# 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:** 1385
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27682 "2016-03-03T00:40:07Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > Didn’t he run for POTUS as the Reform Party candidate in 2000? [Briefly, from October 1999 to February 2000:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_presidential_primaries,_2000#Trump_enters_race) > [@](#): > > Trump told reporters: “It’s not so much the Reform Party, it’s really the fact that I’d want to make that if I ran and spent a lot of money I could actually win, I could beat that Democrat-Republican apparatus.” > > On October 19, 1999 Donald Trump announced he would file to appear on the California primary ballot. During the California primary, he received 15,311 votes. Trump ultimately withdrew his candidacy. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27683 "2016-03-03T02:03:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 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. But he’s had more military training than most soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27684 "2016-03-03T02:31:51Z")
He has more experience in self-promotion than all of his competitors combined. ---
**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 3, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27685 "2016-03-03T02:35:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just so and exactly. Trump is inexperienced in **politics.** Hence his problem with his self-expression – he doesn’t know the dogwhistles and code language you’re supposed to use to assure the bigots that you’re their man while maintaining plausible deniability. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27686 "2016-03-03T02:40:23Z")
> [@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. > [@bmoak](#): > > Didn’t he run for POTUS as the Reform Party candidate in 2000? No. AIUI, he said he had considered it, but he didn’t want to be seen representing a party in which David Duke was a significant figure. 😃 ---
**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, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27687 "2016-03-03T03:17:22Z")
You mean the David Duke he’s never heard of? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27688 "2016-03-03T04:01:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > You mean the David Duke he’s never heard of? And with his awesome negotiating skill, Trump is TOTALLY going to make Mexico pay for his never having heard of David Duke. 'Cause Trump and America are both great! ---
**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 3, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27689 "2016-03-03T04:34:00Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > And with his awesome negotiating skill, Trump is TOTALLY going to make Mexico pay for his never having heard of David Duke. And because he never heard of David Duke, he’s going to make the wall 10’ higher! And it will be a fabulous wall! ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27690 "2016-03-03T13:08:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > He has more experience in self-promotion than all of his competitors combined. Exactly. And that’s all that counts [now-a-days](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224) And there’s a part of me that actually sympathizes. It’s getting scary. ---
**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 3, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27691 "2016-03-03T18:03:42Z")
Kentucky’s latest plan to pull one over on the Supreme Court; [rewrite the entire corpus of state law to assign the rights given to married couples only to people who have “entered into matrimony”, and define “matrimony” as something only heterosexual couples can enter into.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/02/3756017/stupid-kentucky-matrimony-bill/) They just better hope the courtroom where they have to defend this nonsense in doesn’t have a gold-fringed flag. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27692 "2016-03-03T18:38:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Kentucky’s latest plan to pull one over on the Supreme Court; [rewrite the entire corpus of state law to assign the rights given to married couples only to people who have “entered into matrimony”, and define “matrimony” as something only heterosexual couples can enter into.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/02/3756017/stupid-kentucky-matrimony-bill/) Gosh, that seems like an awful lot of work just because two people of the same sex holding hands gives you a squicky feeling. In other SRIOTD news, the Republican candidate for the _last_ election[just gave a speech lambasting the front runner for this election](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/mitt-romney-eviscerate-donald-trump-phony-fraud-n530877). It’s difficult to express just how fucked up this election is. An elder statesman of the party just told people in eight states that they are idiots with bad judgement. How the heck do you spin this if Trump actually wins the nomination? ---
**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 3, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27693 "2016-03-03T18:40:32Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Gosh, that seems like an awful lot of work just because two people of the same sex holding hands gives you a squicky feeling. > > In other SRIOTD news, the Republican candidate for the _last_ election[just gave a speech lambasting the front runner for this election](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/mitt-romney-eviscerate-donald-trump-phony-fraud-n530877). It’s difficult to express just how fucked up this election is. An elder statesman of the party just told people in eight states that they are idiots with bad judgement. How the heck do you spin this if Trump actually wins the nomination? Trump spins it fine, with the same message that he’s been using all along: “Fuck those assholes; vote for me.” ---
**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 3, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27694 "2016-03-03T18:43:20Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Gosh, that seems like an awful lot of work just because two people of the same sex holding hands gives you a squicky feeling. > > In other SRIOTD news, the Republican candidate for the _last_ election[just gave a speech lambasting the front runner for this election](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/mitt-romney-eviscerate-donald-trump-phony-fraud-n530877). It’s difficult to express just how fucked up this election is. **An elder statesman of the party just told people in eight states that they are idiots with bad judgement. How the heck do you spin this if Trump actually wins the nomination?** That the people of 25-30(or whatever) states are idiots with bad judgements. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27695 "2016-03-03T18:43:26Z")
In fantastic irony, Mitt is channeling John Oliver. ---
**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 3, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27696 "2016-03-03T18:49:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > In fantastic irony, Mitt is channeling John Oliver. He wants to [make Donald Drumpf again?](http://www.bustle.com/articles/145413-what-donald-trump-has-said-about-the-drumpf-name-and-hasnt-speaks-volumes) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27697 "2016-03-03T18:53:30Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > 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. In the wake of Trump’s, or Drumpf’s, primary wins and all-but-certain nomination, a new class of Republicans will try to emulate that success by acting just like him. I feel sorry for the midterms of 2018, because these people will likely be fighting the Tea Party for seats. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27698 "2016-03-03T19:06:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Kentucky’s latest plan to pull one over on the Supreme Court; [rewrite the entire corpus of state law to assign the rights given to married couples only to people who have “entered into matrimony”, and define “matrimony” as something only heterosexual couples can enter into.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/02/3756017/stupid-kentucky-matrimony-bill/) > > They just better hope the courtroom where they have to defend this nonsense in doesn’t have a gold-fringed flag. To be fair, it’s not “Kentucky’s” plan, just one batshit lawmaker’s. It hasn’t passed or anything yet. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27699 "2016-03-03T19:08:21Z")
[Trump press release:](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-announces-the-formation-of-veterans-for-trump-coalition-in) “The Trump for President Veteran’s Coalition’s co-chairs are: . . . Jerry Delemus of Rochester.” [New Hampshire Union Leader](http://www.unionleader.com/FBI_arrests_Jerry_DeLemus): "DeLemus is facing nine federal charges based on an indictment brought in Nevada, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, threatening a federal law enforcement officer, assault on a federal officer, obstruction of justice, attempting to impede or injure a federal law enforcement officer, interference with interstate commerce by extortion, and several firearms charges, according to court records. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27700 "2016-03-03T19:16:31Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [Trump press release:](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-announces-the-formation-of-veterans-for-trump-coalition-in) “The Trump for President Veteran’s Coalition’s co-chairs are: . . . Jerry Delemus of Rochester.” > > [New Hampshire Union Leader](http://www.unionleader.com/FBI_arrests_Jerry_DeLemus): "DeLemus is facing nine federal charges based on an indictment brought in Nevada, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, threatening a federal law enforcement officer, assault on a federal officer, obstruction of justice, attempting to impede or injure a federal law enforcement officer, interference with interstate commerce by extortion, and several firearms charges, according to court records. They should have vetted him better. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27701 "2016-03-03T19:21:27Z")
You should have seen what the _other_ nominee was charged with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1384) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1386)