This election cycle's batch of candidates has refined pandering, stereotyping, intelligence insulting and appeal to the lowest common denominator to an all-time unctuous art form. Here's just a sampling:
Hillary Clinton, courting Hispanic voters in Nevada:
"Clinton said unscrupulous lending leads to bad mortgages, which lead to foreclosures, which lead to people with nowhere to go and vacant neighborhoods that can go rapidly downhill. 'We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips, when ... they both go together,' she said."
Mike Huckabee, commenting on the Iran/US Navy encounter:
"Be prepared, first, to put your sights on the American vessel. And then be prepared that the next thing you see will be the gates of Hell, because that is exactly what you will see after that."
Barack Obama, celebrating his Iowa victory (and ostensibly attempting to engage younger, gangsta-rapping voters):
"As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, Jay-Z's '99 Problems' was blaring. In it, Jay raps, 'I got 99 problems, but a b___ ain't one.' "
Mitt Romney, when asked about his Mormon beliefs:
"The most unusual thing my church believes it that God sent a flood upon the earth, a man took a boat and put two of each animal in the boat and saved humanity by doing that."
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