# 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:** 1038
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20742 "2015-04-02T20:18:31Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > So…actual discrimination is a phony crisis and his idiotic conspiracy theory is genuine. Up is down, black is white, lies are truth. Why abandon a tactic that works? AWOL Bush is a war hero, medal-winning Kerry is a traitor. Not to mention the Orwellian names the pubbies give their bills. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20743 "2015-04-02T20:30:33Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Michelle Bachman, trying to stay relevant, shared [this gem](http://www.motherjones.com/contributor/2015/04/michele-bachmann-ugly-facebook-rant) on Facebook: > > [QUOTE=Michelle Bachman] > With his Iran deal, Barack Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls on the German Wings flight - a deranged pilot flying his entire nation into the rocks. After the fact, among the smoldering remains of American cities, the shocked survivors will ask, why did he do it? What a fuckin’ idiot. [/QUOTE] No, she’s right. As soon as Iran enriches enough uranium to make one bomb, it will forget all about Israel, and blow up every single US city. Wake up, sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20744 "2015-04-02T20:33:05Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Why abandon a tactic that works? AWOL Bush is a war hero, medal-winning Kerry is a traitor. Not to mention the Orwellian names the pubbies give their bills. Like “Right to work” and the “Patriot Act”? We should probably have a separate thread on Orwellian ALEC/GOP bill/law titles. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20745 "2015-04-02T20:57:16Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > This just in: Ted Nugent is still a fucking moron and a couple of bullets short of a full magazine Didn’t read the article, but when all these guys supposedly approach Ted to tell him how they are about to kill themselves, does he even try to talk them out of 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:** [April 2, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20746 "2015-04-02T22:16:03Z")
> [@](#): > > “Here’s your job, Republican Party. 20-25 of those guys kill themselves every day, and they haven’t told you why and they haven’t told anybody else why but they told me why: because the Commander-in-Chief is the enemy.” Is Ted speaking to the dead? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20747 "2015-04-02T22:47:21Z")
[Bonneville County, Idaho Republican Central Committee wants police to investigate the Muslims who are infiltrating Idaho.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bonneville-county-idaho-muslims) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20748 "2015-04-02T22:51:56Z")
This fall on Fox: Ted Nugent stars in the fresh new series, _The Talking Dead_! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20749 "2015-04-02T23:41:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Bonneville County, Idaho Republican Central Committee wants police to investigate the Muslims who are infiltrating Idaho.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bonneville-county-idaho-muslims) Just like how Rahm Emanuel is welcoming all the conventions abandoning Indiana because we’re not crazy (relatively) in Chicagoland, perhaps some civic boosters from Oregon or Washington can invite our hard-working Muslim brothers and sisters to jump the border. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20750 "2015-04-03T00:06:31Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Didn’t read the article, but when all these guys supposedly approach Ted to tell him how they are about to kill themselves, does he even try to talk them out of it? That would be tricky, seeing as how any conversation between Ted Nugent and a veteran is likely to quickly include the phrase “pants-shitting coward” and go downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20751 "2015-04-03T00:20:04Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Didn’t read the article, but when all these guys supposedly approach Ted to tell him how they are about to kill themselves, does he even try to talk them out of it? Who wants to listen to Peepants McDraftdoger? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20752 "2015-04-03T00:26:31Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > That would be tricky, seeing as how any conversation between Ted Nugent and a veteran is likely to quickly include the phrase “pants-shitting coward” and go downhill from there. Well said! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20753 "2015-04-03T00:28:34Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Who wants to listen to Peepants McDraftdoger? Michelle Bachmann, Victoria Jackson and much of the state I reside in. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20754 "2015-04-03T00:45:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > This fall on Fox: Ted Nugent stars in the fresh new series, _The Talking Dead_! [Currently in it’s fourth season on AMC.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Dead) Blessedly Nugent free, though. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20755 "2015-04-03T01:16:31Z")
“The Talking _Brain_ Dead.”? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20756 "2015-04-03T02:33:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Bonneville County, Idaho Republican Central Committee wants police to investigate the Muslims who are infiltrating Idaho.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bonneville-county-idaho-muslims) Yes. They are coming. They are coming for . . . America’s potatoes! :eek: (Can’t grow 'em in the desert, y’know.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20757 "2015-04-03T02:52:52Z")
Syria no has potato. Syria sad. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20758 "2015-04-03T03:00:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Who are you quoting there, Hunter S. Joyce? I think the word is “channeling.” ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20759 "2015-04-03T11:35:31Z")
[Is this actually for real](http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Why_Do_Non-Conservatives_Exist%3F)? Because it reads like a comedy bit. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20760 "2015-04-03T11:51:30Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > [Is this actually for real](http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Why_Do_Non-Conservatives_Exist%3F)? > > Because it reads like a comedy bit. Well, at least all the percentages add up to 100%. That’s something. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20761 "2015-04-03T12:48:10Z")
That reminds me of a group we have in our state that periodically sends out e-mail diatribes blasting our local school administration, newspaper, and/or state and city governments (depending on the phase of the moon and the medication schedule of the writer, probably). They consistently use this thing they call an “Integrity Index,” where anyone scoring below 30 (I think) is thereby inherently “evil” (and that is the term they use.) They even have the gall to add “Anyone Claiming to Have Better Numbers is Asked to Provide Them, Along With Derivation Methods Used.” Thing is … their index numbers are entirely created out of thin air themselves. If they don’t like a decision a legislator or school superintendent or columnist makes, that means they get a low integrity number. Oh, they have links to a scholarly-looking justification of where they come up with their numbers (that’s why they know grown-up words like “derivation”), but the explanation is laughably insane. I can’t guarantee these guys are stupid Republicans, but their ideas absolutely fall under libertarian/Tea Party/general right-wing talking points. Check out their website if you want to go falling down their rabbit hole [http://www.iowalive.net](http://www.iowalive.net). Beware of mid-1990s website design and indiscriminate use of the term “EVIL!!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1037) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1039)