# 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:** 1177
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23522 "2015-08-08T01:14:07Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > No Trump? _puts **Morgyn** on the whist_ ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23523 "2015-08-08T01:22:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _puts **Morgyn** on the whist_ I knew it was a bridge too far. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23524 "2015-08-08T01:23:42Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I knew it was a bridge too far. You’re going to catch it in spades. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23525 "2015-08-08T01:39:09Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You’re going to catch it in spades. A mitt would be more efficient. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23526 "2015-08-08T01:43:04Z")
I ♣ Republicans. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23527 "2015-08-08T01:53:47Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I ♣ Republicans. > 🙂 I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t let you in.\* \*But you wouldn’t want to be a member if they did, right? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23528 "2015-08-08T02:12:01Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I ♣ Republicans. > 🙂 Unfortunately, the pelts are worthless. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23529 "2015-08-08T03:32:50Z")
If you post “I ♣ Mexicans”’ on Trump’s campaign page, you get to be his Secretary of Defense! 😃 ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23530 "2015-08-08T09:36:30Z")
Tea Party Republican state representative and supporter of traditional marriage caught in cover-up of affair [with another married Republican state representative](http://huff.to/1Iwqm0l). ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23531 "2015-08-08T09:54:43Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Tea Party Republican state representative and supporter of traditional marriage caught in cover-up of affair [with another married Republican state representative](http://huff.to/1Iwqm0l). _In the Detroit News recording, (Rep. Todd) Courser reads a version of the (spam) he wants (an aide) to send. It is similar to an email published by a Michigan political blog that was reportedly sent the following day and calls Courser a “bi-sexual porn addicted deviant” and a “gun toting bible thumping cock sucking freak." The email also accuses (fellow adulterist Rep. Cindy) Gamrat of helping cover up Courser’s behavior and calls her a “tramp.”_ Is this how an actual false-flag operation is supposed to look? Because it looks pretty fucked up. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23532 "2015-08-08T15:44:46Z")
I don’t always read the links in this tread, but they had me at “State rep allegedly wanted to distract from affair with fake story about gay sex.” The logic behind the fake email completely escapes me. “Oh, he’s not really a queer. Look, he’s fucking a woman,” does not follow from fake accusations that he’s a “bi-sexual porn addicted deviant” and a “gun toting bible thumping cock sucking freak," unless one believes that one can only be straight or gay. Which, I admit, could be a belief held by some of his constituents. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23533 "2015-08-08T15:46:40Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Which, I admit, could be a belief held by some of his constituents. It’s the “one drop rule”. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23534 "2015-08-08T16:02:56Z")
> **[Donald Trump Pushes Back After Being Disinvited From RedState Gathering in...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-disinvited-redstate-gathering-atlanta/story?id=32963178)** > > He was disinvited over comments about Fox News' Megyn Kelly. My gosh, Republicans and their out of control PC Policeishness. You would think a fella no longer enjoyed the right to free speech. Golly Almighty. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23535 "2015-08-08T16:48:45Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > The logic behind the fake email completely escapes me. They float one insane email with allegations of sexual misconduct that is easily dismissed, possibly disproven; then, when the allegation of infidelity comes out, people are more likely to dismiss that. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23536 "2015-08-08T18:49:28Z")
Since there’s no thread called “Stupid Republican Lie of the Day,” and since no one seems to have brought it up elsewhere, [Chris Christie lied in the debate about being appointed US Attorney on Sept. 10, 2001.](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/07/3689230/chris-christie-september-10/) (And he has been lying about it for five years.) > [@](#): > > The New Jersey Star-Ledger reported that the White House had contacted Christie on September 10 to tell him they had begun the six-week vetting process that would precede his nomination. But Bush didn’t actually nominate him until December 7 of that year, and he did not assume office until early 2002. The “Meet Chris” section on Christie’s campaign website says that he “served as U.S. Attorney from 2002-2008.” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23537 "2015-08-08T21:52:04Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Since there’s no thread called “Stupid Republican Lie of the Day,” and since no one seems to have brought it up elsewhere, > > [Chris Christie lied in the debate about being appointed US Attorney on Sept. 10, 2001.](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/07/3689230/chris-christie-september-10/) (And he has been lying about it for five years.) Wait, so he was just a lobbyist around the time of 9-11? Then what was he doing hugging all those bereaved women, as he told Rand Paul he was doing? Sounds like something the US Attorney should have looked into. ETA: Before now, I thought he was just a meaner, fatter Giuliani, wrapping himself in 9-11, but at least Giuliani was actually mayor then. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23538 "2015-08-09T01:24:25Z")
White House spokesman Josh Earnest called Tom Cotton an “[international man of mystery](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/30/white-house-ridicules-sen-tom-cotton-man-mystery/)” after Cotton supposedly flew to Vienna to find out sooper sekrit stuffe about the Iran deal, which Earnest said is readily available online. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23539 "2015-08-09T03:43:06Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I ♣ Republicans. It would be better for the population if somebody ♠ Republicans. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23540 "2015-08-09T05:28:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > White House spokesman Josh Earnest called Tom Cotton an “[international man of mystery](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/30/white-house-ridicules-sen-tom-cotton-man-mystery/)” after Cotton supposedly flew to Vienna to find out sooper sekrit stuffe about the Iran deal, which Earnest said is readily available online. Goddammit. Please, if you link to the Moonie Rag, would you at least be so kind as to footnote that? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23541 "2015-08-09T06:45:58Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > A mitt would be more efficient. Not in 2012, it wasn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1176) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1178)