# Stupid Republican idea of the day
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897
**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:** 233
### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4641 "2012-02-26T23:29:59Z")
We are having a discussion about where to send all those Guantanamo inmates. Problem solved.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4642 "2012-02-26T23:41:25Z")
We’ll try to stay serene and calm
when Alabama gets the bomb.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4643 "2012-02-26T23:41:49Z")
If people are seriously throwing out Clarence’s name, the GOP is really screwed.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4644 "2012-02-26T23:57:34Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#):
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> You say it like it’s a bad thing.
Well, no, but I don’t see it as a very successful strategy either.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4645 "2012-02-27T00:10:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> We’ll try to stay serene and calm
> when Alabama gets the bomb.
But soft! A thought that sorely vexes
That the first might very well be Texas.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4646 "2012-02-27T03:34:52Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> No mention was made of which state Wyoming plans to ally with, assuming it thinks it will need a seawater port for its aircraft carrier.
Maybe they anticipate a need to project power across Yellowstone Lake.
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### Author:  [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4647 "2012-02-27T03:38:57Z")
Note to self:
Call state senator and warn them about the naval force imbalance caused by Wyoming’s belligerent ship buildup.
Suggest we begin our own buildup. Volunteer to be the first Grand Admiral of the Oklahoma Submarine Fleet! (Sooner Boomer?)
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4648 "2012-02-27T03:50:11Z")
Oh, no, you’re not talking me into getting in your car to go watch the Muskogee Submarine Races again…
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4649 "2012-02-27T03:53:49Z")
> [@C3](#):
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> Yeah, but the way he puts it, his wife isn’t abstaining because he stupidly proposed the bill; she’s put off by all the nasty Dems who have the nerve to keep going on and on about it. If the liberals would just get over it and shut up, he’d be gettin some.
My thought while watching that idiot was “Moron, if you can’t _say_ the word ‘vagina’, you don’t get to write, sponsor, vote on, sign, or enforce any legislation to _do_ with the word ‘vagina’.”
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4650 "2012-02-27T03:59:42Z")
> [@phouka](#):
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> My thought while watching that idiot was “Moron, if you can’t _say_ the word ‘vagina’, you don’t get to write, sponsor, vote on, sign, or enforce any legislation to _do_ with the word ‘vagina’.”
Or, preferably, get with 10 feet of one.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4651 "2012-02-27T03:59:57Z")
> [@phouka](#):
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> My thought while watching that idiot was “Moron, if you can’t _say_ the word ‘vagina’, you don’t get to write, sponsor, vote on, sign, or enforce any legislation to _do_ with the word ‘vagina’.”
Thus the new legislation mandating a trans-hoohaa-inal ultrasound before an abortion was introduced into the House of Delegates…
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4652 "2012-02-27T04:28:35Z")
In some religions, it is forbidden to speak The Name.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4653 "2012-02-27T09:12:32Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> No mention was made of which state Wyoming plans to ally with, assuming it thinks it will need a seawater port for its aircraft carrier.
And now we know what [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=637707) was really all about.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4654 "2012-02-27T14:35:03Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I don’t know that this author is a Republican, but this idea seems to appeal to a few Republicans in the comments following and, well, it’s insane:
The author (Adam Winkler) is apparently best known for writing a book on the constitutional implications of gun control which wasn’t for the NRA _or_ the Brady Campaign.
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4655 "2012-02-27T14:38:33Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> That’s not a stupid idea, it’s a great one. Thomas would be crushed by Obama _and_ he’d be off the Supreme Court. Double win!
What makes you think he’d resign from the Court, particularly just to run? The Supremes get to decide on their own conflicts of interest.
Hell, he might not even resign if he won - and wouldn’t that be interesting? If the Republicans hold the House (and Clarence winning would undoubtedly mean that) - do you think that they would impeach him relative to one job or the other? Short of that, I don’t think anything could be done about it.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4656 "2012-02-27T18:29:22Z")
Not an idea, just a funny from Rmoney: [Asked by the AP reporter if he follows NASCAR, Romney responded, “Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.”](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57385498-503544/romney-not-a-nascar-fan-but-friends-are-owners/) Maybe that’s where his wife got all those Caddies she drives.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4657 "2012-02-27T18:54:22Z")
That’s not the best of it. After he met some NASCAR fans in their cheap plastic rain ponchos: “I like those fancy raincoats you bought,” he said. “Really sprung for the big bucks.”
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4658 "2012-02-27T19:59:10Z")
There’s nothing like being patronizing to the plebes to make them like you.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4659 "2012-02-27T20:03:44Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#):
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> There’s nothing like being patronizing to the plebes to make them like you.
Dripping condescension makes me all swoony!
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4660 "2012-02-27T20:50:59Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> That’s not the best of it. After he met some NASCAR fans in their cheap plastic rain ponchos: “I like those fancy raincoats you bought,” he said. “Really sprung for the big bucks.”
Last year, when Romney made the comment “I’m also unemployed” I didn’t get the uproar. It was clearly a joke and, it seemed, somewhat of a funny one.
I’ve listened to him over these past six months making what could charitably be called gaffe after gaffe but more precisely could be called a complete and total cluelessness.
It’s ok to be rich. It’s ok to grow up being rich. It’s OK be obscenely rich and want to keep being rich. Hell, it’s ok for Romney the individual to believe all this.
But Romney isn’t just an individual. He’s a candidate for the highest office in America. Romney doesn’t understand the poor, doesn’t want to understand the poor and will never understand what it’s like to be poor. We have a ~9% unemployment rate, a ~20% underemployment rate and the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in 20 years.
The fact of the matter is that you cannot be an effective President when you are so willfully out of touch with the lives that Americans lead.
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