# 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:** 1546
**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 27, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30902 "2016-08-27T13:17:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > He’s insinuating that **OMG** is _Ken Adkins_, not that because he’s black he’s a child molester. Dial it back a bit. He posted a story about a black conservative child molester and asked who has seen our local black conservative lately. He’s suggesting OMG is the child molester, and the reason he singled out OMG was his putative race. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30903 "2016-08-27T13:20:11Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > What is the record for campaign managers between the convention and November? I bet Trump has toppled it. Going on 4 soon, I assume. Does he say “You’re fired!” every time? ---
**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 27, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30904 "2016-08-27T13:59:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > He’s insinuating that **OMG** is _Ken Adkins_, not that because he’s black he’s a child molester. Dial it back a bit. [Whoe! Dude, stop jr modding!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=800521) > [@jsgoddess](#): > > He posted a story about a black conservative child molester and asked who has seen our local black conservative lately. He’s suggesting OMG is the child molester, and the reason he singled out OMG was his putative race. No, OMG is the only poster I know of that feels the need to post his skin color in his screen name. It was a snark against OMG specifically, and not a snark agaist black folks in general. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30905 "2016-08-27T15:25:04Z")
That should be “Whoa,” not “Whoe.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30906 "2016-08-27T15:35:38Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > OMG is an idiot, but your insinuation that he’s a child molester because he’s black is fucking offensive. Oh pssh, cool your jets. I’m saying he might be a child molester because he’s the only black conservative that I know, other than Alan Keyes. He disappears, this guy gets arrested, its a pretty big coincidence. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > He posted a story about a black conservative child molester and asked who has seen our local black conservative lately. He’s suggesting OMG is the child molester, and the reason he singled out OMG was his putative race. No. I’m saying he chooses to identify specifically as a rare black conservative. That’s on him, not me, I didn’t choose his name for him. Therefore, as a rare example, whenever I see someone matching that criteria, I’m going to think about him. That race is something he chose to identify himself by is on him. I’m not saying “he’s black, therefore he’s a child molester”, I’m saying “he chooses to identify with XYZ, and when another XYZ is an accused child molester, then OMGABC is one too” > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Right, and Ken Adkins was arrested for child molestation. > > I agree, that remark really crossed the line. I’m fine with crossing the line to insult that poster ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30907 "2016-08-27T17:39:57Z")
OMG just enjoys the shock and attention he gets. It is just narcissistic attention seeking, not all that different from the rest of the alt-right. ---
**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 27, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30908 "2016-08-27T18:25:51Z")
[Dwayne Wade’s cousin got shot and killed so VOTE TRUMP my blacks!](http://www.vox.com/2016/8/27/12670280/donald-trump-dwyane-wade-tweet) More proof that Trump’s African American outreach is really fence sitting white people outreach. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30909 "2016-08-27T22:24:56Z")
Not only that, the staff deleted the tweet, only to [repost](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/27/1564362/-Trump-deletes-tweet-corrects-spelling-of-Dwyane-Wade-s-name-Tweets-same-sick-response) it with the only change being they corrected the spelling of Wade’s name. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30910 "2016-08-28T00:00:43Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > OMG just enjoys the shock and attention he gets. It is just narcissistic attention seeking, not all that different from the rest of the **alt-right.** What is this shit? Are they trying to turn the Lilypunks into a keyboard shortcut? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30911 "2016-08-28T17:41:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > What is this shit? Are they trying to turn the Lilypunks into a keyboard shortcut? The alt-right is the intersection of the Venn diagram between neo-nazis and befedora’d neckbeards. HTH. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30912 "2016-08-28T17:46:28Z")
Correct. They’re the guys who think they’re really smart and know better than everyone else and are NOT racist, they’re just realistic and of course, Blacks and pretty much all non-whites are inferior to whites. That this is the simple truth, and again, they’re not racists, they’re realists. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30913 "2016-08-28T18:38:06Z")
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” -Lyndon B. Johnson ---
**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 28, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30914 "2016-08-28T19:42:06Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > No. I’m saying he chooses to identify specifically as a rare black conservative. That’s on him, not me, I didn’t choose his name for him. Therefore, as a rare example, whenever I see someone matching that criteria, I’m going to think about him. That race is something he chose to identify himself by is on him. I’m not saying “he’s black, therefore he’s a child molester”, I’m saying\*\* “he chooses to identify with XYZ, and when another XYZ is an accused child molester, then OMGABC is one too”\*\* Not meaning to kibbitz too obtrusively, but it might be more felicitous to say “he chooses to identify with XYZ, and when another XYZ is an accused child molester, then OMGABC is that other XYZ. You know, because Black Conservatives are supposedly as rare as unicorns.” Although it’s a little difficult to see how he could be Alan Keyes, Thomas Sowell _and_ Herman Cain all at the same time. Still, more felicitous. Felicitous. Fel - LISS - it - uss. What a fun word! ---
**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:** [August 28, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30915 "2016-08-28T19:42:35Z")
Check out the awesome [campaign ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PloH-AaM2f4) for Mike Pape (R), of Kentucky’s 1st District. ---
**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 28, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30916 "2016-08-28T19:49:43Z")
Somebody should totally take the soundtrack from that and put it on a clip of Scooby-Doo and the gang… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30917 "2016-08-28T22:43:19Z")
Georgia state lawmaker claims the [Ku Klux Klan wasn’t racist](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/georgia-lawmaker-kkk-law-order-article-1.2514712). Hmmm, this was back in January. Did someone catch it back then? There are so many pages in this thread I can’t keep track anymore. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30918 "2016-08-29T00:55:36Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Check out the awesome [campaign ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PloH-AaM2f4) for Mike Pape (R), of Kentucky’s 1st District. God, I hate Papists. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30919 "2016-08-29T02:48:06Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Check out the awesome [campaign ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PloH-AaM2f4) for Mike Pape (R), of Kentucky’s 1st District. He’s just talking to the camera. Why doesn’t he stop those people? ---
**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 29, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30920 "2016-08-29T03:30:53Z")
[Chrissy Teigen tweeted mocking comments about Katrina Pierson, and Pierson retweeted them as if she was being complimented.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/katrina-pierson-completely-missed-that-chrissy-teigen-was-mocking-her-with-those-smackdown-tweets/) ---
**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 29, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30921 "2016-08-29T05:19:41Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > God, I hate Papists. This post has been Paped by The Papist! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1545) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1547)