# 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:** 1286
**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 21, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25702 "2015-11-21T20:01:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I thought his Christan faith didn’t allow lying. This is not even slightly accurate. The relevant line in the [del]47[/del] ten commandments reads “… _shall not bear false witness_ **against** _thy neighbor_ …” In other words, a christian may lie like a sidewalk, as long as it does not cause harm. In fact, even if it _does_ cause harm, they can always fall back on the mercy of jesus, repent, and be forgiven and redeemed. Jesus is an absolutionly enormous loophole through which christains can totally to anything that they should not, as long as they tell him “_sorry_”, to get right with jehovallah again. Even the mussulmen do not have that easy out. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25703 "2015-11-21T23:27:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Alabama Congressman expands the “poor people just want the government to give them free stuff” meme; [Syrian refugees just want a paid vacation.](http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/21/3724723/mo-brooks-syrian-refugees-vacation/) > > $15,000 a year? What _luxury_! I’d never work a day in my life again with that kind of money. Americans living on Disability Insurance (SSDI) get less than that to live on. While at the same time, quite possibly having extraordinary medical expenses or need for assistance in daily activities. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25704 "2015-11-21T23:28:28Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Perhaps this is the wrong thread but contrast [the views of GWB, the worst President ever](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/11/george_w_bush_needs_to_speak_to_republicans_the_former_president_should.html) … > > … with views of GOP front-runners like Trump (Muslim-Americans should be required to carry special identification cards that note their faith) or Cruz (only Christian refugees should be admitted to the U.S.) > > It’s as though the GOP has taken an upside-down lesson from the GWB years: _It’s not that GWB was stupid; **it’s that he wasn’t stupid enough**._ Well let’s face it, the modern Republican primary voter is a terrified, retarded, bigoted, sexist old white man lying in a nursing home bed watching Faux News who pisses himself with fear every time he learns that someone or something is not like him. So that’s who the Republican pitch to. No wonder they sound like morons. ---
**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 22, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25705 "2015-11-22T00:11:32Z")
[Donald Trump yells “Get him out of here!” to a crowd at his rally in Birmingham (“him” being a Black Lives Matter protester), and, as you do, the crowd jumped on the protester and beat him.](http://www.occupydemocrats.com/trumps-rally-turns-to-riot-as-supporters-viciously-beat-black-protester/) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25706 "2015-11-22T00:21:42Z")
That one looks jewish and that one’s a coon who let all of this riff raff into the room? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25707 "2015-11-22T00:25:53Z")
_Momma told me not to come…_ ---
**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:** [November 22, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25708 "2015-11-22T00:40:40Z")
You know, just-- urrrGGGGHHH!!! Trump’s just a total fucking asshole. Everybody at this little campaign shindig has big beer cups, spilling all over some gymnasium and totally making fun of this country by breathing. Trump is a PUTZ. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25709 "2015-11-22T00:48:36Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > You know, just-- urrrGGGGHHH!!! … Trump is a PUTZ. And a Republican fucking hero. The front-fucking-runner still, even after the joke should have ended, and the REAL Republican contender showed up. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25710 "2015-11-22T01:06:10Z")
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he is still waiting to see evidence of racial bias by police forces in the U.S. [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/21/us/ap-us-gop-2016-carson.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/21/us/ap-us-gop-2016-carson.html?_r=0) He adds that he has never had problems with police because his mother raised him to “respect authority.” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25711 "2015-11-22T01:15:00Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > . . . He adds that he has never had problems with police because his mother raised him to “respect authority.” “I see the soldiers, preferring guns to butter, choosing whom to murder and to rob. I said as I stepped into the gutter, ‘Credit where credit’s due, they know their job.’” Brecht ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25712 "2015-11-22T01:29:55Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > It’s as though the GOP has taken an upside-down lesson from the GWB years: _It’s not that GWB was stupid; **it’s that he wasn’t stupid enough**._ Alternative theory: The Republican establishment noticed how much George H.W. Bush’s reputation improved after eight years of his son’s misrule, and they decided to try and give Dubya a similar boost by getting the craziest field of candidates in major party history to run. ---
**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 22, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25713 "2015-11-22T01:40:12Z")
[Snaggle face blonde says Paris attack has elected Trump president.](http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/ann_coulter_on_paris_attacks_d.html) > [@](#): > > Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris will galvanize U.S. voters concerned about immigration and send Republican front runner Donald Trump to the White House. She’s trying to do worse than Karl Rove. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25714 "2015-11-22T02:07:23Z")
Oh, that is Ann ““at least 273” electoral votes for Romney in 2012” Coulter. She is just another example of a right wing pundit that still keeps their job no matter how many times they are wrong. That many republicans that have less of a secure employment follow people like her is no mystery once one realizes the kind of mind she attracts. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25715 "2015-11-22T03:02:47Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Well let’s face it, the modern Republican primary voter is a terrified, retarded, bigoted, sexist old white man lying in a nursing home bed watching Faux News who pisses himself with fear every time he learns that someone or something is not like him. So that’s who the Republican pitch to. No wonder they sound like morons. There it is. Except that they aren’t just old or lying in a nursing home bed. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25716 "2015-11-22T10:37:34Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he is still waiting to see evidence of racial bias by police forces in the U.S. > > [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/21/us/ap-us-gop-2016-carson.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/21/us/ap-us-gop-2016-carson.html?_r=0) > > He adds that he has never had problems with police because his mother raised him to “respect authority.” It’s as if he cannot even remember which lie to tell any more. “Except when I was a thug, and tried to brain her with a hammer, and like that…” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25717 "2015-11-22T14:58:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Donald Trump yells “Get him out of here!” to a crowd at his rally in Birmingham (“him” being a Black Lives Matter protester), and, as you do, the crowd jumped on the protester and beat him.](http://www.occupydemocrats.com/trumps-rally-turns-to-riot-as-supporters-viciously-beat-black-protester/) I guess that’s how he plans to “round up” the people he wants to deport. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25718 "2015-11-22T16:37:14Z")
My Representative, the Hon. Keith Ellison, who is both black and a Muslim, should be easy enough to find. He’ll be in that building with the big-ass dome on it… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25719 "2015-11-22T17:04:52Z")
[Burt Prelutsky of World Net Daily](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/columnist-us-should-bomb-mecca-off-the-face-of-the-earth-to-show-muslims-our-god-is-more-powerful/), for whom the Republicans often tend to be too liberal: > [@](#): > > My own politically incorrect suggestion is that we remove ISIS from the face of the earth, hopefully as a joint effort with every other nation it has threatened or attacked, and that we then bomb Mecca off the face of the earth, not concerning ourselves in the least with collateral damage, letting the Muslims know once and for all that our God is far more powerful and, yes, vengeful than their own puny deity. You might want to run that by your God first, Burt. Just a suggestion. ---
**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 22, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25720 "2015-11-22T17:15:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Trump was asked to weigh in on his supporters’ actions on Fox & Friends Sunday morning. “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” he said. “It was disgusting what he was doing.” You know who else had fans who beat up his critics? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25721 "2015-11-22T17:45:15Z")
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