# 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:** 1159
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23162 "2015-07-22T02:26:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Scott Walker posted an image of himself folding an American flag “[just like he learned in the Scouts](https://www.facebook.com/OverpassLightBrigade/photos/a.189572724474246.39106.178953955536123/797916073639905).” Except he was folding it wrong, and got called on it, so he deleted the image. Oh, _ **hell!** _ I’m pretty sure that’s how I taught the cleaners at my last job to do it. They’ve probably been deported by now. (In my own defense, I have never been in the military, the Boy Scouts, or a presidential candidate.) _ **Damn!** _ ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23163 "2015-07-22T13:39:43Z")
[Jeb Bush Speech Denouncing Lobbyists Was Organized By Corporate Lobbying Group](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/election-2016-jeb-bush-speech-denouncing-lobbyists-was-organized-by-corporate-lobbying-group_55aee29be4b08f57d5d2e9b6?) File this under John Ellis being oblivious. ---
**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 22, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23164 "2015-07-22T14:40:24Z")
How would one fold a flag like that in the first place? You bring the long edges together and one end is all blue on one side. The next natural long fold should leave you with an all blue end: fold it the other way and you get all stripes except for one row of stars on blue, which is what it looks like they must have done. To get blue on one side and stripes on the other, you would have to do some weird move, like, after the first fold, pulling the bottom fold up between the edges. I just cannot understand it. Also, his shoulder should not be touching the “W”. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23165 "2015-07-22T17:37:50Z")
Marco Rubio compares Obama to Trump, saying that [both of them have no class](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-22/marco-rubio-says-president-obama-has-no-class-). You bottle-swigging moron. Obama has more class in his little fingertip than the entire current Republican presidential candidate field. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23166 "2015-07-22T17:46:21Z")
[Vitamins make you horny, and other things I learned on Laura Ingraham’s insane new website.](http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/vitamins_make_you_horny_and_other_things_i_learned_on_laura_ingrahams_insane_new_website/) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23167 "2015-07-22T18:06:49Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Marco Rubio compares Obama to Trump, saying that [both of them have no class](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-22/marco-rubio-says-president-obama-has-no-class-). > > You bottle-swigging moron. Obama has more class in his little fingertip than the entire current Republican presidential candidate field. Among his complaints? That Obama went on The Daily Show to talk about, among other things, the Iran deal. Yes, a politician went on a talk show hosted by one of the most politically acute hosts on TV and conducted an engaging and informative interview. Worst President Evar! I’m just going to have to guess that, what with coming from Florida, serving in today’s Senate, and hanging out with other GOP candidates, our boy Marco doesn’t come into contact with “class” often enough to recognize it. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23168 "2015-07-22T18:22:22Z")
Will the nutter pubbies in Florida stay there once the sea covers most of Florida, or will they move north? I’m hoping they stay where they are. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23169 "2015-07-22T18:29:10Z")
Weather Channel sez [South Floridians move north](http://www.weather.com/news/climate/news/south-florida-sea-level-rise-mass-exodus). All the way to their grandchildren’s houses in New Jersey. ---
**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 22, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23170 "2015-07-22T19:21:46Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Weather Channel sez [South Floridians move north](http://www.weather.com/news/climate/news/south-florida-sea-level-rise-mass-exodus). All the way to their grandchildren’s houses in New Jersey. And this of course highlights one of the stupidest Republican ideas of all; that climate change is a myth - some sort of liberal plot to achieve… something or other, I don’t know. I guess it’s like the underpants gnomes. [ol] [li]Convince the world that fossil fuels are warming the planet.[/li][li]?[/li][li]Profit![/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23171 "2015-07-22T20:33:13Z")
Apparently the idea is that there’s a vast conspiracy of scientists promoting this stuff just to get each other a bunch of grant money from Da Eebil Gummint, which of course is run by Democrats who simply hate Big Business for creating jobs that make people not depend on welfare and not want to vote Democratic. I think. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23172 "2015-07-22T21:28:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Apparently the idea is that there’s a vast conspiracy of scientists promoting this stuff just to get each other a bunch of grant money from Da Eebil Gummint, which of course is run by Democrats who simply hate Big Business for creating jobs that make people not depend on welfare and not want to vote Democratic. > > I think. [It’s a convergence of various CTs.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_warming_conspiracy_theory#Out_of_one.2C_many) ---
**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 22, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23173 "2015-07-22T23:40:14Z")
[National Review calls Bernie Sanders a Nazi.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07/20/national-review-bernie-sanders-is-running-on-a/204500) ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23174 "2015-07-22T23:55:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Vitamins make you horny, and other things I learned on Laura Ingraham’s insane new website.](http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/vitamins_make_you_horny_and_other_things_i_learned_on_laura_ingrahams_insane_new_website/) I’m going to guess you didn’t click through to any of the links. I briefly checked the vitamin, the “churchies eat more vegetables” and the cervical cancer articles. The cites in the first two are horrible (providing barely enough to constrain a search to **maybe** find the supporting study.) There’s a very light sprinkling of religion on top. Mostly they are pretty typical media reporting on health research. A minor rewrite and cites and they’d fit on HuffPo. The third, the cure for cervical cancer, is a report device that some smart guys actually invented. It’s gotten through clinical trials in Brazil with testing yet to come in the US. There’s no god or political references. It’s a pretty common here’s a cool invention early report. I could see that being on HuffPo as is. I stopped there. Given the chance to cherry pick the most crazy, the author whiffed on my first three checks. Three strikes and he’s out. I did find one example of biased, irrational, and rampantly partisan reporting. It’s a prime candidate for SLIOTD. The link is in the quote above. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23175 "2015-07-23T00:22:57Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > And this of course highlights one of the stupidest Republican ideas of all; that climate change is a myth - some sort of liberal plot to achieve… something or other, I don’t know. I guess it’s like the underpants gnomes. > [ol] > [li]Convince the world that fossil fuels are warming the planet.[/li][li]?[/li][li]Profit![/li][/ol] Apparently the motive is to scare people into implementing socialism and confiscate money from those horribly beleaguered corporations and give it all to undeserving unproductive poor people. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23176 "2015-07-23T01:19:00Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Mostly they are pretty typical media reporting on health research. A minor rewrite and cites and they’d fit on HuffPo. And that, folks, is what is called “damning with faint praise.” ---
**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 23, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23177 "2015-07-23T01:32:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [National Review calls Bernie Sanders a Nazi.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07/20/national-review-bernie-sanders-is-running-on-a/204500) I liked this part of the _NR_ piece: > [@Kevin Williamson (of the National Review)](#): > > But Tara Monson, a young mother who has come out to the UAW hall to support her candidate, is pretty straightforward about her issues: “Socialism,” she says. “My husband’s been trying to get me to move to a socialist country for years – but now, maybe, we’ll get it here.” The socialist country she has in mind is Norway, which of course isn’t a socialist country at all: _ **It’s an oil emirate.** _ Really? Who’s the emir of Norway, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23178 "2015-07-23T01:45:20Z")
Isn’t Kevin Williamson the person who stated that woman who have abortions should be hanged\*? \*As opposed to lynched because…well that would be _racist_ ---
**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 23, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23179 "2015-07-23T01:45:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Really? Who’s the emir of Norway, I wonder? That’s an easy one : Harald V. The point is not \*wholly \*without merit, BTW. It’s true that a lot of Norway’s social expenses and projects are financed exclusively with the profits of its extensive oil fields in the North Sea. But then, it’s almost as if they’d decided to, wait for it, _socialize them_ ! As opposed to, e.g. Harald’s clan hoarding the money, buying solid gold jetplanes filled with hookers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23180 "2015-07-23T01:46:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Really? Who’s the emir of Norway, I wonder? Yusuf Yusufssen? ---
**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:** [July 23, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23181 "2015-07-23T13:11:30Z")
Marco Rubio Scolds Obama for [Having No Class](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/22/marco-rubio-jabs-obama-we-have-president-no-class/#ixzz3gifa4CBX): > [@](#): > > Mr. Rubio also referred to President Obama’s Tuesday appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” > > “You just saw the interview he did right now where he goes on comedy shows to talk about something as serious as Iran,” he said. Of course, it was very classy when [Marco Rubio went on the Daily Show](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/extended-interviews/d7iye4/exclusive-marco-rubio-extended-interview) (three times!) to talk about immigration, the economy and foreign policy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1158) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1160)