# 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:** 1355
**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 29, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27082 "2016-01-29T19:28:37Z")
The Majority leader of the Ohio State Senate is term-limited out. So he’s running for the state House of Representatives. His opponent is a 30-year-old mother of two toddlers. And good ol’ boy Senator [Tom Patton thinks her age and the fact that she has two small kids makes her unqualified](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/29/the-reason-this-republican-thinks-his-opponent-is-unqualified-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-youll-hear-today/). > [@](#): > > “I want to tell her, ‘Hey Sweetie, I just got 27 percent of the pie in just my district, which is nine times what should have been done.’” ---
**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 29, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27083 "2016-01-29T19:46:47Z")
Her response is pretty on point. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27084 "2016-01-29T20:02:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Majority leader of the Ohio State Senate is term-limited out. So he’s running for the state House of Representatives. His opponent is a 30-year-old mother of two toddlers. And good ol’ boy Senator [Tom Patton thinks her age and the fact that she has two small kids makes her unqualified](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/29/the-reason-this-republican-thinks-his-opponent-is-unqualified-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-youll-hear-today/). Ugh, it wasn’t until I went to share that article on Facebook that a closeup photo of this creep popped up. If anyone deserves their face, he does. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27085 "2016-01-29T20:08:18Z")
Lately I’ve been going to the gym during prime time (and live near the New Hampshire border) so I have been subjected to three or four large screen television’s worth of what seem to be non-stop political ads. I know negative advertising isn’t a strictly Republican invention, but it’s amusing to see the candidates and their PACs have the same general view of the other candidates that I do; namely that they’re loathsome incompetents. Whoever the Dems pick next summer won’t have to spend a dime on making ads – all they’ll have to do is snag these PAC ads from Iowa and New Hampshire and slap a voice over on them “This is what your own party thinks of this guy.” Possibly the most amusing is [the ad in which Kasich is labeled an “Obama republican”](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/27/john-kasich-is-called-an-obama-republican-in-new-hampshire-ads/). First of all, who knew that the New Hampshire voters were so desperate for a sane(ish) candidate that they’d dig that far down in the barrel of candidates, making it necessary to _create_ an anti-Kasich ad? And secondly, the list of Kasich’s crimes against conservatism include heinous acts like expanding Medicare and supporting Common Core education standards. You might as well create an ad that says “Kasich isn’t completely bat shit crazy like our candidate, so why would you vote for him?” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27086 "2016-01-29T20:52:57Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Ugh, it wasn’t until I went to share that article on Facebook that a closeup photo of this creep popped up. If anyone deserves their face, he does. Oh god, punching hand, twitching… ---
**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 29, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27087 "2016-01-29T22:22:59Z")
“I want to tell her, ‘Hey Sweetie, I just got 27 percent of the pie in just my district, which is nine times what should have been done.’” - a-Whuh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27088 "2016-01-29T22:30:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > “I want to tell her, ‘Hey Sweetie, I just got 27 percent of the pie in just my district, which is nine times what should have been done.’” > > - a-Whuh? 😕 Apparently, his district is only rightfully entitled to 3% of the pie. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27089 "2016-01-29T23:52:53Z")
I like pie. ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27090 "2016-01-30T00:30:57Z")
Aside from a few blogs and Facebook, [this story](http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/267083-tom-delay-feds-ready-to-indict-clinton) was pretty much ignored by the media this week. > [@](#): > > Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay earlier this week claimed that the Justice Department is on the cusp of filing charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over the mishandling of classified information. > > “I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they’re ready to indict,” DeLay said on Newsmax TV’s "The Steve Malzberg Show” on Monday. And who would know more about grand jury investigations than former Senator Tom Delay? The FBI is ready to indict? I wasn’t aware they did that. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27091 "2016-01-30T00:37:52Z")
> [@Club\_33](#): > > And who would know more about grand jury investigations than former Senator Tom Delay? He was a member of the House of Representatives, not the Senate. The story has been ignored because it’s bullshit. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27092 "2016-01-30T00:47:28Z")
nm wrong thread. any bundy’s in here? ---
**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 30, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27093 "2016-01-30T00:59:26Z")
Is Delay not in the pokey now. Fuck. What is justice coming to? ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27094 "2016-01-30T02:54:11Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > He was a member of the House of Representatives, not the Senate. The story has been ignored because it’s bullshit. Why the hell did I associate Senator with his name? :smack: I don’t say “ignored” as if were a bad thing. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see it summarily discarded as bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27095 "2016-01-30T03:49:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > nm wrong thread. any bundy’s in here? Poor Ammon Bundy Went funny Monday Grew worse on Tuesday Armed up on Wednesday Drove up on Thursday Took over Friday Shootout on Saturday Clinkward on Sunday And that was the end Of Poor Ammon Bundy ---
**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 30, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27096 "2016-01-30T06:29:31Z")
Very clever, but could you not do that, please? I’m pretty sure that anybody who sees it here is also going to see it in the Bundy thread. I’m not going to junior mod you and pretend that I know it’s forbidden; if I thought it was, I’d report it and ask for an ajudication. I’m just asking you nicely, as a fellow Doper. ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27097 "2016-01-30T15:05:51Z")
If you’re not website-hosting Be chill on cross-posting. ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27098 "2016-01-30T15:26:28Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Was the guillotine ever used in the US? Or anywhere not-France? Was beheading ever a practiced method of execution in the US (outside of incorrectly-calculated hangings)? [Europe](http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#Elsewhere). Even into modern times, according to the wiki. [Sweden was going to use one on Hilda Nilsson](http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Nilsson) in 1917, but she committed suicide first. The latest info wiki provides on a guillotine being used is in 1959 in South Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27099 "2016-01-30T21:33:16Z")
> [@Not\_Carlson](#): > > I think there is a near 100% certainty that we’ll soon see some bigoted non-trans moron walking into opposite-sex toilets in an ass-backward attempt to prove . . . something. > Like the people who commit voter fraud to prove that voter fraud exists. What about the gun nuts who waltz around with their [del]penises out[/del] boomsticks strapped to their shoulders to make a point? What about one of those fucktards taking a break from committing voter fraud to use the opposite sex’s loo? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27100 "2016-01-30T22:53:41Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Lately I’ve been going to the gym during prime time (and live near the New Hampshire border) so I have been subjected to three or four large screen television’s worth of what seem to be non-stop political ads. I live in Iowa. I feel your pain. At least we only have a couple of days left before we get our airwaves and our telephones back. This may not be a truly dumb Republican idea, but it’s under consideration. Keep The Promise 1 (a pro-Cruz super PAC) is running an ad here calling Bernie Sanders “too liberal for Iowa.” Why is it stupid? It’s perhaps the best PRO-Bernie ad that Bernie never had to pay for himself. The ad says: [ul] [li]Bernie wants to provide free college for our young people[/li][li]He wants Medicare for all, basically single-payer universal health care[/li][li]And he wants to pay for it with higher taxes on Wall Street and “the super rich.” It literally says, “super rich,” with a picture of a wealthy couple in front of their mansion and their fancy car.[/li][/ul] And my response is, “All right. Why are these things supposed to be bad? Where do I sign up?” I couldn’t find a clean copy of it online, but most of it is here (ignore the tag of Bernie speaking about “it can happen, it really can” - that’s not in the actual ad) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9gZ4t1v9N4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9gZ4t1v9N4) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27101 "2016-01-30T23:11:39Z")
Now I’m seeing commentary that the “too-liberal” Sanders ad is a double-secret-reverse by Republicans, who are hoping to prop up Sanders with the Democratic caucus crowd in hopes of defeating Clinton in Iowa. The GOP big money thinks Sanders would be an easier opponent to beat in the general than Clinton. Admittedly, I considered this tack when I first saw the ad. Still doesn’t totally discount it as a stupid idea - you have to admit a Sanders-anybody general election would be a stark contrast, and one might think a Sanders win would totally repudiate everything in the GOP’s election platform. Anyway … it’s still the best pro-Bernie ad that Bernie never paid a cent for. Which kind of justifies Sanders’ position, if you want to think ironically (what’s more socialist than having your opponent pay hundreds of thousands to air an ad in your favor?). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1354) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1356)