QOTD: Bush’s Brain
by digby
We have a second tier which includes people like Ted Cruz and Governor [Rick] Perry and Ben Carson and maybe a couple of others. And one or two, you know, one or, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum. Maybe one of those gets into the top tier. But right now they’re on the second tier.
And then we’ve got sort of the third tier which are people who really are unlikely to break through. They’re good people, some of them, but they’re unlikely to break through. Or, in the case of Donald Trump, they’re complete idiots.
I won’t even bring up the fact that their “2nd tier” includes Carson, Cruz, Huckabee and Santorum. That speaks for itself.
But the idea that Karl Rove is calling a presidential candidate a “complete idiot” is really rich.
“We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”—Houston, Sept. 6, 2000
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”—Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”—U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 3, 2000
“It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.”—Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
“Well, I think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.”—CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
“There’s a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, ‘I don’t want you to let me down again.’ “—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000
You’ll note that he said these things before the 2000 election. And he didn’t get any smarter.
Not that I’m defending Trump, but some people should never call anyone a complete idiot in public. It just reminds everyone of what they did to the country.
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