# 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:** 1145
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22882 "2015-07-11T00:52:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “For’n-born mooslem socialist pot smoker” got that one guy booted out of the WH but good. 😕 Three of those four “disqualifying” descriptors were UNsuccessfully attributed to the President; the word “socialist” has been embraced by Sanders. I guess “pot smoker” has already lost any potency it may have once had. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22883 "2015-07-11T00:58:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Words can lose their impact as their meanings change over time. A few years ago “socialism” was redefined as meaning “a top marginal income tax rate of 39%”. I’d be very gratified to learn that the word " socialist" has had sufficient half-lives elapse for it to stop being an effective bludgeon for the Pubbies. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22884 "2015-07-11T01:18:45Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Could happen, just because the vision shimmers doesn’t mean its a mirage. Where might we be today, green energy wise, if we had gotten this serious forty years ago? Like some intelligent and forward thinking people were so strenuously advising? > > Would be the best irony ever, if we stumble onto cheap, green, renewable energy and then find out that global warming wasn’t actually true… but now a subsistence farmer in Bangladesh has the energy of ten water buffalo for a penny a day. > > What do we do, give it back? _Could_ happen; sure, but I don’t think we should sit around doing nothing and assuming it will. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22885 "2015-07-11T02:57:53Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Jeb thinks that climate change will be fixed by a person in a garage somewhere. I have the solution to all the world’s problems in my garage. Unfortunately, it involves connecting a hose to the exhaust pipe. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22886 "2015-07-11T03:18:11Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I have the solution to all the world’s problems in my garage. Unfortunately, it involves connecting a hose to the exhaust pipe. That’s not carbon neutral. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22887 "2015-07-11T03:47:44Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > That’s not carbon neutral. I dunno, it’ll put plenty of carbon in the ground. Sequestration, burial same same. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22888 "2015-07-11T05:44:42Z")
> [@](#): > > However, because of today’s real-estate climate, we wonder if this theoretical hero could even afford a place with a garage (unless this person were living in a garage) and if he/she has enough free time while not working to pay off student debt to devote to world-saving extracurriculars. We can only hope that our garage savior does. Please, person in a garage, save us. You’re our only hope. I just bought a place with a garage. I do have to work a lot and don’t have a lot of free time, but that is because I am good at my job and they need me pretty bad sometimes-I paid my student debt long ago. I am working on the problem of climate change- I haven’t yet fully moved into the place with the garage yet, I am doing this from my home office- and one priority I have identified is to not elect a Republican president. Sorry, there are only two candidates I notice so far who are not $multi-million political robots: Trump and Sanders. Trump really really is a Republican. If he weren’t running for president himself to impose a self-interested agenda, he’d be a donor regimenting this or that pubbie candidate to march to the conservative orders. Doing it himself, Trump can be himself and say anything, do anything. He makes the rest of his field look like a bunch of staid chumps. He is literally who the GOP represents. Sanders is also a free man. He isn’t a PAC baby, he is a fucking socialist running for president of the USA. He says what he thinks, and he has the best ideas from the perspective of the majority of citizens in this country, especially the poor and downtrodden. Don’t count Sanders out. His gun control policies seem derived directly from surveillance tapes of my phone conversations with my new gf in Arkansas who owns 20+ long guns and usually votes R but is totally cool and hot at the same time. Urban vs. rural. Long guns vs. handguns. Hunting and subsistence vs. threat to the public. Gun safety vs. gun crime. There ya go, that is the whole issue right there folks. For some reason, the GOP advocates for the wrong position on all these issues. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22889 "2015-07-11T06:52:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Nitpick: Buchanan, not Robertson. Wrong Pat. Oops. :smack: ---
**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:** [July 11, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22890 "2015-07-11T15:43:22Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d be very gratified to learn that the word " socialist" has had sufficient half-lives elapse for it to stop being an effective bludgeon for the Pubbies. I recall a story told by (IIRC) the late William Tenn about how his superior officer in the Army warned him to be wary of professors and journalists because “they’re all socialists”. His takeaway from this was that if the best-educated and best-informed people were socialists, there might be something to it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22891 "2015-07-11T19:47:16Z")
[If Jeb Bush were president he’d do away with nuance and big syllable words.](http://www.nationalmemo.com/jeb-blasts-obama-for-big-syllable-words-and-lots-of-fancy-conferences-and-meetings/) Wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22892 "2015-07-11T19:51:26Z")
Surprising that he would risk his “reg’lar folks” credentials by using a fancy-schmancy word like “nuance,” isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22893 "2015-07-11T19:55:34Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Surprising that he would risk his “reg’lar folks” credentials by using a fancy-schmancy word like “nuance,” isn’t it? Especially since he couldn’t bring himself to say multi-syllable and now I think he’ll ban words like buttcrack and firecraker. ---
**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 11, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22894 "2015-07-11T19:55:51Z")
C’mon, he’s a Bush… it’s not like there’s a lot of thinking going’ on in there. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22895 "2015-07-11T20:15:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Surprising that he would risk his “reg’lar folks” credentials by using a fancy-schmancy word like “nuance,” isn’t it? Nuance? That sounds like a French word. You don’t suppose…? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22896 "2015-07-11T23:36:07Z")
I just read an article on the NYT that discusses how conservative action groups are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on how to best portray Hillary as a rich elitist. The irony burns, of course. Do they not see the obvious counter to such a campaign? ---
**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:** [July 12, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22897 "2015-07-12T02:24:59Z")
W. made it on the goofball-dumbfuck platform, so they are trying to leverage that again, since the stolid Papa Zomney strategery fell so short. Sadly for them, it looks a lot like the goofball part has gone missing, all the have left is dumbfuckery. Not sure how the raw, unadulterated stoopid will play _a capella_. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22898 "2015-07-12T03:53:00Z")
[Sarah Palin is back on the death panels shtick.](http://freakoutnation.com/2015/07/sarah-palins-latest-anti-obamacare-rant-mentions-death-panels-ten-times/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22899 "2015-07-12T04:00:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Sarah Palin is back on the death panels shtick.](http://freakoutnation.com/2015/07/sarah-palins-latest-anti-obamacare-rant-mentions-death-panels-ten-times/) She has lived her entire life without dignity, so you really can’t expect her to understand Death with Dignity, can you? ---
**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:** [July 12, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22900 "2015-07-12T12:11:05Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I just read an article on the NYT that discusses how conservative action groups are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on how to best portray Hillary as a rich elitist. The irony burns, of course. Do they not see the obvious counter to such a campaign? Beg your pardon : the Republican are rich _populists_ ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22901 "2015-07-12T15:03:55Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [If Jeb Bush were president he’d do away with nuance and big syllable words.](http://www.nationalmemo.com/jeb-blasts-obama-for-big-syllable-words-and-lots-of-fancy-conferences-and-meetings/) > > Wait, what? Is there such a thing as a “big syllable”? Aren’t they short pretty much by definition? This is of course part of the whole playing to their base thing. The base being _uneducated and proud of it_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1144) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1146)