# 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:** 1581
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31602 "2016-10-12T19:40:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. That’s proof he said it. It’s _not_ on the internet. 😃 ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31603 "2016-10-12T19:46:19Z")
“There’s nothing like racist white men and their watermelon…” - Spock See? Now that quote exists on the internet. That’s how it is done. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31604 "2016-10-12T20:27:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. Resembles the quote from Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31605 "2016-10-12T21:14:02Z")
> [@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/)\*\*. Hillary was not in NYC on 9/11, she was working in Washington. That picture is apparently from 9/12. Now, the interesting question is if she has actually claimed to be in NYC on 9/11. I’m going to guess ‘no’, but I’m too lazy to do a search. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31606 "2016-10-12T21:18:29Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Hillary was not in NYC on 9/11, she was working in Washington. That picture is apparently from 9/12. Now, the interesting question is if she has actually claimed to be in NYC on 9/11. I’m going to guess ‘no’, but I’m too lazy to do a search. The linked article mentions this: > [@](#): > > Giuliani is actually the one lying, because Clinton — the Democratic U.S. senator from New York at the time — was photographed walking next to him and then Gov. George Pataki about 24 hours after the attacks. According to Think Progress, **there is also no record of Clinton claiming to be at Ground Zero on the day of the attack**. Bolding mine ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31607 "2016-10-13T15:17:16Z")
Giuliani retracted that statement and apologized for it a few hours later. [http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article107832127.html](http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article107832127.html) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31608 "2016-10-13T15:24:59Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Giuliani retracted that statement and apologized for it a few hours later. > > [http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article107832127.html](http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article107832127.html) He should retract this offensive garbage too: > [@](#): > > Don’t tell me you subscribe to the notion that all of us who lived through Sept. 11th and were lucky to be alive and have lost so many friends," he said. "I lost so many friends on Sept. 11th. I think about it every day. Don’t tell me you belong to our very, very tight group of Never Forget! Oh, I see. It’s a fucking club, with that punk bitch Adolf Gooliani as Grand Wizard. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31609 "2016-10-13T15:27:58Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Giuliani retracted that statement and apologized for it a few hours later. > > [http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article107832127.html](http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article107832127.html) Of course he did. You can say any wildly inaccurate and inflammatory thing you want as long as you at least sort-of apologize for it later, right? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31610 "2016-10-13T15:49:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Of course he did. You can say any wildly inaccurate and inflammatory thing you want as long as you at least sort-of apologize for it later, right? You just have to say “That was not intended to be a factual statement” and it’s all good. But the point remains that Hillary is bad, right? ---
**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 13, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31611 "2016-10-13T16:18:03Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > He should retract this offensive garbage too: > > Oh, I see. It’s a fucking club, with that punk bitch Adolf Gooliani as Grand Wizard. > [@](#): > > I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there." Is this not a stupid comment _on it’s face_? I was Sacramento yesterday and I did not see the Governor there. I guess that means he weren’t there! I mean, I would now need photographic proof that he was there to counteract the fact that I did not personally see him in a big fucking town with a lot of shit going on. The number of New Yorkers that he did not personally see on that day is in _the millions_. Even important, famous ones. Unless there’s a rule. Do you have to personally check in the mayor if you’re in town and something happens? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31612 "2016-10-13T17:26:47Z")
She was standing right next to him, he didn’t smell the sulfur? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31613 "2016-10-13T17:58:27Z")
Someone needs to seriously ask Guliani if he has seen a doctor recently, because he is showing signs of obvious memory loss, and it is worrying. To not remember that you spent THE DAY AFTER 9/11 with the SENATOR FROM YOUR OWN STATE is not just a bit of a memory lapse. It’s a medically serious symptom of something organically wrong with your brain. ---
**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 13, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31614 "2016-10-13T18:04:52Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Someone needs to seriously ask Guliani if he has seen a doctor recently, because he is showing signs of obvious memory loss, and it is worrying. > > To not remember that you spent THE DAY AFTER 9/11 with the SENATOR FROM YOUR OWN STATE is not just a bit of a memory lapse. It’s a medically serious symptom of something organically wrong with your brain. He didn’t forget seeing her. He forgot there was independent _evidence_ that he saw her. It is to his credit that unlike Trump, he at least admitted he was wrong when the evidence was put in front of his face. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31615 "2016-10-13T18:08:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > He didn’t forget seeing her. He forgot there was independent _evidence_ that he saw her. It is to his credit that unlike Trump, he at least admitted he was wrong when the evidence was put in front of his face. True. Trump would have doubled down, threatened to sue the photographer, and said that this means that the media want ISIS to send Mexicans to steal our jobs. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31616 "2016-10-13T18:17:03Z")
He _didn’t_ say that, right? Having a hard time keeping up. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31617 "2016-10-13T18:33:21Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Someone needs to seriously ask Guliani if he has seen a doctor recently, because he is showing signs of obvious memory loss, and it is worrying. > > To not remember that you spent THE DAY AFTER 9/11 with the SENATOR FROM YOUR OWN STATE is not just a bit of a memory lapse. It’s a medically serious symptom of something organically wrong with your brain. Well, she had that dust mask on, so he couldn’t actually recognize her, right? All the asbestos floating around must have hidden the sulfur smell, too. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31618 "2016-10-13T20:38:53Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Someone needs to seriously ask Guliani if he has seen a doctor recently, because he is showing signs of obvious memory loss, and it is worrying. > > To not remember that you spent THE DAY AFTER 9/11 with the SENATOR FROM YOUR OWN STATE is not just a bit of a memory lapse. It’s a medically serious symptom of something organically wrong with your brain. Please don’t make me defend Rudy. He thought she said she was in NYC on 9/11 - which she wasn’t. That is what he jumped on, and apologized for when he found out that wasn’t what she said. Of course, he could have checked his facts first, but that would be asking a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31619 "2016-10-13T20:40:37Z")
Trump advisor points out that Trumps tax plan will save money for the couple earning $50,000 who [employ a nanny](http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/10/13/trump_s_tax_plan_will_be_great_for_families_with_nannies.html). Both of them, apparently. As a bonus, he refers to them as ‘the little 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:** [October 14, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31620 "2016-10-14T02:16:20Z")
[Governor of Oklahoma calls for an Oilfield Prayer Day to ask God to protect the oil industry.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oklahoma-oilfield-prayer-day_us_57fdc266e4b0d505a46b0a98) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31621 "2016-10-14T02:21:55Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Trump advisor points out that Trumps tax plan will save money for the couple earning $50,000 who [employ a nanny](http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/10/13/trump_s_tax_plan_will_be_great_for_families_with_nannies.html). Both of them, apparently. > > As a bonus, he refers to them as ‘the little people’. Like this ‘helpful’ [infographic from the Wall Street Journal](http://i.imgur.com/bdgZa.jpg) about the then proposed expiration of the Bush tax cuts? For those that don’t want to click it, it is the one with the single person earning $230,000 a year and a single mother of two earning $260,000. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1580) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1582)