# 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:** 1419
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28362 "2016-04-05T16:27:29Z")
One word is the only introduction needed: [Palin](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/you-probably-missed-sarah-palins-speech-in-wisconsin-it-was-totally-bizarre/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1). > [@](#): > > “Getting off the airplane … Seeing all the green and gold and the green and gold until I’m dead and cold paraphernalia everywhere.” > > “This awesome awakening, the shifting and sifting and the exposing of this rabid bite for them to hang on to any kind of relevancy and to hang on to their gravy train.” > > - On immigrants: “Inducing and seducing them with gift baskets … ‘Come on over the border and here’s a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls.’ ” > > “In order to work, to produce, to strive and to thrive, and to really be alive in the greatest country on earth.” > > “Trashin’ our economy, shippin’ out jobs, lettin’ us foot the bill, pallin’ around with the same old politicos and insiders.” > > “And we won’t retreat, we’ll reload. We’ll reload.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28363 "2016-04-05T16:57:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > One word is the only introduction needed: [Palin](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/you-probably-missed-sarah-palins-speech-in-wisconsin-it-was-totally-bizarre/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1). That’s some Ginsbergesque fee verse right there. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28364 "2016-04-05T17:00:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s some Ginsbergesque fee verse right there. Authentic Alaskan gibberish. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28365 "2016-04-05T17:12:30Z")
Maybe she’s having some sort of episode. Or someone forgot to load the teleprompter. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28366 "2016-04-05T17:18:26Z")
or the teleprompter operator was loaded ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28367 "2016-04-05T17:32:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [Mississippi Landlord evicts interracial couple because his church doesn’t like “black and white shacking”.](http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/04/02/mississippi-rv-park-owner-evicts-interracial-couple/82469086/) > [@Czarcasm](#): > > The article says the NAACP is looking into it. Where the hell is the _Law?_ Why aren’t papers being served on his ass by the police? It’s probably a Fair Housing Act violation (though I’m not sure that act extends to RV parks), but definitely not a crime. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28368 "2016-04-05T17:33:11Z")
> [@](#): > > “green and gold until I’m dead and cold.” > “ the shifting and sifting” > “Inducing and seducing them” > “to strive and to thrive, and to really be alive” Is she, like, trying to channel Johnny Cochrane? Or Kanye? WTF with the rhyming and alliteration? Is she eyeing a new career in rap music? She never used to talk like that before, did she? I mean, she was always incoherent, but this sounds like _crafted_ incoherence. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28369 "2016-04-05T17:34:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Authentic Alaskan gibberish. [Gabby Johnson weighs in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U). [Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-details-mexico-fund-us-wall-145108296.html) reveals his plan for forcing Mexico to pay for his wall: threatening to change a rule under the anti-terrorism Patriot Act that would cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers. The legality of such an act hasn’t yet been established, and we know he hasn’t considered the political ramifications. But he’s got a very Mafia-like approach to it, according to the Washington post: > [@](#): > > Trump’s memo said the threat would be withdrawn if Mexico made “a one-time payment of $5-10 billion” to pay for the wall, the newspaper said. > > “It’s an easy decision for Mexico,” it quoted Trump as saying in the memo, which the Post said was written on campaign stationery. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28370 "2016-04-05T17:45:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > One word is the only introduction needed: [Palin](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/you-probably-missed-sarah-palins-speech-in-wisconsin-it-was-totally-bizarre/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1). I hesitate to ask, but can anyone give some sort of context as the what her “Green and Gold” complaint could refer to? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28371 "2016-04-05T17:53:23Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I hesitate to ask, but can anyone give some sort of context as the what her “Green and Gold” complaint could refer to? Green Bay Packers colors, I believe. I watched that speech a couple days ago. Stunning that she could have ever been taken seriously. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28372 "2016-04-05T18:36:47Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > One word is the only introduction needed: [Palin](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/05/you-probably-missed-sarah-palins-speech-in-wisconsin-it-was-totally-bizarre/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_p1most-partner-1). It makes [the last words of Dutch Schultz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz#Last_words_and_posthumous_events) look like a Daniel Webster speech. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28373 "2016-04-05T22:35:21Z")
For context, I got a t-shirt from my Wisconsin Wife: “Green ‘n’ Gold 'Til I’m Dead ‘n’ Cold” (with a cool smiling skull in a Packers helmet) I am SO sorry to have understood something Sarah Palin said. It won’t happen again. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28374 "2016-04-05T23:06:16Z")
[Chuck Grassley went into an anti-John Roberts rant on the floor of the Senate.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/05/1511004/-Chuck-Grassley-just-attacked-Supreme-Court-Chief-Justice-John-Roberts-on-the-Senate-floor) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28375 "2016-04-05T23:48:41Z")
[The Tennessee state legislature has just voted to name the Bible the state book.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/05/tennessee-republicans-pass-bill-to-make-the-bible-the-states-official-book/) ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28376 "2016-04-06T00:48:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Tennessee state legislature has just voted to name the Bible the state book.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/05/tennessee-republicans-pass-bill-to-make-the-bible-the-states-official-book/) But…which translation?! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28377 "2016-04-06T01:00:46Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > But…which translation?! [This one.](https://blog.thewhiskyexchange.com/2015/11/jim-murrays-whisky-bible-2016-the-winners/) ---
**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:** [April 6, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28378 "2016-04-06T01:04:09Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > But…which translation?! The original English isn’t good enough? ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28379 "2016-04-06T01:16:11Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > [This one.](https://blog.thewhiskyexchange.com/2015/11/jim-murrays-whisky-bible-2016-the-winners/) If only. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28380 "2016-04-06T01:55:54Z")
[This one is better.](http://www.thebricktestament.com/) No wonder they like that old time religion in the south: [http://www.thebricktestament.com/epistles/on\_slavery/01\_1t06\_01pep06\_05.html](http://www.thebricktestament.com/epistles/on_slavery/01_1t06_01pep06_05.html) ---
**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:** [April 6, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28381 "2016-04-06T04:34:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The original English isn’t good enough? It was good enough for Jesus! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1418) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1420)