Mike Huckabee laughed as he recounted a story that would make any psychiatrist in the nation think “sociopath”.

Via MSNBC (video below)

I have no problem with homosexuality, I have a problem with homosexual acts.

Rick Santorum explaining his stance on homosexuality.

Via USA Today

I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. Ronald Reagan just used the term “opportunity society” and that didn’t exist four years ago. I just had breakfast with Darman and Stockman because I’m unavoidable. I represent real power.

Newt Gingrich on Newt Gingrich

Via PBS

With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.

Rand Paul taking the time to explain why providing the same basic healthcare as every other industrialised nation will result in the enslavement of doctors, nurses and their support staff.

Via ThinkProgress

“Tragedy comes in threes: Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards’s passing and Barack Obama’s announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits.”

Christine O’Donnell explaining that helping unemployed Americans during the worst economic downturn since the great depression is as bad as Pearl Harbour.

Via The Hill

“This speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously we’ve gotta stand with our North Korean allies.”

-Sarah Palin on the military stand off between North Korea and South Korea-

Via Politico

“I’m very disappointed, it is what it is. Maybe we can get it before people who understand the law.”

-Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay after having been convicted of money laundering during the 2002 elections. Delay was convicted on the back of overwhelming evidence and now faces 5+ years behind bars-

Via The Statesman

“Sometimes dictators have good ideas.”

-Sharron Angle at a private campaign event, according to Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston. At the Las Vas Sun, he writes, “Her staff fretted the line would get out. It did not. Until now.”-

Via The Huffington Post