# 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:** 1342
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26822 "2016-01-20T00:51:56Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I think its a stretch to think anyone named Santorum is being bullied or harmed significantly by the attack on a very public, very homophobic politician. Of course they are, because what Savage did was to equate the _single word Santorum_ with something disgusting. Look at all the jokes about googling “Santorum.” Savage may have intended only an attack on one richly deserving target, but he did so in a thoughtless and irresponsible way that makes every innocent person with the same surname collateral damage. I have no idea how many kids named Santorum there are in the world, but there must be some, and I can’t imagine that many of them will get through school without other kids finding out what their name means. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26823 "2016-01-20T00:59:53Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [Some Americans are pleased that Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed Donald Trump for President.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/hilarious-or-depressing-kimmel-interviews-americans-who-actually-believe-mlk-endorsed-donald-trump/) There’s also a [new poll](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/judge-judy-supreme-court-judge) out that says 10% of college grads think Judge Judy sits on the Supreme Court. I have to think that the respondents are just playing with the pollsters on stuff like this. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26824 "2016-01-20T01:00:05Z")
So what? Santorum could be a great death metal band name. 🆒 I’ve got a friend named John Smith who always gets teased for his “bullshit that’s your real name” name since he was a kid. Went to school with a kid named Keith Ferroni. I’m sure you can guess his nickname. Since one particular Santorum absolutely deserves a huge swipe at his asswipe religious attitude and phobias, find me a site that defends the last name and demands less bullying. I’m sure the other Santorums laugh plenty at their namesake prick. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26825 "2016-01-20T01:03:13Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Actually it was just his guest that suggested it and O’Reilly himself argued against it. Its one of the things that O’Reilly does to try to make himself look reasonable. He invites a guest who says that “Immigrants should be rounded up branded and ground into lunch meals for poor school children.” With a gammy leg??? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26826 "2016-01-20T02:41:52Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > And he knows his scripture, two. iswydt 😃 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26827 "2016-01-20T03:09:36Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Of course they are, because what Savage did was to equate the _single word Santorum_ with something disgusting. Rick Santorum did first. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26828 "2016-01-20T04:13:18Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I do wonder which part of Donald Trump is supposed to correspond to Jesus. “I am the way, the truth and the life. All those other guys are a bunch of LOSERS.” (Spreads hands wide and tilts head to one side with a douchey _just-sayin’_ expression.) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26829 "2016-01-20T04:19:36Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Stupid Republican idea: always fighting the last war: > > [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/2016-gop-primary-crazier-than-you-think-213542](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/2016-gop-primary-crazier-than-you-think-213542) I don’t think that’s stupid. Especially since Trump & Cruz–two of the madder candidates–are threatening early. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26830 "2016-01-20T08:08:10Z")
[Normie cuckservative loser Rick Wilson calls TRUMP supporters “childless single men who masturbate to anime”](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-trumps-alt-right-fans-childless-single-men-who-masturbate-to-anime/). > [@](#): > > It’s fair to say Republican strategist Rick Wilson is not a fan of Donald Trump, and tonight… boy did his comments about Trump’s rabid fans go to a weird place. > > Wilson talked to Chris Hayes about a very specific section of Trump’s fans; not his mainstream supporters, his “alt-right” fans. The ones, he explained, that have lots of “Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons.” > > He went on to say, “Most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime. They’re not real political players. These are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity.” Of course the plutocrat traitor shill does not realize that TRUMP is the manifestation of the anger of the American proletariat and probably prefers jerking off to porn of middle-aged women with sagging breasts and the visages of Carly Fiorina sodomizing sub males with strap-ons (certainly he metaphorically does so!) over the lovely, ethereal girls of manga and anime. Really why are these men-their antisocial tendencies having been caused by the neoliberal deindustrialization and destruction of American community thanks to the economism of fusionist conservatism anymore pathetic then his wife and millions of other bourgeois middle-aged women fantasizing over the protagonist of _50 Shades of Grey_? At any rate, I look forward to his and the rest of the Establishment’s humiliation once TRUMP wins Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina before sweeping the rest of the nation with the solid mass of the working people of the American nation behind him. Hopefully once he assumes the Presidency, TRUMP will confine this disgusting classist bigot to a mental asylum in Soviet tradition. Already he is being destroyed on Twitter by the legions of patriotic men and women who simultaneously appreciate the art form of anime. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26831 "2016-01-20T08:27:49Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Of course they are, because what Savage did was to equate the _single word Santorum_ with something disgusting. Look at all the jokes about googling “Santorum.” Savage may have intended only an attack on one richly deserving target, but he did so in a thoughtless and irresponsible way that makes every innocent person with the same surname collateral damage. I have no idea how many kids named Santorum there are in the world, but there must be some, and I can’t imagine that many of them will get through school without other kids finding out what their name means. Why aren’t you worried about the Santorums who were even more embarrassed by the guy sharing their name being a vile, homophobic piece of shit? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26832 "2016-01-20T08:49:20Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > [Normie cuckservative loser Rick Wilson calls TRUMP supporters “childless single men who masturbate to anime”](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-trumps-alt-right-fans-childless-single-men-who-masturbate-to-anime/). “Normie?” “Cuckservative?” ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26833 "2016-01-20T12:00:44Z")
South Carolina Republican state legislator wants to force journalists [to register with the state](http://huff.to/1QmdHVk): > [@](#): > > In his “South Carolina Responsible Journalism Registry Law,” Mike Pitts, a Republican lawmaker who emerged last year as a leading supporter of keeping the Confederate battle flag flying at the statehouse, calls for the state to “establish requirements for persons before working as a journalist for a media outlet and for media outlets before hiring a journalist.” > > Pitts’ bill would require the South Carolina Secretary of State’s office to establish and operate a “responsible journalism registry.” The law also calls for “fines and criminal penalties” for those who violate its statutes. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26834 "2016-01-20T12:36:21Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Of course the plutocrat traitor shill does not realize that TRUMP is the manifestation of the anger of the American proletariat and probably prefers jerking off to porn of middle-aged women with sagging breasts and the visages of Carly Fiorina sodomizing sub males with strap-ons (certainly he metaphorically does so!) over the lovely, ethereal girls of manga and anime. Really why are these men-their antisocial tendencies having been caused by the neoliberal deindustrialization and destruction of American community thanks to the economism of fusionist conservatism anymore pathetic then his wife and millions of other bourgeois middle-aged women fantasizing over the protagonist of _50 Shades of Grey_? At any rate, I look forward to his and the rest of the Establishment’s humiliation once TRUMP wins Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina before sweeping the rest of the nation with the solid mass of the working people of the American nation behind him. Hopefully once he assumes the Presidency, TRUMP will confine this disgusting classist bigot to a mental asylum in Soviet tradition. Already he is being destroyed on Twitter by the legions of patriotic men and women who simultaneously appreciate the art form of anime. A fine post. I myself was getting a little tired of simply using the term RINO. However, you’ll need to condense that so the average Trump supporter can use it. After you explain it to them, of course. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26835 "2016-01-20T13:04:24Z")
Get some sleep, **Qin.** ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26836 "2016-01-20T13:39:07Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Of course they are… One example should suffice. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26837 "2016-01-20T14:21:30Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > Why aren’t you worried about the Santorums who were even more embarrassed by the guy sharing their name being a vile, homophobic piece of shit? So the remedy for that is to humiliate them further? Great. Listen, could I speak to John Stamos’s _Right_ Ear? That must be the smart one. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > One example should suffice. Of course! Because I don’t happen to know any, there _are_ no other Santorums! That solves everything! There’s not even a family, Rick just spontaneously generated. It would explain a lot, actually. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26838 "2016-01-20T15:29:13Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > For one thing: do you think that \*everyone \*who happens to be named Santorum deserves the ridicule? Of course not. But consider: Santorum: has been actively working for decades to deny legal rights to millions of Americans, just because he thinks they’re icky. Savage: subjected Rick Santorum and people unfortunate enough to share his name to puerile mockery, in order to stop Santorum from achieving his agenda. I’m having a hard time getting upset about some toilet humor employed in a good cause when the context places it next to a monstrous political agenda which could potentially be achieved if unopposed. And, ironcially, people named Santorum could change their name. Gay people can’t stop being gay. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26839 "2016-01-20T15:40:57Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [Some Americans are pleased that Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed Donald Trump for President.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/hilarious-or-depressing-kimmel-interviews-americans-who-actually-believe-mlk-endorsed-donald-trump/) In all fairness, King had a son (MLK III) and people might just be assuming that “MLK Jr.” is the kid, rather than the father. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26840 "2016-01-20T15:41:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > South Carolina Republican state legislator wants to force journalists [to register with the state](http://huff.to/1QmdHVk): There seems to be a never-ending supply of legislators and governors who either have no fucking idea what the U.S. Constitution says, or just don’t care. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26841 "2016-01-20T15:42:41Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And, ironcially, people named Santorum could change their name. Gay people can’t stop being gay. We need some kind of Santorum conversion therapy. They could pray the Santorum (or the santorum) away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1341) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1343)