# 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:** 1160
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23182 "2015-07-23T13:16:32Z")
[Ben Carson thinks prison is too comfy.](http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/ben_carson_thinks_prison_is_too_comfy_i_was_flabbergasted_by_the_accommodations/) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23183 "2015-07-23T13:16:44Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Yusuf Yusufssen? Ibrahim Bloodaxe? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23184 "2015-07-23T13:24:38Z")
Abdullah al-Utefisq. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23185 "2015-07-23T14:14:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Ben Carson thinks prison is too comfy.](http://www.salon.com/2015/07/22/ben_carson_thinks_prison_is_too_comfy_i_was_flabbergasted_by_the_accommodations/) Carson thinks about prison a lot. What’s that all about? > [@](#): > > Carson previously claimed that “a lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight — and when they come out they’re gay.” ---
**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, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23186 "2015-07-23T15:35:22Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > 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):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. Well obviously those aren’t \*serious \*subjects. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23187 "2015-07-23T16:14:12Z")
[Ted Cruz thinks Captain Kirk was a Republican.](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ted-cruz-star-treks-captain-kirk-was-probably-republican) Because clearly that’s the message that Gene Roddenberry meant to send when he portrayed a society based on racial equality, state secularism, universal distribution of wealth, and settling international disputes through peaceful diplomacy and negotiation instead of shock and awe. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23188 "2015-07-23T16:35:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [It’s a convergence of various CTs.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_warming_conspiracy_theory#Out_of_one.2C_many) And all this time I was supporting CT for the wrong reasons! I gotta pick a better one than “saving the planet”. Ooo, I can have funding? I’m gonna get on this scientist gravy train! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23189 "2015-07-23T16:48:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Ted Cruz thinks Captain Kirk was a Republican.](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ted-cruz-star-treks-captain-kirk-was-probably-republican) > > Because clearly that’s the message that Gene Roddenberry meant to send when he portrayed a society based on racial equality, state secularism, universal distribution of wealth, and settling international disputes through peaceful diplomacy and negotiation instead of shock and awe. You’re thinking of Captain Picard. Kirk was a shoot 'em, fuck 'em, bomb 'em, I don’t like their society so piss on it type of guy. IOW, a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23190 "2015-07-23T16:53:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You’re thinking of Captain Picard. Kirk was a shoot 'em, fuck 'em, bomb 'em, I don’t like their society so piss on it type of guy. IOW, a Republican. And he chased women. He was liberal enough not to care what color. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23191 "2015-07-23T16:57:02Z")
[Tom Cotton compares John Kerry to Pontius Pilate](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/tom-cotton-john-kerry-pontius-pilate-iran-deal-120520.html) > [@](#): > > Cotton said that Kerry, who is appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday to sell lawmakers on the agreement, “acted like Pontius Pilate” by not drawing a line. > > “He washed his hands, kicked it to the IAEA, knowing that Congress would not get this information unless someone went out to find it,” he said I’m not up on my Christian theology, but what does Tom Cotton have against personal hygiene? But more importantly, how does a wet-behind the ears first term Senator get off critiquing a Secretary of State who’s been immersed in foreign policy since before Cotton was weaned? Cotton served in Iraq and Afghanistan, so he’s seen firsthand how well the “boots on the ground” and “shock and awe” approaches to diplomacy have gone. What’s his proposal? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23192 "2015-07-23T17:01:59Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I’m not up on my Christian theology, but what does Tom Cotton have against personal hygiene? Pilate washing his hands refers to the episode in the Gospels where he refuses to either condemn or acquit Jesus of the charges against Him and hands Him over to the Jewish authorities for judgment, saying that he refuses to take responsibility for His fate either way. Which isn’t even a valid metaphor for how the Iran deal was made or how it’s to be enforced. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23193 "2015-07-23T17:18:54Z")
Sen. Joni Ernst - remember the hog castrater? - [simply cannot be appeased](http://wonkette.com/591821/sen-joni-ernst-worried-obama-lowered-flag-to-half-staff-for-secret-muslin-reasons)about the flag being at half-staff for the murdered Navy men in Chattanooga. > [@](#): > > During an interview on an Iowa talk radio show, host Simon Conway asked Ernst what the heck was going on with the flag and Obama’s dishonoring of the dead: “I think there’s something else going on because I think he wants us talking about that and not the other thing, whatever the other thing might be … I do think that there are so many things going on right now that he doesn’t want us talking about, whether it is the fact that terrorism remains, whether it is the agreement with Iran. I think there are so many things that he would just rather he don’t discuss and focus on something else. Well, whenever you figure out what you mean, do please let us know, won’t you? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23194 "2015-07-23T17:18:55Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Cotton served in Iraq and Afghanistan, so he’s seen firsthand how well the “boots on the ground” and “shock and awe” approaches to diplomacy have gone. What’s his proposal? The lesson of John McCain is that serving - even on active duty in a war - does not make you less likely to think of soldiers as expendable. Or perhaps it makes you think they’re invincible. ---
**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 23, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23195 "2015-07-23T17:28:19Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Cotton served in Iraq and Afghanistan, so he’s seen firsthand how well the “boots on the ground” and “shock and awe” approaches to diplomacy have gone. What’s his proposal? That he never wants to put his own (personal) boots on the ground again. Seriously, it’s dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23196 "2015-07-23T18:59:03Z")
Rick Perry spoke at the National Press Club recently and hoisted this old canard, that it was the Republican Party that freed the slaves and was the party that black people should support. It drives me crazy when Repubbies say things like that, as if their policies for the last 50years didn’t count for anything, or if the fact that they wrote off the blacks in the south after the Rutherford Hayes/Samuel Tilden dispute of 1877. ---
**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 23, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23197 "2015-07-23T19:03:36Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Sen. Joni Ernst - remember the hog castrater? - [simply cannot be appeased](http://wonkette.com/591821/sen-joni-ernst-worried-obama-lowered-flag-to-half-staff-for-secret-muslin-reasons)about the flag being at half-staff for the murdered Navy men in Chattanooga. Well, whenever you figure out what you mean, do please let us know, won’t you? Thanks. I lost at least 4 IQ points reading that. Porbably would have been a drooling idiot if I had had to listen to it. Which of course Republicans would be doing… Off to read some Mark Twain to restore my IQ by reading something intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23198 "2015-07-23T20:22:39Z")
Careful, easy to overshoot the mark. So to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23199 "2015-07-23T20:27:01Z")
Rand Paul: [There’s no reason to grant asylum to Iraqi refugees, because we won the war.](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/23/3683691/rand-paul-iraqi-refugees/) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23200 "2015-07-23T20:30:17Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > But more importantly, how does a wet-behind the ears first term Senator get off critiquing a Secretary of State who’s been immersed in foreign policy since before Cotton was weaned? Don’t misunderestimate Tom Cotton. He’s the patriot who recently revealed to the world that the Iranians had seized control of Tehran. [http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/15/3633912/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran/](http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/15/3633912/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran/) ---
**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, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23201 "2015-07-23T22:36:12Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Don’t misunderestimate Tom Cotton. He’s the patriot who recently revealed to the world that the Iranians had seized control of Tehran. > > [http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/15/3633912/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran/](http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/15/3633912/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran/) > [@](#): > > “I am rooting for Tom Cotton to win the U.S. Senate seat in Arkansas for more than the usual reasons. To be sure, I tend Republican and in the Nov. 4 midterms I would like to see a Republican majority secured in the Senate. Moreover, I like most of Rep. Cotton’s positions on domestic and foreign policy, and trust him to lead wisely. But there is also this: Tom Cotton is a Harvard man, graduate of both the college and Harvard Law School. I hope that he will restore the image of a great university…” > –Ruth R. Wisse, Oct. 20, 2014, Wall Street Journal He’s rumored to becoming the honorary chairman of next year’s campaign for Harvard’s endowment with the slogan: “John Harvard needs some loot, 'cause I, Tom Cotton, made us great again!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1159) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1161)