“This [the Obama administration] is an administration which, as long as you’re America’s enemy, you’re safe. You know, the only people you’ve got to worry about is if you’re an American ally.” -Newt Gingrich at the Arizona Republican debate, February 22, 2012.

“This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you think the Father of Lies - Satan - would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country. The United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack, in this day and age?…He [Satan] attacks all of us, and he attacks our institutions. The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He understood the pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest: that they were, in fact, smarter than everybody else, and could come up with something new and different. Pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth. Play with it, because they’re smart.” -Rick Santorum at Ave Maria University, 2008. Audio here.

“I was born and raised here. I love the state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like — I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. Something very special here. The Great Lakes but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars. I don’t know — I mean, I grew up totally in love with cars…. I love cars. I love American cars.” -Mitt Romney in Michigan, February 2012.

But watch the video. The transcript doesn’t do it justice.

“I have two grandchildren — Maggie is 11, Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.” -Newt Gingrich in San Antonio, March 2011.

“[Santorum] lambasted the president’s health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, ‘because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That, too, is part of Obamacare, another hidden message as to what President Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country,’ Santorum said.” -Rick Santorum in Columbus, Ohio, February 2012, via CBS News.

Free prenatal testing is not mandated by the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”).

“Victims of the disease AIDS argue, with no qualms of inconsistency about rights, for crash research programs (to be paid for by people who don’t have AIDS), demanding a cure. And it’s done in the name of rights. The victims demand health care and scream ‘discrimination’ if insurance companies claim they have the right to refuse to issue a policy to someone already infected with the AIDS virus. The rights of the insurance company owners are not considered, while legislation is passed forcing insurance companies to provide insurance demanded by the victims. The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim - frequently a victim of his own lifestyle - but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care.” -From Ron Paul’s 1987 book Freedom Under Siege (pages 22-23).

Paul defended these comments on Fox News in January of 2012. You can see that video here (starting at around 3:30).

“I lived in France in an apartment with no toilet.” -Mitt Romney in a meeting with the Detroit Free Press editorial board, February 16, 2012.

“A number of the apartments I lived in when I lived [in France] didn’t have toilets. We had instead the little pads on the ground, OK? You know how that works, all right. There was a chain behind you with a bucket — it was a bucket affair. I had not experienced one of those in the United States.” -Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, December 2011.

Information about Romney’s mansion in Paris can be found here.

“Sixty years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, abortion is something that is just accepted…This is the erosion. And it happens in the medical profession, and it can happen very fast. And I think Obamacare will lead us down that road.” -Rick Santorum at the American Heartland Forum in Columbia, Missouri, February 2012. (Video at 0:38 seconds.)

“Politics has become a really nasty, vicious, negative business and I think it’s disgusting and I think it’s dishonest.” -Newt Gingrich in an interview with ABC News in Iowa, December 30, 2011.

“Often we search hard for words to define our opponents. Sometimes we are hesitant to use contrast. Remember that creating a difference helps you. These are powerful words that can create a clear and easily understood contrast. Apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party: 

abuse of power

anti- (issue): flag, family, child, jobs

betray

bizarre

bosses

bureaucracy

cheat

coercion

“compassion” is not enough

collapse(ing)

consequences

corrupt

corruption

criminal rights

crisis

cynicism

decay

deeper

destroy

destructive

devour

disgrace

endanger

excuses

failure (fail)

greed

hypocrisy

ideological

impose

incompetent

insecure

insensitive

intolerant

liberal

lie

limit(s)

machine

mandate(s)

obsolete

pathetic

patronage

permissive attitude

pessimistic

punish (poor …)

radical

red tape

self-serving

selfish

sensationalists

shallow

shame

sick

spend(ing)

stagnation

status quo

steal

taxes

they/them

threaten

traitors

unionized

urgent (cy)

waste

welfare”

-From Newt Gingrich’s 1990 GOPAC pamphlet, Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.

“Before we went in the Union, [Nevada’s land] was owned entirely by private owners and it has developed all the natural resources, a very big state. So you can imagine how wonderful it would be if land will be or should be returned to the states and then for the best parts sold off to private owners.” -Ron Paul at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 21, 2011.

“I want as much federal land to be turned over to the state as possible…” -Ron Paul in Elko, Nevada, February 2012. There, he also said he wants to disband the U.S. Department of the Interior.