The Republican Party: Offering catchy slogans to people who vote based on catchy slogans
‘I upped my income. Up yours!’
‘I’m in! Pull up the ladder!’
This looks so appropriate for the Republicans of today that I am incredibly suspicious. This has apparently been making the rounds of the internet, usually without attribution. This page ( Grim Reviews: The Political Transition of Howard Philips Lovecraft ) claims that it’s from a 1935 letter from HPL to Catherine L. Moore, but I can’t open the page it links to. I don’t have any of the volumes of Lovecraft’s letters, so I can’t check directly. Were the Republicans the same way in 1936? I find it hard to believe they haven’t, as a group, changed very much since then.
Added:
Apparently it’s cited in S.T. Joshi’s Lovecraft bio, and cited on Wikiquote, so it seems it’s for real. That’s as good as I’m likely to find on the internet, Whoda thunk it?
GOP: We hate having a black president more than we love America.
GOP: Supporting the Will of the People whenever it coincides with ours.
GOP: The party of control freaks. For small government.
GOP: If you don’t elect us to Govern, we’ll just devote ourselves to preventing Governance.
GOP: Where “Walking With Dinosaurs” isn’t a tv show, it’s a life style choice.
GOP: Perry - Voldemort 2016
“Women belong in the kitchen and blacks belong in the plantation”
“Americans for a better tomorrow (based on the America of 1850)”
GOP: “Who do you trust? Us, or your lying eyes?”
Probably “commandeer” is more precise than “taking over”, see here.
GOP: Building an America where honor and probity are the sole province of suckers.
“GOP: We grossed out the guy who created Cthulhu! :D”
Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jeb
Florida governeer barely kept his family fed
Then one day he decided he’d better run soon
For an office even higher than that Cheney dude.
(Won “legitimately” this time. Fewer black voters, required voting IDs!)
Well the first thing you know ol Jeb’s a candidate
Fellow partygoers said there’s “legitimate rape”
Said the Iowa Caucus the place you oughta be
So he loaded up the bus to campaign for the presidency
(To stop Hillary, that is. Not to mention Liberals and movie stars.)
Well now it’s time to say welcome back to Jeb and all his kin
They would like to thank you folks for kindly “voting” them in
You’re all invited back again to this shameful repeat of history
To have another heaping helping of their misunderestimatability.
(Texas Oilbillies, that’s what they call 'em now,
Real Mericans. Y’all remember to vote on November 12th, now, y’hear?)
If you’re a Republican that is. Democrats vote the next day. New rules, dontcha know?
Otherwise, bravo (or brava, whichever applies).
Actually, voting day definitely comes before the 12th. So you sensed the joke without realizing I’d already told it. 
We’ll shrink government till it’s small enough to fit inside a vagina and a uterus.
Hey! It’s not small, I WAS IN THE POOL
The one with all the ice cubes floating in it!
GOP: The REAL Americans. ( None of those fake ass brown people trying to pass themselves off as such.)
If you think we’re just a bunch of old white guys, it’s because you didn’t come in through the service entrance. Don’t let it happen again.
GOP: Holier than Jesus ( And thou)
That would fit really well on a bumper sticker, right next to this one.
