# 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:** 1344
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26862 "2016-01-20T22:51:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Look, any kid named “Santorum” is gonna take shit on the playground one way or another, even if Senator Rick had never been heard of. As a matter of fact, I named my son Santorum Sinclair, because I knew I wouldn’t be there to help him along. So I gave him that name, and I said “Goodbye.” I knew he’d have to get tough or die. And it’s that name that helped to make him strong. ---
**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, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26863 "2016-01-20T22:54:58Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I think you’re being facetious, but if anybody thinks this is a good argument, And, lest there be any further concern, the First Amendment has been incorporated against the states. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26864 "2016-01-20T22:55:14Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > . . . TRUMP supporters “childless single men who masturbate to anime.” Hey, not all of us! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26865 "2016-01-20T23:01:29Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I will use that guy’s picture as a stock photo for today’s whackdoodle RINO’s. Old, white, angry, confused, and deeply fearful of the new more colorful world he faces. Show some concern. He’s an obvious example of what that water will do to you. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26866 "2016-01-21T00:58:08Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Somebody summon me? BTW, Kasich is brilliant and awesome and will be the best President ever, so no putting him in this thread. > snipr. Well, of course I won’t put Kasich in this thread, for he is the Prince of Light and Hope: [http://www.mediaite.com/online/john-kasich-my-opponents-are-like-satan-i-am-the-prince-of-light-and-hope/](http://www.mediaite.com/online/john-kasich-my-opponents-are-like-satan-i-am-the-prince-of-light-and-hope/) ---
**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 21, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26867 "2016-01-21T01:05:07Z")
A Fox commentator says that Democrats only care about the water in Flint because they hope it will give them more black voters. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26868 "2016-01-21T01:14:44Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > For one thing: do you think that \*everyone \*who happens to be named Santorum deserves the ridicule? Some decades ago American Heritage published a column, I believe it was by John Steele Gordon, which claimed that the surname Hooligan had been sullied so badly by the late 19th century that every clan member who was not a career criminal changed his name to Houlihan. Just a suggestion for the other Santora. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26869 "2016-01-21T01:30:49Z")
google-translate returns “Holies” for “santorum”, from Latin. Presumably an alt spelling of “_sanctorum_”. Not sure how to wrap my head around that. Sacred sodomy? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26870 "2016-01-21T01:34:23Z")
Verily, Brother **eschereal** , it is thy turn in the barrel. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26871 "2016-01-21T01:41:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A Fox commentator says that Democrats only care about the water in Flint because they hope it will give them more black voters. An alternative theory is that Flint was a small-scale experiment to cause enough brain damage to create more Republican voters. ---
**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 21, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26872 "2016-01-21T01:47:56Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > An actual WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! argument. Good Lord. The really stupid thing is that all of the children with gay parents could be bullied and ostracized if Santorum got his way. Hell, that very rationale was mentioned in the Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage: [Quote=Justice Anthony Kennedy] Excluding same-sex couples from marriage thus conflicts with a central premise of the right to marry. Without the recognition, stability, and predictability marriage offers, their children suffer the stigma of knowing their families are somehow lesser. They also suffer the significant material costs of being raised by unmarried parents, relegated through no fault of their own to a more difficult and uncertain family life. The marriage laws at issue here thus harm and humiliate the children of same-sex couples. [/Quote] ---
**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:** [January 21, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26873 "2016-01-21T03:27:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Verily, Brother **eschereal** , it is thy turn in the barrel. _… He maketh me to lie down on tender grass … Thy rod and thy staff do comfort me …_ (psalm 23) This is a usage of “comfort” that I am not quite acquainted with. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26874 "2016-01-21T04:13:40Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I will use that guy’s picture as a stock photo for today’s whackdoodle RINO’s. Old, white, angry, confused, and deeply fearful of the new more colorful world he faces. I disagree. I don’t think he is at all confused or fearful. I think he is just a small-souled hateful person. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26875 "2016-01-21T06:05:28Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > _… He maketh me to lie down on tender grass … > Thy rod and thy staff do comfort me …_ > (psalm 23) > > This is a usage of “comfort” that I am not quite acquainted with. Nor am I and I firmly insist on remaining so. ---
**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 21, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26876 "2016-01-21T16:36:28Z")
Sarah Palin blames her son’s arrest for waving a gun and beating up his girlfriend while drunk on…her son? Because of the conservative principle of personal responsibility, law and order and family values? No, of course not. [It’s Obama’s fault!](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/track-palin-domestic-violence-arrest-218028) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26877 "2016-01-21T18:39:59Z")
Carly Fiorina took some kids on a field trip to a botanical gardens and [posed them](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/carly-fiorina-accused-of-ambushing-children-for-anti-abortion-rally?CMP=share_btn_tw) in front of anti-abortion propaganda posters. She might actually be the worst of a terrible lot. ---
**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 21, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26878 "2016-01-21T19:02:03Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Carly Fiorina took some kids on a field trip to a botanical gardens and [posed them](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/carly-fiorina-accused-of-ambushing-children-for-anti-abortion-rally?CMP=share_btn_tw) in front of anti-abortion propaganda posters. She might actually be the worst of a terrible lot. From the Fiorina campaign(quoted in the article). > [@](#): > > “Fiorina spokeswoman said in an emailed statement: ‘We were happy that these children chose to come to Carly’s event with their adult supervisor.’” Those kids had a choice? I wonder how the campaign fooled the “adult supervisor” into going along with this? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26879 "2016-01-21T19:05:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > From the Fiorina campaign(quoted in the article). > > Those kids had a choice? I wonder how the campaign fooled the “adult supervisor” into going along with this? That adult supervisor damn well better be getting an earful from those parents. It would only make me slightly less angry if my kid was being tricked into posing in front of a candidate or a cause that I agreed with. ---
**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 21, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26880 "2016-01-21T19:09:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A Fox commentator says that Democrats only care about the water in Flint because they hope it will give them more black voters. I don’t get what this means. The lead turns white people black? ---
**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 21, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26881 "2016-01-21T19:40:12Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > That adult supervisor damn well better be getting an earful from those parents. It would only make me slightly less angry if my kid was being tricked into posing in front of a candidate or a cause that I agreed with. CNN just carried the story. The claim is Fiorina was interacting with the kids at a Koi pond and they followed her (the whole bunch? four year olds? really?) to the abortion rally. Not explained is why she didn’t consider the topic a bit too adult for such young kids and allowed them to stay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1343) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1345)