# 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:** 1580
**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 10, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31582 "2016-10-10T19:59:20Z")
[Senator Jeff Sessions, who was actually nominated for a federal judgeship until his nomination got derailed after charges of racism, says he doesn’t think that grabbing a woman without her consent is sexual assault.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/gop-spokesman-doesnt-know-if-grabbing-genitals-sexual-assault) ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31583 "2016-10-10T20:40:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Senator Jeff Sessions, who was actually nominated for a federal judgeship until his nomination got derailed after charges of racism, says he doesn’t think that grabbing a woman without her consent is sexual assault.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/gop-spokesman-doesnt-know-if-grabbing-genitals-sexual-assault) Not just grabbing a woman but specifically grabbing a woman BY THE GENITALS. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31584 "2016-10-10T23:31:44Z")
_Of course_ the genitals. Built-in finger grips! In other news, a Federal judge has told Florida governor Rick Scott to shove it up his ass and has extended voter registration in Florida through Wednesday, with more to come. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31585 "2016-10-11T17:24:41Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > That a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. > > The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. > > Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. > > It’s morning again in America. > > Grab 'em by the pussy! Last, but not least, avoid clichés like the plague. - William Safire ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31586 "2016-10-12T14:21:58Z")
[Trump tells supports to get out and vote November 28](http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tells-rally-crowd-to-vote-on-november-28-2016-10) Hope they listen. Maybe now Obama’s momentary 57 state gaffe can be forgotten. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31587 "2016-10-12T14:35:52Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Trump tells supports to get out and vote November 28](http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tells-rally-crowd-to-vote-on-november-28-2016-10) > > Hope they listen. > > Maybe now Obama’s momentary 57 state gaffe can be forgotten. How soon before the rumor starts that Hillary secretly had Election Day moved and he found out? ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31588 "2016-10-12T15:13:54Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Trump tells supports to get out and vote November 28](http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tells-rally-crowd-to-vote-on-november-28-2016-10) > > Hope they listen. > > Maybe now Obama’s momentary 57 state gaffe can be forgotten. It was the mistake of the teleprompter. That part was only supposed to be used when he was giving outreach speeches to “the blacks”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31589 "2016-10-12T15:41:24Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > It was the mistake of the teleprompter. That part was only supposed to be used when he was giving outreach speeches to “the blacks”. Can’t have been - every time he speaks to black people he has to utter the phrase “inner city” (see the recent debate for plentiful evidence). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31590 "2016-10-12T15:44:13Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > It was the mistake of the teleprompter. That part was only supposed to be used when he was giving outreach speeches to “the blacks”. Nope. Trump speaks to “ **my** blacks”. He has an agricultural estate somewhere in the deep south where he keeps them in the basement. ---
**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 12, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31591 "2016-10-12T18:08:26Z")
Rudy Giuliani says that Hillary lies when she says she was in New York on 9/11. [This photo shows her standing \*\*right next to him](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/busted-rudy-giuliani-says-he-never-saw-hillary-clinton-in-nyc-on-911-but-pictures-prove-hes-lying/)\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31592 "2016-10-12T18:25:12Z")
She was standing _behind_ him! Probably planning on pinching his ass… Anyway, he didn’t see her. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31593 "2016-10-12T18:27:38Z")
[GOP candidate offers Harlem residents free KFC and watermelon — they offer him ‘a foot in the ass’](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gop-candidate-offers-harlem-residents-free-kfc-and-watermelon-they-offer-him-a-foot-in-the-ass/) > [@](#): > > NBC 4 New York reports that Jon Girodes, the Republican candidate for New York’s 30th District, told the news station that he planned to hand out “Kool-Aid, KFC and watermelons” to people who attended a Harlem campaign rally in the coming weeks. > > “What I think is anyone who gives free food to people is doing them a favor,” Girodes told NBC 4 New York’s I-Team. “Get a bunch of people who say it’s offensive and let me go into their neighborhood and give it out for free and see if they take it.” There are not enough facepalms. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31594 "2016-10-12T18:33:59Z")
“If you’ve had fried chicken and watermelon, then you know what they eat in Heaven.” - Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31595 "2016-10-12T18:37:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Can’t have been - every time he speaks to black people he has to utter the phrase “inner city” (see the recent debate for plentiful evidence). The amazing thing is that before around 1910, some 90% of blacks in America lived in rural areas. It was only the Great Migration north and to the cities that changed this, over the course of oh, 60-70 years. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31596 "2016-10-12T18:50:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [GOP candidate offers Harlem residents free KFC and watermelon — they offer him ‘a foot in the ass’](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gop-candidate-offers-harlem-residents-free-kfc-and-watermelon-they-offer-him-a-foot-in-the-ass/) > > There are not enough facepalms. This always strikes me as very sad. The racist association of blacks with fried chicken and watermelon makes is harder for blacks to enjoy friend chicken and watermelon! Which everyone should be able to enjoy! (It’s as if the KKK made a really big deal about carrots. That would make it harder for me to enjoy carrots…and that would be a damn shame, 'cuz I loves 'em!) ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31597 "2016-10-12T18:56:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rudy Giuliani says that Hillary lies when she says she was in New York on 9/11. [This photo shows her standing \*\*right next to him](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/busted-rudy-giuliani-says-he-never-saw-hillary-clinton-in-nyc-on-911-but-pictures-prove-hes-lying/)\*\*. No offense, but that _particular_ picture is not really convincing. Are their others? ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31598 "2016-10-12T19:01:51Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > This always strikes me as very sad. The racist association of blacks with fried chicken and watermelon makes is harder for blacks to enjoy friend chicken and watermelon! Which everyone should be able to enjoy! > > (It’s as if the KKK made a really big deal about carrots. That would make it harder for me to enjoy carrots…and that would be a damn shame, 'cuz I loves 'em!) They should do it. It would bring down the wrath of Bugs B8unny (“Of course you realize DIS means WAR!”). After enough of being blown up by sticks of dynamite, Faling off of cliffs while pedaling their feet, and being hit by hammers out of hammerspace, the KKK would finally be forced to give it up. Hey, if Superman can take on the KKK and win, surely Bugs Bunny can, too! > **[How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan | Mental Floss](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/23157/how-superman-defeated-ku-klux-klan)** > > When a young writer and activist named Stetson Kennedy decided to expose the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, he looked to a certain superhero for inspiration. [http://www.sparknotes.com/mindhut/2014/07/29/how-superman-defeated-the-kkk](http://www.sparknotes.com/mindhut/2014/07/29/how-superman-defeated-the-kkk) ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31599 "2016-10-12T19:03:38Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > No offense, but that _particular_ picture is not really convincing. Are their others? She’s identified in [this shot](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2183706.1428956821!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_1200/hillary-clinton-nyc-mayor-rudolph-giuliani-9-11-site-2001.jpg) by the NY Daily News. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31600 "2016-10-12T19:11:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [GOP candidate offers Harlem residents free KFC and watermelon — they offer him ‘a foot in the ass’](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/gop-candidate-offers-harlem-residents-free-kfc-and-watermelon-they-offer-him-a-foot-in-the-ass/) > > There are not enough facepalms. If only Luke Cage were real… ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31601 "2016-10-12T19:13:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “If you’ve had fried chicken and watermelon, then you know what they eat in Heaven.” > > - Mark Twain You should know enough not to quote Twain by now. Although Twain certainly praised both fried chicken and watermelon in his autobiography, I don’t recall hi praising them together or referring to heaven. I might be wrong about this, but a quick internet search brings up no such quote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1579) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1581)