# 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:** 1098
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21942 "2015-06-02T20:40:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “… _and with a record low of only 800 points, Tom, you come in last_ …” Whereupon Tom drops from site behind his console, treating the viewers to agonized screams that slowly trail off into strange gurgles. In the studio audience, nine people jump to their feet, yelling with joy and high-fiving, as one is heard to shout “finally”. This makes for lousy visuals. His console should roll right to center screen while manacles snap shut over his wrists and ankles. The methos of execution – well, that’s worth a whole 'nother thread. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21943 "2015-06-02T20:47:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > This makes for lousy visuals. His console should roll right to center screen while manacles snap shut over his wrists and ankles. The methos of execution – well, that’s worth a whole 'nother thread. [Death!.. By snu snu!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCdrUW--Jic) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21944 "2015-06-02T20:48:20Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > This makes for lousy visuals. His console should roll right to center screen while manacles snap shut over his wrists and ankles. The methos of execution – well, that’s worth a whole 'nother thread. To add to the suspense, the execution machine should be some sort of Rube Goldberg device from the death chamber of an Evil Overlord who has never read the [Rules](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList), i.e., escape should be challenging but possible for a sufficiently resourceful contestant. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21945 "2015-06-02T20:55:46Z")
[quote=“davidm, post:21930, topic:490897”] What makes it especially silly is that the quote had nothing to do with taxes. It didn’t even originate with Kennedy. It was a paraphrase of a George Bernard Shaw quote. Kennedy did say it, but not in the context of taxes. > **[Ted Cruz believes JFK 'would be a Republican today'](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ted-cruz-believes-jfk-would-be-republican-today-msna608806)** > > Was JFK some knee-jerk supply-sider, who'd be comfortable with contemporary Republican policies? Um, no. The speech where he said it was in Ireland and had nothing to do with US taxes. [/QUOTE] I’d always heard it from Ted, in his eulogy for Robert, and never associated it with JFK at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21946 "2015-06-02T21:22:09Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > To add to the suspense, the execution machine should be some sort of Rube Goldberg device from the death chamber of an Evil Overlord who has never read the [Rules](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList), i.e., escape should be challenging but possible for a sufficiently resourceful contestant. Seriously people? Not one mentioned of The Running Man? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21947 "2015-06-02T21:33:51Z")
Heh, _The Lady or the Tiger_. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21948 "2015-06-02T21:40:19Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > Can Ted Cruz ever open his mouth without being wrong? His latest stupidity > > > [@](#): > > > > JFK would be a Republican today. Yeah, if the bullet had left him severely brain-damaged instead of dead. (Damn you, Ted Cruz! See the level of tastelessness you made me sink to!) ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21949 "2015-06-02T23:28:10Z")
How about this one: [QUOTE=Mike Huckabee] I wish I could’ve said I’m transgender in high school to shower with girls [/QUOTE] So if able this Baptist minister would have lied about himself to violate the privacy of women. Says a lot about how Republicans think. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21950 "2015-06-02T23:41:59Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > How about this one: > > So if able this Baptist minister would have lied about himself to violate the privacy of women. > > Says a lot about how Republicans think. [In the race to find the, uh, bottom](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/mike-huckabee-transgender-shower-joke-118546.html), Huckster seems to have groped his way right onto 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:** [June 3, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21951 "2015-06-03T04:28:13Z")
[Rush Limbaugh makes fun of John Kerry’s looks, his age, and the fact that he still exercises.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/01/rush-limbaugh-john-kerry-bicycle_n_7489702.html) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21952 "2015-06-03T04:58:53Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > It almost sounds like he’s going to do it himself, vigilante style, by dressing in black and sneaking into the prisons and taking out the condemned one by one like a video game All he has to do is pardon them so that they will be released and shot by the police on the grounds that the police do not feel safe about them. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21953 "2015-06-03T09:02:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > The problem is that the solution that the Republicans want is to watch the rest of the world bake and drown from the air conditioned Ocean front high rises that they built in Orlando with short term oil profits. But this doesn’t play very well in the media. Well, framed that way, I think the media could have a lot of fun with statements like Mitt Romney’s a while back. How did that go? “I believe global climate change is real, I believe it is caused by humans, and I don’t think it’s the government’s place to do anything about it”? Something like that? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21954 "2015-06-03T09:49:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Rush Limbaugh makes fun of John Kerry’s looks, his age, and the fact that he still exercises.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/01/rush-limbaugh-john-kerry-bicycle_n_7489702.html) Rush is mocking someone for exercising. Okay then. I await his next screed where he mocks Hillary Clinton for not being addicted to prescription drugs. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21955 "2015-06-03T12:57:19Z")
Can’t mock her for dodging the draft, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21956 "2015-06-03T13:19:07Z")
Sure he can “Being born a woman, and all, with woman parts. . . which she _knew_ would keep her out of Vietnam. . .” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21957 "2015-06-03T14:39:51Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > Seriously people? Not one mentioned of The Running Man? Only if it’s based closely on the (amazingly subversive) book and not . . . that . . . that stupid screen adaptation, with **Schwarzenegger,** yet, that was rumored of but got mired in Production Hell and never was actually made or released, never, you hear me?! _sob_ **Never!** ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21958 "2015-06-03T14:42:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Only if it’s based closely on the (amazingly subversive) book and not . . . that . . . that stupid screen adaptation, with **Schwarzenegger,** yet, that was rumored of but got mired in Production Hell and never was actually made or released, never, you hear me?! _sob_ **Never!** Of _course_ it was released. If it wasn’t, then little Erland van Lidthe de Jeude never would have gotten a chance to sing on screen! (That’s not him singing in _Stir Crazy_ – it’s dubbed, and not even remotely like his voice. I know – I’ve heard it often enough.) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21959 "2015-06-03T14:43:47Z")
> [@Abe\_Babe](#): > > Sure he can > > “Being born a woman, and all, with woman parts. . . which she _knew_ would keep her out of Vietnam. . .” Huh. I never knew until know that an anal cyst was a “woman part”. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21960 "2015-06-03T15:21:34Z")
Republican women only. I was actually talking about him harrassing Hillary for evading the draft. It was funny in my head. All the voices laughed. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21961 "2015-06-03T23:00:05Z")
Scott Walker: Women Mostly Worry About Rape Pregnancies [‘In The Initial Months’](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scott-walker-abortions-rape-incest): > [@](#): > > “I mean, I think for most people who are concerned about that, it’s in the initial months where they’re most concerned about it,” Walker said of pregnancies caused by rape and incest. > > “In this case, again, it’s an unborn life, it’s an unborn child and that’s why we feel strongly about it,” Walker said. “I’m prepared to sign it either way that they send it to us.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1097) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1099)