# 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:** 1187
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23722 "2015-08-20T00:14:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [John Kasich wants to ban teachers’ lounges so they can’t sit around and complain.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-kasich-abolish-teacher-lounges) Kasich seemed, by far, to be the most reasonable guy on the stage at the debate, and he still has these batshit crazy views. ---
**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 20, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23723 "2015-08-20T03:58:49Z")
Mother Jones has [outed a FOX contributor](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/08/john-lott-viral-fox-gun-article-taylor-woolrich) as having taken over the first person identity of a female student, the victim of a stalker, in order to write about how women need to carry guns and how the mean old college wouldn’t let her. Not only that, but he used, as supporting proof, his own book on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23724 "2015-08-20T15:37:34Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Kasich seemed, by far, to be the most reasonable guy on the stage at the debate, and he still has these batshit crazy views. “Most reasonable guy” is a relative term, of course, but it’s nice to have reminders like this so I don’t go getting the crazy idea that any of these guys as president wouldn’t be a total disaster. He may be the least insane at the asylum, but he’s still in the asylum. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23725 "2015-08-20T16:38:36Z")
Scott Walker [explains](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/18/scott-walker-to-increase-attacks-on-washington/?_r=0) where he’s looking for votes: > [@](#): > > Mr. Walker acknowledged criticisms that he lacked passion in the first debate, revealed that he was attempting to poach supporters of former Gov. Rick Perry and suggested he would draw contrasts to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on health care issues. Admittedly, he isn’t _only_ going after the small fry – he also tries to bolster his anti-establishment cred to take on “the front-runner” whose name he will not speak. Let us know how that works out for you, Scottie – I’m guessing that you’ll find that a flamboyant asshole trumps (so to speak) a banal asshole like you any day of the week. In other stoopid news, ¡Jebya! [declares](http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/15/jeb-decides-stupid.html) that we need to prove that we have “skin in the game” in Iraq. To be fair, his remark was less tasteless than it could have been, as he did not personally direct it to a wounded Iraq-war veteran or a deceased Iraq-war veteran’s loved ones. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23726 "2015-08-20T18:18:00Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > In other stoopid news, ¡Jebya! [declares](http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/15/jeb-decides-stupid.html) that we need to prove that we have “skin in the game” in Iraq. To be fair, his remark was less tasteless than it could have been, as he did not personally direct it to a wounded Iraq-war veteran or a deceased Iraq-war veteran’s loved ones. Does this mean he’s for reinstating the draft or telling pro-lifers they must adopt at least one kid or keep their mouth shut? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23727 "2015-08-20T18:36:49Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Kasich seemed, by far, to be the most reasonable guy on the stage at the debate, and he still has these batshit crazy views. Skinniest girl at fat camp. ---
**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 20, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23728 "2015-08-20T20:51:44Z")
Two brothers beat up and urinated on a homeless Latino in Boston because “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.” When asked to comment, Trump said, “[I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate](http://gawker.com/donald-trump-boston-bros-who-beat-up-a-homeless-man-j-1725421522).” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23729 "2015-08-20T21:18:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Two brothers beat up and urinated on a homeless Latino in Boston because “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.” When asked to comment, Trump said, “[I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate](http://gawker.com/donald-trump-boston-bros-who-beat-up-a-homeless-man-j-1725421522).” Did they ask him first if he was a citizen? Or ask him for his green card? I traced the story back to the Boston Globe, and couldn’t find anything that indicated that the attackers even cared. Not that it matters; this is inexcusable no matter the reason. We do, believe it or not, Mr. Trump, have a number of Hispanic citizens. Trump’s response to this attack should be a no-brainer. It should be condemned in the strongest possible terms. [This](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/19/homeless/iTagewS4bnvBKWxxPvFcAJ/story.html) is the “passion” he’s looking for: > [@](#): > > Prosecutors and police said the Leader brothers have extensive criminal records. > > Scott Leader was convicted of a hate crime and imprisoned for one year after attacking a Moroccan man in Boston days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to court records. Leader threw a cup at the man, who was working at a Dunkin’ Donuts, calling him “terrorist” and several ethnic slurs. ---
**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 20, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23730 "2015-08-20T21:24:41Z")
I wonder if Donald wants to deport all of his kids who are the children of his foreign-born wives? ---
**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 20, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23731 "2015-08-20T21:28:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I wonder if Donald wants to deport all of his kids who are the children of his foreign-born wives? He’s a citizen. ---
**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 20, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23732 "2015-08-20T21:31:39Z")
So was Obama’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23733 "2015-08-20T23:41:47Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > Wow, blast from the past - I remember reading a fictional essay years ago called “I Hate-Fucked Ann Coulter” or something like that. i wrote a story in which a character named Anne Coaltar became a Gorean slave being trained my her Mistress, Hilarity Clanton. I need to publish that! ---
**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 21, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23734 "2015-08-21T00:12:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > On the up side, it would prompt most every other state to invade Iowa and give them a taste of what Sherman taught South Carolina. For the record, it was Sherman’s men who fucked up SC but good. (Georgia thinks THEY got it bad!) Bill was just more open-minded about what happened in the home state of the Rebellion. > [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > i wrote a story in which a character named Anne Coaltar became a Gorean slave being trained my her Mistress, Hilarity Clanton. I need to publish that! No, you don’t. Or is it I don’t have to read it? Either way, you have put that thought in my head after I used up all my brain bleach removing the thought of Jared screwing children, and I don’t feel like going to the store. It will be your fault if I have nightmares tonight! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23735 "2015-08-21T01:35:17Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > i wrote a story in which a character named Anne Coaltar became a Gorean slave being trained my her Mistress, Hilarity Clanton. I need to publish that! > [@dropzone](#): > > . . . No, you don’t. Or is it I don’t have to read it? . . . I want to read it so bad I can taste it! I want to take off my shoes and run around on top of the printed manuscript. I want to cut it into bite-size pieces and eat it with M&Ms. I want to print it out in colors and read it again in thousands of different hue/tone combinations. I want to read it with one hand. I want to read it with no hands. I’d even pay $1.99 to read it! ---
**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 21, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23736 "2015-08-21T01:40:43Z")
This Missouri Republican school board member [thinks that all women are good for is being fucked](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/19/school-official-the-only-thing-women-know-is-laying-on-your-back-with-your-legs-in-the-air-splayed-video/). Amazingly, or maybe not so, 3 of his fellow board members didn’t think this was such a bad thing to say. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23737 "2015-08-21T02:08:12Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > This Missouri Republican school board member [thinks that all women are good for is being fucked](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/19/school-official-the-only-thing-women-know-is-laying-on-your-back-with-your-legs-in-the-air-splayed-video/). Amazingly, or maybe not so, 3 of his fellow board members didn’t think this was such a bad thing to say. Well then, that’s why gay men are so bad. Because they must think women aren’t good for anything. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23738 "2015-08-21T02:19:34Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I want to read it so bad I can taste it! I want to take off my shoes and run around on top of the printed manuscript. I want to cut it into bite-size pieces and eat it with M&Ms. I want to print it out in colors and read it again in thousands of different hue/tone combinations. I want to read it with one hand. I want to read it with no hands. > > I’d even pay $1.99 to read it! Duly noted! ---
**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 21, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23739 "2015-08-21T02:47:53Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > This Missouri Republican school board member [thinks that all women are good for is being fucked](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/19/school-official-the-only-thing-women-know-is-laying-on-your-back-with-your-legs-in-the-air-splayed-video/). Amazingly, or maybe not so, 3 of his fellow board members didn’t think this was such a bad thing to say. How does this even come up at a school board meeting? Ours are all about repaving parking lots. 😕 ---
**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 21, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23740 "2015-08-21T04:38:33Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > How does this even come up at a school board meeting? Ours are all about repaving parking lots. 😕 As near as I can work out, she disagreed with him about something and he went a bit overboard on the “women shouldn’t be trying to do a man’s work, they’re not suited for it” response. I looked this guy up and read responses on other articles about this event. The consensus seems to be he’s like this all the time. I bet his momma is real proud of the Southern gentleman she raised. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23741 "2015-08-21T05:17:35Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > …“women shouldn’t be trying to do a man’s work, they’re not suited for it” … Yeah, like we’ve been doing such a great job. I say, lets just get out of the way and they can run things. Then maybe we can have nice things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1186) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1188)