# 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:** 1156
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23102 "2015-07-19T18:56:14Z")
> [@rsa](#): > > I saw it up close on TV. I don’t recall what was in the center, but surrounding the center emblem it says “The South Will Rise Again”. > > ETA: [Here are some images](https://www.google.com/search?q=rebel+flag+the+south+will+rise+again&espv=2&biw=1348&bih=879&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCPuno5ba48YCFRBakgodtUMG0Q&dpr=1). Oh, those fucking twats. [They’re ripping off an Iron Maiden cover.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6JNq1N3iGag/maxresdefault.jpg) Dumbfucks just can’t help spreading their racist bullshit all over everything they touch. ---
**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 19, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23103 "2015-07-19T20:32:14Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > No one here has commented on this story yet, but I personally don’t believe, as the article suggests, that Abbott caved to pressure from Scientology. > > The reason he vetoed a bill that would have allowed doctors to detain dangerous crazy people is obvious: **dangerous crazy people are his core constituency!** > [@Czarcasm](#): > > You can’t just blame the Scientologists for this one. The others behind the campaign were a home school group, an anti-vac group and an anti-fluoridation group. Just like **commasense** said… ---
**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 19, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23104 "2015-07-19T21:26:16Z")
[Chelsea isn’t Bill Clinton’s daughter](http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/huge-scandal-chelsea-isnt-bill-clintons-daughter/) Because, you know who says so? The National Enquirer ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23105 "2015-07-19T21:33:25Z")
When Scott Walker becomes President, he’ll scrap the Iran deal as soon as possible, and become more confrontational with Russia and China. > **[Scott Walker calls for more militaristic America: US needs to 'put steel in...](https://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/scott-walker-calls-for-more-militaristic-america-us-needs-to-put-steel-in-the-face-of-our-enemies/)** > > Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker had a steep learning curve on foreign policy after some early off-key statements. Now an eager student of global affairs, is staking out positions that play well to conservatives but lack a lot of... When I looked him up in Wiki to verify that he had no military service, I was a bit surprised to learn that he also doesn’t have a college degree. _According to his campaign_, he dropped out of Marquette with a 2.6 GPA, even though he had spent a full four years there (fall 86-spring 90). A 2.6 with a less than full load is not very impressive, and quitting to take an entry-level job with the Red Cross, which probably paid very little, is suspicious (especially given his demonstrated lack of empathy for people down on their luck), but he [won’t unseal his records](http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/mar/12/scott-walker/where-are-scott-walkers-student-records/). He did, however, allow the university to report that he was in good standing when he left, and was not expelled, so there’s that. So now that Trump has shot himself in the foot, the leading Republican candidate seems to be a warmonger who is as dumb as a bag of hair. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23106 "2015-07-19T21:36:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Chelsea isn’t Bill Clinton’s daughter](http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/huge-scandal-chelsea-isnt-bill-clintons-daughter/) > > Because, you know who says so? The National Enquirer From the article: > [@](#): > > And, as an update, the National Enquirer attempted a DNA test and Hubble was NOT excluded as the possible father What’s next, a Nobel Prize for _attempted_ chemistry? ---
**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 19, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23107 "2015-07-19T21:48:18Z")
[Darrell Issa wants to name the 200 miles of shoreline along all of the US coasts after Ronald Reagan](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112154/-Darrell-Issa-proposes-renaming-the-ocean-after-Ronald-Reagan) ---
**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 19, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23108 "2015-07-19T21:52:15Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > When Scott Walker becomes President, he’ll scrap the Iran deal as soon as possible, and become more confrontational with Russia and China. > … Honestly, I think even most Republicans in this country are sick of war. I can’t see how anyone thinks this kind of talk is good political strategy. ---
**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 19, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23109 "2015-07-19T22:19:10Z")
The only candidates with military records are Perry, Graham and Webb, am I correct? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23110 "2015-07-19T22:22:11Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > So now that Trump has shot himself in the foot, the leading Republican candidate seems to be a warmonger who is as dumb as a bag of hair. > > Good times. I’m not sure that Trump has shot himself in the foot with the segment of the polling populace that was already choosing him. The freepers, for example, seem delighted with him and his commentary. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23111 "2015-07-19T22:42:33Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I’m not sure that Trump has shot himself in the foot with the segment of the polling populace that was already choosing him. The freepers, for example, seem delighted with him and his commentary. He was doing great with his anti-immigration rants, but the POW comments, from a guy who never served, are gonna sink him. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23112 "2015-07-19T22:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=Christian Science Monitor] A Fox News poll this month asked: “Recently, presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He said Mexico is, ‘sending people that have lots of problems… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.’ Setting aside how Trump worded his comments, do you think he’s basically right on this, or not?” Some 70 percent of Republicans answered “yes.” [/QUOTE] :eek: ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23113 "2015-07-19T23:33:45Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > He was doing great with his anti-immigration rants, but the POW comments, from a guy who never served, are gonna sink him. Like I said, lots of freepers are delighted hes attacking John McCain, especially after McCain said people at the Trump rallies are “crazies.” I don’t know what percentage of the anti-immigrant crazies are anti-McCain, but there appears to be a significant overlap. Of course, I may just be indulging in wishful thinking. I want him to stick around! ---
**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 19, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23114 "2015-07-19T23:34:12Z")
“do you think this is right or not”? “Yes.” Uh, what? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23115 "2015-07-19T23:41:10Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I want him to stick around! He may not, but the crazy will. The guy got to the top of the polls with hateful nativism, and the rest of them have certainly noticed. The central theme of the rest of the GOP campaign will now be who can do the most outrageous immigrant bashing, and you can “thank” The Donald for showing the rest of them the way. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23116 "2015-07-19T23:50:06Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He may not, but the crazy will. The guy got to the top of the polls with hateful nativism, and the rest of them have certainly noticed. The central theme of the rest of the GOP campaign will now be who can do the most outrageous immigrant bashing, and you can “thank” The Donald for showing the rest of them the way. Yes – it gives me high hopes that Ted Cruz might actually get the nomination… and then get utterly obliterated in the general. The schadenfreude would be even more epic than in 2012. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23117 "2015-07-20T01:38:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Darrell Issa wants to name the 200 miles of shoreline along all of the US coasts after Ronald Reagan](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112154/-Darrell-Issa-proposes-renaming-the-ocean-after-Ronald-Reagan) It’s worse than that: from the article: > [@](#): > > Issa reintroduced his bill Wednesday to rename the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which generally extends from three miles to 200 miles offshore, as the Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone. So it’s the bloody _oceans_ he wants to rename, not the coastline. By the Great Goal Gods (soccer deities), is there any intelligence left in the Republican party? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23118 "2015-07-20T02:14:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Darrell Issa wants to name the 200 miles of shoreline along all of the US coasts after Ronald Reagan](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112154/-Darrell-Issa-proposes-renaming-the-ocean-after-Ronald-Reagan) What? Why don’t they sell the naming rights to Apple or PepsiCo? We’d eliminate the deficit in nothing flat. “The Starbucks Outer Banks” “Rehoboth Beach, presented by Ford” ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23119 "2015-07-20T02:24:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “do you think this is right or not”? > > “Yes.” > > Uh, what? Who knew so many Republicans were boolean logicians ? 🙂 > [@](#): > > [Chelsea isn’t Bill Clinton’s daughter](http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/huge-scandal-chelsea-isnt-bill-clintons-daughter/) > > Because, you know who says so? The National Enquirer From that article : "Robert Morrow claimed:“His exact words were, ‘I shoot blanks.’ Stunned by what I’d just heard, I asked him, ‘Then what about Chelsea?’ And he said, ‘Oh, Webb (Hubbell) sired her.’” I’m sorry, he \*sired \*her ? Who even says that ? Is Robert Morrow vampyr or something ? ---
**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 20, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23120 "2015-07-20T03:21:59Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [QUOTE=Christian Science Monitor] > > A Fox News poll this month asked: “Recently, presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He said Mexico is, ‘sending people that have lots of problems… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.’ Setting aside how Trump worded his comments, do you think he’s basically right on this, or not?” > > Some 70 percent of Republicans answered “yes.” :eek: [/QUOTE] Setting aside how he worded his comments? Is there some other way to express those same ideas that would be less offensive? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23121 "2015-07-20T03:27:21Z")
Is this rumor an elaborate way of saying Chelsea Clinton looks like a horse? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1155) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1157)