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* The Question: What is the goofiest political comment you’ve ever heard/seen uttered by an average citizen?
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:19 pm
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Comment by City Zen Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:23 pm
“Sam McCann is a Republican.”
Comment by INI Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:25 pm
Keep your gubmint hands off my Medicare.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:26 pm
President Trump has my interest at heart.
Comment by Reality Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:27 pm
At a town hall meeting held by Congressman Robert Inglis (R-SC):
“Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
Comment by BC Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:27 pm
It doesn’t quite fit the spirit of the QotD, but: it doesn’t matter whether you vote for a Democrat or a Republican–they’re pretty much the same.
Comment by Earnest Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:27 pm
I love the Affordable Care Act…
I HATE Obamacare…
Comment by Anonimity Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:28 pm
Ugh.
Bruce Rauner is a Republican.
To the QOTD…
“The US Senate isn’t true representation. The House has districts, the Senate, everyone gets 2, big states, small states, what about the people in those states.”
Sat there silent.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:29 pm
Any comment by any regular commenter/constituent on any Congressperson’s social media…
Comment by Exclamation Point Deleted Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:33 pm
“Republicans care about low-income workers.”
Comment by Wensicia Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:34 pm
The rising tide from trickle down economics will lift all boats.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:35 pm
=“Republicans care about low-income workers.”=
“Democrats actually produce results for low-income workers”
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:36 pm
I can’t think of any specific instances offhand but it typically starts with.. “but hillary *insert off topic item that is not relevance to what is being discussed*”
Comment by peteypablo Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:38 pm
Vote ‘em all out…except my guy.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:40 pm
Read the tweet.
The constituent is blaming a test interruption on Rauner.
That’s wacky.
Partisan interpretation of talking points, that’s a whole other animal.
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:41 pm
I’m tolerant, but not to the intolerant.
Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:43 pm
==The constituent is blaming a test interruption on Rauner.==
He (or she) couldn’t bring himself or herself to blame Ajit Pia or dear leader Trump.
Comment by Deadbeat Conservative (Blocked yet?) Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:46 pm
Pension Reform
Comment by PlayK8 Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:50 pm
“The toll roads were paid for years ago. Now they’re using that money on who knows what, but it’s not roads.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:51 pm
We have to scrub the voter registration files because of rampant voter fraud.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:52 pm
Peruse the news sites that still allow commentary. Read the commentary. Yeah, all of those would be goofy.
Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 1:59 pm
“Vote??… Why would I vote for anybody? They all just trying to **** me”
Comment by Leatherneck Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:01 pm
“You can see Mike Pence would be a good president just by the way he looks”.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:01 pm
I agree with the whole “Keep your government hands of my Medicare” the poor old dear was a little confused.
A runner up would be when someone asked me how thousands of US Representatives could fit into one room in Capitol Hill. I stared at him, and told him there were 435 reps, at which point he started talking about how that makes no sense because of the size of the US. He didn’t realize that Congress capped the size of the House to prevent just the question he was asking about. I get not knowing the history, and I give him credit for knowing how it was originally set up, but how many people don’t know how many reps there are in the House?
Comment by Perrid Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:04 pm
Curt Schilling doesn’t count as an average citizen does he?
Comment by Deadbeat Conservative (Blocked yet?) Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:08 pm
Congress needs to pass a law to prevent people like this from purchasing a gun. The NRA has nothing to do with it.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:09 pm
“This year ALL 435 members of the House of Representatives will be up for reelection”
Comment by Gruntled University Employee Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:11 pm
Compassionate conservative
Comment by Gruntled University Employee Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:12 pm
Perrid - even though I work in politics I tend to fraternize with mostly non-political types. I am often asked how many state Senators and Reps we have. And this is from people who live in the Springfield area.
Comment by Exclamation Point Deleted Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:24 pm
Is the governor running that warning warning Sam McCann is mike madigan favorite republican?
You know the one he used against Ives and the one used by that one guy that ran against McCann
Hope they switch all the words and pictures.
Comment by Publius Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:30 pm
Just bomb (Insert country here) back to the stone age
Comment by BucknIrish Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:30 pm
There is a $130 billion dollar deficit in the pension system.
Comment by Publius Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:31 pm
Marijuana is a pathway drug.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:31 pm
I agree strongly with six of the ostensibly goofy comments above, which probably says something about me. I thought the Obama/Dijon mustard stuff was really weird and bad.
Comment by Chris Widger Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:33 pm
Stopping voter fraud (i.e. a solution in search of a problem).
Comment by Jocko Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:34 pm
==“This year ALL 435 members of the House of Representatives will be up for reelection”==
I get your 4th grade civics lesson, but many GOP members of the House chose not to seek reelection.
So when is the last time all 435 sought reelection? Not one retirement?
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:34 pm
Roe v. Wade is settled law. Uh oh.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:40 pm
Something I have heard multiple people say in regards to Rauner goes along the lines of “yeah, I don’t like him, but Illinois spending is out of control, and we do need someone like him to rein it in.”
Never backed up with any examples of course.
Comment by pto Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:42 pm
We need term limits.
Comment by BlueDogDem Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:44 pm
Fracking is 100% safe for the environment.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:47 pm
Regarding undocumented immigrants: “What part of “illegal” don’t you understand?”
Also, anyone who calls it the “Democrat Party” is immediately igbor d no matter what else they say that follows it.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:49 pm
It’s a tie between:
“I thought lottery money was supposed to go to schools. What happened to all of it?”
“Mike Madigan is with the mafia.”
Comment by Cubs in '16 Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:53 pm
I thought money from the lottery was going to pay for education.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 2:54 pm
It’s 2 below out. Where’s all this global warming?
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:00 pm
The national debt doesn’t really matter
Comment by I Miss Bentohs Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:03 pm
Government employees are political hacks. We need to privatize.
Comment by Casual observer Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:11 pm
==Partisan interpretation of talking points, that’s a whole other animal.==
Yes, thank you. Too many responses here are just slamming the policies of the politicians they don’t like.
Comment by Arsenal Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:17 pm
[Day after Trump elected] “Can’t we (third coast, east coast, west coast, blue states) just break off in to a separate country?” This person was so distraught that I felt I couldn’t remind her right then and there about the disaster that ensued when that was tried in 1861.
Comment by 32nd Ward Roscoe Village Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:17 pm
Back to the actual question - in the 1972 presidential election, when one of my Republican relatives said she was voting for McGovern because his father was a minister, so he was closer to God
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:25 pm
“I hate negative campaigning.” Immediately followed by “I’m not voting for x representative, he did x, y and z”. (Listing what was in the most recent negative mailer).
Comment by Fantasma Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:34 pm
“I can’t vote for Poshard - he has a mustache. George Ryan looks like a grandfather”
- my departed MIL
Comment by Stones Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:34 pm
I am a Trump man.
Comment by wondering Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:39 pm
“Trump’s gonna drain the swamp”.
Comment by don the legend Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:45 pm
“Everybody knows that.”
Comment by walker Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:55 pm
“I have to vote for John Kerry. George Bush is gonna take my guns away.”
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 3:59 pm
When I was canvassing for Walter Mondale in 1984: “Well, we’re a military family, and a vote for Mondale is bread off our table.”
Comment by The Old Professor Tuesday, Jul 3, 18 @ 4:03 pm