I’m making a few year-end lists, as is the meme as the year closes, according to some requests by Zombyboy. Today, we have the political gaffes of 2004.

1. “Screw them.” — Markos Moulitsas-Zuniga. No two words have expressed such utter lack of sympathy over the deaths of Americans in Iraq. More info on the subject at Roger Simon’s.
2. “The capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer.” — Howard Dean. Early Dec. 2003. (Hey remember the December of last year counts.) In the general scheme of gaining political capital to win a primary, this was the beginning of the end for Howard Dean’s aspirations for the presidency. I’ll give him credit though: he wasn’t so nuanced a politician that he would sacrifice his anti-war beliefs and total Bush-hate that he would have bit his tongue.
3. “I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it.” — Senator John F. Kerry. Karl Rove called it the gift that kept on giving. Well, yeah. Need more be said?

I really don’t have much to offer in the way of political gaffes. I’m not really that big of a political junkie than most known politically inclined bloggers.

UPDATE: Here’s a follow up, how about Teresa Heinz Kerry saying that Mrs. Laura Bush doesn’t know anything about the real world? Pot meets the kettle moment right there.

My list on 2004′s Movies is better than this. Zboy also has his list of movies up.