What Common Quotes drive you up the wall?

[RobertSeattle]

Here one of mine:

"the only thing left in the middle of the road is roadkill"

(I've been hearing that alot lately by Right Wingers with the canard that Bush has been "too moderate" of late)

[NanceGreggs]

1. There are so MANY, but ...

... I'd have to say Bush's 'turning the corner' aggravates me the worst. "We're turning the corner in Iraq," and, "We're turning the corner with the economy." etc.

I guess he's too stupid to realize that when you continually 'turn the corner', you wind up back where you started!

[MindPilot]

5. "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here"

:argh:

[sarcasmo]

self delete, triplicate, LMFAO.

[sarcasmo]

33. self delete, dupe.

[sarcasmo]

34. My personal favorite is "when Clinton was in the White House"

followed by a blame Clinton spew.

[MindPilot]

2. "tax and spend liberals"

[Hello_Kitty]

8. Welfare! Welfare! Welfare! Welfare! n/t

[MissMarple]

3. They don't know what the "middle" is.

It's the firm center that keeps the wing nuts hanging out on the peripheries from spiraling out into space. ;)

It's where all the less ideologically driven, pragmatic problem solvers hang out.

[SomewhereOutThere424]

4. Blame Game

Such an idiotic term.

[demon67]

6. "It is what it is"

Before the last couple of years, this phrase was heard rarely, if ever. Now, it is uttered multiple times daily in every conceivable context. A meaningless phrase has become a national mantra. Why? What did we used to say in such situations before we began regurgitating this faux wisdom? I can't exactly say that its proliferation is bad. I suppose it just is what it is.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. Not necessarily political but I can't stand this one:

He/she is smart but doesn't have any common sense.

Aaaaaargh!! :grr: :banghead: :nuke:

This is said of just about any intelligent person, regardless of any actual evidence of a lack of this undefined quality known as "common sense". Apparently it must be something possessed in abundance by stupid, ignorant wingnuts, as they are most apt to invoke this claim when confronted by someone in possession of actual facts and critical thinking skills. "Yer one o' them book smart people. I ain't got time fer all that readin' I got too much COMMON SENSE!"

[keta11]

9. Here are a few

1) "He means what he says and does what he says"
this standard phrase from the stupid media and commentators to portray Dumbya as a strong leader during those halcyon, heady days (2001-2004) drove me crazy as hell. And all that came out of his mouth most of the time was stupid bullshit and wrong, the guy couldn't even speak english.

2) "Bush Doctrine"
the mere idea that this stupid clown who a few years before was a bored nose-picking, sports-team manager in TX was tranformed into an intellectual geopolitical thinker was too much for me.

[No Exit]

14. Hear, hear! "Bush Doctrine"---BWAAHAHAHA!

"Doctrine", my ass! This dumb shit couldn't produce a "doctrine" if his life depended on it.

The phenomenon might, however, be called "The Bush Neurosis". It would be on the spectrum of mental conditions, somewhere right near "anal retentiveness", "oppositional-defiant personality", and "feeblemindedness".

[keta11]

19. I bet he couldn't even spell doctrine.

And so many people in the media were treating him like some great leader

[NanceGreggs]

20. I understand that even * is confused by the term ...

... he wonders why people refer to the "Bush Docterin'" when he doesn't even have a medical license.

[Horus45]

10. The Democrats saw the same intel

The one I hate MOST is "The Democrats saw the same intelligence as the President".
It is a complete LIE!

[triguy46]

11. "rewriting history"

[madinmaryland]

12. "If you haven't done anything wrong,

you have nothing to worry about."

Meaning: Another civil right that the RW is taking away from you.33

The other one begins with "Ted Kennedy . . . Chappaquidick . . . democrats . . ."

:grr:

[Exiled in America]

13. He is "out of the mainstream."

:nuke:

[newyawker99]

31. Hi Exiled in America!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[SteppingRazor]

15. "Democrats want to 'cut and run' "

What we suggest is not cowardly surrender. What we suggest is sanity.


Fun bonus drive-meup-a-wall quote:

The one I see on DU that always gets me is when someone tells me I need to "read up on" whatever it is I've posted about. As if I'd post about something I was completely ignorant about :eyes:

[Individualist]

16. "liberal media"

A favorite phrase of reich wingers.

[BR_Parkway]

17. "I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative - so I vote Rethug"

[BrainRants]

18. "Some People Say..."

Whenever I hear it I know what follows is bullshit.

[silverlib]

21. "mislead" n/t

[TlalocW]

22. I absolutely hate the following one...

You can't lead a horse to water to make a purse out of a pig in a poke without first letting the cat out of the bag and breaking eggs before they've hatched to make an omelette all of the time.

TlalocW

[Ladyhawk]

23. "Christianity isn't a religion; it's a personal relationship with Jesus

Christ."

Oh, yeah? Then how come your church has tax-exempt status?

[BuyingThyme]

24. "We can't just cut and run."

Translation: "I'm a fucking moran."

[kcwayne]

25. Its hard work

especially from someone that never worked a day in his miserable life.

[kskiska]

26. Slippery slope; Connect the dots

"Popular wartime president" drives me nuts, but fortunately, we don't hear that one so much anymore for some reason.

[Bonobo]

27. I hate when people say: "At the end of the day..."

[tgnyc]

28. Sources tell us...

[carolinalady]

29. "Stay the course" n/t

[StellaBlue]

30. "Everything happens for a reason."

Or its corollary, "Everything always works out for the best."

Tell that to the people in NOLA who watched Grandma float away in a lake of putrid toxins. Etc.

Willful ignorance, willful ignorance, willful ignorance.

[atommom]

32. "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

Also not fond of "strong moral values", or even "support our troops", because I know that usually the people using those phrases mean something entirely different.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

35. "If all the money in the world were evenly distributed, within a year,

today's rich people would be rich again, and today's poor people would be poor again."

I've heard this saying several times over the years. I don't know where it comes from, but it's a perfect example of "the rich deserve their wealth."

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

36. Hands down "And Here is The President Of the United States, George Bush"

[WinkyDink]

37. Ding-Ding!! We've got a winner!!

[DanCa]

38. You cant be christian and porlife. - i hate that.

[Don Claybrook]

39. Make no mistake about it...

That's more of a phrase than a saying, but if I never hear it again, I'll be ok with that.

[Realityhack]

40. "Your either with us or against us"

Its sort of literaly true... but its so dismissive and almost always a substitution for legitimate debate.