# 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:** 1420
**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 6, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28382 "2016-04-06T05:05:35Z")
Maybe [a bible fit for a great president](http://t.alibris.com/The-Jefferson-Bible-The-Life-and-Morals-of-Jesus-of-Nazareth-Thomas-Jefferson/book/3422189?matches=158)? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28383 "2016-04-06T08:18:13Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s some Ginsbergesque fee verse right there. I was thinking the same thing. Either that, or she’s a William S Burroughs character come to life. Keep an eye out for any references to “mugwumps”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28384 "2016-04-06T13:54:34Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s some Ginsbergesque fee verse right there. Given what Palin probably gets paid for a speech at a GOP fundraising dinner, your typo (I assume) for “free verse” is very apposite. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28385 "2016-04-06T14:07:54Z")
> [@digs](#): > > 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) Huh, I’ve lived in Wisconsin most of my life and am a die hard Packer fan and I’ve never seen that shirt anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28386 "2016-04-06T14:44:55Z")
But now you gotta have one, right? 😉 ---
**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 6, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28387 "2016-04-06T14:46:44Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I was thinking the same thing. Either that, or she’s a William S Burroughs character come to life. Keep an eye out for any references to “mugwumps”. My favorite comment was the name given to Palin’s babblings by a Gawker commenter: “‘The Love Song Of J. Alfred Trucknutz’, by U. S. Idiot”. ---
**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 6, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28388 "2016-04-06T15:00:55Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Huh, I’ve lived in Wisconsin most of my life and am a die hard Packer fan and I’ve never seen that shirt anywhere. I’ll see one tomorrow at a gift shop in the MKE airport, and I’ll think of you… Oh, one more reason to visit Wisconsin: nice airport… with an excellent used bookstore\*. \*A used bookstore. In the airport. What a perfect pairing (they even had a sign: _buy it, fly with it, sell it back to us"_). (Sorry, I’m blathering today to cope with Scott Walker’s appointee winning the state supreme court judgeship…) ---
**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, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28389 "2016-04-06T15:06:57Z")
> [@digs](#): > > \*A used bookstore. In the airport. What a perfect pairing (they even had a sign: _buy it, fly with it, sell it back to us"_). That’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28390 "2016-04-06T15:17:13Z")
George Mason University is renaming its law school the Antonin Scalia School Of Law - whose acronym is ASSOL. I don’t think they meant that, though. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28391 "2016-04-06T15:40:34Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > George Mason University is renaming its law school the Antonin Scalia School Of Law - whose acronym is ASSOL. > > I don’t think they meant that, though. As I point out in the “Kinki University” thread, they’ve already changed it again: > [@](#): > > : > After renaming its law school after late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, George Mason University renamed it again after unintentionally sparking a storm of delightfully immature jokes about the resulting acronym, “ASSoL.” > > The school first announced it would change the law school’s name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law on March 31 to honor the court’s revered and reviled conservative, who died on Feb. 13 at the age of 79. The Fairfax, Virginia-based school decided to revise the moniker in order to claim $20 million from an anonymous donor who called for the change as part of the deal. Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch donated another $10 million to the high-caliber law school known for its conservative legal curriculum. > > But the school’s Board of Visitors, who approved the initial change, either forgot to eyeball the acronym, or overestimated the maturity of the public. > > The jokes and jabs were plentiful, as a Twitter search for #ASSoL or #ASSLaw can show. > > The official name is still “The Antonin Scalia School of Law,” but the website and marketing material is now “The Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University,” the Wall Street Journal was first to note. > **[George Mason Tweaks Scalia Law School Name Over 'ASSoL' Acronym](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-mason-scalia-acronym_n_57045961e4b0b90ac2709bae)** > > Sophisticated humor. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28392 "2016-04-06T15:55:25Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > But…which translation?! King James, of course. If it was good enough for Peter and Paul, it’s good enough for me! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28393 "2016-04-06T16:02:31Z")
> [@digs](#): > > (Sorry, I’m blathering today to cope with Scott Walker’s appointee winning the state supreme court judgeship…) Tell me about it, I thought Kloppenberg had it in the bag. She was neck and neck in the primary and that was even with spitting votes with another liberal leaning judge who didn’t make it. ‘I have no intention of legislating from the bench’ is Bradley’s campaign mantra. Bitch, it’s the judicial prerogative to check the legislature, not _become_ it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28394 "2016-04-06T16:44:29Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > King James, of course. If it was good enough for Peter and Paul, it’s good enough for me! Mary was an atheist? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28395 "2016-04-06T18:35:33Z")
> [@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). > > > [@](#): > > > > “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.” > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s some Ginsbergesque fee verse right there. > [@running\_coach](#): > > Authentic Alaskan gibberish. Somebody get Lin-Manuel Miranda on the phone. I think we’ve got his next musical waiting in the wings. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28396 "2016-04-06T19:43:45Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Somebody get Lin-Manuel Miranda on the phone. I think we’ve got his next musical waiting in the wings. _Brazen Addleds_ ? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28397 "2016-04-06T20:07:03Z")
I hate that I find the “green and gold” comment perfectly parsable. This probably indicates some sort of irreversible brain damage. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28398 "2016-04-07T14:41:22Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Tell me about it, I thought Kloppenberg had it in the bag. She was neck and neck in the primary and that was even with spitting votes with another liberal leaning judge who didn’t make it. > > ‘I have no intention of legislating from the bench’ is Bradley’s campaign mantra. Bitch, it’s the judicial prerogative to check the legislature, not _become_ it. In exit polls, something like 15% of Bernie Sanders voters said they had not voted for judge or had voted for Bradley. That’s a shame. Bradley is a worse empty suit than Thomas. Very depressing. ---
**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 8, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28399 "2016-04-08T02:58:02Z")
[Ben Carson thinks everybody has been arrested at least once.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/07/watch-ben-carsons-excuse-for-violence-of-trump-campaign-stuns-cnn-hosts/) ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28400 "2016-04-08T04:28:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson thinks everybody has been arrested at least once.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/07/watch-ben-carsons-excuse-for-violence-of-trump-campaign-stuns-cnn-hosts/) It’s plausible that a black man would think that, isn’t it? ---
**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 8, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28401 "2016-04-08T04:50:43Z")
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