# 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:** 1835
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36682 "2018-02-20T13:46:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mitt Romney, 3/3/16: > “If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he said about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement.” > > Mitt Romney, 2/19/18: > “Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah.” Mitt, Mitt, Mitt… there ain’t enough mouthwash on earth to remove the taste of the Dotard’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36683 "2018-02-20T13:57:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mitt Romney, 3/3/16: > “If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he said about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement.” > > Mitt Romney, 2/19/18: > “Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah.” > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Mitt, Mitt, Mitt… there ain’t enough mouthwash on earth to remove the taste of the Dotard’s ass. Don’t be too hard on him. There’s a real shortage of spine donors in this country; some people stay on the waiting list for years before they get a transplant. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36684 "2018-02-20T16:06:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Don’t be too hard on him. There’s a real shortage of spine donors in this country; some people stay on the waiting list for years before they get a transplant. And the compatibility matching can be a real bitch. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36685 "2018-02-20T18:37:17Z")
I got a spine. It was in the Mojave. Next time I will wear sturdier shoes. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36686 "2018-02-20T19:11:53Z")
Former Congressman Jack Kingston: The teens organizing to protest gun violence are being manipulated by George Soros. > **[CNN's Alisyn Camerota corners former GOP Rep. Jack Kingston for claiming...](https://theweek.com/speedreads/756332/cnns-alisyn-camerota-corners-former-gop-rep-jack-kingston-claiming-survivors-parkland-school-shooting-are-being-hijacked-by-leftwing-groups)** Boogie Boogie Boogie ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36687 "2018-02-20T20:01:16Z")
That’s nice. Those kids are soon old enough to vote and Republicans are not only ignoring their pleas but are also calling them brainwashed enemies. They are shooting their both feet so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36688 "2018-02-20T20:14:41Z")
[Idaho Republican yells at kids and otherwise acts like a jerk](https://apnews.com/2eb3238f825d4bf5ab51b9eef3426694/Idaho-lawmaker-yells-'abortion-is-murder'-at-students). (bolding mine) > [@](#): > > A Republican Idaho state senator yelled “abortion is murder” at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces an ethics complaint after a post from an unverified Twitter account told them to discuss “killing babies” with a Democratic lawmaker. > > About a dozen University of Idaho students from Sen. Dan Foreman’s district in the city of Moscow had traveled nearly 300 miles (483 kilometers) for a scheduled meeting with him Monday. They planned to lobby for a Planned Parenthood-backed measure in the conservative state that would allow women to receive up to a 12-month supply of prescribed birth control and would promote better sex education on college campuses. > > Foreman abruptly canceled the meeting, and the students left a note and a box of condoms in his office before heading to other meetings with lawmakers. He later passed the students in the hallway, and several recorded him shouting, “Abortion is murder.” > > “I’m a Roman Catholic and a conservative Republican. I think what you guys are doing stinks,” Foreman says on the video. > > **The students were not at the Capitol to talk about abortion** , said Paul Dillon, public affairs director of Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36689 "2018-02-20T20:23:27Z")
> [@](#): > > “I’m a Roman Catholic and a conservative Republican. I think what you guys are doing stinks,” Foreman says on the video. Somebody should ask this guy how nuns and monks are not murdering all their babies that should’ve been born. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36690 "2018-02-20T20:39:19Z")
This sort of thing keeps going unsaid - and it doesn’t make any sense that they get away with this shit - but, I don’t care that he’s a Roman Catholic. He didn’t get elected to do the church’s business; he got elected to do the people’s business. Fuck his religion. I’m growing close to my boiling point in having to put up with these fucking Christians telling me how to live my live and then claiming persecution left and right. I’m sorry, but it pisses me off to no end. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36691 "2018-02-20T22:16:54Z")
A reporter for the Tampa Bay Times says that an aide to Florida state Representative Shawn Harrison sent him an official state email telling him that teenagers appearing on the news calling themselves Parkland shooting victims are really actors. > ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36692 "2018-02-20T22:39:50Z")
We’ll, that was predictable. As soon as the MSD students stepped up, you just knew that the trolls were going to come out accusing them of being crisis actors, or in the pay of George Soros. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36693 "2018-02-20T22:44:07Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > :mad: > > “Dim” Jim Hoft has earned his nickname of SMOTI (Stupidest Man On The Internet). Many times over. Even recognizing that he’s mostly sequestered to the Dope, surely **Clothahump** is the holder of that title, no? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36694 "2018-02-20T22:47:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Even recognizing that he’s mostly sequestered to the Dope, surely **Clothahump** is the holder of that title, no? He leases it out to worthy comrades. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36695 "2018-02-20T22:55:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A reporter for the Tampa Bay Times says that an aide to Florida state Representative Shawn Harrison sent him an official state email telling him that teenagers appearing on the news calling themselves Parkland shooting victims are really actors. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/learyreports/status/966061854303965191) Not only are they not moved by these tragedies; they refuse to even accept their reality. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36696 "2018-02-21T05:53:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A reporter for the Tampa Bay Times says that an aide to Florida state Representative Shawn Harrison sent him an official state email telling him that teenagers appearing on the news calling themselves Parkland shooting victims are really actors. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/learyreports/status/966061854303965191) He’s been fired. [https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-lawmaker-s-aide-called-school-shooting-12628839.php](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-lawmaker-s-aide-called-school-shooting-12628839.php) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36697 "2018-02-21T12:59:00Z")
[The legislature voted as if it were true, anyway.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/us/florida-legislature-weapons-ban/index.html) Along party lines, so this is the right thread. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36698 "2018-02-21T16:34:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He’s been fired. > [https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-lawmaker-s-aide-called-school-shooting-12628839.php](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-lawmaker-s-aide-called-school-shooting-12628839.php) [He was also convicted for not paying his taxes back in 2012.](http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/aide-to-jim-norman-gets-house-arrest-probation-for-failure-to-file-tax/1250078) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36699 "2018-02-21T16:40:11Z")
The “Thoughts and Prayers” excuse for inaction has apparently [passed its sell-by date](https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/21/mike-coffman-town-hall-gun-control/): > [@](#): > > Grumbling and jeers met the request for a moment of silence for the 17 people killed last week in the Florida school shooting. > > “Let’s do something for them!” one man yelled at the beginning of Republican Rep. Mike Coffman’s town hall Tuesday night in Greenwood Village. Another participant cried out, “We’re done with thoughts and prayers!”… ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36700 "2018-02-21T16:48:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He’s been fired. > [https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-lawmaker-s-aide-called-school-shooting-12628839.php](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-lawmaker-s-aide-called-school-shooting-12628839.php) Not only was he fired, but in his “apology” he said only that it was outside his responsibility, not that it was false: > [@](#): > > I made a mistake whereas I tried to inform a reporter of information relating to his story regarding a school shooting. This was not my responsibility. I meant no disrespect to the students or parents of Parkland. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/36701 "2018-02-21T19:50:25Z")
This probably explains a lot about David Clarke: [David Clarke on Parkland shooting survivor: “My dad would have backhanded me” for “popping off to an authority figure”](https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/02/21/david-clarke-parkland-shooting-survivor-my-dad-would-have-backhanded-me-popping-authority-figure/219449) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1834) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1836)