“You know, Josh Burkeen is our rep down here in the southeast area. He lives in Colgate and travels out of Atoka. He was telling me lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they’ll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that’s happened to us?” – Senate candidate Tom Coburn, in Oklahoma.
QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “They stand for Christian leadership and putting down the disgusting rights of queers. It’s going to be a great day when they shoot that down,” – Illinois Republican supporter, Debbie Dammann, on what she believes is the agenda of Alan Keyes and George W. Bush.
BUSH, KERRY, DEFICITS: Kerry is better on fiscal matters, argues Jon Cohn.
EMAIL OF THE DAY: “Your posts on Kerry make me feel like I’m watching a bad Woody Allen movie, where some neurotic, forty-something Manhattanite is trying to convince herself that she really is in love with the off-putting proctologist who just proposed to her. For the love of God, please come to your senses.” Fair enough. But no gay proctology jokes, please.
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