# 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:** 1404
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28062 "2016-03-23T21:34:04Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > The underlying message is that in a first past the post system, running third party actively harms the side of the political spectrum you wish to associate with. This is not news nor is it hard to understand. Thank you! Exactly this. When you try too hard to get exactly what you want, you risk excluding more people from the coalition necessary to succeed. I’d love there to be a hyper-liberal, Green, pro-choice, internationalist, pro-science political party. I’d join! And so would about 56,000 other people. We wouldn’t have a chance in hell at the White House! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28063 "2016-03-23T21:44:56Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > When you try too hard to get exactly what you want, you risk excluding more people from the coalition necessary to succeed. I’d love there to be a hyper-liberal, Green, pro-choice, internationalist, pro-science political party. I’d join! And so would about 56,000 other people. Oh, a **lot** more than that, I daresay, Sanders’ campaign alone is getting a lot more than that. > [@Trinopus](#): > > We wouldn’t have a chance in hell at the White House! Nevertheless, this remains true. The only practical way progressivism can rule America is by taking over the Democrats Tea-Party style. But, I suspect we **do** have the numbers to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28064 "2016-03-23T22:16:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Michele Bachmann is just wondering if God sends terrorist attacks to humiliate Obama.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-maybe-god-uses-terrorist-attacks-humiliate-obama) What a deplorable theology she must have. ---
**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 23, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28065 "2016-03-23T22:17:40Z")
[Congressman Devin Nunes says the Brussels attacks were aimed at Americans.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/devon-nunes-brussels-attacks-targeted-americans) ---
**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 23, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28066 "2016-03-23T22:23:15Z")
[Connecticut Republican Party posts photoshopped picture of Obama holding a Che T shirt and claims it proves he’s teh eevuhl.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/connecticut-republican-party-posts-fake-obama-photo-warn-hell-ban-newspapers) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28067 "2016-03-23T22:31:25Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > What a deplorable theology she must have. I guess she thinks God is a vindictive prick. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28068 "2016-03-23T22:37:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Michele Bachmann is just wondering if God sends terrorist attacks to humiliate Obama.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-maybe-god-uses-terrorist-attacks-humiliate-obama) Sigh. Maybe we should start a separate “batshit crazy religious politician of the day” thread. > [@Trinopus](#): > > I’d love there to be a hyper-liberal, Green, pro-choice, internationalist, pro-science political party. I’d join! And so would about 56,000 other people. We wouldn’t have a chance in hell at the White House! I don’t want the White House. I want the state house and enough legislators to push the main parties to consider issues I care about. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28069 "2016-03-23T22:42:30Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I guess she thinks God is a vindictive prick. To be fair, in a lot of the bible, God totally is. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28070 "2016-03-23T22:52:46Z")
Why has God always sent messages in such oblique obscure formats anyway? If God wants to stick it to Obama, why doesn’t He just rain down fire and brimstone on Washington (or wherever Obama happens to be)? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28071 "2016-03-23T22:55:43Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I guess she thinks God is a vindictive prick. Well, we knew that! He makes us piss and fuck with the same organ! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28072 "2016-03-23T23:33:48Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > [Ted Cruz on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/?fref=ts) > > Excellent plan. We can call the neighborhoods, oh I dunno… how about ghettos? I like Obama’s [response](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-says-singling-out-muslims-makes-no-sense-n544301) to Cruz: > [@](#): > > “As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free,” he said. “The notion that we would start down that slippery slope makes absolutely no sense. It’s contrary to who we are.” ---
**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 23, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28073 "2016-03-23T23:40:02Z")
Obama could have added that Ted’s father helped that type of government come into existence in the first place. ---
**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 23, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28074 "2016-03-23T23:56:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Nevertheless, this remains true. The only practical way progressivism can rule America is by taking over the Democrats Tea-Party style. > > But, I suspect we **do** have the numbers to do that. Do you really want that? They’ve lost two presidential elections and the party is in the process of imploding. The only reason they’ve done so well in congress is that Republicans care far more about the party than about democracy or the country, and so will go to extreme lengths to gerrymander to get safe districts, exclude voters if possible, and obstruct. I don’t think progressives are capable of such things, thank Og. If Sanders wins by some chance and little or none of his initiatives get passed, what is that going to do to the movement? It made the Tea Party more radical. Is that the kind of thing you want? Much as I’d love to see these things happen, in reality him winning would set the Progressive movement back decades, and they are valuable in pulling the Democrats a bit more to the left. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28075 "2016-03-24T00:41:11Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Do you really want that? They’ve lost two presidential elections and the party is in the process of imploding. The only reason they’ve done so well in congress is that Republicans care far more about the party than about democracy or the country, and so will go to extreme lengths to gerrymander to get safe districts, exclude voters if possible, and obstruct. I don’t think progressives are capable of such things, thank Og. > If Sanders wins by some chance and little or none of his initiatives get passed, what is that going to do to the movement? It made the Tea Party more radical. Is that the kind of thing you want? > Much as I’d love to see these things happen, in reality him winning would set the Progressive movement back decades, and they are valuable in pulling the Democrats a bit more to the left. I’m not talking about Sanders winning, I’m talking about progressives taking over the party, which won’t happen this year. It’s a long game. ---
**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 24, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28076 "2016-03-24T01:41:00Z")
[Trump spokeswoman revels in not being able to spell.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/23/katrina_pierson_praises_melania_trump_as_entanpanuer.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28077 "2016-03-24T02:08:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Trump spokeswoman revels in not being able to spell.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/23/katrina_pierson_praises_melania_trump_as_entanpanuer.html) “entanpanuer” – That’s . . . that’s not even a misspelling, that’s some completely new word she made up. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28078 "2016-03-24T02:44:50Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > “entanpanuer” – That’s . . . that’s not even a misspelling, that’s some completely new word she made up. Entrephinated, perhaps. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28079 "2016-03-24T03:03:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Michele Bachmann is just wondering if God sends terrorist attacks to humiliate Obama.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-maybe-god-uses-terrorist-attacks-humiliate-obama) So God is just tasking elections? ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28080 "2016-03-24T05:15:27Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > [Ted Cruz on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/?fref=ts) > > Excellent plan. We can call the neighborhoods, oh I dunno… how about ghettos? To make identifying them easier, be sure to make them wear recognizable marks on their clothing, like, say, crescents. ---
**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 24, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28081 "2016-03-24T06:36:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I’m not talking about Sanders winning, I’m talking about progressives taking over the party, which won’t happen this year. It’s a long game. The Tea Party has never elected a president either. Just taking over a party isn’t enough. You have to change the conversation. The Occupy Movement, though they fizzled out, did help in making us think of the 1%. Republicans even have to pretend to talk about income inequality now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1403) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1405)