50 Dumbest Things Right-Wingers Said in 2013

"The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out." – Texas Rep. Steve Stockman

"Let Allah sort it out." – Former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin on the Syria conflict

"Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn't necessarily mean that that's constitutional." –Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine, on the legal status of Obamacare

"The Great Flood is an example of climate change. And that certainly wasn't because mankind overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy." – Texas Rep. Joe Barton

"They're coming after your donuts!" – Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul after the FDA said it would phase out trans fats

"We know Al Qaeda has camps on the Mexican border. We have people that are trained to act Hispanic when they are radical Islamists." –Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert

"It's a racist tax." – Florida Rep. Ted Yoho on the civil-rights consequences of taxing tanning salons, which supposedly discriminates against pale Americans

"It is not the role of the Congress to make college affordable and accessible." – North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx

"I even believe in the Devil. He's a real person!" – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

"Obamacare is going to destroy everything we know as a nation." – Georgia Rep. Paul Broun

"When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body." – Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin

"The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low." – Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, mansplaining why abortion bans don't need rape exceptions

"To have women serving in infantry could impair the mission-essential tasks of those units. And that's been proven in study after study, it's nature." – Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton

"Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in ending racism." – @GOP, the Twitter feed of the Republican National Committee, prematurely declaring victory over intolerance. (News flash to RNC chair Reince Priebus: Racism still exists.)

"If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it." – North Carolina GOP Executive Committee member Don Yelton on his state's voter ID law

"He's even using children. It reminds me of Saddam Hussein when he used kids." –Texas Rep. Steve Stockman on President Obama's push for gun control after the massacre at Newtown

"It might be a wonderful experiment." – Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on whether the U.S. could avert default after hitting the debt ceiling

"Gee-whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur." – Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss on the the military's rape epidemic

"The oil and gas industry gets no subsidies, zero, nothing." – Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, whose industry gets $4 billion a year in tax breaks.

"I need this job like I need a hole in the head." – House Speaker John Boehner

"When I hear politicians talk about restoring faith in government . . .  No, no, no, no, no. That is the wrong solution!" – Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, revealing the depths of his hatred of government

"It's not even the government's business how much money you make. That's a part of freedom." – Iowa Rep. Steve King, channelling Mitt Romney's accountant

"When you say it's not a man and a woman anymore, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?" – Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, on marriage equality

"Is this a conspiracy to buy up all the bullets so they're not available to us?" – Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas questioning whether Homeland Security is trying to create false scarcity by hoarding ammo

"Holy matrimony is formed into an unholy pretzel." – Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on same-sex marriage

"I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters." – Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on critics of his serial plagiarism, including from a Wikipedia entry on the 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca

"There are many other states that embrace those conservative values, the approach that we've taken over the years. I'm in one today, in Florida." – Texas Gov. Rick Perry, delivering a speech in . . . Louisiana

"I am tired of you people." – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, yelling at a school teacher

"My friends, it's a cover-up." – Arizona Sen. John McCain on Benghazi

"Wanting a white Republican president doesn't make you racist, it just makes you American." – Failed congressional candidate Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher

"It wasn't just a few years ago, what was the problem that existed? It wasn't global warming, we were gonna all be an ice cube. We're not ice cubes." – Florida Rep. Jeff Miller

"You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing . . . To me, I would punch 'Vomit,' not 'Like.'  They don't give you that option on Facebook." – The hate-filled Rev. Pat Robertson, paging Mark Zuckerberg

"President Obama can't wait to get Americans addicted to the crack cocaine of dependency." – Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Obamacare

"Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand. And we wonder why our culture sees school shootings so often." – North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer on the hidden connection between Roe v. Wade and gun massacres

"Everything we do in this body should be about messaging to win back the Senate. That's it." – Texas Rep. Pete Sessions on the solitary purpose of the GOP's House majority

"We need 100 more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate." – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz

"[He] hates white people." –Maine Gov. Paul LePage on President Obama, according to two state lawmakers (both Republican) who heard LePage say this

"The President ought to reimburse the American people for any cost that's associated with fixing or replacing this website." – Ohio Rep. Bill Johnson suggesting that Barack Obama take personal, fiduciary responsibility for the failures of healthcare.gov

"I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little." – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the controversial policing tactic known as stop-and-frisk, which was ruled unconstitutional by a district court judge

"There's a movement to normalize pedophilia . . . What is their objective? They want us to all think that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation.  You know who's gonna fall right in line is college kids, just like they have on gay marriage." – Rush Limbaugh

"We're not preaching austerity." – Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, whose budget would slash $4.6 trillion in federal spending

"For every one who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert." – Iowa Rep. Steve King on immigration and why he opposes the DREAM Act

"We're not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is." – Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman on the aims of the GOP's government shutdown

"We've done our work." – House Speaker John Boehner defending the track record of the least productive Congress in modern history

"I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all." – 2016 contender Jeb Bush on the political consequences of the family name

"Society itself is at risk and cannot continue." – Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg on the apocalyptic consequences of the Supreme Court's gay marriage decisions

"I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets." – Florida Rep. Ted Yoho on the hidden upside of forcing America into default

"My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes." –Alaska Rep. Don Young, doing his turn to aid the GOP's Hispanic outreach

"The middle class. Since when in America do we have classes? That's Marxism talk." – Former presidential contender Rick Santorum

"Yeah, I would." – Nevada assemblyman Jim Wheeler, when asked if he would vote to reinstate slavery if his constituents wanted it