# 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:** 1384
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27662 "2016-03-02T15:38:22Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > [9 R’s voted against naming a post office for Maya Angelou](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/01/nine_republicans_vote_against_renaming_post_office_after_maya_angelou.html). Apparently because of Cuba? The motion did pass, tho. I’m not excusing the 9 dickheads for being dickheads; I’m just pointing out that they didn’t do anything other than make themselves look like dickheads. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27663 "2016-03-02T17:33:07Z")
[Meet the new boss](http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/newly-elected-gop-chair-texas-capitol/): > [@](#): > > The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. Rick Perry’s sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton’s penis, and insisting that members of the Bush family should be in jail. > > He also found time to call Hillary Clinton an “angry bull dyke” and accuse his county vice chair of betraying the values of the Republican Party… ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27664 "2016-03-02T17:39:36Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Meet the new boss](http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/newly-elected-gop-chair-texas-capitol/): Is he trying to grow a Trump pelt or is that some sort of artifact or I need better glasses? ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27665 "2016-03-02T17:50:55Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Is he trying to grow a Trump pelt or is that some sort of artifact or I need better glasses? No, we found where Trump gets it from. Looks like he was just harvested. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27666 "2016-03-02T17:53:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Morrow’s main complaint is with “establishment” Republicans, who he does not believe should hold elected office, he said. Last week, he tweeted that the Republican National Committee was just a “gay foam party.” > > Morrow has a long history of critiquing prominent state Republicans in vulgar, and often sexually explicit, terms. For years, he has alleged that Perry is secretly bisexual; in 2010, he referred to him as “Gov. Skank Daddy” in an email. I’m pretty sure I saw Governor Skank Daddy open for Sublime back in '95. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27667 "2016-03-02T17:54:53Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Meet the new boss](http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/newly-elected-gop-chair-texas-capitol/): The best bit in that article is this: > [@](#): > > Morrow’s election as Republican chair of the fifth-largest county in Texas left several members of the Travis County GOP, including vice chair Matt Mackowiak, apoplectic. Mackowiak, a Republican strategist, immediately announced over social media that he would do everything in his power to remove Morrow from office. > > “We will explore every single option that exists, whether it be persuading him to resign, trying to force him to resign, constraining his power, removing his ability to spend money or resisting any attempt for him to access data or our social media account,” Mackowiak told the Tribune. “I’m treating this as a coup and as a hostile takeover.” > > “Tell them they can go fuck themselves,” Morrow told the Tribune. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27668 "2016-03-02T18:11:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The motion did pass, tho. I’m not excusing the 9 dickheads for being dickheads; I’m just pointing out that they didn’t do anything other than make themselves look like dickheads. Which is what this thread is for, so… ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27669 "2016-03-02T18:13:17Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > He’s technically correct that many instances of rape do not involve pregnancy, thank God. I think that’s the only part of his statement that is correct in any sense of the word. By the same token many instances of consensual sex even without protection do not involve pregnancy, so um, congrats on being [technically correct](http://files.benjiweber.co.uk/b/technically.jpg). ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27670 "2016-03-02T19:07:49Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > Which is what this thread is for, so… Oh yeah, for sure; I was just glad to note that the bill had passed despite them. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27671 "2016-03-02T19:10:06Z")
[New Hampshire Republican state representative Kyle Tasker arrested for trying to lure 14 year old girl into sexual encounter: > [@](#): > > Kyle Tasker, a 30-year-old Republican from Nottingham, was arraigned Wednesday on three drug charges and one count of using a computer to lure what he thought was the teen. It was actually police working undercover. > > Police say he attempted to meet the girl Tuesday but instead was greeted by law enforcement. ]([http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67f99c31ee294df89e1c211dabe62adb/lawmaker-accused-trying-lure-teen-sex-encounter](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67f99c31ee294df89e1c211dabe62adb/lawmaker-accused-trying-lure-teen-sex-encounter))We may have featured him a few years ago in this thread: > [@](#): > > Tasker is serving his third term. He made headlines in 2012 when he dropped his gun on the floor of a state building. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27672 "2016-03-02T19:50:58Z")
I thought that name was familiar! He’s had other stupid ideas, IIRC. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27673 "2016-03-02T20:23:49Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [New Hampshire Republican state representative Kyle Tasker arrested for trying to lure 14 year old girl into sexual encounter:](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67f99c31ee294df89e1c211dabe62adb/lawmaker-accused-trying-lure-teen-sex-encounter) > [@dropzone](#): > > I thought that name was familiar! He’s had other stupid ideas, IIRC. He should have stayed in the spy business like his brother Harry. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27674 "2016-03-02T20:36:49Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Meet the new boss](http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/newly-elected-gop-chair-texas-capitol/): At least hree times as I was reading that, I said aloud, “this can’t be real.” [ul] [li] “Tell them they can go fuck themselves,” Morrow told the Tribune.[/li][li]“What kind of traitor to the party is Matt Mackowiak? The incredible amount of damage someone like him does to the party — and he’s a douchebag.”[/li][li]“I like beautiful women, I celebrate feminine beauty,” Morrow added. “I’m like Donald Trump — I love women.”[/li][/ul] I mean, that can’t be real, can it? Parody, no? Or is this guy doing the, “hey, Trump is cool, get me, I’m gonna be just like him,” the sad harbinger of a new fad that will end up an answer in Trivial Pursuit - The 2010’s Edition. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27675 "2016-03-02T21:21:16Z")
> [@](#): > > The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. Rick Perry’s sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton’s penis, and insisting that members of the Bush family should be in jail. > > He also found time to call Hillary Clinton an “angry bull dyke” and accuse his county vice chair of betraying the values of the Republican Party… Where can I subscribe to his newsletter? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27676 "2016-03-02T21:22:41Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Or is this guy doing the, “hey, Trump is cool, get me, I’m gonna be just like him,” the sad harbinger of a new fad that will end up an answer in Trivial Pursuit - The 2010’s Edition. If the GOP Establishment diddles Trump out of the nomination (assuming he gets a plurality but not a majority), I predict a flurry of “I Stand With Trump” candidates for various offices (whether or not he tries a third party run). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27677 "2016-03-02T22:53:49Z")
[Orrin Hatch offers an explanation](http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/donald-trump-hill-republicans/) for the whole kerfluffle about Donald Trump dancing around the question of being endorsed by David Duke: > [@](#): > > “I think it’s up to us to make it clear that we don’t tolerate those types of racist organizations and I don’t know many people who would believe that we do. I think deep down, I don’t think Donald Trump tolerates it either. I think he is just inexperienced in expressing himself at things like that.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27678 "2016-03-03T00:19:46Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Orrin Hatch offers an explanation](http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/donald-trump-hill-republicans/) for the whole kerfluffle about Donald Trump dancing around the question of being endorsed by David Duke: Just so and exactly. Trump is inexperienced in **politics.** He has never held or even sought any elected office before. He has never even held a civil service job at any level of government. He has never done military service. He has never before been involved in or even taken any noticeable interest in electoral politics or partisan politics. He has never before this cycle been involved in government or politics in any way. And now he wants us to think he’s qualified to be POTUS. Thank you for reminding us of all that, Senator. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27679 "2016-03-03T00:22:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just so and exactly. Trump is inexperienced in **politics.** He has never held or even sought any elected office before. He has never even held a civil service job at any level of government. He has never done military service. He has never before been involved in or even taken any noticeable interest in electoral politics or partisan politics. He has never before this cycle been involved in government or politics in any way. And now he wants us to think he’s qualified to be POTUS. > > Thank you for reminding us of all that, Senator. Didn’t he run for POTUS as the Reform Party candidate in 2000? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27680 "2016-03-03T00:31:06Z")
Is the New Hampshire state legislature trying to win the gold medal for most bat shit crazy members? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27681 "2016-03-03T00:38:43Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > Didn’t he run for POTUS as the Reform Party candidate in 2000? I think he refused to when David Duke joined the Reform Party. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1383) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1385)