# 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:** 1199
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23962 "2015-09-01T15:36:42Z")
Republican idiot not-savant James O’Keefe has a new [supposed “scoop”](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/james-okeefe-hillary-video) about Hillary Clinton campaign violations: apparently a Canadian bought some Hillary t-shirts! Stop the presses! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23963 "2015-09-01T15:41:14Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > This guy could be great for Trump. He gets into the mosque building business, then has them blowed up, and then gets the contract for the rebuild job. That’s the Cheney Halliburton business model. Worked a charm. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23964 "2015-09-02T14:05:27Z")
[Some RWs seem to think “Denali” is a Kenyan word for “Black Power”.](http://www.mediaite.com/online/no-denali-is-not-a-kenyan-word-for-black-power/) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23965 "2015-09-02T14:11:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Some RWs seem to think “Denali” is a Kenyan word for “Black Power”.](http://www.mediaite.com/online/no-denali-is-not-a-kenyan-word-for-black-power/) As I’ve said elsewhere on this board, “Denali” is not a river in Egpty. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23966 "2015-09-02T14:19:43Z")
There’s no “Kenyan” word for anything. So damn dumb. Can’t they just type Kenya into Google and spend 10 seconds on this? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23967 "2015-09-02T14:45:48Z")
Yes, some people don’t know some things they read on Facebook are trolling. Even jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23968 "2015-09-02T15:05:05Z")
[Scott Walker on the Canadian Wall: I really should mackdonna handheld shoehorn butterhorse.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/252415-walker-ive-never-talked-about-a-wall-with-canada) How’s that for a blast from the past? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23969 "2015-09-02T16:07:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > As I’ve said elsewhere on this board, “Denali” is not a river in Egpty. It’s Kenyan for ‘[Luxury Pickup](http://www.gmc.com/sierra-denali-pickup-truck.html)’! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23970 "2015-09-02T21:35:45Z")
They’re deliberately ignoring the long-standing Alaskan requests for the change, and the public thank-yous from its Republican Governor and Senator? Big surprise. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23971 "2015-09-02T21:52:41Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Someone should ask Sarah Palin (who has referred to the mountain as Denali in the past) if she approves, if for no other reason than to see her tongue catch on fire. She hasn’t commented yet, [but her daughter has seen fit to comment](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2015/09/mr-president-get-out-of-alaska-you-have-bigger-mountains-to-climb/); [QUOTE=Bristol Palin] By the way, no one is buying the “Denali is what the Alaskans have called it for years” line. I’ve never called the mountain Denali .. and neither does anyone I know … It’s Mt. Mckinley … It always has been and always will be to most of us… [/QUOTE] I guess Bristol and her mother have never been introduced. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23972 "2015-09-02T22:21:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > She hasn’t commented yet, [but her daughter has seen fit to comment](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2015/09/mr-president-get-out-of-alaska-you-have-bigger-mountains-to-climb/); > > I guess Bristol and her mother have never been introduced. The very last line from her, “What a waste”, sums up her entire screed and public life. So many falsehoods, most glaring to me was the part about importing natural gas from our enemies in the middle east.:smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23973 "2015-09-02T22:48:54Z")
I got as far as the second paragraph of Palin’s thought piece: [Quote=Leading Conservative Opinion Maker] President Obama is taking a trip to the Alaskan Arctic. I wish we could add up how much this trip costs the tax payers dollars………… They probably had to BARGE limousines here!!! They rented out an entire TOWER at our nicest hotel here? A TOWER!!! [/quote] That’s quality analysis right there. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23974 "2015-09-02T22:57:36Z")
But IT’S A TOWER!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23975 "2015-09-02T23:20:33Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > But IT’S A TOWER!!! 😃 As are most top hotels. They also have the best defensible space, in-place security, and room for all the staff, reporters and hangers-on. All presidents do this, but since it’s Obama, it’s because he’s uppity. Limos are brought in by those great big flying things called “aeroplanes”. They’re heavily armored and heavily armed and are necessary for the President’s safety from crackpots, but he doesn’t deserve that because of the uppity thing. These people act like he should stay in a Motel 6 and rent a Yugo. Fucking useless attention whores. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23976 "2015-09-02T23:22:13Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I got as far as the second paragraph of Palin’s thought piece. Hold it right there. You just made a major grammatical error on the SDMB, where such things are not allowed. By improperly using a clitic possessive phrase, you make it look like Palin had a thought. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23977 "2015-09-02T23:23:53Z")
She had a piece of one. Right proud of it, too! PS: Don’t know what a “clitic possessive” is, but I’m gonna look it up just to be disappointed.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23978 "2015-09-02T23:28:16Z")
OK, looked it up, and its _boring_! Grammar? Doper, _please!_ Did that deliberately, didn’t you, you little shit! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23979 "2015-09-02T23:35:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > She hasn’t commented yet, [but her daughter has seen fit to comment](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2015/09/mr-president-get-out-of-alaska-you-have-bigger-mountains-to-climb/); > > [QUOTE=Bristol Palin] > By the way, no one is buying the “Denali is what the Alaskans have called it for years” line. I’ve never called the mountain Denali … and neither does anyone I know … > > It’s Mt. Mckinley … It always has been and always will be to most of us… I guess Bristol and her mother have never been introduced. [/QUOTE] Not the first time Republicans have left me scratching my head, but I do believe that this is the first time I have thought that it is literally IMPOSSIBLE that she could not know that, and yet have no obvious motive for lying. She didn’t need to include the “Denali” stuff to trash Obama for all the natural gas we import, or his refusal to allow us to get it from the Alaska pipeline (???). I’ve been to Alaska many times. You cannot swing a cat without hitting a business named “Denali” something. Denali Chevrolet, Denali Credit Union, Denali Cafe, Denali Massage Parlor. And while running for Veep, her mom’s Secret Service code name was “Denali,” after “Moron” was rejected as being too obvious. How could anyone with a notochord have such a total lack of intellectual curiosity, and not ask what it meant? And how could she not know that Obama is only changing the Federal name – that the Alaska changed the name to “Denali” before she was even born? Bristol has to be dumber than a bag of hair. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23980 "2015-09-02T23:43:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > PS: Don’t know what a “clitic possessive” is, but I’m gonna look it up I knew a girl like that once. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23981 "2015-09-02T23:46:54Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I knew a girl like that once. GIF or it didn’t happen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1200)