# 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:** 22
**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:** [July 4, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/421 "2009-07-04T22:16:03Z")
Republicans, the next Whigs! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/422 "2009-07-04T23:33:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Republicans, the next Whigs! Much as I hate to throw cold water on such a tempting prospect, I remember both Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. In each case the “pundints” declared the GOP to be RIP, and in each case it bounced back in a few years. Adding in the fact that each incarnation was more whackadoodle than its predecessor, I’m not taking a great deal of comfort in the present situation. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/423 "2009-07-05T04:16:41Z")
It saddens me that the Republican party is losing so many of their herd. I watch discovery channel enough to know that culling the weak from the herd makes the herd stronger. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/424 "2009-07-05T07:28:48Z")
How does one draw the line between culling and genocide? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/425 "2009-07-05T12:55:55Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > It saddens me that the Republican party is losing so many of their herd. I watch discovery channel enough to know that culling the weak from the herd makes the herd stronger. Smaller. It makes the herd smaller. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/426 "2009-07-05T13:51:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > How does one draw the line between culling and genocide? If **America** does it, it’s culling. If anyone else does it, it’s genocide. It’s great to be an American!!! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/427 "2009-07-05T15:43:13Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > If **America** does it, it’s culling. If anyone else does it, it’s genocide. > It’s great to be an American!!! Thanks! Easy to remember too. ---
**Author:** ![holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e95f7d/32.png) [@holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holmes)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/428 "2009-07-06T18:22:01Z")
Another Facebook outing: > [@](#): > > “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.” Why do these guys think that deleting a file, an email or facebook post, means it can’t be recovered? Everytime they do something like this, it puts them that further into the woods. Geez guys, at least **pretend** you’re not racist. [Audra Shay, vice chairman of the Young Republicans](http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-06/new-gop-racist-headache/) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/429 "2009-07-06T18:32:40Z")
> [@holmes](#): > > Another Facebook outing: > Why do these guys think that deleting a file, an email or facebook post, means it can’t be recovered? Everytime they do something like this, it puts them that further into the woods. Geez guys, at least **pretend** you’re not racist. > > [Audra Shay, vice chairman of the Young Republicans](http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-06/new-gop-racist-headache/) Nitpick, I wasnt her it was one of her “friends” in facebook. But she did enthusiastically endorse it. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/430 "2009-07-06T18:39:24Z")
But she did post “you tell 'em” apparently in response. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/431 "2009-07-06T19:07:01Z")
I can’t get to Facebook from work. Is Eric Pike® serious, or is he pulling a Steven Colbert? Just before the “coons” comment, he posted “wal mart is a klan anyway…a cult and its sad…i hate wal mat”. Not that a person can’t write that kind of thing unironically, but I wonder if he goes around trying to get people to take his bait like Shay evidently did. Something about it just seems like a kind of reverse trolling, where he’s trying to get people to react positively to ridiculous crap. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/432 "2009-07-06T19:16:13Z")
His page is private anyway, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/433 "2009-07-07T10:20:46Z")
Oh, why just have _one_ stupid idea when you can have two? [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/06/arizona-is-6000-years-old/](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/06/arizona-is-6000-years-old/) Arizona is 6,000 years old, and we havn’t blown up the world yet, so there’s nothing to worry about in regards to uranium mining next to rivers! That’s bad, but just normal stupidity. [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6514838.html](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6514838.html) How about trying to appoint someone to the state school board of Texas who not only has written a book that there should be a religious test to run for office, but homeschooled her kids, and calls public schools tools of perversion _and_ unconstitutional. ---
**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 7, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/434 "2009-07-07T14:06:46Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > How about trying to appoint someone to the state school board of Texas who not only has written a book that there should be a religious test to run for office, but homeschooled her kids, and calls public schools tools of perversion _and_ unconstitutional. Sometimes, very rarely in a man’s life, can he say he saw or heard perfection. And here it is, right before your eyes by the deep magic of the Internet. You can not take or add a thing. This cathedral of ineptitude is pristine, perfect. It’s the Sistine Chapel of fuckwit. We can all die happy men now - we’ve found the one, perfect cherry blossom we spent our lives searching for. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/435 "2009-07-07T14:22:22Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Sometimes, very rarely in a man’s life, can he say he saw or heard perfection. And here it is, right before your eyes by the deep magic of the Internet. You can not take or add a thing. This cathedral of ineptitude is pristine, perfect. It’s the Sistine Chapel of fuckwit. > We can all die happy men now - we’ve found the one, perfect cherry blossom we spent our lives searching for. Better than the Honduran coup government foreign minister calling Obama a “negrito”? (literally: “little black man”, can be interpreted as “little nigger”). ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/436 "2009-07-08T16:27:10Z")
Today’s entry, courtesy of Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R - Dimwit): > **[Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) Says Earth Is 6,000 Years Old](https://crooksandliars.com/heather/arizona-state-senator-sylvia-allen-r-says)** > > From The Arizona Guardian: > > Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen (R) voices support for opening up uranium mining in the state. Sen Allen responds to Yep. Drill for uranium because the Earth has already survived for 6,000 years without environmental laws and its not going anywhere. On the other hand, Sen. Jim Dewitt (R-Moron) seems to equate the swearing in of Al Franken as US senator with the Honduran military oup: [http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/07/demint-honduran-coup/](http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/07/demint-honduran-coup/) So many stupid Republican ideas, so few days… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/437 "2009-07-08T16:38:47Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6514838.html](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6514838.html) How about trying to appoint someone to the state school board of Texas who not only has written a book that there should be a religious test to run for office, but homeschooled her kids, and calls public schools tools of perversion _and_ unconstitutional. [/QUOTE] To be fair, Rick Perry hasn’t appointed her _yet_. I noticed that the dimbulb’s name is Cynthia Dunbar. The dimbulb in Missouri who hates the thought of feeding children is Cynthia Davis. Is it the combination of first name Cynthia and last name beginning with a D that causes such brain damage? > [@Kobal2](#): > > Sometimes, very rarely in a man’s life, can he say he saw or heard perfection. And here it is, right before your eyes by the deep magic of the Internet. You can not take or add a thing. This cathedral of ineptitude is pristine, perfect. It’s the Sistine Chapel of fuckwit. > We can all die happy men now - we’ve found the one, perfect cherry blossom we spent our lives searching for. I agree, but we have to keep looking. With statistics like these: > [@](#): > > [Palin’s support still strong among GOP](http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-07-palin-poll_N.htm) > > … > **Two-thirds of Republicans want Palin** , the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, **to be “a major national political figure” in the future**. > > … > > **Republicans by 71%-27% say they’d be likely to vote for her if she ran for president in 2012** … we’ve obviously got plenty of Stupid coming our way. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/438 "2009-07-08T16:42:37Z")
Curiously, 71% of Republicans also believe in Santa Claus. 27% think Christmas gifts are a government handout which taxpayers ought to be outraged over. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/439 "2009-07-08T17:46:05Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Better than the Honduran coup government foreign minister calling Obama a “negrito”? (literally: “little black man”, can be interpreted as “little nigger”). This is completely and utterly not correct. In Spanish, negrita/o is an endearment. If it’s interpreted as ‘little nigger’ than it’s the interpreter who is at fault. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/440 "2009-07-08T17:57:04Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > This is completely and utterly not correct. In Spanish, negrita/o is an endearment. If it’s interpreted as ‘little nigger’ than it’s the interpreter who is at fault. I suppose i dont speak spanish then. Una lastima, la verdad, me pregunto que lenguaje he estado hablando por los ultimos 29 años… “negrito” can be interpreted as a term of endearment when one is speaking to a friend, or family member, it is most emphatically NOT used to refer to someone outside those circles, and even more so when referring to someone who is black. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=23)