So they said

▪  “We have to change course because our country is headed for national socialism.” – Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., campaigning with Bob Dole in Dodge City (Roberts’ campaign later said he meant it as “bigger government” rather than another name for Nazism)

▪  “Both. How ’bout that?” – Roberts, after appearing with Sarah Palin in Independence, when MSNBC noted the apparent contradiction of Dole’s bipartisanship message and Palin’s fighting words and asked Roberts, “Whose side are you on?”

▪  “He’s basically furniture in the Senate, and the people in Kansas know that.” – national GOP strategist John Weaver, a former John McCain adviser, referring to Roberts in the Washington Post

This story was originally published September 27, 2014 at 7:02 PM with the headline "So they said."