# 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:** 194
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3861 "2011-11-26T23:10:47Z")
I’m not going to disagree that she may owe someone a apology. What I disagree with is Brownback and his staff tracking her down via a comment on the Internet and pressing her principal to take action against her and force an apology. That’s an abuse of power. It would have been reasonable for say, her teacher or her parents to make her apologize. The governor of the state? Not cool. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3862 "2011-11-26T23:40:11Z")
No one has hit on Mitt Romney claiming that quoting someone when they are quoting someone else still counts? Surely he’s not too stupid to figure out that that can easily be used against him, right? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3863 "2011-11-26T23:47:37Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No one has hit on Mitt Romney claiming that quoting someone when they are quoting someone else still counts? Surely he’s not too stupid to figure out that that can easily be used against him, right? Brought up in [What’s so bad about Mitt Romney?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=632238) thread. It’s not here because it’s not stupid, it’s despicable. That he’s defending it as “well, Obama said those words” (Paraphrase, but it’s pretty close) is shameful. This is far, far beyond stretching the truth or really spinning context (compare to the bullshit _Obama called Americans lazy_ talking point a few days ago). I’d thought Romney would have kept an even keel and not competed with the crazy. Here he proves he’s as bad as Orly Taint and the rest of the scum that are willing to subvert democracy via direct, intentional lies just to get into power. IMHO this is his McCain-picks-Palin moment (which, could be just the break the McCain camp was waiting for!). Fuck him. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3864 "2011-11-27T07:17:34Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Brought up in [What’s so bad about Mitt Romney?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=632238) thread. > > It’s not here because it’s not stupid, it’s despicable. That he’s defending it as “well, Obama said those words” (Paraphrase, but it’s pretty close) is shameful. > > This is far, far beyond stretching the truth or really spinning context (compare to the bullshit _Obama called Americans lazy_ talking point a few days ago). I’d thought Romney would have kept an even keel and not competed with the crazy. Here he proves he’s as bad as Orly Taint and the rest of the scum that are willing to subvert democracy via direct, intentional lies just to get into power. > > IMHO this is his McCain-picks-Palin moment (which, could be just the break the McCain camp was waiting for!). > Fuck him. I hope somebody puts together a commercial with Mitt saying “I love screwing small children”. I’m sure he’s said those 5 words at some point and that its on camera. Fair’s fair, right Mitt? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3865 "2011-11-27T07:35:20Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I hope somebody puts together a commercial with Mitt saying “I love screwing small children”. I’m sure he’s said those 5 words at some point and that its on camera. Fair’s fair, right Mitt? Not quite that (yet), but see \*\*RTFirefly’s \*\*post in that thread: > [@What's so bad about Mitt Romney?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-bad-about-mitt-romney/603710/52): > > Fortunately, the good folks at ThinkProgress [have already turned this particular table on the Mittster](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJorv8HBU4&feature=player_embedded). It has video of Mitt saying: > > “We should just raise everybody’s taxes.” > > “There’s nothing unique about the United States.” > > “Government knows better than a free people how to guide an economy.” > > “Fiscal responsibility is heartless and immoral.” > > “Let us just raise your taxes some more. We just need a little bit more.” > > “America’s just another nation with a flag.” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3866 "2011-11-27T09:30:46Z")
That’s awesome! Somebody make that into a commercial! ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3867 "2011-12-01T15:35:14Z")
> **[US Embassy in Iran? Michele Bachmann’s ‘Oops’ Moment](https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/us-embassy-in-iran-michele-bachmanns-oops-moment/)** > > Get breaking national and world news, broadcast video coverage, and exclusive interviews. Find the top news online at ABC news. Bachmann thinks the US should consider closing our Embassy in Iran. "In light of the British Foreign Ministry pulling all U.K. nationals out of the British embassy in Tehran after students stormed the building in protest, GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann told a crowd in Waverly, Iowa, today that she would close the U.S. embassy in Iran. One small, tiny note: The U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Tehran since 1980. Following the Iranian Hostage Crisis, where 52 Americans were held for 444 days, the United States cut all diplomatic ties." I used to be disgusted, now I’m just amused… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3868 "2011-12-01T16:35:48Z")
Georgina Tirebiter. “She’s not _insane_!” ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3869 "2011-12-01T16:38:28Z")
SEE! See how effective Michelle Bachmann is?!?! She just mentioned the possibility in a stump speech and it has already retroactively happened, and goes all the way back to the start of the Reagan administration, since Ronald Reagan is the Greatest American Who Ever Lived.\* - as long as you don’t actually look at his real record as President which includes a large number of things that the GOP is now against… ---
**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:** [December 1, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3870 "2011-12-01T16:42:09Z")
You can’t blame Bachmann for not knowing that. I mean, it’s not like it got any news coverage at the time. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3871 "2011-12-01T16:43:17Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > That’s awesome! Somebody make that into a commercial! Sounds like a job for SuperPAC! Somebody should tell Stephen. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3872 "2011-12-01T16:46:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You can’t blame Bachmann for not knowing that. I mean, it’s not like it got any news coverage at the time. You can’t expect Bachmann to know what the lamestream media is covering. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3873 "2011-12-01T18:04:04Z")
At a recent education forum in Iowa recently, Michele Bachmann burnished her [anti-science credentials](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/30/379125/bachmann-evolution-censorship/). > [@Michele Bachmann](#): > > I think what you’re advocating for is censorship on the part of government. So the government would prohibit intelligent design from even the possibility of being taught in questioning the issue of evolution. And if you look at scientists there is not a unanimity of agreement on the origins of life. … Why would we forstall any particular theory? Becuase I don’t think that even evolutionists, by and large, would say that this is proven fact. They say that this is a theory, as well as intelligent design. So I think the best thing to do is to let all scientific facts on the table, and let students decide. I guess she really is in denial that all of the “scientific facts” are on the side of evolution. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3874 "2011-12-01T18:35:14Z")
But ALL theories should be taught! I, for example, have a theory that she is really, really, more than we can know, stupid. Many scientists would not disagree with this theory… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3875 "2011-12-01T18:49:54Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Bachmann thinks the US should consider closing our Embassy in Iran. > …One small, tiny note: The U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Tehran since 1980. > > I used to be disgusted, now I’m just amused… Ms. Bachmann sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, so I think you may owe her an apology. The fact that she even realizes Iran and Iraq are different countries may make her overqualified, I’m afraid, to be the GOP nominee. Which one was it who buttressed his _Only America matters_ credentials by thinking Africa was a country? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3876 "2011-12-01T18:58:15Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > But ALL theories should be taught! I, for example, have a theory that she is really, really, more than we can know, stupid. Many scientists would not disagree with this theory… That’s not falsifiable! ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3877 "2011-12-01T19:33:47Z")
She would no doubt reply that those are really her mammaries, no extra padding… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3878 "2011-12-01T19:52:08Z")
Reminds me of unjustly ignored Dame Edna Everege: “I’m really quite shy and modest. Not even my husband has ever seen me entirely naked. Nor has he ever expressed the slightest desire to do so!” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3879 "2011-12-01T23:02:47Z")
Wow, Newt Gingrich is a moron and has no grasp on reality… From [this CBS coverage](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57335118-503544/newt-gingrich-poor-kids-dont-work-unless-its-illegal/): [QUOTE=Newt Gingrich] “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works,” the former House speaker said at a campaign event at the Nationwide Insurance offices. “So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal.” [/QUOTE] Yeesh, what an asshole! ---
**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:** [December 1, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3880 "2011-12-01T23:13:13Z")
Damned poor people with their law breaking not-being-rich ways! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=193) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=195)