# Guess what? I'm a REPUBLICAN!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312 "2002-07-04T03:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/61 "2002-07-05T19:15:51Z")
What IS a slice? I sucked at golf. BTW, I thought of a neat thread…ways Star Wars appeals to both Conservatives and Liberals…off to Cafe Society! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/62 "2002-07-05T19:43:41Z")
**Guin** , pay no attention to the juggler wearing the pony suit. ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/63 "2002-07-05T20:00:18Z")
Slice: A swing starting outside the perpendicular swing plane and ending inside it while the club blade is slightly open at impact with the ball which results in a clockwise spin of the ball and a curved flight to the right. Basically you could call it a curve ball to the right. You could also call it ‘the GWB stroke’; veers constantly to the right, rarely acts as it should and is a constant curse in the game. Sparc ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/64 "2002-07-05T20:01:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*What IS a slice? I sucked at golf. > \*\* Slice - ball starts out straight, curves to the right (typically due to an improper outside-in swing). Hook - ball veers to the left. I gotta stop talking about politics in golf terms. But it’s a trap I fall into. A possibly fatal handicap, except… aaaarrrgh ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/65 "2002-07-05T20:15:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I gotta stop talking about politics in golf terms. But it’s a trap I fall into. A possibly fatal handicap, except… Seems to be a spreading ailment. I have a recurring three ball where we play for world domination by either the Moderate Monarchists, the Conservative Imperialists or the Federal Socialists. I’ve been winning lately so expect the announcement of a Global Constitutional Monarchy any time soon. Sparc ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/66 "2002-07-05T20:53:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*But never into the woods, where you might wind up being corrupted by tree-huggers. \*\* Only if they’re ‘free range’ trees, of course. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/67 "2002-07-05T21:34:20Z")
Myself, I only eat organic, free-range chickens, each having committed suicide, despondent over the realization that they were, in fact, chickens. Low fat, no karma. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/68 "2002-07-05T23:18:52Z")
\*_Guin_ you can still play SW RPGs, you and the other ladies will need something to do in the clubhouse while your husbands are on the back 9 and you’re bored with drinking gin and tonics and hiting on the caddies. You ARE planning on marrying a WASP with an MBA who was a legacy admission to one of the Ivy League schools, and is the youngest VP at a Fortune 500 company? Isn’t that the goal of every young Republican woman? Or do you plan to follow the trailblazing path of that shining star of conservative womanhood Ann Coulter? Those are the only paths any self-respecting Republican woman can even consider, right? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/69 "2002-07-05T23:30:13Z")
A WASP? But I’m Irish-Polish Catholic!!! Oh, I’m a terrible Republican!!! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/70 "2002-07-05T23:43:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Oh, I’m a terrible Republican!!! \*\* [Jack Nicholson voice on] Is there another kind? [Jack Nicholson voice off] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/71 "2002-07-06T00:02:28Z")
[same voice, from head thrust through recently chopped doorhole] **Heeeeerrrees Guinny!** [/above] ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/72 "2002-07-06T00:43:25Z")
(59)Move to Shadyside, Mount Lebanon, Fox Chapel, or Murrysville. (60)Confess that Rick Santorum is the one true saviour of Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/73 "2002-07-06T02:25:25Z")
Shhhhhhh! **Guin** , they’ll never admit you to the country club if they find that out. [snooty country club lady]A Pole and a Papist! _Good Heavens!_ Why they’ll let just anybody into this club these days.[/snooty country club lady] widdershins (1/2 Polish and a former Papist himself) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/74 "2002-07-06T04:19:27Z")
**Guin** , maybe this will have you shaking your head. I’m from the Mon Valley, Italian Catholic, steelworking family. Dad, grandfather and great-grandfather (and two brothers) all union men. Not only am I Republican, but I’ve worked in the past for Rick Santorum (who’s an Italian Catholic himself.) I can’t explain it either. ---
**Author:** ![Daikona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Daikona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daikona)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/75 "2002-07-06T05:43:15Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by zut \* > \*\* Oh, c’mon **Daikona** , that statement most certainly does not deserve a rolleyes. Seems to me that any Republican that can pop into this thread and participate with the same all-in-good-fun spirit that everyone else is, then that’s commendable._\* And since I seem to recall a few people conplaining about the tone of the thread, I’m not sure where I’m out of line giving it back at them. ::shrugs:: ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/76 "2002-07-06T11:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > **A WASP? But I’m Irish-Polish Catholic!!!** So… How are _you_ doin’? 😃 > [@](#): > > \*\*Oh, I’m a terrible Republican!!! \*\* They’re the best kind.[sub]I should know, since I am one.[sub]A bad Republican, that is.[/sub][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/77 "2002-07-06T17:06:44Z")
Teddy Roosevelt (Republican): Trust buster, started national park service. Nixon (Republican): Wage and price controls, opened relations with Communist China, began withdrawl from Vietnam. MEANWHILE, JFK (Democrat): Ran on the “missile gap,” lowered taxes, CIA sponsored invasion of Cuba (though JFK did refuse to provide air cover), put troops in Vietnam. Clinton (Democrat): Welfare reform, no prosecutions for corporate fraud - though it was rampant, bombed Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan … As an aside David Horowitz (former commie, Republican convert): pro gay rights. It seems to me that most of the hostility above is more appropriately directed at “fundies,” not Republicans generally. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/78 "2002-07-06T23:49:25Z")
You didn’t get the memo? The GOP officially converted to the People’s Fundamentalists Party after Ronald Reagan took office. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/79 "2002-07-07T01:11:02Z")
> [@](#): > > The GOP officially converted to the People’s Fundamentalists Party after Ronald Reagan took office. Consarnit, and all this time I thought they were billing themselves as the Clandestine World Domination party… I want my world domination, hot dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312/80 "2002-07-07T02:07:47Z")
But isn’t One World Government a plot of us godless commies? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-im-a-republican/117312.md?page=5)