# 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:** 2078
**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:** [July 17, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41545 "2019-07-17T21:34:10Z")
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill [explains](https://yellowhammernews.com/john-merrill-on-the-stump-u-s-senate-hopeful-talks-immigration-culture-fiscal-responsibility-and-attacks-opponents/) why there ain’t no more good shows on the teevee: > [@](#): > > There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41546 "2019-07-17T21:35:42Z")
> [@Yahoo news](#): > > In a statement Wednesday, Kelly suggested his conversation with the Vice News reporter was “mischaracterized” and missed his “broader point.” > > “We’re all created equal,” the statement said. “It’s time to stop fixating on our differences and focus on what unites us.” Telling US citizens to, “go back where they came from” is focusing on what unites us and complaining about it is fixating on our differences. Did I get that right? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41547 "2019-07-17T22:41:33Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill [explains](https://yellowhammernews.com/john-merrill-on-the-stump-u-s-senate-hopeful-talks-immigration-culture-fiscal-responsibility-and-attacks-opponents/) why there ain’t no more good shows on the teevee: Hell, I still watch _Gumsmoke, Bonanza,_ and _The Virginian_ for the hot gay sex parts. Subtext, people. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41548 "2019-07-17T23:11:15Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill [explains](https://yellowhammernews.com/john-merrill-on-the-stump-u-s-senate-hopeful-talks-immigration-culture-fiscal-responsibility-and-attacks-opponents/) why there ain’t no more good shows on the teevee: Piss off, you panderer. You were born in 1963. You’ve never watched _Gunsmoke,_ \*I Love Lucy \*or the _Andy Griffith Show_ in your entire misbegotten life. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41549 "2019-07-17T23:12:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill [explains](https://yellowhammernews.com/john-merrill-on-the-stump-u-s-senate-hopeful-talks-immigration-culture-fiscal-responsibility-and-attacks-opponents/) why there ain’t no more good shows on the teevee: > > > [@](#): > > > > There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities. Wow, that last sentence came out of, literally, nowhere. Merrill apparently doesn’t realize what he just revealed about himself. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41550 "2019-07-17T23:17:58Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > … I don’t know how to do that. I can call my congressman or supposed representative, who is not going to do anything. I’ll be lucky to get a form letter that says, “Yeah, yeah, whatever. Pipe down.” I’d have to spend all my free hours between now and November 3, 2020, going door to door or making phone calls and probably still not get anyone to change their minds. I don’t have any money so can’t buy any TV ads or get any attention. I’d like to donate to some candidates or organizations, but they either can’t or won’t do what really needs to be done. They will get distracted and trip over their own feet, politely handing “him” the ammunition to make them sound like the bad guys. > > It feels like I’m being forced to lie in the street with a big 18-wheeler just coming to run me down. There is nowhere else to go and nothing to be done. There will be lawsuits to fight every atrocity, but eventually “he” will get his way because he always does, it’s just a matter of whether it will be now or in a few months. I don’t know what to do with this feeling of despair. > > And it’s not about some petty political disagreement. It’s about a bully who can and will insist that everyone live the way he wants them to, with no health care coverage, no protection for preexisting conditions (he says he will do something about that but I won’t hold my breath), enact racist and inhumane policies, lie about socialism, abortion, etc. > > I’m just so tired of it. I have no representation and no voice at all and I guess I never did but just now realized it at the age of almost 50. It’s so lonely. > > I’m so tired of the constant insistence that people with similar political beliefs as mine don’t deserve representation and are just crazy and should be stomped down. Remember: [ul] [li]There are a lot more of us than there are of them. Trump’s hardcore white-supremacist base is, at most, around a quarter of the country–that’s a lot, but it’s far from being a majority. At least half of white people are sane and non-deplorable.[/li][li]A lot of people (including well-known figures such as Obama) have their eyes on the election process, to make it as fair as possible. We have a real chance in 2020 to get rid of Trump and the worst of his enablers.[/li][li]If you, merely through conversations and on-line activity, can influence even one person to get registered and vote for Democrats, you’ll have doubled the impact of your own vote. And you may well influence more than one person, over the course of the coming months.[/li][/ul] Don’t despair. Instead, focus on throwing the bums out. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41551 "2019-07-18T00:47:42Z")
Trump rally participants chant “Send her back” about Ilhan Omar. > **[Trump Rally Crowd Launches Into ‘Send Her Back’ Chant Over Ilhan Omar](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rally-crowd-launches-into-send-her-back-chant-over-rep-ilhan-omar)** > > We now have a new gross Trump rally crowd chant to replace “Lock Her Up!” ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41552 "2019-07-18T01:37:09Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Remember: > [ul] > [li]There are a lot more of us than there are of them. Trump’s hardcore white-supremacist base is, at most, around a quarter of the country–that’s a lot, but it’s far from being a majority. At least half of white people are sane and non-deplorable.[/li][li]A lot of people (including well-known figures such as Obama) have their eyes on the election process, to make it as fair as possible. We have a real chance in 2020 to get rid of Trump and the worst of his enablers.[/li][li]If you, merely through conversations and on-line activity, can influence even one person to get registered and vote for Democrats, you’ll have doubled the impact of your own vote. And you may well influence more than one person, over the course of the coming months.[/li][/ul] > > Don’t despair. Instead, focus on throwing the bums out. This is very encouraging. I hope it works out. It’s easy to get sucked into the pit of despair. It seems like it’s been so long and still a long way to go, especially if 2020 goes how I fear. I wish there was some way to reach the potential voters who are not paying attention! And Democrats running for election really, really need to hire better PR advisors IMO. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41553 "2019-07-18T02:22:02Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Piss off, you panderer. You were born in 1963. You’ve never watched _Gunsmoke,_ \*I Love Lucy \*or the _Andy Griffith Show_ in your entire misbegotten life. Maybe not first run, but reruns. I was born in 1964, and I’ve seen multiple episodes of all three shows. (NB: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is an asshole. But you knew that.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41554 "2019-07-18T03:08:25Z")
> [@](#): > > There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities. Look, the rebuttal to that can be summed up in three words: Floyd the barber. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41555 "2019-07-18T03:16:00Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill [explains](https://yellowhammernews.com/john-merrill-on-the-stump-u-s-senate-hopeful-talks-immigration-culture-fiscal-responsibility-and-attacks-opponents/) why there ain’t no more good shows on the teevee: > [@](#): > > There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities. > > > [@](#): > > I think what he meant was "Why does every show on TV these days make me think of hot steamy man-on-man sex? Constant. Constant . nothing but sex with men, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41556 "2019-07-18T04:28:38Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Look, the rebuttal to that can be summed up in three words: Floyd the barber. I hated that character almost as much as I hated Aunt Bee. Seriously, how on Earth did those two characters become so popular and how on Earth did those two “actors” get jobs as actors? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41557 "2019-07-18T04:52:48Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Maybe not first run, but reruns. I was born in 1964, and I’ve seen multiple episodes of all three shows. But like… by choice ? No gun to your head or nothing ?! :o ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41558 "2019-07-18T04:59:20Z")
Between Floyd and \*Lost in Space’\*s Dr. Smith and Paul Lynde on _Bewitched,_ my third grade psyche was slapped with a trifecta of “Not necessarily gay, but certainly effeminate” actors. I think some UECs (Uptight Evangelical Congressmen) were affected, and soon adopted Suspiciously Wide Stances in airport restrooms. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41559 "2019-07-18T05:21:15Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Remember: > [ul] > [li]There are a lot more of us than there are of them. Trump’s hardcore white-supremacist base is, at most, around a quarter of the country–that’s a lot, but it’s far from being a majority. At least half of white people are sane and non-deplorable.[/li][li]A lot of people (including well-known figures such as Obama) have their eyes on the election process, to make it as fair as possible. We have a real chance in 2020 to get rid of Trump and the worst of his enablers.[/li][li]If you, merely through conversations and on-line activity, can influence even one person to get registered and vote for Democrats, you’ll have doubled the impact of your own vote. And you may well influence more than one person, over the course of the coming months.[/li][/ul] > > Don’t despair. Instead, focus on throwing the bums out. And you will lose with this strategy. They are prepared to kill people to get their way. Some of them have recently (within the past month) declared that they will murder anyone who tries to stop them, even law enforcement officers. Until the left is willing, ready and able to defend themselves and their ideals with the same level of gusto, the left is doomed to lose. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41560 "2019-07-18T05:28:24Z")
For instance: what will you do if the bums refuse to leave? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41561 "2019-07-18T05:33:13Z")
in an [unguarded moment](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html), **CALLER** : In 2019, there’s gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn’t really care about that. He’s not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used. **LIMBAUGH** : _Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around._ a big fat idiot pulls back the curtain ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41562 "2019-07-18T05:34:31Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Worse yet, it is a German Jewish name. Her question was a warning, “We have our eyes on you, Jew.” Yeah, I probably should have spelled that out. A lot of Jews got “ornamental” German names when family names became a thing. Goldfarb Silberberg Gruenwald Rosenfeld and so forth. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41563 "2019-07-18T05:38:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > in an [unguarded moment](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html), > **CALLER** : In 2019, there’s gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn’t really care about that. He’s not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used. > **LIMBAUGH** : _Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around._ > > a big fat idiot pulls back the curtain From your link: > [@](#): > > As I’ve noted before, there is a clear and present danger to the GOP’s willingness to abandon at least some of its first principles in order to keep Trump happy – or, more accurately, in order to keep him from turning on them and siccing the GOP base on their reelection campaigns. And that danger is this: If the party is built solely around a person without any underlying, unwavering principles, then it’s not a party at all. It’s a cult of personality. Aye; call it what it is. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2019, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41564 "2019-07-18T05:39:36Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Piss off, you panderer. You were born in 1963. You’ve never watched _Gunsmoke,_ \*I Love Lucy \*or the _Andy Griffith Show_ in your entire misbegotten life. I’m about ten years younger, and I saw all of those shows in syndication as a wee thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2077) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2079)