# 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:** 1345
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26882 "2016-01-21T19:46:39Z")
Fiorina: Hey, kids, want to go to an anti-abortion rally and listen to a candidate talk? Kids: Yeah!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26883 "2016-01-21T19:54:36Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I don’t get what this means. The lead turns white people black? No, they’re suggesting that Democrats only care about people of color because they want their votes. Not, you know, that people could possibly be upset about ANY place poisoning our fellow American citizens like this. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26884 "2016-01-21T20:01:02Z")
> [@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. Wah? I thought RINO meant Republican In Name Only which is always used as a slur BY whackadoodles against the saner elements of their own party. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26885 "2016-01-21T20:22:27Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > No, they’re suggesting that Democrats only care about people of color because they want their votes. > > Not, you know, that people could possibly be upset about ANY place poisoning our fellow American citizens like this. Because we al know that black people would vote Republican if their minds were poisoned by Dems, even before the leaded water. ---
**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, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26886 "2016-01-21T20:26:35Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Fiorina: Hey, kids, want to go to an anti-abortion rally and listen to a candidate talk? > > Kids: Yeah!!! Lone hold-out [silenced.](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2504610.1453395835!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/gop-2016-fiorina.jpg) 😃 ---
**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 21, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26887 "2016-01-21T20:30:40Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Because we al know that black people would vote Republican if their minds\*\* were \*\*poisoned by Dems, even before the leaded water. Somebody get me rewrite! ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26888 "2016-01-21T20:39:00Z")
Rafael Cruz: [American public education was created by a Communist in order to turn kids against American values](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rafael-cruz-public-education-communist-plot). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26889 "2016-01-21T20:56:00Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Wah? I thought RINO meant Republican In Name Only which is always used as a slur BY whackadoodles against the saner elements of their own party. It is exactly that – though it is losing ground to [“cuckservative.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckservative) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26890 "2016-01-21T20:57:11Z")
> [@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. It’s more likely to give them **fewer** black voters, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26891 "2016-01-21T21:11:51Z")
We want to reduce the lead levels, saving lives, so we’ll have more voters in the regions affected. Because, obviously, only black lives matter. (Pfui.) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26892 "2016-01-21T21:29:17Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Wah? I thought RINO meant Republican In Name Only which is always used as a slur BY whackadoodles against the saner elements of their own party. The saner elements of the party do not in anyway resemble the [del]17[/del], [del]16[/del], [del]15[/del], whatever the total is now running for [del]the ego trip of their lives[/del] the presidency. The cockservative candidates and the extreme groups fondling them are the real RINO’s. :mad: ---
**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, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26893 "2016-01-21T21:35:21Z")
[Republican Congressman lies about black people in order to object to District of Columbia statehood.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/21/3741521/congressman-makes-up-statistics-about-black-people-to-argue-dc-residents-are-irresponsible/) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26894 "2016-01-21T23:50:04Z")
> [@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. That reminds me of this scene from the television show _Foyle’s War_. [Picture.](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/22/article-2297836-18DC442D000005DC-360_634x483.jpg) (Explanation: woman holding loaf is wife of Labor candidate for MP. Someone handed her a loaf of bread ostensibly for a press photo, and unbeknownst to her the banner was quickly raised behind her before the photo was snapped and lowered before she turned around again.) Except of course the kids in Fiorina’s pic wouldn’t understand even if they turned around. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26895 "2016-01-22T03:08:37Z")
> [@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. According to the linked article, what she did was worse; she spoke about abortion with the kids perched in front of her. No matter how one feels about abortion, one probably would be reluctant to discuss it around a five year old. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Republican Congressman lies about black people in order to object to District of Columbia statehood.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/21/3741521/congressman-makes-up-statistics-about-black-people-to-argue-dc-residents-are-irresponsible/) He probably did this so people would hear 14% unemployment and 60% graduation and think, “oh, that’s not so bad then.” ---
**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 22, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26896 "2016-01-22T05:27:50Z")
[Ted Cruz’s biggest donor is billionaire Robert Mercer](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/21/ted_cruz_donor_robert_mercer_profiled.html) (whose $11 million makes him the biggest donor of all contributors yet this election cycle). Mercer has also contributed to: 1-Oregon Congressional candidate Arthur Robinson, who has a collection of thousands of vials of human urine in order to increase the human life span and take control away from the “medical-industrial-government complex.” 2-Jane Orient, who runs Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Her organization believes that AIDS/HIV is harmless; that water fluoridation causes cancer; that elements within the federal government allowed the San Bernardino massacre to take place; and that Hillary Clinton ran guns to ISIS through Benghazi. ---
**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 22, 2016, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26897 "2016-01-22T06:55:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rafael Cruz: [American public education was created by a Communist in order to turn kids against American values](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rafael-cruz-public-education-communist-plot). I didn’t realize at first that you meant Rafael Cruz the father. You know, the one that was part of an anti-USA Communist revolution in Cuba, then moved to the USA to get rich, and then had his son educated into the upper classes to go into politics, _so he could destroy the USA from within._ Is he a Republican now? It’s this kind of blatant entryism that should give Republicans pause. :p:p ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26898 "2016-01-22T08:02:57Z")
The more there are, the more are coming, we try to keep up, try to keep track, but weekly becomes daily then daily becomes hourly and we try to keep up, and we think maybe we are but then they crank it up another notch and there are so many, so many…blitzgit! frumwalders! kitang! kitang! kitang!.. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26899 "2016-01-22T12:50:05Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 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? Must be a New Testament thing. Y’know… Torah new one? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26900 "2016-01-22T13:07:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Must be a New Testament thing. > Y’know… Torah new one? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26901 "2016-01-22T13:41:27Z")
> [@j666](#): > > He probably did this so people would hear 14% unemployment and 60% graduation and think, “oh, that’s not so bad then.” Andy Harris is a particular embarrassment to us. The correct objection of course, is simply that it’s not constitutional and that the seat of the federal government does not need representation since it actually has 535 representatives fighting for its interests and the majority of them live in the DC metro area. What will a DC rep or Senator do, fight to bring jobs and government spending to DC? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1344) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1346)