Hey, Chris Matthews, if this is the “Daddy Party,” wouldn’t we be better off as orphans?¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
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10. Sam Brownback: “I’m from¬the theological wing of the theological party.”
¬9. John McCain: “I’ll get¬Osama¬even if I have to¬follow him to the gates of hell, or even¬worse, to the central market in Baghdad.”
¬8. Mike Huckabee: “As the formerly fat man of faith, who’s now the svelte man of faith, I’m guided by one question: ‘What Would Jesus Weigh’?”
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7.¬ Jim Gilmore: “Nobody ever heard of me, so let me make clear¬I’m not a character on the Gilmore Girls.”¬¬¬
¬6. Ron Paul: “Let’s abolish all government regulation — so that the fatcats can plunder and ruin¬this country even more than they did under Bush.”
¬5. Tom Tancredo: “Mr. Gorbachev, build up that wall.”
¬4. Tommy Thompson: “I’m the ultimate Ronald Reagan: I only made an anti-gay remark because I had a hearing aid malfunction.”
¬3. Mitt Romney: “I can single-handedly solve global warming by soaking up the sun’s rays 
with my George Hamilton caliber tan.”
¬2. Duncan Hunter: “Elect me and you’ll really see a¬military industrial complex that’ll have old Ike spinning in his grave.”
¬1. Rudy Giuliani: “First, I’m gonna make googly eyes at the Iranian leaders, just like the Gipper. Then I’ll do what I did in New York: attack the squeegeemen from Squeegeemenistan.”
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BLOGWORTHIES:
PDB with Things Learned from the Republican Debate.
Dave Lindorff at BuzzFlash: Clinton/Byrd are Calling for Revocation of the Wrong War Authorization.
The Week’s Best Late-Night Jokes, via Dan Kurtzman.
Bill Maher’s New Rules — French Dissing, at One Good Move.¬
GOP Salutes their Great Decider, at All Hat No Cattle.
