# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1014
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20262 "2015-03-23T15:56:20Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Wanna bet the Birther contingent (some elements of which are \*still \*dogging Obama) lets that quietly slide 😉 ? I can’t believe I’m defending Freepers, but there are definitely birthers on there who say that Rubio and Cruz are not NBCs. And there are definitely non-birthers on there who try to shout down the birthers. So, not only do I read what Freepers write, I’m defending them. What is my world coming to? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20263 "2015-03-23T17:26:12Z")
Yeah, sure, but now you got non-partisan cred! Bookmark this, and when somebody gives you some shit about being partisan, you just go “Nunh-uh! Right here, I defended a bunch of vicious, drooling morons! In public!”. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20264 "2015-03-23T17:31:41Z")
Let the usual suspects go after Cruz’s citizenship. Dems can just nudge them a bit here and there, but shouldn’t take it on as their cause. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20265 "2015-03-23T17:34:25Z")
To nudge, you have to touch. Then disinfect your hands with a blow torch. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20266 "2015-03-23T17:36:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Yeah, sure, but now you got non-partisan cred! Bookmark this, and when somebody gives you some shit about being partisan, you just go “Nunh-uh! Right here, I defended a bunch of vicious, drooling morons! In public!”. It’s like how some people drone on and on about how global warming is nonsense, then when others suggest that hey, maybe they have a personal, vested interest in arguing against the overwhelming scientific consensus, they say hold on now, I have even said that fossil fuels suck, so there’s just no possible way I’m just arguing this point because it serves me. Because no one has ever lied on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20267 "2015-03-23T17:41:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Yeah, sure, but now you got non-partisan cred! Bookmark this, and when somebody gives you some shit about being partisan, you just go “Nunh-uh! Right here, I defended a bunch of vicious, drooling morons! In public!”. Seriously, though, I don’t give non-partisan cred to anyone. I certainly don’t expect it from anyone. I more hope the Freepers will eat their own. That would amuse me, while still making me feel disgust and horror. In that way, it’s quite like the dope. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20268 "2015-03-23T18:09:41Z")
I haven’t forgotten that it was the Clinton campaign that started this birther nonsense. But at least they had the sense to let it go rather quickly, at which point the GOP picked it up and drove it straight over the border into Crazyland. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20269 "2015-03-23T18:23:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I haven’t forgotten that it was the Clinton campaign that started this birther nonsense. But at least they had the sense to let it go rather quickly, at which point the GOP picked it up and drove it straight over the border into Crazyland. Now there’s a border that we should patrol like the dickens. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20270 "2015-03-23T18:34:47Z")
The [pie fight](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rand-paul-supporters-provided-awkward-backdrop-ted-cruzs/story?id=29842997) officially kicks off: > [@](#): > > Several students wearing “Stand With Rand” shirts made their way into seats directly behind Cruz on stage this morning. The students’ shirts were blurry yet visible in many of the shots during Cruz’s speech. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20271 "2015-03-23T19:03:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > How does this look? > [Campaign Poster Prototype](http://home.blarg.net/~sydde/WonF.jpg) The ads will need to be playing “Baby’s On Fire” in the background. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20272 "2015-03-23T19:40:41Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > The ads will need to be playing “Baby’s On Fire” in the background. Just to clarify, you are not referring to the one from _Here Come the Warm Jets_, right? Because that would be, IDK, cognitive dissonance. I mean, that would be like the Republicans using _Born in the USA_ as a patriotic anthem. Just not right. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20273 "2015-03-23T20:19:51Z")
[US Rep Sam Johnson (R,Crazystate) wants to require US military cadets to swear their oaths to God in order to \*\*protect \*\*their religious liberty.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/gop-lawmaker-air-force-cadets-must-pledge-to-god-because-there-is-no-freedom-from-religion/) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20274 "2015-03-23T21:06:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [US Rep Sam Johnson (R,Crazystate) wants to require US military cadets to swear their oaths to God in order to \*\*protect \*\*their religious liberty.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/gop-lawmaker-air-force-cadets-must-pledge-to-god-because-there-is-no-freedom-from-religion/) The irony is nearly perfect on all levels. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20275 "2015-03-23T21:37:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Just to clarify, you are not referring to the one from _Here Come the Warm Jets_, right? Because that would be, IDK, cognitive dissonance. I mean, that would be like the Republicans using _Born in the USA_ as a patriotic anthem. Just not right. I was thinking of the version from the Velvet Goldmine sountrack, but yeah, that’d be the one I had in mind! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20276 "2015-03-23T21:40:46Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > The irony is nearly perfect on all levels. The best bit has gotta be this one : > [@](#): > > Johnson said the Air Force’s Academy only made the end of the oath optional “because of one radical atheist group’s demands!”[…]The moral foundation of our country is in serious danger if we allow radical groups to dictate whether or not we can freely express our religious beliefs! Self-awareness. This guy ain’t has it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20277 "2015-03-23T21:42:27Z")
Maine Governor Paul LePage wants to put fresh water from Maine on barges and [sell it to drought states](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oriZunEbDe0) (video): > [@](#): > > LePage: “What do you think the most valuable asset in the world today is?” > > Off screen: “Water” > > LePage: “You got it. And we have a real abundance of it. In fact, I’m working right now, trying to figure out a way that we can’t get- we can’t barge clean water to drought states and charge it.” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20278 "2015-03-23T21:48:34Z")
Hey, maybe we could, I dunno, build a _pipeline_! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20279 "2015-03-23T21:49:53Z")
We could just insist that Canada pay its rent in water. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20280 "2015-03-23T21:54:12Z")
I suspect this says more about what else Maine has to offer than it does about the value of water. “Look, Mr. Governor, we’re running out of lobsters and logging isn’t cost effective in this type of terrain. What else have you got?” “Um… dirt and water, I guess.” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20281 "2015-03-23T22:06:42Z")
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