Name That Candidate! Fun for the whole family!

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I: Who said it?

A) “Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls.”

B) “When is it ever a good idea to tie a woman up and ask her to kneel before a false idol, your god, which you call Aqua Buddha?”

C) “I made money the old-fashioned way. I inherited it.”

D) “Equality is the prime rib of America.”

E) “Jan, I call upon you today to say there are no beheadings.”


Choices:

1) John Raese (West Virginia, Senate)

2) Alvin Greene (South Carolina, Senate)

3) Lady Gaga on the campaign trail

4) Terry Goddard (Arizona, governor)

5) Jack Conway (Kentucky, Senate)

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II. Match the excuses:

A) “I’ll put it up on my Web site, I promise you.”

B) “I had read that in one place.”

C) “This is four years ago.”

D) “You know, I’m a mom. ... My daughter’s in Europe.”

Choices:

1) Sharron Angle, the U.S. Senate candidate in Nevada on her claim that Dearborn, Mich., and the nonexistent town of Frankford, Tex., are governed by Sharia law.

2) Alex Sink, a gubernatorial candidate in Florida, explaining why she looked at a debate tip, texted onstage via a makeup artist’s cellphone.

3) Ben Quayle, a Congressional candidate in Arizona, on charges by the owner of the Dirty Scottsdale Web site that Quayle once ran a section aimed at finding “the hottest chick in Scottsdale.”

4) Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell of Delaware on her failure to come up with a Supreme Court ruling she disagreed with.

*****

III. Who fired whom for what?

A) Press secretary, for marrying a Lebanese national for a fee.

B) Media firm for sending out a casting call for actors with a “hicky” look to appear in West Virginia campaign commercial.

C) Aide for Twitter message: “What’s the difference between selling out your party’s values and the oldest profession?” (To be perfectly accurate, the aide was actually kept on staff but stripped of all twittering privileges.)

D) Volunteer coordinator for stomping on a MoveOn.org protester.

Choices:

1) Rand Paul (Kentucky, Senate)

2) National Republican Senatorial Committee

3) Joe Miller (Alaska, Senate)

4) Harry Reid (Nevada, Senate)

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IV. Strange behavior:

A) Sent his mother to the final primary debate as his stand-in.

B) Told an interviewer that upon arriving home, she has her staff check the shrubbery in front of her house to make sure no enemies are hiding in the bushes.

C) Failed to make sure the phone was really hung up before engaging in a conversation that included the name of his female opponent and the word “whore.”

D) Has never satisfactorily explained why the family yacht is named “Sexy Bitch.”

E) Raced off the stage just before his final statement in the one and only governor’s debate in order to use the bathroom.

F) Ran an endorsement ad starring a dead senator.

Choices:

1) Jerry Brown (California, governor)

2) Christine O’Donnell (Delaware, Senate)

3) Rick Scott (Florida, governor)

4) Lisa Murkowski (Alaska, Senate)

5) Carl Paladino (New York, governor)

6) Linda McMahon (Connecticut, Senate)


Answers:

Spoiler

I: A-2; B-5; C-1; D-3; E-4. II: A-4; B-1; C-3; D-2. III: A-4; B-2; C-3; D-1. IV: A-3; B-2; C-1; D-6; E-5; F-4.