# Recovering Republican, Please Step Into the Hallway for a Moment **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114 "2011-07-07T01:24:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/21 "2011-07-07T11:27:37Z")
No–that’s the proof that he’s yanking people’s chains. You gotta stop taking his posts at face value. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/22 "2011-07-07T12:09:23Z")
No, Mr. RR, you didn’t “hurt my feelings.” You wasted my time with your ceaseless barrage of nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/23 "2011-07-07T12:11:02Z")
I’ve never started a pit thread for anyone, but was tempted to do so for this guy. He’s a serial threadshitter, every thread becomes his soapbox to proclaim his hate for Obama. So he’s not going to vote for Obama. Big fucking whoop. People like him didn’t vote for Obama the first time around, somehow we’ll get by with him being on the Dark Side. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/24 "2011-07-07T14:03:32Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’ve never started a pit thread for anyone, but was tempted to do so for this guy. He’s a serial threadshitter, every thread becomes his soapbox to proclaim his hate for Obama. Or to just rant about whatever the thread in question might tangentially remind him of. I think that’s my biggest gripe about him: his presence in a thread is nearly certain to make the intended subject of the thread irrelevant. And at this point, we ought to rename the “Elections” forum the “Recovering Republican” forum. It’s all RR, all the time. It’s so crowded (just by him), nobody in their right mind goes there anymore. I think Dylan has an appropriate dismissal to this waste of electrons: _I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind You could have done better but I don’t mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don’t think twice, it’s all right_ ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/25 "2011-07-07T14:18:04Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > Well, you would say that. You’re a liberal and think Obama is “the one.” But would you want YOUR child sodomized by a union member? Only if he’s among the 20 percent of high school grads who can’t read their diploma. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/26 "2011-07-07T14:40:02Z")
> [@Recovering\_Republican](#): > > Dude, I didn’t PM you. Why would I? Very nice! This is some fine trolling indeed. ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/27 "2011-07-07T15:25:53Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > I’m just amused by how his penny pushing “buyer” job is apparently a “real job” but a teacher somehow isn’t. > > I’m sorry, but my brain just can’t parse that. Hey, hey now, don’t throw Buyers under the bus with this asshat. Some of us are actually normal, functioning people! In fact, some of us are former teachers! ---
**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/28 "2011-07-07T15:31:11Z")
Oh and **RR** , please stop shitting on my posts and start your own threads instead. You have my Palin thread so off topic that it has have lost it’s meaning. With the grenades that you throw in along with the occasional reasoned post I almost wonder if you are Newt Gingrich in disguise. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/29 "2011-07-07T15:48:56Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > He’s a damn idiot. Your sig line is particularly appropriate here. His defense of his loopy extremist positions is that there people far crazier than he is on the fringes of the Tea party movement, so we have to deal with him. Thing is, we really don’t. Let 'em rant, let 'em stir up shit, and let us get on with our lives. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/30 "2011-07-07T15:50:33Z")
> [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](#): > > Hey, hey now, don’t throw Buyers under the bus with this asshat. Some of us are actually normal, functioning people! In fact, some of us are former teachers! Just for the record, I’ve got an issue with the whole concept of a “real job” and then him claiming that teaching is not one. I’ve no issue with buyers. ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/31 "2011-07-07T15:58:00Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Just for the record, I’ve got an issue with the whole concept of a “real job” and then him claiming that teaching is not one. I’ve no issue with buyers. I know, I just wanted to take your post as an opportunity to call him an asshat. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/32 "2011-07-07T16:19:54Z")
> [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](#): > > I know, I just wanted to take your post as an opportunity to call him an asshat. Okee dokee. Cool. Edit: Thought I was in a different thread. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/33 "2011-07-07T17:06:07Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Just for the record, I’ve got an issue with the whole concept of a “real job” and then him claiming that teaching is not one. I’ve no issue with buyers. Clearly teachers didn’t actually do him any good. Why would you expect him to have something positive to say about them? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/34 "2011-07-07T17:16:06Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Clearly teachers didn’t actually do him any good. Why would you expect him to have something positive to say about them? > > -Joe He goes on about how superior his Catholic education was. I’m not sure his teachers would agree- it seems on of their objectives would be to instill a lifetime Catholic faith and they seem to have failed in that respect. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/35 "2011-07-07T18:33:56Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > But would you want YOUR child sodomized by a union member? Are there any benefits to my member joining a union? (Besides the improved chances of it sodomizing children, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/36 "2011-07-07T18:40:52Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > He goes on about how superior his Catholic education was. I’m not sure his teachers would agree- it seems on of their objectives would be to instill a lifetime Catholic faith and they seem to have failed in that respect. A _penchant_ for molestation, perhaps? As someone who went to a Catholic school for some years, you want to know the bad thing about it? It’s quite geared toward improving your critical thinking skills - something that IME quickly leads to a loss of one’s Catholic-ness. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/37 "2011-07-07T19:15:52Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > As someone who went to a Catholic school for some years, you want to know the bad thing about it? It’s quite geared toward improving your critical thinking skills - something that IME quickly leads to a loss of one’s Catholic-ness. Somehow the subject of this thread managed to do the latter without the former. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/38 "2011-07-07T22:34:17Z")
I’ve quit reading Elections entirely because of him. He’s morphed every thread into the same set of rants and responses. At this point, I wish they’d lock all the existing threads and just let us have a clean slate. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/39 "2011-07-08T03:17:07Z")
I wondered how long it would be before this douchebag got pitted; I knew it wouldn’t take long. Y’all have the meaning of his name wrong, ya know. He’s not recovering _from_ being a Republican, he’s recovering his Republican-ness, at least in his own eyes. Myself, I don’t think he ever actually strayed from the party line much at all. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114/40 "2011-07-08T03:30:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Y’all have the meaning of his name wrong, ya know. He’s not recovering from being a Republican, he’s recovering his Republican-ness, at least in his own eyes. Myself, I don’t think he ever actually strayed from the party line much at all. I have to admit, I was confused by the name as well, especially considering some of the odd positions s/he was taking on stuff. Yours seems to be the best explanation I’ve seen. -XT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-republican-please-step-into-the-hallway-for-a-moment/588114.md?page=3)