Now that the auto-de-fé that was the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference is over and the undocumented hospitality workers have swept up the chewing tobacca and gun pornography from the floor of the Gaylord Nelson Convention Center, a review of the more Churchillian quotes from its participants is in order.
Rand Paul: I envision an America in which every citizen has a bunker of his own in an undisclosed location free from inner city entitlement culture.
Jeb Bush: I’m my own man: I promise to invade nations other than the ones my father and brother already invaded.
Scott Walker: We choose to compare unions to terrorists, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.
Chris Christie: I deserve a seat at any Republican presidential debate; preferably one that stays put.
John Bolton: I think it’s premature to call the Iraqi invasion a failure after only a decade of chaos, massive corruption and terrorism.
Ted Cruz: Like many Republicans, my hatred of immigrants comes from being one.
Sarah Palin: It is our duty to vote for he who sends those whom are sent to fight to fight for those who they have sent. Yeah.
Rick Santorum: It’s time for the GOP to pretend all the more forcefully that it cares about working people.
Carly Fiorina: While Hillary Clinton has spent her life in government, I have hands-on experience in almost bankrupting a major US business.
Bobby Jindal: It’s time for Republicans to grow a spine, without using illegal immigrant farm workers I might add.
Ben Carson: As a doctor and arguable a black man, I know firsthand that health insurance is bad for patients. Patients should have to fight for health care, preferably on live TV.
Marco Rubio: I am the only conservative candidate who can promise to deport members of my own family.
Gaylord Nelson (turning in his grave): Get out of my building, you weirdos!