# 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:** 1544
**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:** [August 25, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30862 "2016-08-25T23:23:30Z")
[Maine Gov. LePage speaks: > [@](#): > > a businessman asked how he could bring a company to Maine “given the rhetoric you put out there about people of color,” the Portland Press Herald reported. > > LePage, who’s white, said he keeps a three-ring binder of photos from drug busts and most “are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn.” But he didn’t stop there! > [@](#): > > Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported LePage’s comments about Khan came after Carr drew a comparison between the Boston Marathon bombers and an Iranian refugee who moved to Maine and later died fighting for the Islamic State group. LePage said Khan “uses the death of his son” to go after Trump. ]([http://elections.ap.org/content/gop-governor-most-drug-dealers-arrested-are-black-hispanic](http://elections.ap.org/content/gop-governor-most-drug-dealers-arrested-are-black-hispanic)) ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30863 "2016-08-25T23:31:39Z")
> [@aliensshow](#): > > Well she didn’t insist that blacks are too stupid to get photo IDs, so she didn’t go _full_ racist 🙂 Oh, sick burn man! You really make a super insightful point there! Maybe make a comment about ‘libtards’ to really drive it home? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30864 "2016-08-26T00:02:44Z")
> [@PigArcher](#): > > Oh, sick burn man! You really make a super insightful point there! Maybe make a comment about ‘libtards’ to really drive it home? Get it right, its “libturd” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30865 "2016-08-26T00:19:38Z")
The fact that the Republican party doesn’t tell this guy to STFU says something to me. What it says is that they really don’t care about all the money they spend on minority outreach. ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30866 "2016-08-26T00:20:27Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Get it right, its “libturd” Another example of PC SJW language policing. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30867 "2016-08-26T00:50:52Z")
> [@aliensshow](#): > > Well she didn’t insist that blacks are too stupid to get photo IDs, so she didn’t go _full_ racist 🙂 Has Straw Man Liberal been talking again? That guy’s an idiot. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30868 "2016-08-26T01:07:07Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > The magician? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WaAdbq7KsMI/hqdefault.jpg "The Deep South") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaAdbq7KsMI) Futurama ---
**Author:** ![aliensshow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@aliensshow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aliensshow)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30869 "2016-08-26T01:07:49Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The fact that the Republican party doesn’t tell this guy to STFU says something to me. What it says is that they really don’t care about all the money they spend on minority outreach. The fact that they don’t do what the people who hate them say they should is perplexing, yes. ---
**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 26, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30870 "2016-08-26T01:23:05Z")
> [@PigArcher](#): > > Another example of PC SJW language policing. Why do you hate social justice? ---
**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 26, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30871 "2016-08-26T01:25:21Z")
I think some people’s Poe Meters need a good calibratin’. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30872 "2016-08-26T01:40:52Z")
> [@aliensshow](#): > > Well she didn’t insist that blacks are too stupid to get photo IDs, so she didn’t go _full_ racist 🙂 I know this is somehow snark against the libtards, but I still have no idea what it’s referring to. Who said blacks are too stupid to get photo IDs? ---
**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:** [August 26, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30873 "2016-08-26T02:32:22Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I know this is somehow snark against the libtards, but I still have no idea what it’s referring to. Who said blacks are too stupid to get photo IDs? The same strawman who wants Princess Hillary to take all the guns from Real Americans. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30874 "2016-08-26T13:35:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Maine Gov. LePage speaks:But he didn’t stop there!](http://elections.ap.org/content/gop-governor-most-drug-dealers-arrested-are-black-hispanic) But wait, there’s even more! Mr. LePage apparently has taken exception to some remarks by a state legislator that may (or may not, it’s not clear) suggest that Mr. LePage is a racist. The Governor’s response: [“Pistols at Dawn, Sir!”](http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/26/politics/paul-lepage-explicit-voicemail-duel-lawmaker/) [Quote=CNN] “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald. “And we would have a duel, that’s how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be (Alexander) Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he’s been in this Legislature to help move the state forward.” [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30875 "2016-08-26T14:16:05Z")
> [@digs](#): > > The same strawman who wants Princess Hillary to take all the guns from Real Americans. All we need is for Republicans to have their own Burning Man, maybe wearing white robes or something in the backwoods of Mississippi. At the center is a large straw man labeled with all the worst aspects of “Liberal” as they (Republicans) see it, and then burn the thing at the end. Or, I dunno, maybe a big cross they can put all their representations of Liberals and Socialists around and then burn at the end of the weekend to show their sacrifices for Goooaaad. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30876 "2016-08-26T14:35:57Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > But wait, there’s even more! Mr. LePage apparently has taken exception to some remarks by a state legislator that may (or may not, it’s not clear) suggest that Mr. LePage is a racist. The Governor’s response: [“Pistols at Dawn, Sir!”](http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/26/politics/paul-lepage-explicit-voicemail-duel-lawmaker/) I like the Maddowblog’s take on this: > [@](#): > > Gov. Paul LePage left a state lawmaker from Westbrook an expletive-laden phone message Thursday in which he accused the legislator of calling him a racist, encouraged him to make the message public and said, “I’m after you.” > > LePage sent the message Thursday morning after a television reporter appeared to suggest that Democratic Rep. Drew Gattine was among several people who had called the governor a racist, which Gattine later denied. > > “Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage,” the governor’s phone message said. “I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you (expletive). I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist (expletive). You … I need you to, just friggin. I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.” > > I especially liked the “thank you” at the end – because when leaving a threatening, expletive-laden message for someone, it’s important not to forget one’s manners. > **[Maine's LePage comes unglued after racial controversy](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maines-lepage-comes-unglued-after-racial-controversy-msna893306)** > > Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) made some pretty racist remarks on Wednesday -- and he managed to make matters far worse a day later. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30877 "2016-08-26T15:12:38Z")
> [@aliensshow](#): > > The fact that they don’t do what the people who hate them say they should is perplexing, yes. Look, the thread title has a mascot now. ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30878 "2016-08-26T15:29:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Why do you hate social justice? > [@jsgoddess](#): > > I think some people’s Poe Meters need a good calibratin’. Sorry, should have included a comment about how it was racist or sexist in some unexplained way to make the satire clear. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30879 "2016-08-26T15:50:03Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > Look, the thread title has a mascot now. Can’t we get one that can be housetrained, instead? ---
**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:** [August 26, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30880 "2016-08-26T16:38:46Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > Look, the thread title has a mascot now. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aVZUVeMtYXc/hqdefault.jpg "SpaceBalls Alien") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXc) He must be the Spaceballs Alien: “Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal!” ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30881 "2016-08-26T16:46:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Can’t we get one that can be housetrained, instead? I foresee retirement to a farm upstate… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1543) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1545)