# 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:** 1330
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26582 "2016-01-07T20:34:09Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I’m reading that as mostly a copy of Bush’s “I was the C-student and now I’m President and you’re working for me”, since he said he was the worst student back in the day. Perhaps, but I don’t think Bush asked a crowd of kids to point to the dumbest among them… ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26583 "2016-01-08T00:49:45Z")
Governor LePage of Maine: “[Out of state heroin dealers named D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty are coming into the state to sell their heroin and impregnate white girls](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-heroin_568ef013e4b0cad15e643549?section=politics).” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26584 "2016-01-08T00:57:20Z")
Clever, **Rick**. Make shit up, post it in blue ink and get people thinking its something some cretinous crudball actually said. Using LePage was a wise choice, but not even _that_ lump of gristle would ever actually say anything so venomous. Still, nice try! Really, almost fell for 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:** [January 8, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26585 "2016-01-08T01:05:33Z")
The fuck are you babbling about? [Are you saying the Portland Press Herald is lying?](http://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/07/lepage-accused-of-making-racist-comment-at-bridgton-meeting/) ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26586 "2016-01-08T01:15:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The fuck are you babbling about? > > [Are you saying the Portland Press Herald is lying?](http://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/07/lepage-accused-of-making-racist-comment-at-bridgton-meeting/) I hear the sound of a sonic whoosh… ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26587 "2016-01-08T01:16:57Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > I hear the sound of a sonic whoosh… **'luci** want big boom. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26588 "2016-01-08T01:18:02Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > I hear the sound of a sonic whoosh… No, that was the sound of a white girl and her smack dealer . . . negotiating a transaction. It’s easy to get them confused. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26589 "2016-01-08T01:22:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > **'luci** want big boom. As Eugene V. Debs is my witness, I was totally sure he’d catch on that I was kidding. I swear! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26590 "2016-01-08T01:32:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > As Eugene V. Debs is my witness, I was totally sure he’d catch on that I was kidding. I swear! We should have a “within three posts” rule, where if you post something false as a whoosh, you have to return and say “Whoosh!” For people like me who otherwise will go to bed confused (and then I wake my wife up because I’m muttering in my sleep: “Was 'luci lying about lying about a liar lying…?” And then my wife smacks me awake: “Okay, bub. For the third time this week. Who’s Lucy?”) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26591 "2016-01-08T01:53:09Z")
Will totally back you. Like that tech guy? Chick tells him that her boyfriend explained all the porn on his browser history by saying that it was a computer virus, and the tech guy swears yeah, happens all the time… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26592 "2016-01-08T02:00:46Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I get the other stuff is seen as bad in his religion, but what does he have against cannibalism? If both party consents, I don’t see a problem Those wacky [Germans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes) have beat you to that thought. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26593 "2016-01-08T02:40:23Z")
One of our Dopers knew one of those “crazy Germans” (can’t remember which). Not a happy thread to read. I can’t find it right now, but I’m sure someone else can. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26594 "2016-01-08T02:46:16Z")
Republican Governor LePage, of Maine: “These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys, they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home,” the 67-year old governor told the audience. “Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.” That’s not a dog whistle anymore… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26595 "2016-01-08T02:57:32Z")
My favorite quote from that article about LePage comes from his communications director: > [@Pete Steele](#): > > The governor is not making comments about race. Race is irrelevant. :dubious: ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26596 "2016-01-08T03:05:49Z")
Except when he specifically talks about white girls. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26597 "2016-01-08T03:12:01Z")
How is his impeachment coming? I haven’t heard that much from crazy Lepage Lately ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26598 "2016-01-08T03:13:55Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > How is his impeachment coming? I haven’t heard that much from crazy Lepage Lately [Maybe next week](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-impeachment_568ec345e4b0c8beacf63774?section=politics) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26599 "2016-01-08T04:21:28Z")
It doesn’t mention this most recent…embarrassment. Which suggests that this much was already in the works\* before\* he opened his cowpie hole. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26600 "2016-01-08T05:14:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Maybe next week](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-impeachment_568ec345e4b0c8beacf63774?section=politics) Gotta ask. Does this really rise to level of impeachment? Is this a crime? It’s a dick move, yes. But criminal? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26601 "2016-01-08T05:22:02Z")
The biggest thing he did was to pressure a school not to hire the Speaker of the State Assembly (a political enemy) by threatening to withhold state funds from the school if they hired him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1329) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1331)