# 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:** 1192
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23822 "2015-08-25T17:52:54Z")
I tthought he was Indian, though I was never sure if it was a feathered hat Indian or a 7-11 Indian. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23823 "2015-08-25T18:41:17Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Why is there so much concern about the birth of an Asian? Bertha Venatian? I know her! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23824 "2015-08-25T18:54:25Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Why is there so much concern about the birth of an Asian? Because we have laws against youth in Asia. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23825 "2015-08-25T18:55:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Why is there so much concern about the birth of an Asian? It’s like history, writ with lightning. ---
**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 25, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23826 "2015-08-25T20:06:40Z")
[The attack on the French train is Obama’s fault.](http://wonkette.com/593235/fox-news-knows-obama-personally-ordered-terrorist-to-ride-that-french-train) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23827 "2015-08-25T20:21:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The attack on the French train is Obama’s fault.](http://wonkette.com/593235/fox-news-knows-obama-personally-ordered-terrorist-to-ride-that-french-train) I’m looking forward to what Jon Stewart does with this… oh, crap. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23828 "2015-08-25T20:28:23Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > OK, hold on a minute for a question: what about the Muslim ban on representation of the human form in art? As a result, I presume that there aren’t a whole lot of art museums in Muslim countries. Is it a sin for a Muslim to look at a painting of a human? Really? The MFAH’s current exhibition, [Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait](http://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/arts-islamic-lands-selections-al-sabah-collection-/), includes some lovely paintings from Central Asia–showing humans. They were probably taken from books rather than hung on the wall. Much Islamic art is abstract, but Muslim cultures are not all alike. Mosques will have _no_ religious pictures; Persian miniatures might show Mohammed–with his face veiled. Google _Egyptian Movie Poster_s to see many examples of human forms in popular art. (I believe the MFAH’s coming expansion will include much more room for Islamic art.) _I’m_ shocked that Michael Savage went to a museum. And I doubt the women were wearing “burqas.” Those are mostly seen in Afghanistan; other varieties of “modest” women’s wear may be seen here–on locals or visitors. Of course, many Muslim women wear totally “Western” styles. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23829 "2015-08-25T20:46:48Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > That wasn’t even the goofiest Michael Savage link on that page: > [Michael Savage: Obama Will Commit Anti-White Genocide, Just As The Mayans Prophesied](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michael-savage-obama-will-commit-anti-white-genocide-just-mayans-prophesied) For a minute there I thought he meant a genocide on anti-whites, not an anti-white genocide. > [@elucidator](#): > > There was a minor splash some time back about newly affluent Chinese timing a tourist visa around expected delivery, she would then go get a nice hotel room in America and await developments. > > Anyway, these guys are sure out there making lots of new friends! It happens. There’s a few houses in our town that got busted for this, and I personally have seen a few houses that suddenly were constructed to look like a hotel, with rooms taking up the front and back yards. We call those Chinese baby hotels. > [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > _I’m_ shocked that Michael Savage went to a museum. And I doubt the women were wearing “burqas.” Those are mostly seen in Afghanistan; other varieties of “modest” women’s wear may be seen here–on locals or visitors. Of course, many Muslim women wear totally “Western” styles. Yeah, me too, Michael Savage in a museum? What the fuck was he doing out of his cave? ---
**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 25, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23830 "2015-08-25T21:02:42Z")
[Scott Walker thinks Obama should cancel the upcoming state visit from the President of China, because, apparently, China is intentionally destroying their economy in order to destroy the US.](http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/politics/scott-walker-china-xi-jinping-2016/index.html) ---
**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 26, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23831 "2015-08-26T00:57:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Pictures of Ted Cruz remind me disturbingly much of the late unlamented Senator Joseph McCarthy. > > Doing a google image search for Ted Cruz and Joseph McCarthy, I find that I am far from the first one to have noticed this. There are a great many side-by-side images such as [this one](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/04/23/david-brooks-ted-cruz-has-face-looks-little-joe-mccarthy). Whenever I see [pictures of Ted Cruz](http://www.lifenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tedcruz2.png), I think of the [uncanny valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley). He looks kind-of human, but _not quite_. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23832 "2015-08-26T01:48:42Z")
He’s a Deep One hybrid. How do people not see this? :googles “Ted Cruz wife”: His wife is actually really normal looking, and their kids… …oh, those poor kids. OK, it’s not terrible, at least not yet, but there’s a subtle fishiness to their faces. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23833 "2015-08-26T02:00:59Z")
:googles “Ted Cruz mother”: I am not finding pictures of his mother. OK, more realistically, I’m guessing his mother’s features somehow just combined really awkwardly with his father’s features. He probably really has a mother. He’s probably not a changeling, or a Deep One impostor that replaced young Ted Cruz on a trip to a New England beach. Right? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23834 "2015-08-26T02:01:45Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Whenever I see [pictures of Ted Cruz](http://www.lifenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tedcruz2.png), I think of the [uncanny valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley). He looks kind-of human, but _not quite_. I thought it was his repulsive proposals, but I think I have to agree with you. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23835 "2015-08-26T02:13:05Z")
Rafael Cruz, son of a Cuban revolutionary, is an anchor baby who, fortunately for us Canadians and unfortunately for you Americans, went back to where his mother came from. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23836 "2015-08-26T02:38:48Z")
For now. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23837 "2015-08-26T09:44:03Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > He’s a Deep One hybrid. How do people not see this? > > :googles “Ted Cruz wife”: > > His wife is actually really normal looking, and their kids… > > …oh, those poor kids. OK, it’s not terrible, at least not yet, but there’s a subtle fishiness to their faces. In [Ted Cruz’s Wife Talks Up His 2016 Chances In An Iowa Women’s Restroom - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-wife-voters-restroom), he seems like the rather unfortunate product of Crispin Glover and Bill Murray. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23838 "2015-08-26T22:25:17Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > In [Ted Cruz’s Wife Talks Up His 2016 Chances In An Iowa Women’s Restroom - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-wife-voters-restroom), he seems like the rather unfortunate product of Crispin Glover and Bill Murray. I think that’s the best-looking picture I have seen of him. ---
**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 26, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23839 "2015-08-26T22:51:49Z")
Donald Trump has hired [Rick Perry’s Iowa campaign chairman](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/26/3695372/donald-trumps-new-campaign-co-chair-makes-donald-trump-look-levelheaded/) away (because at least Trump is paying his staff, something Perry has stopped doing). This is the guy who thinks that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are unconstitutional. He also thinks crop insurance, foreign aid and public funding of education are unconstitutional. ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23840 "2015-08-26T23:16:13Z")
Donald Trump [trolls Jeb Bush on Twitter](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/donald-trump-trolls-jeb-bush-twitter-speaking-mexican): > [@](#): > > Jeb Bush is crazy, who cares that he speaks Mexican, this is America, English !!" ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23841 "2015-08-26T23:31:51Z")
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