# 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:** 191
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3801 "2011-11-21T14:05:41Z")
Welp. Birthers are at it again. [http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/293101/birther-challenges-obama?CSAuthResp=1321637227%3Ar3o2r2o1sv4ecen41ghnmic6m7%3ACSUserId|CSGroupId%3Aapproved%3ABD2D24EBD957457785F170038C3DE812&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1](http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/293101/birther-challenges-obama?CSAuthResp=1321637227%3Ar3o2r2o1sv4ecen41ghnmic6m7%3ACSUserId%7CCSGroupId%3Aapproved%3ABD2D24EBD957457785F170038C3DE812&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1) [http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/293382/birther-bid-to-derail-obama-blocked?CSAuthResp=1321880767%3Am78jaqtkk6mqaq4r5k203lc8n0%3ACSUserId|CSGroupId%3Aapproved%3A87D6D1CAF7D9A96AB453088A28F375F1&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1](http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/293382/birther-bid-to-derail-obama-blocked?CSAuthResp=1321880767%3Am78jaqtkk6mqaq4r5k203lc8n0%3ACSUserId%7CCSGroupId%3Aapproved%3A87D6D1CAF7D9A96AB453088A28F375F1&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1) The best part, of course, being how the commission basically told her to fuck off, and then a congressman complained about the death of democracy. My feelings on the matter: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14484945&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14484945&postcount=2) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3802 "2011-11-21T16:43:49Z")
I didn’t want to let this Iowa Family Leader thing completely die yet, even though the anti-gay, anti-abortion, social issues venom being spewed at their event isn’t all that surprising from GOP candidates. (You will note, however, that Romney and Huntsman chose not to appear, for which Romney got quite a scolding from Iowa’s own guardian of morality Bob VanderPlasticHair - er, I mean VanderPlaats. He’s like the pastor from Footloose turned up to eleventy-billion.) Anyway … how 'bout this as a quote from one of Iowa’s own homespun, traditional grandmas who will be turning out at the GOP caucus in January? > [@Gentle Iowa Grandmother](#): > > “I liked some, but really impassioned? No,” she said. “What I am really impassioned about is getting the thing that we have occupying our White House out the door.” Okay, I’m not sure she’s a white-haired old grandmother who’s nice to animals and bakes cookies for her grandkids - [[URL=“http://iowacaucus.com/2011/11/19/gop-candidates-discuss-faith-views-at-family-leader-forum/”]the story](http://the%20story) doesn’t say (although her first name is Rogette, for what that’s worth). But what it does say, and this is kinda interesting, is that she’s a public school teacher. Public school teacher. Calling our president a “thing” that’s occupying the White House. That definitely qualifies as a stupid Republican idea, in a lot of ways. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3803 "2011-11-21T16:53:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Needless to say, I didn’t take the matter lightly, Reno is a _loooong_ fucking drive! Next time, take US-395 North to Reno…it goes quicker and the drive is quite scenic. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3804 "2011-11-21T16:53:49Z")
Ran out of edit time … Some other fun notes from the night: Perry proudly trumpeted the fact that gay couples in Texas aren’t allowed to adopt. In a bizarre view of constitutional separation of powers, Gingrich and Santorum both said they’d abolish courts just because the judges made decisions they didn’t agree with. Bachmann saw that craziness and upped the ante, saying she’d limit the cases courts were allowed to hear. And Perry is running ads in Iowa saying as President, he’d cut the pay of Congress and send them home. Which article of the Constitution is that under? And in a bigger picture view … how exactly will any of this anti-gay, anti-abortion, sex police ranting lower unemployment or improve our economy? Cause real Americans don’t care about jobs, you know, they just worry about two guys sleeping in the same bed somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3805 "2011-11-21T18:54:52Z")
[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/19/cain-would-overturn-the-supreme-court-if-they-overturned-doma/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/19/cain-would-overturn-the-supreme-court-if-they-overturned-doma/) Dumb Republicans tend to come up with dumb ideas… Also, unconstitutional ones. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3806 "2011-11-21T21:37:48Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Public school teacher. Calling our president a “thing” that’s occupying the White House. That definitely qualifies as a stupid Republican idea, in a lot of ways. Well, “a devious sack of shit” could be considered a thing. Maybe she was just biting her tongue? ---
**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:** [November 21, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3807 "2011-11-21T22:43:21Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/19/cain-would-overturn-the-supreme-court-if-they-overturned-doma/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/19/cain-would-overturn-the-supreme-court-if-they-overturned-doma/) > > Dumb Republicans tend to come up with dumb ideas… > > Also, unconstitutional ones. Many statements from the guy lead me to believe he imagines the President as a despot lording over littler beings and entities but ultimately holding unilateral decision and veto powers. Basically he thinks President = CEO of America and everything else is just committees. Which is amusing in a guy running for office. You’d think they’d read up on shit first or something. I admit I kinda want to see Cain getting elected, just so the next 12 months would be him going on EMERGENCY LIVE BROADCAST to tell his fellow Americans “As of today, I outlaw the colour blue !”, then his staff quietly taking him to one side and softly explaining it doesn’t really work that way. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3808 "2011-11-21T22:56:22Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > …I admit I kinda want to see Cain getting elected, just so the next 12 months would be him going on EMERGENCY LIVE BROADCAST to tell his fellow Americans “As of today, I outlaw the colour blue !”, then his staff quietly taking him to one side and softly explaining it doesn’t really work that way. Yes, it would all be very amusing until YOUR country did something to piss him off, and he orders an air strike. Unfortunately, airstrikes do really work that way. Well, perhaps there would be mass resignations and disobedience in the military as they refused to obey the order – but I wouldn’t count on it. Heh heh heh. Yup, we call all have a good chuckle over it later. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3809 "2011-11-22T00:04:08Z")
Which reminds me, what is Cain’s stand on the Grenada Memorial project? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3810 "2011-11-22T00:47:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Which reminds me, what is Cain’s stand on the Grenada Memorial project? It was a fine American-made car that deserves recognition. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3811 "2011-11-22T00:50:06Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > \< . . . \> > > I admit I kinda want to see Cain getting elected, just so the next 12 months would be him going on EMERGENCY LIVE BROADCAST to tell his fellow Americans “As of today, I outlaw the colour blue !”, then his staff quietly taking him to one side and softly explaining it doesn’t really work that way. You were thinking Cain would tolerate a staff that told him he was wrong? Somehow that concept brings Samuel Goldwyn > [@](#): > > I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3812 "2011-11-22T00:56:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I admit I kinda want to see Cain getting elected, just so the next 12 months would be him going on EMERGENCY LIVE BROADCAST to tell his fellow Americans “As of today, I outlaw the colour blue !”, then his staff quietly taking him to one side and softly explaining it doesn’t really work that way. We have always been at war with blurasia. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3813 "2011-11-22T02:43:28Z")
Are you bluish? You don’t…_look_ bluish. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3814 "2011-11-22T02:57:58Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > We have always been at war with blurasia. Otherwise known as the Kingdom of Argyria. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3815 "2011-11-22T15:18:00Z")
Let’s get the noob to clean up this fucking pit. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3816 "2011-11-22T19:07:42Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yes, it would all be very amusing until YOUR country did something to piss him off, and he orders an air strike. Unfortunately, airstrikes do really work that way. Pfff, as if we feared American airstrikes. We’ve got the impenetrable Maginot Line to protect us, mister ! ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3817 "2011-11-22T19:12:23Z")
Have they upgraded it to a Maginot Dome? Ah, you’re from France? You know we already gave you a warning by renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. You are on notice, and the bombers are being armed. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3818 "2011-11-22T19:52:18Z")
The world still owes the French a debt of gratitude for the invention of oral sex. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3819 "2011-11-22T19:54:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The world still owes the French a debt of gratitude for the invention of oral sex. It’s called Socialism here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3820 "2011-11-22T19:55:38Z")
Ah! So “capitialism” then refers to the anal equivalent, i.e., “getting buggered”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=192)