Day: November 11, 2013

Oddly, People Are Asking John McCain to Run for President Again

Buck Banks

Particularly since the shutdown, I’ve had a spate of e-mails and letters and phone calls saying, ‘Run for president again.’ As you know, I’m seriously thinking about running for re-election to the Senate. But I think, in the words of the late Morris K. Udall, as far as my presidential ambitions are concerned, ‘The people have spoken — the bastards.’

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by the Arizona Republic, dismissing another presidential bid in 2016.

Sarah Palin’s Spouting Nonsense in Iowa … Again

Buck Banks

Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China. When that money comes due — and this isn’t racist, but it’ll be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to beholden to the foreign master.

— Sarah Palin, speaking in Iowa and comparing the federal debt to slavery, the Des Moines Register reports. BTW, Sarah, if you have to say it’s not racist, that usually means it is.