# 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:** 1547
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30922 "2016-08-29T05:35:31Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > He’s just talking to the camera. Why doesn’t he stop those people? Never mind that, where can I get wirecutters like that, go through a chain link fence in _seconds_! ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30923 "2016-08-29T07:38:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Never mind that, where can I get wirecutters like that, go through a chain link fence in _seconds_! Those are standard wirecutters. It’s a Trump fence. ---
**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, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30924 "2016-08-29T21:08:28Z")
[Tea Party activist arrested, convicted, and sentenced for child porn possession.](http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/article98360772.html) ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30925 "2016-08-29T21:30:25Z")
[Sarah Palin falls down and hits her head, and makes it all about Hillary.](https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10154491167668588) ---
**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 29, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30926 "2016-08-29T22:40:31Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Those are standard wirecutters. It’s a Trump fence. Why a fence? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30927 "2016-08-29T22:47:21Z")
Why not a huckster? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30928 "2016-08-29T23:00:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Tea Party activist arrested, convicted, and sentenced for child porn possession.](http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/article98360772.html) > [@](#): > > In order to battle an autistic disorder and depression from a failed relationship, he was “self-medicating” with child pornography. Wat? ---
**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 29, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30929 "2016-08-29T23:21:53Z")
What wat ? The last time I was down with the flu, my doc gave me a course of 10 year olds. What’s the problem ? ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30930 "2016-08-30T01:56:35Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > What wat ? The last time I was down with the flu, my doc gave me a course of 10 year olds. What’s the problem ? When they say doctors have tenure, that’s _not_ what they mean. Just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30931 "2016-08-30T02:35:27Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Check out the awesome [campaign ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PloH-AaM2f4) for Mike Pape (R), of Kentucky’s 1st District. Are we sure that wasn’t satire? If I was doing a parody of a stupid conservative TV ad, it would look just like that. ---
**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 30, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30932 "2016-08-30T02:45:23Z")
Given that it was posted four months ago, and probably shows up in this thread back then, by a user called Mike Pape for Congress, I am guessing it is not parody. (And judging by the picture posted on youtube account Mike Pape for Congress, you cannot call him a redneck: you have to have a neck in the first place for it to be red.) ---
**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 30, 2016, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30933 "2016-08-30T06:07:52Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Are we sure that wasn’t satire? If I was doing a parody of a stupid conservative TV ad, it would look just like that. I was actually stunned because they made pretty much that ad on \*House \*once ; as a parody of something so awful it would never fly. In the show, the politician publicly fired his campaign manager over the stunt. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30934 "2016-08-30T08:51:15Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I was actually stunned because they made pretty much that ad on \*House \*once ; as a parody of something so awful it would never fly. An ad like that would never dupe us. It’s NEVER dupe us! ---
**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 30, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30935 "2016-08-30T09:52:58Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I was actually stunned because they made pretty much that ad on \*House \*once ; as a parody of something so awful it would never fly. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > An ad like that would never dupe us. It’s NEVER dupe us! You just made my list, Sparky. ---
**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 30, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30936 "2016-08-30T13:50:24Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > 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. Of course they’re not racist. They’ve never called anyone a nigger. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30937 "2016-08-30T14:04:07Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Of course they’re not racist. They’ve never called anyone a nigger. At least not in an account that can be tracked back to them? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30938 "2016-08-30T17:42:12Z")
After 1 year it looks like [Paul Ryan may lose his Speaker gig](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-conservative-coup_us_57c4c63ae4b0664f13ca3715?). What the hell, the GOP is eating itself! It would just be nonstop LOLs, but without leadership in the opposition nothing at all gets accomplished because there’s no one to bargain _with_. It it funny the GOP’s ‘GIVE ME WHAT I WANT OR I’LL BURN IT TOO THE GROUND!’ chickens are coming home to roost. Besides Captain America, who on Earth would suit these clowns? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30939 "2016-08-30T17:44:01Z")
They won’t actually succeed in removing Ryan, so I’m not too worried. I’m also not worried about Congress getting things done other than their constitutionally required duties. Pass a budget(which they have done better than Democrats and have negotiated in good faith with Democrats since 2015), and confirm appointees(which they haven’'t been so good at). ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30940 "2016-08-30T17:47:09Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Besides Captain America, who on Earth would suit these clowns? Captain America is way too liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/30941 "2016-08-30T17:49:35Z")
> [@Freedom Caucus](#): > > “How can you have a gang, and have one in your gang get stabbed, and do nothing?” another member asked. “You got to stab somebody, or else what’s the point of having a gang?” At least The Tea Party has figured out how gangs work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1546) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1548)