# I Pit the Audience of the GOP Debate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 23, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331 "2011-09-23T14:48:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/141 "2011-09-27T21:33:14Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Who are you referring to as moderate, elected from the Republican party to a federal level in 2010? Are you sure you’re not just using “moderate” as another term for “agrees with you?” Moderates = tea baggers to QIN. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/142 "2011-09-28T01:23:16Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Moderates = tea baggers to QIN. I mean moderates to be Republicans like Messrs. Huntsman, Kirk, or Brown or Frau Murkowski. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/143 "2011-09-28T02:13:34Z")
You said this > [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Well younger Republicans and moderates elected in 2010 are starting to change the GOP from within Which is kinda at odds with this > [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > I mean moderates to be Republicans like Messrs. Huntsman, Kirk, or Brown or Frau Murkowski. Well Murkowski was elected in 2010 but I wouldn’t say she is changing her party from within as her own party rejected her in the primary. Who are these more moderate Republicans that came about in 2010? Can you name anyone that was more moderate then their predecessor? This change you speak of is going kinda strangely. They aren’t moving in the direction you think they are going. Eventually they will hit the wall that is the American people and they’ll have to become more moderate, until then they march further and further right as long as they can find more bigots to appease. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/144 "2011-10-03T05:31:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Abominable, huh? Crap, I’ve done something abominable! Late to the thread but this kind of made me go “Huh?” Am I missing a back story? Because it seems like you are laughing off adultery that you’ve committed and a couple people laughed along with you. I just ask because “worthy of disgust” is the general consensus I sense around here about adultery so “abominable” seems to fit even if it’s a little archaic sounding. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/145 "2011-10-03T13:04:04Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Late to the thread but this kind of made me go “Huh?” Am I missing a back story? Because it seems like you are laughing off adultery that you’ve committed and a couple people laughed along with you. I just ask because “worthy of disgust” is the general consensus I sense around here about adultery so “abominable” seems to fit even if it’s a little archaic sounding. Yes, it was the archaic sound of “abominable” that got me. I would have copped to doing something “worthy of disgust” without batting an eyelash. But abominable, other than when used to describe a snowman, is strange. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/146 "2011-10-03T13:27:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yes, it was the archaic sound of “abominable” that got me. I would have copped to doing something “worthy of disgust” without batting an eyelash. But abominable, other than when used to describe a snowman, is strange. So, you were cheating with a snowman? I know there’s a fetish for everything, but man I had no idea they had gotten quite that far yet… -Joe ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/147 "2011-10-03T16:57:26Z")
Usually, the carrot is the nose. A cucumber could be employed for another part, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/148 "2011-10-03T17:22:39Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > So, you were cheating with a snowman? I know there’s a fetish for everything, but man I had no idea they had gotten quite that far yet… > > -Joe {insert snowball joke} ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/149 "2011-10-03T17:52:41Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > {insert snowball joke} I’m ashamed that you missed throwing in “blue balls” in there as well. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331/150 "2011-10-03T17:54:27Z")
Lick my snowballs. No, wait, stop lickng my snowballs! I’m melting, melting, oh, what a world… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-audience-of-the-gop-debate/597331.md?page=7)