# 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:** 1386
**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, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27702 "2016-03-03T19:22:42Z")
> [@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. > [@Finagle](#): > > They should have vetted him better. He sounds perfect to me. Just what Trump wants in an enforcer. ---
**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27703 "2016-03-03T19:35:32Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > They should have vetted him better. Did Trump didn’t vet anyone or did he he just announc the formation of the Coalition? But yeah, being the husband of a state rep and thinking it was a good idea to go clear across the country to help threaten federal agents? STUPID idea. ETA: At the bottom of the Trump link, it does say > [@](#): > > In addition to forming the New Hampshire Veterans Coalition, earlier this week Mr. Trump established a hotline (855- VETS- 352) and email address ([veterans@donaldtrump.com](mailto:veterans@donaldtrump.com)) for Veterans to share their stories about the need to reform our Veterans Administration. So I guess he did have something to do with putting the coalition together. But it’s just a “vet’s votes” coalition; I predict this will have no effect on Trump’s candidacy. ---
**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, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27704 "2016-03-03T19:37:20Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > But yeah, being the husband of a state rep and thinking it was a good idea to go clear across the country to help threaten federal agents? STUPID idea. At the time, Bundy’s goons thought they had won. Trump likes winners. He likes people who win. He wants America to be winning again. Winning is great! ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27705 "2016-03-03T20:33:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Trump spins it fine, with the same message that he’s been using all along: “Fuck those assholes; vote for me.” [I think Trump just implied that Mitt would have blown him in exchange for an endorsement in 2012.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8M66ZbAZA) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27706 "2016-03-03T20:44:20Z")
> [@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. I think Hatch at the moment is one of the establishment frantically running around trying to keep Trump from being the nominee because he says out loud what they all think. Once Trump is the nominee and Hatch supports him, then we can all wish he got pushed out of the airlock of the shuttle without a space suit. ---
**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27707 "2016-03-03T20:51:35Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I think Hatch at the moment is one of the establishment frantically running around trying to keep Trump from being the nominee because he says out loud what they all think. Once Trump is the nominee and Hatch supports him, then we can all wish he got pushed out of the airlock of the shuttle without a space suit. If this is the case, he’s chosen a very poor means of attack. He basically excused Trump for the Duke thing by saying his words were simply a poor choice of an inexperienced candidate. ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27708 "2016-03-03T20:57:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [I think Trump just implied that Mitt would have blown him in exchange for an endorsement in 2012.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8M66ZbAZA) Yeah, for the most direct definition of “implied” that there is. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27709 "2016-03-03T20:59:49Z")
[Chris Christie is going full-on Patty Hurst](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/christie-trump-press-conference-flap-no-i-was-not-being-n531166). Stockholm Syndrome is a hell of a thing. ---
**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, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27710 "2016-03-03T21:05:20Z")
[Caitlyn Jenner is endorsing Ted Cruz.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/03/3756354/caitlyn-jenner-ted-cruz/) [QUOTE=Caitlyn Jenner] Number one, if we don’t have a country, we don’t have trans issues. We need jobs. We need a vibrant economy. I want every trans person to have a job. With $19 trillion in debt and it keeps going up, we’re spending money we don’t have. Eventually, it’s going to end. And I don’t want to see that. Socialism did not build this country. Capitalism did. Free enterprise. The people built it. And they need to be given the opportunity to build it back up. […] Wouldn’t it be great, let’s say he goes on to be president. And I have all my girls on a trans issues board to advise him on making decisions when it comes to trans issues. Isn’t that a good idea? [/QUOTE] No, Cait. It’s not. I cannot imagine a world in which a man who calls himself “a Christian first and an American second”, and summarizes transgender rights with statements like “I don’t want my daughters taking showers with little boys", and who blamed the Planned Parenthood shootings on “transgender leftists”, gives a flying shit about trans issues. ---
**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, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27711 "2016-03-03T21:24:22Z")
We know there’s a segment of Republicans like the Log Cabin Republicans who feel more strongly about economic issues than they do about their personal, deeply held orientation and identity of who they are. Jenner is doing just that. Apparently, she feels more intensely about tax cuts and theocracy than she does about how, in Cruz’s America, she’s be forced to use the men’s room and treated as a mental patient. There’s no money in Cruz’s budget for trans therapy, just an extra lock on the women’s restroom door for pervert guys! Truly, it is astounding to see some people take the economic side rather than their own personal one. Either they feel really strongly about taxes or don’t give a shit about themselves ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27712 "2016-03-03T21:43:23Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Truly, it is astounding to see some people take the economic side rather than their own personal one. Either they feel really strongly about taxes or don’t give a shit about themselves Or they think they’re rich/important enough that they don’t have to obey the same rules as the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27713 "2016-03-03T21:52:57Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Truly, it is astounding to see some people take the economic side rather than their own personal one. Either they feel really strongly about taxes or don’t give a shit about themselves I can understand putting economic considerations ahead of social ones. What I can’t understand is why anyone would vote Republican expecting them to lower the deficit. Where have these people been for 35 years? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27714 "2016-03-03T22:05:57Z")
No Caitlyn, absolutely nothing to worry about, nothing at all. **Deuteronomy 22:5** The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.(Might wanna find out just how that whole “abomination unto the Lord” thingy gets dealt with _before_ ya’ vote . . . just sayin’.) CMC fnord! ---
**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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27715 "2016-03-03T22:14:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [I think Trump just implied that Mitt would have blown him in exchange for an endorsement in 2012.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8M66ZbAZA) I think Trump is right about that. ---
**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, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27716 "2016-03-03T23:28:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Caitlyn Jenner is endorsing Ted Cruz.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/03/3756354/caitlyn-jenner-ted-cruz/) They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, but they don’t come much stranger than Ted Cruz and Caitlyn Jenner. ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27717 "2016-03-03T23:43:32Z")
[The Republican-run committee trying to prove that Planned Parenthood is TEH EVUHL is called the “Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives”.](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/03/3755981/house-hearing-baby-parts/) > [@](#): > > “In our society, have we reached a point where there is an [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) for baby parts, including entire babies?” ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27718 "2016-03-03T23:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=Caitlyn Jenner] Number one, if we don’t have a country, we don’t have trans issues. We need jobs. We need a vibrant economy. I want every trans person to have a job. With $19 trillion in debt and it keeps going up, we’re spending money we don’t have. Eventually, it’s going to end. And I don’t want to see that. Socialism did not build this country. Capitalism did. Free enterprise. The people built it. And they need to be given the opportunity to build it back up. […] Wouldn’t it be great, let’s say he goes on to be president. And I have all my girls on a trans issues board to advise him on making decisions when it comes to trans issues. Isn’t that a good idea? [/QUOTE] Yeah, if we’re going to have a reality show President, why not have a reality show cabinet? Stone Cold Steve Austin for SecDef. That Duck Dynasty guy for SecInterior. Honey Boo Boo for, I don’t know, something. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27719 "2016-03-04T00:04:49Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Honey Boo Boo for, I don’t know, something. Education or HHS. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27720 "2016-03-04T00:12:13Z")
Can we get Dog the Bounty Hunter for Homeland Security? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27721 "2016-03-04T00:17:29Z")
> [@](#): > > “In our society, have we reached a point where there is an [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) for baby parts, including entire babies?” More challenging than model airplanes or paint-by-numbers. IKEA? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1385) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1387)