# 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:** 1574
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31462 "2016-09-30T19:43:32Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > You would think that by now, some of Trump’s handlers would have figured out that they just need to take away his Twitter access during the wee hours. Thursday, Newt lies and and says Trump didn’t say it. Friday, Trumps says it again. I am definitely feeling sorry for the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31463 "2016-09-30T19:52:16Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I am definitely feeling sorry for the GOP. You are a much more magnanimous person than I am. I am admittedly feeling sorry for the principled Republicans who had the sense and integrity to reject this gibbering baboon as unworthy to be their representative. But as for the millions who’ve embraced him and/or tried to cling to his moldy dung-streaked coattails for their own advancement? I’m going to be referring to them as “Trumpublicans” till the day they die. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31464 "2016-09-30T20:02:41Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He likely smuggled a phone into his bedroom, and was posting from underneath the bedsheets. They’ll need to unplug the wireless routers, and maybe install some kind of jamming device. He had staffers tweeting on his Twitter account during the debate, so he isn’t the only person with access to his account. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31465 "2016-09-30T20:13:55Z")
Staffers: “Join me for a rally tonight in Toledo. It will be terrific. Believe me.” Actual Trump: “Stupid Crooked Hillary and that fat maid Machado. Sources are stupid. I’m so rich. Sad. Pathetic.” You can’t tell the difference? ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31466 "2016-09-30T21:35:31Z")
“The new Benghazi lie” is an awesome line, meaning something different to everyone who hears it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31467 "2016-09-30T21:50:24Z")
[Clinton’s ‘nasty’ Trump ads are mostly his own words](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clintons-nasty-trump-ads-are-mostly-his-own-words/ar-BBwOEFr?li=BBnb7Kz) > [@](#): > > Trump is paying attention. During Monday’s debate, he told Clinton he’s noticed “the very nasty commercials that you do on me in so many different ways, which I don’t do on you.” > > That prompted Shonda Rhimes, a television producer and Clinton supporter, to tweet: “Wait. She did not run ads that say mean things. She ran ads that use audio of his own mean nasty statements.” Jeez, what a whiny little bitch this guy is. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31468 "2016-09-30T21:51:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Newt Gingrich is going ballistic on HILLARY over Alicia Machado:](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gingrich-alicia-machado-is-the-new-benghazi) All it lacks to be complete is a Saul Alinsky reference. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31469 "2016-09-30T22:13:37Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [Clinton’s ‘nasty’ Trump ads are mostly his own words](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clintons-nasty-trump-ads-are-mostly-his-own-words/ar-BBwOEFr?li=BBnb7Kz) > [@](#): > > During Monday’s debate, he told Clinton he’s noticed “the very nasty commercials that you do on me in so many different ways, which I don’t do on you.” Of course you don’t, Donald. She doesn’t give you the material to do it. This leaves you with lying out your ass, and projecting your own flaws on her which you have been doing constantly (‘Crooked Hillary’, every single reference to the Clinton Foundation). This is probably not something you want to be drawing attention to. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31470 "2016-09-30T22:28:11Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > “The new Benghazi lie” is an awesome line, meaning something different to everyone who hears it. I’m not even sure what the lie is supposed to be in this Machado case. I don’t think that even Trump denied saying these things. > [@](#): > > Hillary Clinton attacked Trump for his past treatment of Machado during the first presidential debate, noting that he called her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” and invited the press to watch her work out after she was crowned Miss Universe. > > Trump was “actually being very positive,” Gingrich claimed on Thursday. Oh, so women consider being called “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” a complement. I suggest that Newt tries this out on Mrs. Gingrich and see how well it goes over. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31471 "2016-09-30T22:31:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I’m not even sure what the lie is supposed to be in this Machado case. I don’t think that even Trump denied saying these things. I know. I kept sifting through the Gingrich tirade, looking for a point, and failed to find one. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31472 "2016-09-30T23:12:02Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Oh, so women consider being called “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” a complement. I suggest that Newt tries this out on Mrs. Gingrich and see how well it goes over. Maybe he did on Mrs. Newt I or II, which could be why, like Trump he’s currently on III… ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31473 "2016-09-30T23:23:59Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > You are a much more magnanimous person than I am. I am admittedly feeling sorry for the principled Republicans who had the sense and integrity to reject this gibbering baboon as unworthy to be their representative. > > But as for the millions who’ve embraced him and/or tried to cling to his moldy dung-streaked coattails for their own advancement? I’m going to be referring to them as “Trumpublicans” till the day they die. Instead of that, how about changing GOP to **POP** , Party of Pepe because of their embrace of the alt right? Hard to separate the Republican party from white supremacists, the Klan and all of the lunatic right fringe. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31474 "2016-10-01T00:19:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He likely smuggled a phone into his bedroom, and was posting from underneath the bedsheets. They’ll need to unplug the wireless routers, and maybe install some kind of jamming device. Be easier just to add a bit more brown to his spray-on orange tan and let some fine outstanding Trump voting officer of the law go all Ferguson on him by mistake. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31475 "2016-10-01T00:49:01Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > All it lacks to be complete is a Saul Alinsky reference. Don’t worry, he’s in this up to his eyebrows, along with Ward Churchill, the New Black Panthers, and ACORN. And Vince Foster. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31476 "2016-10-01T07:54:44Z")
Maine Republican candidate opposes increasing the minimum wage, saying workers will just [spend it on heroin:](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/minimum-wage-maine_us_57ed91a8e4b082aad9ba7491?section=) > [@](#): > > “Where would that money be spent? We’ve heard about the opiate issues in the state of Maine. Are we going to add more income to individuals so they can spend it on illegal activities? I’m very concerned about that,” said Snow, Republican candidate for District 47 in the Maine House of Representatives and former director of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Standards, according to The Maine Beacon. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31477 "2016-10-01T08:27:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Maine Republican candidate opposes increasing the minimum wage, saying workers will just [spend it on heroin:](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/minimum-wage-maine_us_57ed91a8e4b082aad9ba7491?section=) I also enjoyed this line: “He added that he pays his own employees above the minimum wage, and many are working their first jobs and drive nice cars.” And yet, they don’t all seem to have drug problems with all that extra cabbage. Odd. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2016, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31478 "2016-10-01T10:03:05Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I’m not even sure what the lie is supposed to be in this Machado case. I don’t think that even Trump denied saying these things. That’d be unusual - he routinely denies he said things, even on the rare occasion they were true things. I was seeing Trump’s denials starting to outnumber his statements. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31479 "2016-10-01T17:55:26Z")
[Financial trade organization apologizes to its members after Rudy Giulani’s racist comments at a speech he delivered for them.](http://observer.com/2016/09/group-apologizes-for-giulianis-unscripted-remarks-at-awards-dinner/) Note that the link is to Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31480 "2016-10-01T18:23:19Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > You would think that by now, some of Trump’s handlers would have figured out that they just need to take away his Twitter access during the wee hours. Who’s going to do that and not get immediately fired? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31481 "2016-10-01T19:07:43Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Who’s going to do that and not get immediately fired? There’s some speculation that Ivanka is the one in charge of minding Dad’s social media stuff. His worst tweets (and almost every anti-semitic one) happen Friday night/Saturday, when Ivanka and her husband are offline for Shabbos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1573) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1575)