# 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
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4861 "2012-03-16T16:57:07Z")
In this post, I pre-emptively ridicule whatever twisting Fox news does to show that George Clooney is evil for getting himself arrested to raise awareness of the genocide in Sudan.
And also that they somehow saw it as an attack against conservatives.
Man, can you believe how O’Reilly/Hannity/Geraldo/Steve Doocey spun that? What douches!
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4862 "2012-03-16T17:08:22Z")
> [@C3](#):
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> Ooh, nice one, TN Republicans!
To be fair, a handful of (apparently idiot) Democrats voted with them. It still has to pass the state senate, but I’m not optimistic that reason will prevail.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4863 "2012-03-16T21:24:36Z")
> [@biddee](#):
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> Just two more ridiculous ideas from the Republicans.
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> [Utah bans talking about anything but abstinence and heterosexual sex in sex ed](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/07/utah-senate-republicans-ban-teaching-of-contraception-homosexuality-and-pre-marital-sex/) and [a bill is coming in to law in Arizona that ALLOWS a doctor not to tell a pregnant woman about a dangerous issue that could even lead to her death and not be sued for it if telling her means that she might get an abortion.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/07/arizona-senate-passes-bill-allowing-doctors-to-not-inform-women-of-prenatal-issues-to-prevent-abortions/)
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> Seriously these people don’t have half a brain to put together?
I’m just waiting for **kanicbird** to show up here and tell us all that the greatest love a mother can show for her unborn child is to give her life for it.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4864 "2012-03-16T22:50:43Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> Are these Republicans on drugs? This guy is Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, presumably a high-ranking position.
Are you kidding? A guy gets to be chair from time in office, not brains.
We’re lucky he didn’t say a woman’s reproductive system is a series of tubes.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4865 "2012-03-19T01:50:19Z")
From [the Colbert Report](http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-march-15-2012-dexter-filkins) I learn that Santorum claims old Dutch people wear “Do not euthanize me” bracelets. This is untrue, but justified because Santorum is “speaking from the heart.”
I realize Santorum’s stupidities are so plentiful he gets his own thread, but the Colbert episode has funny stupidities by other Republicans as well.
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### Author:  [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4866 "2012-03-19T22:38:44Z")
The RNC is denouncing [Obama’s War on Women](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JR4dT5NcXc&feature). People attack in others what they hate in themselves. Also, the GOP is especially good at arguing Dem’s strengths are their weaknesses.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4867 "2012-03-19T22:44:17Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> From [the Colbert Report](http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-march-15-2012-dexter-filkins) I learn that Santorum claims old Dutch people wear “Do not euthanize me” bracelets. This is untrue, but justified because Santorum is “speaking from the heart.”
Colbert/Kyl '13!
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4868 "2012-03-21T21:07:50Z")
I know Sean Hannity isn’t an elected official and doesn’t speak for the Republican Party yadda yadda, but this is one of the stupidest Republican things I’ve seen…well, today.
[Investigative journalist ambushes Bono, grills him about tax controversy, catching him totally flat-footed and avoiding questions.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203210005) Hannity and reporter congratulate themselves on big scoop on well-known liberal advocate. Both fail to notice that interviewee is not actually Bono.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4869 "2012-03-21T21:11:37Z")
Romney campaign spokesman says something truly stupid:
> [@](#):
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> CNN HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election.
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> ERIC FEHRNSTROM (ROMNEY CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN): Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.
From [here](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/21/448804/eric-fehrnstrom-etch-a-sketch/).
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### Author:  [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4870 "2012-03-21T22:12:08Z")
Everything makes sense now: Romney is a human Etch A Sketch!
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4871 "2012-03-21T23:27:26Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#):
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> Everything makes sense now: Romney is a human Etch A Sketch!
Yeah, the only thing that comes naturally is squares and rectangles. Any time he tries to round himself out it gets all jiggy.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4872 "2012-03-22T00:00:33Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> I know Sean Hannity isn’t an elected official and doesn’t speak for the Republican Party yadda yadda, but this is one of the stupidest Republican things I’ve seen…well, today.
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> [Investigative journalist ambushes Bono, grills him about tax controversy, catching him totally flat-footed and avoiding questions.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203210005) Hannity and reporter congratulate themselves on big scoop on well-known liberal advocate. Both fail to notice that interviewee is not actually Bono.
I predict that reverse ambush journalism will be the Next Big Thing.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4873 "2012-03-22T00:03:54Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#):
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> Everything makes sense now: Romney is a human Etch A Sketch!
No one ever said he was human.
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4874 "2012-03-22T00:23:21Z")
I wonder if sales of Etch-A-Sketches have increased?
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4875 "2012-03-22T01:38:14Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> I predict that reverse ambush journalism will be the Next Big Thing.
I don’t understand this comment.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4876 "2012-03-22T03:18:49Z")
Setting up “gotcha” journalists so they make fools of themselves.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4877 "2012-03-22T05:37:40Z")
That.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4878 "2012-03-22T06:27:43Z")
Finally, I can get something positive out of people always mistaking me for George Clooney! Thanks, guys!
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### Author:  [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4879 "2012-03-22T12:41:06Z")
Stupid? Yeah. Disgusting? Definitely.
John Locke Foundation (right wing NC group, funded by local asshole, Art Pope) [publishes racist, homophobic picture](http://www.artpopeexposed.com/pope_funded_locke_foundation). Do these people not know that if it’s on the internet, people other than your buddies can read it? How many times is this going to happen before they figure that out?
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4880 "2012-03-22T13:01:08Z")
You know it’d be hilarious and pathetic if that were the sum total of the political power of the right-wing. Unfortunately, there are people like George Zimmerman that are probably influenced by the underlying assumptions of such patently ridiculous pictures and form schemas that influence behaviour…
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