# 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:** 1316
**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:** [December 21, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26302 "2015-12-21T20:28:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > John Kasich, desperate to remind people that he’s still running for president, has apparently decided to dedicate the rest of his war chest to [trolling Donald Trump supporters;](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/19/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-john-kasich/) Only fair, since Trump has been trolling Trump supporters from the start. They are just too stupid to realize it. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26303 "2015-12-21T21:49:37Z")
Fox news: [Obama is a racist for talking about being Black.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/21/fox-news-loses-it-after-obama-mentions-hes-black-in-an-interview-video/) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26304 "2015-12-21T21:59:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox news: [Obama is a racist for talking about being Black.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/21/fox-news-loses-it-after-obama-mentions-hes-black-in-an-interview-video/) Wait…Obama is _black???_ ---
**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:** [December 21, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26305 "2015-12-21T22:17:58Z")
Obama is the new Black. Or something. With Fox News, the distortion of the space-time continuum is such that even black holes will admit they’ve been out-warped by Ailes. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26306 "2015-12-22T01:12:50Z")
They can’t admit he’s actually, you know, BLACK or the dog-whistles they’ve been spewing for 8 years actually become audible to their viewers who haven’t had complete frontal lobotomies (both of them!) and they don’t want to lose that advertising demo. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26307 "2015-12-22T02:16:01Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > They can’t admit he’s actually, you know, BLACK or the dog-whistles they’ve been spewing for 8 years actually become audible to their viewers who haven’t had complete frontal lobotomies (both of them!) and they don’t want to lose that advertising demo. I see something like this in online comments (shudder)…that he’s not black, he’s mixed. Like that is meaningful. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26308 "2015-12-22T03:42:00Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I could use a meme image to post on all my social media sites every time a Friend posts a “Be Politically Incorrect - Say Merry Christmas!” one, before I permanently unfriend them. Feel free to use it. I might have time to put something together by next Holiday Season. Which starts 2/10, with Ash Wednesday. The Hindus have a couple biggies, including Holi during the Western Christian Holy Week–get out your red and purple powder! Passover is in late April, with it and the Ascension of the Prophet bracketing Orthodox Easter. I really should take it to Pentecost, but three months of Holiday Season is enough. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26309 "2015-12-22T04:33:21Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I see something like this in online comments (shudder)…that he’s not black, he’s mixed. Like that is meaningful. How quickly they forget the one-drop rule when it’s convenient to do so. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26310 "2015-12-22T05:32:37Z")
Kimberly Guilfoyle on what to do with the remaining Guantanamo prisoners: “[Just kill them all and close Gitmo, that’s fine. They don’t have to come here, they don’t have to stay there.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/21/this-fox-news-hosts-solution-to-the-gitmo-question-is-the-low-point-of-her-career-video/)” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26311 "2015-12-22T08:35:40Z")
Cruella Duh Ville. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26312 "2015-12-22T08:42:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Kimberly Guilfoyle on what to do with the remaining Guantanamo prisoners: “[Just kill them all and close Gitmo, that’s fine. They don’t have to come here, they don’t have to stay there.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/21/this-fox-news-hosts-solution-to-the-gitmo-question-is-the-low-point-of-her-career-video/)” Deprive the Gitmo prisoners of due process? That’s Kim possible! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26313 "2015-12-22T12:59:34Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Wait…Obama is _black???_ I like how he waited until his service was almost done before he admitted that. We’ve all been duped! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26314 "2015-12-22T16:32:51Z")
[Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton was ‘_schlonged_’ in 2008 loss to Barack Obama](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/22/donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-was-schlonged-in-2008-loss-to-barack-obama) > [@](#): > > . . . and also denigrated Clinton for taking too long to return from a commercial break during Saturday night’s Democratic debate. It turns out that the gym in which the debate was held had a convenient boys’ restroom, but the girls’ room was a minute and 45 second walk away. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26315 "2015-12-22T17:00:23Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > How quickly they forget the one-drop rule when it’s convenient to do so. Wanda Sykes at the 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner: As long as Obama does a good job, blacks will be proud, but as soon as he screws up, they’ll say “What’s up with that half-white guy?” ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26316 "2015-12-22T19:26:39Z")
[Theodore Shoebat, who has endorsed Trump for President, hopes that President Trump will shut down all of the demonic yoga studios and arrest their participants. He also thinks the 1 billion worldwide Hindus need to be forcibly converted to Christianity.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/trump-loving-conservative-calls-for-armed-raids-of-demonic-yoga-studios-to-christianize-the-land/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26317 "2015-12-22T19:39:54Z")
Shoebat? That’s his name, Shoebat? You can’t make up shit like that, it has to happen… ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26318 "2015-12-22T19:43:23Z")
Theodore Shoebat is a darling of the extreme right. He’s the son of Walid Shoebat, who claims to have been a former PLO terrorist who converted to Christianity and is telling us about all of the evils of Islam. Theodore is more interested in telling us about the evils of gay people, and now, of Hindus and yoga practitioners. [Chelsea Clinton timed her pregnancy so that she can deliver during the Presidential campaign.](http://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/the_oreilly_factor_goes_full_conspiratorial_questions_the_timing_of_chelsea_clintons_pregnancy/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26319 "2015-12-22T19:50:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Theodore Shoebat, who has endorsed Trump for President, hopes that President Trump will shut down all of the demonic yoga studios and arrest their participants. He also thinks the 1 billion worldwide Hindus need to be forcibly converted to Christianity.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/trump-loving-conservative-calls-for-armed-raids-of-demonic-yoga-studios-to-christianize-the-land/) “You will lie on this bed of nails until you accept Jesus! Wait . . .” ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26320 "2015-12-22T21:30:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Theodore Shoebat is a darling of the extreme right. He’s the son of Walid Shoebat[…] Walid Shoebat. Walid…Shoebat. Walid Shoebat ? Walid _Shoebat_. Nope, nothing to add. We’re not quite in [Dick Pound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Pound) territory, but it’s on the horizon and approaching fast. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26321 "2015-12-22T21:45:07Z")
Representative Mo Brooks, Republican-Crazyland, > [@](#): > > . . . praised Trump for his widely condemned Muslim ban and criticized President Obama’s immigration policy. In Brooks’ opinion, Obama really wants to make America a place where god-fearing white people are pushed out so the country can be darker and more dangerous. [Link](http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/alabama-rep-admits-he-resists-immigration) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1315) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1317)