[Nikia]

114. "People on public assistance should get less because many of them buy

Cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. If we gave those people less money, they would buy less things that are bad for them."

[LeftishBrit]

118. "We don't need ANY more immigrants. I'm sick of it! I'm sick of it!"

(elderly acquaintance, with her face twisted with hate). I pointed out that my mother was an immigrant originally, and she said that was different! (And it's not just because we're white, as this person hates not only non-white immigrants but Eastern Europaean immigrants too. Like my ancestors, come to think of it.)


That was recent. Comments that I remember from some years ago, when Tories ruled here:

"We should restrict the vote to people who would have had it before 1832" (i.e. rich males).

"Hitler made the mistake of invading other countries. He should have stuck with his work at home, dealing with the gypsies and the communists" (he didn't add 'and the Jews', probably because several of us present were Jewish).

"Oh, yes, I have heard about McCarthyism. It was a very good thing!"

And a VERY common one: "At least Thatcher is a strong leader!" To which a friend of mine replied, "Well, you can have a strong horse and it can still pull you off the edge of a cliff!"

[Lurking Dem]

120. "The falling dollar is good for our economy."

Heard at a dinner party.

[ck4829]

121. RW'er: "We should forget the ballot box and break out the bullet box"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2823807&mesg_id=2823807

[Spirochete]

124. "I support the death penalty for drug possession"

Me: "That's pretty extreme. Why do you say that?"
RWer: "Drugs are dangerous. They kill people"


On Edit: Still haven't learned how to type. I can spell pretty good though.

[mod mom]

125. "bush won-get over it."

[Vinca]

126. Women who have abortions should get the death penalty.

Figure that logic out.