# 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:** 1960
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39182 "2018-09-29T01:25:53Z")
Lindsay Graham, be careful. You’re dangerously close to coming out of the closet, and you’re in the wrong party for that. > **[Lindsey Graham Slammed For 'Single White Man,' 'I Will Not Shut Up' Remarks](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-slammed-for-single-white-man-i-will-not-shut-up-remarks_n_5bae44f8e4b09d41eba10c0b)** > > Graham's remarks in defense of Brett Kavanaugh in Friday's meeting even led some to call the senator an incel. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39183 "2018-09-29T01:27:50Z")
Tell you what, Republicans keep this shit up and it’s gonna be Lysistrata Americana. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39184 "2018-09-29T04:52:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz says he thinks police should patrol Muslim neighborhoods. I guess they expect Muslim “terrorists” are standing around on the corners plotting. > [Ted Cruz: Police need to 'patrol' Muslim neighborhoods - CNNPolitics](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/03/22/politics/ted-cruz-muslim-neighborhoods/index.html?__twitter_impression=true) > [@Slash1972](#): > > Come on man, that was from March of 2016. Yes, an old post. But, does Cruz still think this? Well, actually no. Cruz and our water boy from Florida (Rubio) don’t have actual thoughts. They are told what "ressssoooonnnnnaaaattttteeeessssss by their handlers. It it’s a hit with the Trumpian base, go with talking points. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39185 "2018-09-29T23:02:28Z")
[Look who’s been arrested again!](http://www.ktva.com/story/39198592/track-palin-again-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charges) > [@](#): > > Track Palin has been arrested on new domestic-violence charges, Alaska State Troopers said, in a case similar to one in which he was charged nearly two years ago. > > Palin, an Army veteran and the 29-year-old son of former Gov. Sarah Palin, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree domestic-violence assault, interfering with the report of a domestic-violence crime, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct according to an online dispatch… > > “Investigation revealed [Track Palin] assaulted an acquaintance at his residence,” troopers wrote. “When the acquaintance attempted to call authorities, he prevented her by taking away her phone. While being placed under arrest, Palin physically resisted troopers.” ---
**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:** [September 29, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39186 "2018-09-29T23:04:11Z")
## Track Palin arrested yet again, for domestic violence and resisting arrest. [Sarah Palin's son Track Palin arrested again for domestic violence | New York Post](https://nypost.com/2018/09/29/track-palin-arrested-again-for-domestic-violence/) Congressman Stev Womack’s son arrested for amphetamine and gun charges. > **[Congressman's Son Arrested on Drugs and Gun Charges](https://www.newsweek.com/arkansas-congressmans-son-arrested-methamphetamine-and-gun-charges-1145034)** > > "We love him unconditionally; however, as an adult, he is accountable for the choices he's made," said Representative Steve Womack of his son's arrest. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39187 "2018-09-29T23:08:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Look who’s been arrested again!](http://www.ktva.com/story/39198592/track-palin-again-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charges) > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > ## Track Palin arrested yet again, for domestic violence and resisting arrest. [Sarah Palin's son Track Palin arrested again for domestic violence](https://nypost.com/2018/09/29/track-palin-arrested-again-for-domestic-violence/) > > Congressman Stev Womack’s son arrested for amphetamine and gun charges. > [Republican Congressman's Son Arrested on Methamphetamine and Gun Charges - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/arkansas-congressmans-son-arrested-methamphetamine-and-gun-charges-1145034) At least we know who our next SCOTUS nominee will be. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39188 "2018-09-30T03:09:12Z")
Who names their kid “Track”? Why not Asphalt, or Center Stripe. Verge? Right-of-Way? Easement? I know: _Embankment_! “Chief Justice Embankment Palin”-- I like it. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39189 "2018-09-30T03:15:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Who names their kid “Track”? > > Why not Asphalt, or Center Stripe. Verge? Right-of-Way? Easement? I know: _Embankment_! “Chief Justice Embankment Palin”-- I like it. [From here.](https://www.thoughtco.com/meaning-of-sarah-palins-childrens-names-3534201) > [@](#): > > Many jokes have been made about the Palin children’s unusual names. They weren’t randomly chosen. In fact, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her husband Todd Palin selected names that reflect the family’s personal history and shared passions. > The Meaning of Sarah Palin’s Children’s Names > > 1. Track, the first-born and oldest son, was given that name because of the family’s longstanding interest in sports. > > Sarah’s parents were coaches: Todd was a high school athlete and Sarah is an avid runner. **Their first child was born during the track season.** I was an avid runner but that would have never crossed my mind. Cross-country is the far superior sport. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39190 "2018-09-30T03:52:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [From here.](https://www.thoughtco.com/meaning-of-sarah-palins-childrens-names-3534201) _ **Trig Paxson Van Palin** is the couple’s youngest child and second son. According to the governor’s spokesperson Sharon Leighow in a statement made shortly after the baby’s birth … Van is a nod to the rock group Van Halen. Before Trig’s birth, his mother had joked about naming her son Van Palin …_ :dubious: a heartbeat away :eek: ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39191 "2018-09-30T05:34:58Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Come on man, that was from March of 2016. Yes, why should Ted Cruz be held accountable for something he said as a whipper-snapper, barely 24 years out of Princeton? It isn’t fair to reach so far back into the past. Who among us wasn’t saying stupid things, attempting to rape women, or committing frauds and felonies when we were children? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39192 "2018-09-30T06:33:41Z")
Naming one of her kids “Van” may have prompted the first moment I’ve ever felt like laughing with Sarah Palin as opposed to at her. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39193 "2018-09-30T14:48:54Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Naming one of her kids “Van” may have prompted the first moment I’ve ever felt like laughing with Sarah Palin as opposed to at her. Yeah, but you would be laughing with her, and at her child, who will be the butt of many jokes and laughing throughout his life for her moment of levity. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39194 "2018-09-30T15:16:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [From here.](https://www.thoughtco.com/meaning-of-sarah-palins-childrens-names-3534201) > > I was an avid runner but that would have never crossed my mind. > Cross-country is the far superior sport. > [@eschereal](#): > > _ **Trig Paxson Van Palin** is the couple’s youngest child and second son. According to the governor’s spokesperson Sharon Leighow in a statement made shortly after the baby’s birth … Van is a nod to the rock group Van Halen. Before Trig’s birth, his mother had joked about naming her son Van Palin …_ > :dubious: > a heartbeat away > :eek: Good grief. I guess Track is lucky they didn’t name him “Sweaty Jock.” Ewww. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39195 "2018-09-30T16:35:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Good grief. > > I guess Track is lucky they didn’t name him “Sweaty Jock.” Ewww. Being named after your father is not that uncommon or remarkable. Being named after your father’s penis is. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39196 "2018-09-30T16:38:41Z")
Explains my cousin “Donkey”. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39197 "2018-09-30T20:49:28Z")
Senator Tom Cotton avers that Diane Feinstein will be investigated by the DC Bar for her handling of the Ford letter. Not should be, not calling for one, but \*\*will \*\*be investigated. > **[Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over Ford letter](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409153-cotton-says-feinstein-will-be-investigated-over-leaked-ford-letter/)** > > Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asserted on Sunday that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will face an investigation over her handling of a letter from Christine Blasey Ford in which she alleged Supreme Co… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39198 "2018-09-30T21:05:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Senator Tom Cotton avers that Diane Feinstein will be investigated by the DC Bar for her handling of the Ford letter. Not should be, not calling for one, but \*\*will \*\*be investigated. > [Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over Ford letter | The Hill](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409153-cotton-says-feinstein-will-be-investigated-over-leaked-ford-letter) He’s such a fucking asshole. Is Feinstein or any of her staff licensed to practice law in DC? If not, how could the DC Bar investigate them? ETA: I checked. Feinstein isn’t a lawyer at all. What does Cotton think the DC Bar can do to her? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39199 "2018-09-30T22:20:36Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > He’s such a fucking asshole. > > Is Feinstein or any of her staff licensed to practice law in DC? If not, how could the DC Bar investigate them? > > ETA: I checked. Feinstein isn’t a lawyer at all. What does Cotton think the DC Bar can do to her? The article states that Cotton will ask the D.C Bar to investigate the law firm that apparently was suggested to Ford by Feinstein’s people, not Feinstein herself: > [@Face the Nation](#): > > WATCH: “Those lawyers are going to face a D.C. bar investigation into their misconduct. Dianne Feinstein and her staff is going to face an investigation into their misconduct,” @SenTomCotton tells @FaceTheNation If I’m parsing the above correctly, some other unnamed body will be asked or ordered to investigate Feinstein. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39200 "2018-09-30T23:02:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Senator Tom Cotton avers that Diane Feinstein will be investigated by the DC Bar for her handling of the Ford letter. Not should be, not calling for one, but \*\*will \*\*be investigated. > [Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over Ford letter | The Hill](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409153-cotton-says-feinstein-will-be-investigated-over-leaked-ford-letter) > [@Morgyn](#): > > He’s such a fucking asshole. > Is Feinstein or any of her staff licensed to practice law in DC? If not, how could the DC Bar investigate them? > ETA: I checked. Feinstein isn’t a lawyer at all. What does Cotton think the DC Bar can do to her? > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > The article states that Cotton will ask the D.C Bar to investigate the law firm that apparently was suggested to Ford by Feinstein’s people, not Feinstein herself: > If I’m parsing the above correctly, some other unnamed body will be asked or ordered to investigate Feinstein. It’s clearly a ludicrous misuse of government resources. But as Cotton knows, it’s a base-pleaser–because the Republican base _adore_s the concept of using government power to punish political opponents. It thrills their authoritarianism-craving, Swiss-cheesed brains. ---
**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 1, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39201 "2018-10-01T02:19:01Z")
Jeff Flake says he would not have called for an FBI investigation if he were running for election. So in other words, he’s a coward. > **[Flake: If I were running for reelection ‘not a chance’ I’d call for Kavanaugh...](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409158-flake-if-i-were-running-for-re-election-not-a-chance-id-call-for-kavanaugh/)** > > Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that there’s “not a chance” he would have called for an FBI investigation into the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nom… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1959) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1961)