“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.” LittlesStatesFactsRunningLostBitsPresidentRepublicanOfficeLittle BitElectionRanServingSenateGovernorsCitizenshipPreparingRatingPiousBaloney Author:Newt Gingrich
“Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."” KnowsWaySaidTwoHandsWantedUsedLeftEnjoyPartyIssuesCarRepublicanHusbandDemocratConservativeRanWelfareGoodbyeMy HusbandLunchPoliteInvitedSaying GoodbyeAttorneyChuckHands UpFree Lunch Author:Susana Martinez
“In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.” LostTermRepublicanSevenCongressRanIncumbents Author:Jerry McNerney
“Donald Trump's not backing down. Yesterday he said he doesn't need to be lectured by the other Republican candidates, who he says have no business running for president. Not to be confused with Donald Trump, who ran for president and now has no business.” NeedsSaidRunningPresidentTrumpRepublicanYesterdayRanConfusedCandidatesBacking Down Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles." That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again.” KindEndsRepublicanDecidedCampaignsTerroristRanCrap Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush's father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down.” HardRunningFatherPartyRepublicanClintonDebtReputationRanSanityRepublican PartyDeficitConservatism Author:Bill Maher
“CNN recently ran a sort of roundup article on why some conservatives say that Trump talk is fascist. The roundup included this tweet from Iowa Republican radio host, very influential guy in Iowa Republican caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "If [Barack] Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump, every conservative in the country would call it what it is - creeping fascism."” IfsCountryGuyTrumpRepublicanConservativeRadioBarackRanArticlesHostFascismInfluentialTweetFascistsCnnIowaCaucus Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.” ThinkingYearsFirstsTwoHardLyingFightingEnergyUnderstandingCasesRepublicanElectionCleanAdministrationBarackPresidentialRanTwo YearsPlatformsNaiveMccainPresidential ElectionClean Energy Author:Van Jones
“The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets.” LooksFacesBalanceRepublicanResponsibleCurrentsBudgetsRanBalancedBalanced BudgetStraight Face Author:Rand Paul
“Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.” IfsThinkingHas BeensEnoughHelpingPresidentFineTrumpRepublicanDecidedCampaignsRanRacistPutinPals Author:Kevin Drum
“Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.” TrumpRepublicanIndependentLabelsPresidentialRanCandidatesTransformedPresidential Candidate Author:Mark Shields
“Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that you lay out a predicate right now, Donald Trump has recreated the Republican Party in his image.” IdeasPresidentPartyCenturyTrumpRepublicanRight NowLaysBudgetsRanBalancedRepublican Party20th CenturyFranklinBalanced Budget Author:Mark Shields
“That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesEnoughHandsBigsRealityFormNextStrongDealsTerribleRepublicanOne DayCirclesRanCandidatesLiberalismAffirmationNext DayBad IdeasHolding HandsHarlemBobby Kennedy Author:Van Jones