# 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:** 1229
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24562 "2015-09-28T16:55:23Z")
Clearly you don’t understand that his timely warning about the plan prevented it from succeeding. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24563 "2015-09-28T17:30:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Kentucky Republican, along with two libertarians, claims First Amendment right to accept bribes.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/kentucky-republican-along-with-two-libertarians-claims-first-amendment-right-to-accept-bribes/) Not just claiming; they’ve filed a federal lawsuit to overturn a state statute against lawmakers accepting gifts from lobbyists. Holy crap, could they have found a sleazier looking image for that story? The guy looks like someone right out of _Mr. Smith_. And there is a “Moleman” character in there – this has to be a page from a Stan Lee novel. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24564 "2015-09-28T17:47:58Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Plus, it’s “Hilarity **Clanton**.” Sister of Ike and Billy Clanton at the OK Corral? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24565 "2015-09-28T18:26:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Holy crap, could they have found a sleazier looking image for that story? The guy looks like someone right out of _Mr. Smith_. And there is a “Moleman” character in there – this has to be a page from a Stan Lee novel. Not only that, but he’s trying to do it through the courts after failing to get it passed legislatively. Damn activist judges! ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24566 "2015-09-28T18:30:24Z")
[Fiorina: Get rid of your flip phones and get a smartphone…](https://gma.yahoo.com/carly-fiorina-why-she-wants-everyone-throw-flip-161510178.html) …if you want to have any input in how this nation is run. > [@](#): > > It’s all part of a vision the Republican presidential candidate has to give citizens a direct line of communication – literally – to the president. But the technology, Fiorina says, will only be compatible with smartphones. > > A President Fiorina would then ask citizens to take out their smartphones and open an app to vote in real-time polls about the biggest issues on her agenda. > > “I will ask you, in the weekly radio address for example, do you think you should know where your money is being spent and go to zero based budgeting? Press 1 for yes, press 2 for no.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24567 "2015-09-28T18:46:54Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Sister of Ike and Billy Clanton at the OK Corral? Hmmm . . . If Zane Grey and John Norman were to collaborate on a novel . . . ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24568 "2015-09-28T19:11:37Z")
I was thlnking more like Steven King and Cormac McCarthy… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24569 "2015-09-28T19:40:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Who knew that Skeletor was a tranny? [Moderating] Do not use slurs or hate speech on the SDMB. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24570 "2015-09-28T20:12:15Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > We really need a thread for Republican malice. Much of what the GOP does isn’t “stupid” in a clinical sense; it’s evil and malicious but stupid only in the sense that voters are stupid to want malicious leaders. > > For example [a Florida legislator, thinking she was conferring with fellow Republiopaths secretly, was recorded proposing a gerrymander scheme in which prisoners, barred from voting but counted toward district size, would be reassigned to unseat a Black Democrat Congresswoman.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/janet-adkins-corinne-brown-prisoners-gerrymandering) > > Or should we have a Smart Republican Idea of the Day thread? Of course not “smart” in the sense of good for the country, but “smart” ways to retain their power to defecate on the American people. OK! Should we keep to GOP figures for consistency with this thread, or open it up to various right-wingers? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24571 "2015-09-28T20:38:33Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > We really need a thread for Republican malice. Much of what the GOP does isn’t “stupid” in a clinical sense; it’s evil and malicious but stupid only in the sense that voters are stupid to want malicious leaders. > > For example [a Florida legislator, thinking she was conferring with fellow Republiopaths secretly, was recorded proposing a gerrymander scheme in which prisoners, barred from voting but counted toward district size, would be reassigned to unseat a Black Democrat Congresswoman.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/janet-adkins-corinne-brown-prisoners-gerrymandering) > > Or should we have a Smart Republican Idea of the Day thread? Of course not “smart” in the sense of good for the country, but “smart” ways to retain their power to defecate on the American people. [Redistricting is such a complex polygonal issue in Florida](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=724589) that nothing surprises me any more. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24572 "2015-09-28T20:44:56Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Yeah, the whole rape fantasy about an actual person (however despicable she is) is just disgusting. Thanks guys! Really advances the cause. > > And tranny? Seriously? Is it okay to call black guys you really despise niggers? I’ve never ventured into this thread before, in spite of my considering most things that most Republicans do these days to be pretty damn stupid. I’ll just venture back out and leave the rape and torture fantasies to the oh-so-liberal boys. I’m not a liberal, I’m a progressive. And I have given myself permission to fantasize about whatever I like. I make a distinction between fantasies and reality. it’s part of this whole “sanity” thing that’s so popular nowadays. You should try it! Besides, the point of my book was not to fantasize raping them. But I don’t expect people who can’t make a distinction between reality and fantasy to understand such things. So I forgive you, given your limitations. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24573 "2015-09-28T20:46:15Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Sister of Ike and Billy Clanton at the OK Corral? Kind of what I was going for, though it was primarily that it was NOT the name “Clinton” but sounded very much like it. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24574 "2015-09-28T20:48:42Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > When you get done writing your next novel on aliens raping Hillary Clinton would you please do one on aliens raping Michelle Obama, who is actually a disabled tranny? That would be so hot. I’m not even finished with my present story. But feel free to a fantasy about aliens raping Michelle Osama (wink, nod). I fully support your freedom to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24575 "2015-09-28T21:01:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Fiorina: Get rid of your flip phones and get a smartphone…](https://gma.yahoo.com/carly-fiorina-why-she-wants-everyone-throw-flip-161510178.html) > …if you want to have any input in how this nation is run. I am pretty sure this would be all of 4chan’s wet dreams come true. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24576 "2015-09-28T21:07:37Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I’m not a liberal, I’m a progressive. And I have given myself permission to fantasize about whatever I like. I make a distinction between fantasies and reality. it’s part of this whole “sanity” thing that’s so popular nowadays. You should try it! > > Besides, the point of my book was not to fantasize raping them. But I don’t expect people who can’t make a distinction between reality and fantasy to understand such things. So I forgive you, given your limitations. You wrote a parody of a _Gor novel_, for heaven’s sake. About Ann Coulter, no less. How much more limited can a person possibly get? I bet you’re a big hit at all the munches, what with your masterly witticisms and all. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24577 "2015-09-28T22:08:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Moderating] > Do not use slurs or hate speech on the SDMB. > > No warning issued. > [/Moderating] Took you three damn days to figure that out? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24578 "2015-09-28T22:48:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Moderating] > Do not use slurs or hate speech on the SDMB. > > No warning issued. > [/Moderating] . . . [adds “Skeletor” to no-no list] ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24579 "2015-09-28T22:49:15Z")
Rush Limbaugh: “[The announcement of water on Mars is just more leftist lies](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/28/1425652/-Rush-Limbaugh-NASA-announcement-about-water-on-Mars-will-be-used-to-advance-leftist-agenda).” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24580 "2015-09-28T23:18:31Z")
I swear, as Eugene V. Debs is my witness, I thought you were joking. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24581 "2015-09-28T23:31:29Z")
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