# 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:** 1535
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30682 "2016-08-17T17:34:46Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rick Perry? The Rick Perry who called Trump [“a cancer on conservatism”](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rick-perry-trumps-candidacy-cancer-conservatism)? Rick Perry: “I’m for cancer!” > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > The best candidate for the job is a man who thinks the women in his company aren’t really people, just sexual toys for him to use? Seriously? Trump just had the sexual harassment statement debacle, where is own daughter rolled her eyes and gave one of least convincing defenses I have ever heard. (to be fair to her, it was an impossible sell) > > It’s like he doesn’t want women to vote for him. > > Hell, even they wanted his special brand of slimy expertise, they could have gotten it without an announcement to the press. I think it could have been a smart move if only they could have kept it secret. Ailes’ media know-how and general ruthlessness can be a force to reckon with if it come from a less odious bag of flesh. Now that everybody knows Ailes is behind Trump’s debate prep, he will be judged under that shadow. If it were secret, it might not be as much of a distraction. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30683 "2016-08-17T17:40:15Z")
Perhaps the hope is that knowledge of Ailes’s presence on the prep team will make the candidacy appear viable, and encourage some donations. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30684 "2016-08-17T17:44:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Perhaps the hope is that knowledge of Ailes’s presence on the prep team will make the candidacy appear viable, and **encourage some donations.** That’s self-funding? 😃 ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30685 "2016-08-17T18:01:56Z")
“Hillary wants to usher in the anti-Christ. She literally said that.” [Uh, no, she didn’t, literally, say that.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alveda-king-hillary-clinton-wants-usher-antichrist) [Governor Pat McCrory wants the US Supreme Court to overturn the lower court ruling that declared North Carolina’s election law discriminatory, because it would inconvenience the state’s elections officials.](http://samuel-warde.com/2016/08/pat-mccrory-asks-supreme-court-not-inconvenience-nc-bigots/) ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30686 "2016-08-17T18:47:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Perhaps the hope is that knowledge of Ailes’s presence on the prep team will make the candidacy appear viable, and encourage some donations. Since Ailes knows all about Faux News anchors, it is a great excuse for the Clinton campaign to veto debate moderators from Faux. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30687 "2016-08-17T19:01:52Z")
Well, if we get typical right wing ‘gotcha’ questions that no actual Liberal (and certainly not Hillary Clinton) believes out of this, it could be interesting, depending on how smoothly they get answered. We could hear the right crowing about Trump’s “masterful” addressing of liberal issues while getting nothing but mealy mouthed mistakes out of Hillary, while hearing non-conservatives wondering what kind of bullshit was coming out of Trump’s mouth. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30688 "2016-08-17T19:19:58Z")
Congressional committees have received the notes from the FBI’s interview with Clinton. The whole package is classified. Trump gets his first intelligence briefing today. Who cracks first? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30689 "2016-08-17T20:59:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “Hillary wants to usher in the anti-Christ. She literally said that.” … Well yeah, who doesn’t want to do that? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30690 "2016-08-17T21:11:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “Hillary wants to usher in the anti-Christ. She literally said that.” [Uh, no, she didn’t, literally, say that.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alveda-king-hillary-clinton-wants-usher-antichrist) Another typically sexist comment by a Republican: because she’s a woman, they think ahe can’t be more than usher to a (male) anti-Christ. Genders are equal now, and Hillary could actually **be** the anti-Christ! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30691 "2016-08-17T21:16:21Z")
I haven’t had Sex Pistols in my head for a long time! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30692 "2016-08-17T21:17:12Z")
Of course! Now it all makes sense! Those ‘headaches’ and brain issues the Republicans keep claiming she has? The Anti-Christ suffers a fatal head wound that is healed! It all fits together regardless of the actual words used! 😛 ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30693 "2016-08-17T23:07:51Z")
Rudy Guiliani delivers [his review of Trump’s oratory](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/rudy-giuliani-declares-trumps-speech-the-best-speech-that-any-republican-at-the-least-has-ever-given): > [@](#): > > I think this is the best speech that any Republican, at the least, has ever given. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30694 "2016-08-17T23:11:24Z")
Poor Rudy is beginning to have problems with numbers. 9/11, Four score and twenty… ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30695 "2016-08-17T23:16:34Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Rudy Guiliani delivers [his review of Trump’s oratory](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/rudy-giuliani-declares-trumps-speech-the-best-speech-that-any-republican-at-the-least-has-ever-given): Uh oh. Saint Ronald, patron saint of naps, will definitely stop interceding on his behalf now! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30696 "2016-08-17T23:30:21Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Poor Rudy is beginning to have problems with numbers. 9/11, Four score and twenty… The party of Lincoln… ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30697 "2016-08-17T23:59:45Z")
Extremism in the defense of sycophancy is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of self-abasement is no virtue! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30698 "2016-08-18T00:38:09Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Rudy Guiliani delivers [his review of Trump’s oratory](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/rudy-giuliani-declares-trumps-speech-the-best-speech-that-any-republican-at-the-least-has-ever-given): Is hyperbole contagious? Rudy seems to of caught some of it from the Great Pumpkin. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30699 "2016-08-18T01:06:58Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Rudy Guiliani delivers [his review of Trump’s oratory](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/rudy-giuliani-declares-trumps-speech-the-best-speech-that-any-republican-at-the-least-has-ever-given): I’m glad that he limited it to Republicans. President Obama’s speech the day after 9/11 was pretty good, after all. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30700 "2016-08-18T01:15:08Z")
> [@](#): > > …More specifically 40% of Trump voters think that ACORN (which hasn’t existed in years) will steal the election for Clinton… > **[Clinton leads in NC for first time since March - Public Policy Polling](https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/clinton-leads-in-nc-for-first-time-since-march/)** > > PPP’s newest North Carolina poll finds Hillary Clinton leading in the state, albeit by a narrow margin, for the first time since March. She’s at 43% to 41% for Donald Trump, 7% for Gary Johnson, and 2% for Jill Stein. In a head to head contest just... They killed ACORN. Pounded a stake through its heart and then burned it, chopped off the head, filled the mouth with garlic, sewed up the lips, buried it with a black cat at the crossroads. Its dead, Jim. Rung down the curtain, joined the Choir Invisible. Sheesh! How do you dress up like Zombie Saul Alinsky for Halloween? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30701 "2016-08-18T01:28:50Z")
[Stupid or scary?](https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/766021779361968128) Trump lawyer (who I believe is named Cohen but if I’m wrong, somebody please correct me) denying reality in a very threatening way. At least I find it threatening. P.S., I don’t know how to find the video on CNN’s site, so the link is to Dylan Byer’s twitter. So don’t think Byer’s is Mr. Intimidator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1534) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1536)