# 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:** 1273
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25442 "2015-11-13T04:56:23Z")
[Trump on the resignation](http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/11/12/trump-blasts-weak-ineffective-former-mizzou-president-chancellor-for-disgusting-protests/) of the UM officials: “I think it’s disgusting,” Trump said. “I think the two people that resigned are weak, ineffective people. I think that when they resigned, they set something in motion that’s going to be a disaster for the next long period of time. How we hire people like this — Trump should have been the chancellor of that university. Believe me, there would have been no resignations.” Not stupid, you say? Well, what if I told you that there once was a university run the way Trump wanted to run it? What if I told you that the name of that university was Trump University? And what if I told you that it was [sued for fraud](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/was-donald-trumps-education-venture-trump-university-a-scam/2015/09/13/299ed9c8-52c0-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html) by the Atty Gen of New York? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25443 "2015-11-13T06:48:22Z")
So, Christie is reaching to be the Law and Order candidate, and Trump wants to snatch it away? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25444 "2015-11-13T06:50:35Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > …Well, what if I told you that there once was a university run the way Trump wanted to run it? What if I told you that the name of that university was Trump University? And what if I told you that it was sued for fraud by the Atty Gen of New York? I’d still take the blue pill. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25445 "2015-11-13T13:36:01Z")
New NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows [2016 GOP primary voters are 92% white.](http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/more-men-in-16-gop-electorate-vs.-12--poll-566114883609) ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25446 "2015-11-13T13:53:28Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > New NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows [2016 GOP primary voters are 92% white.](http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/more-men-in-16-gop-electorate-vs.-12--poll-566114883609) Interesting that the least crazy of the crazies (Bush) has been dropping down. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25447 "2015-11-13T14:04:51Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > …the least crazy of the crazies (Bush)… Man, I wish people would stop repeating that. Jeb! is as bugfuck crazy as the rest of the pack. He’s just crazy in a _different way._ ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25448 "2015-11-13T15:36:38Z")
True. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25449 "2015-11-13T15:59:55Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Man, I wish people would stop repeating that. > > Jeb! is as bugfuck crazy as the rest of the pack. He’s just crazy in a _different way._ Maybe you could say that he’s just as crazy but channels it better, like Batman vis-a-vis the Joker. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25450 "2015-11-13T16:02:50Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Maybe you could say that he’s just as crazy but channels it better, like Batman vis-a-vis the Joker. More like the Penguin vis-a-vis the Joker. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25451 "2015-11-13T17:28:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > So, Christie is reaching to be the Law and Order candidate, and Trump wants to snatch it away? Well Fred Thompson just died so there’s an opening ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25452 "2015-11-13T20:13:50Z")
[House Freedom Caucus is working on their “Contract With America II”](http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449524/-House-Freedom-Caucus-formalizes-dystopian-vision-for-America-in-Contract-with-America-I) > [@](#): > > Members of the House Freedom Caucus are preparing a “Contract With America II” that would call for House votes in the first 100 days of 2016 on replacing Obamacare, overhauling entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and repealing the estate tax. > An early draft of the plan obtained by Bloomberg News also calls for legislation to slash government regulations by 20 percent, cut corporate tax rates and expand offshore oil drilling. Efforts are still under way to finalize contents of the “contract,” which lawmakers say they hope will become the basis of House Republicans’ 2016 agenda. […] > > Some Freedom Caucus members say the new “contract” is intended to show the group can do more than throw rocks at the Republican establishment by devising a more-positive legislative agenda. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25453 "2015-11-13T20:13:51Z")
Christie does seem more like a TV character - a sitcom character at that - than an actual politician, doesn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25454 "2015-11-13T21:36:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [House Freedom Caucus is working on their “Contract With America II”](http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449524/-House-Freedom-Caucus-formalizes-dystopian-vision-for-America-in-Contract-with-America-I) > > > [@](#): > > > > Members of the House Freedom Caucus are preparing a “Contract With America II” that would call for House votes in the first 100 days of 2016 on replacing Obamacare, overhauling entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and repealing the estate tax. > > An early draft of the plan obtained by Bloomberg News also calls for legislation to slash government regulations by 20 percent, cut corporate tax rates and expand offshore oil drilling. Efforts are still under way to finalize contents of the “contract,” which lawmakers say they hope will become the basis of House Republicans’ 2016 agenda. […] > > > > Some Freedom Caucus members say the new “contract” is intended to show the group can do more than throw rocks at the Republican establishment by devising a more-positive legislative agenda. “slash government regulations by 20 percent” What does that even mean? 😕 ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25455 "2015-11-13T21:48:23Z")
I’m guessing 20% less words, or maybe even syllables. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25456 "2015-11-13T22:28:31Z")
Rand Paul says he would [do away with the US Postal Service.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-paul-suggests-doing-away-postal-service) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25457 "2015-11-13T22:36:34Z")
That’s actually better than what he said in the same interview, that he wants a government that “sort of keeps the peace.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25458 "2015-11-13T23:14:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [House Freedom Caucus is working on their “Contract With America II”](http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/13/1449524/-House-Freedom-Caucus-formalizes-dystopian-vision-for-America-in-Contract-with-America-I) > [@davidm](#): > > “slash government regulations by 20 percent” > > What does that even mean? 😕 > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m guessing 20% less words, or maybe even syllables. That’s stupid, but the idea of a CWAII is not necessarily stupid. At least it will give them something definite to run on in 2016. Problem with it is, this is only a Tea Party platform, not an all-GOP platform. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25459 "2015-11-13T23:16:20Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > That’s actually better than what he said in the same interview, that he wants a government that “sort of keeps the peace.” So, if Georgia wants to go to war with Florida, they have to give the president a chance to mediate first, or something like that? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25460 "2015-11-14T00:19:17Z")
Not “with”, it is “on”. “Contract **on** America II” ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25461 "2015-11-14T00:42:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So, if Georgia wants to go to war with Florida, they have to give the president a chance to mediate first, or something like that? Bring it on, GA! We will totally kick your ass and blow up the Lake Lanier dam. Bye-bye ATL. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1272) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1274)