“The media doesn’t understand life membership in the NRA; they don’t understand getting up at 3 a.m. to hunt a moose, they don’t understand eating a mooseburger, they don’t understand being married to a guy who likes to snowmobile for fun. I am not surprised that they don’t get it. But Americans get it. A mooseburger means she is like one of us. She is not some jackass who’s ‘gone Washington.’”

— Congressman Adam Putnam (R - Bartow), trying to explain GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin