Political Cliches
 

Simple game....


May even be a short one....


list one word or phrase that you have heard become 'cliche' (and probably gotten sick of hearing) during this election season.


Bonus points if you can pull out a direct quote or give a good link of where it came from. ;)


'thrown under the bus'


Historically and theologically, he was inflating his importance in a pride-goeth-before-the-fall kind of way. Politically, by surfacing now, he was throwing Barack Obama under the bus.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...under_the.html

"BITTER"

"HARDSCRABBLE"

Applied to people/towns in PA.

The Gloves are off
"Obama's Gloves Are Off - And May Stay Off"
The Gloves are off
Taking off the gloves

I think the Daily Show did a riff on this, I'll include it if I find the link.

"electability"

"superdelegate"

Change

Change we can believe in

3 am phone call

"swiftboating"