# 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:** 1282
**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:** [November 18, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25622 "2015-11-18T20:52:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I’m thinking either his campaign, or even Ben himself, is out to sabotage his campaign. Especially after yesterday’s interview with Dr. Carson’s foreign policy mentor. Ben should take some cues from the famous Arthur Carlson campaign for City Council. Now, _that’s_ how you throw an election! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GISoeNnsmcs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GISoeNnsmcs) ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25623 "2015-11-18T21:17:19Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Sorta. But it looks like he did away with Connecticut all together and then decided, what the hell? Why not put Massachusetts on top of Rhode Island? Certainly all that cutting and pasting isn’t easier (and certainly not more correct) than just grabbing another map of the U.S.? > > I’m thinking either his campaign, or even Ben himself, is out to sabotage his campaign. Especially after yesterday’s interview with Dr. Carson’s foreign policy mentor. It was likely a stock art “vector graphic” map of the states. Typically each state in a stock art graphic will be a distinct shape, because of the nature of vector graphics. The designer might have tried to select all the states, but missed the few in the upper right. Here is an example I just mocked up: [http://imgur.com/D7zNbjN](http://imgur.com/D7zNbjN) Carson’s a fucking twat, but I don’t think we need to see nefarious chicanery where just plain ineptitude will do. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25624 "2015-11-18T21:33:54Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I know that when I hate someone, the first thing I do is make sure they have access to healthcare. And while it’s debatable what can be attributed to Obama, a 5% unemployment rate, soaring stock market, and $2.00 gasoline don’t strike me as particularly effective instruments of loathing. Nothing of the sort. Obama hates America with every Fiber of his being and is trying his hardest to bring about its destruction, its just that among his many failings he’s also really really incompetent. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25625 "2015-11-18T21:42:53Z")
So, then, if we elect Carson, he’ll fuck it up so bad there will be free everything for everybody and my biggest tough choice will be whether to use my Marijuana Stamps on Maui Wowee or Columbian Crushbrain? ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25626 "2015-11-18T22:15:12Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Because Ben Carson can’t be wrong less than twice a day, [here’s a detail of a map his campaign released today.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/18/ben-carsons-campaign-made-a-u-s-map-and-put-a-bunch-of-states-in-the-wrong-place/) > > Are there any graphic designers who read this thread and can say how this mistake was made? To me it seems that it would take much more effort to get the map this wrong than to get it right. That wasn’t the only mistake by my reckoning. Looks like both maps have Long Island more attached to New Jersey than New York. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25627 "2015-11-18T22:18:02Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [John Kasich’s bizarre new plan to defeat ISIS: Beam Judeo-Christian messages around the world.](http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/john_kasichs_bizarre_new_plan_to_defeat_isis_beam_judeo_christian_messages_around_the_world/) > > And he’s the **moderate.** As I said above - proof that insanity is catching. Too many GOP debates for him. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25628 "2015-11-18T22:40:25Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I think this is brilliant. Everyone is talking about how the map is jacked up rather than how repellent the message is. On the plus side, there must be some homeowners in eastern New York who are exuberant about the fact that they now have beachfront property. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25629 "2015-11-18T22:54:51Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Sorta. But it looks like he did away with Connecticut all together and then decided, what the hell? Why not put Massachusetts on top of Rhode Island? Certainly all that cutting and pasting isn’t easier (and certainly not more correct) than just grabbing another map of the U.S.? The map is a prediction of what would happen if Carson wins. The New England state will sever themselves and sail off to Europe. Connecticut? It is there - it is just now called DisConneticut. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25630 "2015-11-19T00:13:26Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > This is not exactly a rare idea, that the US and Europe have a Judeo-Christian ethic that has resulted in human rights, democracy, and the various freedoms we’ve been granted. There is nothing that makes Kasich into a non-moderate by using the term as a stand-in term for ‘Western human rights’. > > And yes in his speech to the National Press Club he did specifically say “freedom of religion”. The ideas of humanism, democracies and freedom came from the philosophers of the Enlightenment, who themselves drew from the Antiquity. They didn’t come by way of the Church, they were conquered \*against \*the Church. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25631 "2015-11-19T02:16:43Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Because Ben Carson can’t be wrong less than twice a day, [here’s a detail of a map his campaign released today.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/18/ben-carsons-campaign-made-a-u-s-map-and-put-a-bunch-of-states-in-the-wrong-place/) > > Are there any graphic designers who read this thread and can say how this mistake was made? To me it seems that it would take much more effort to get the map this wrong than to get it right. Ben Carson is definitely trolling the Republicans. ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25632 "2015-11-19T04:20:46Z")
[Chris Christie can’t believe the Paris attackers weren’t Syrian refugees.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/chris-christie-cant-believe-that-the-paris-attackers-werent-syrian-refugees/) ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25633 "2015-11-19T04:36:24Z")
The solution is to bring in a great many refugees and settle them in refugee friendly states. Then train them in the use of the second amendment, equip them, and set them loose to use the second amendment to enforce the first amendment in the hate states. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25634 "2015-11-19T05:10:04Z")
Comrade Muffin, it might have been better to let the Central Committee review your post beforehand. Don’t want to release the feline from the packaging, if you catch my drift. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25635 "2015-11-19T06:44:50Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [John Kasich’s bizarre new plan to defeat ISIS: Beam Judeo-Christian messages around the world.](http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/john_kasichs_bizarre_new_plan_to_defeat_isis_beam_judeo_christian_messages_around_the_world/)snip] Beam us out of here. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25636 "2015-11-19T07:35:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And admits he’s an “unsophisticated thinker.” Between him and Ted Cruz, the quality of the graduates–Harvard is the shits now, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25637 "2015-11-19T09:49:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Chris Christie can’t believe the Paris attackers weren’t Syrian refugees.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/chris-christie-cant-believe-that-the-paris-attackers-werent-syrian-refugees/) What’s his view on whether or not it is, in fact, butter? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25638 "2015-11-19T13:39:22Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Between him and Ted Cruz, the quality of the graduates–Harvard is the shits now, isn’t it? Been that way since they gave Dubya an MBA. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25639 "2015-11-19T13:41:03Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I think this is brilliant. Everyone is talking about how the map is jacked up rather than how repellent the message is. [This map is much more on-point.](http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027359141) ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25640 "2015-11-19T15:48:18Z")
[Texas: We don’t need no smart people checking our textbooks for facts.](http://news.yahoo.com/texas-dont-academics-fact-check-textbooks-135530956.html) I agree, we all know the textbooks are guaranteed fact-free. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25641 "2015-11-19T18:34:15Z")
I’d much rather have a few thousand Syrians here than[\*these \*fanatical religious extremist terrorists](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/feds-white-supremacists-plotted-to-shoot-or-bomb-black-churches-jewish-synagogues/2015/11/10/2a0abbcc-87cf-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html). > [@](#): > > The way authorities tell it, the Richmond-area white supremacists got together at the home of one of the members in September with a sinister agenda. > > They were supposed to discuss, authorities alleged in an affidavit, “shooting or bombing the occupants of black churches and Jewish synagogues” and “conducting acts of violence against persons of the Jewish faith.” > … > > One of the men said in a conversation apparently recorded by authorities that he wanted to use the proceeds to “purchase land, stockpile weapons and train for the coming race war.” > > Robert C. Doyle, 34, of Chester, Va., and Ronald B. Chaney III, 34, of Highland Springs, Va., were charged with gun conspiracy counts in the case. The FBI alleged in an affidavit that the men are part of a “white supremacy extremist version of the Asatru [neo-pagan] faith.” A third man — Charles D. Halderman, 30, of Richmond — was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, although it is unclear to what extent, if any, authorities think that race or religion motivated him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1281) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1283)