# 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:** 295
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5881 "2012-07-08T19:46:07Z")
He can’t have any temper. He’s still in a molten, liquid state. ---
**Author:** ![ScarletNumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@ScarletNumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScarletNumber)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5882 "2012-07-08T20:19:15Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Really? I’d say he lost his temper like a rather petulant child. He yelled at the guy, but didn’t lose control. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5883 "2012-07-08T20:46:39Z")
> [@Even seven](#): > > He yelled at the guy, but didn’t lose control. He didn’t foam at the mouth and void his bowels, but he parted from acceptable norms of behavior for interaction between elected officials and their constituents. We might wish for public servants to exhibit self control beyond that required to resist flinging their own poo. (Or anyone else’s.) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5884 "2012-07-08T20:57:20Z")
> [@Even seven](#): > > He yelled at the guy, but didn’t lose control. Yelling at people is not normal. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5885 "2012-07-08T21:11:41Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Really? I’d say he lost his temper like a rather petulant child. Tea Party types pretty much run at that setting. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5886 "2012-07-09T00:23:07Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > **[Rep. Allen West: Democratic group is Communist](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/04/allen-west-democrats-communist-party-/1)** > Initial paragraph from the story. "Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., had initially declined to name names when he said “he’s heard” that up to 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party. > > Exactly how do these people get elected? I weep. > **[Allen West: Social Security Is 'A Form Of Slavery'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allen-west-social-security-slavery_n_1657393?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D176704)** > > Allen West: Social Security Is 'A Form Of Slavery' > [@](#): > > Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) on Sunday called Social Security “a form of modern, 21st century slavery.” > > **snip** > > This isn’t the first time he’s compared U.S. social programs to slavery. Last week, he said that President Obama “does not want you to have the self-esteem of getting up and earning, and having that title of American … he’d rather you be his slave.” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5887 "2012-07-09T00:33:04Z")
My favorite comment of the day is from Reince Priebus: > [@](#): > > [The only job that we need to outsource in this country is Barack Obama’s job](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_n_1657087.html) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5888 "2012-07-09T00:37:20Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > My favorite comment of the day is from Reince Priebus: Awesome! So the morons spend the better part of four years complaining that Obama can’t be President because he’s not a natural-born citizen, and now the RNC’s Moron in Chief wants to send the job itself overseas. ---
**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 9, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5889 "2012-07-09T00:45:33Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Awesome! > > So the morons spend the better part of four years complaining that Obama can’t be President because he’s not a natural-born citizen, and now the RNC’s Moron in Chief wants to send the job itself overseas. Be a way to slash that big gummint waste, if someone can President at 10 cents an hour from a Chinese prison-slash-sweatshop. Maybe finance the campaign by farming gold in World of Warcraft. And think of the savings on oversees trips ! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5890 "2012-07-09T02:37:27Z")
By way of your good friends over at ThinkProgress, which is a leftish site so they may be making shit up but I doubt it. [http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/08/512645/romney-donor-says-lower-income-people-dont-understand-whats-going-on/](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/08/512645/romney-donor-says-lower-income-people-dont-understand-whats-going-on/) > [@](#): > > Today, Mitt Romney is holding a series of fundraisers in the Hamptons, culminating with a huge event at the home of billionaire David Koch. The LA Time in on the scene and reporter Maeve Reston caught up with a donor on her way into one of the events. > The woman, who wouldn’t reveal her name, said the following: > > “I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”… The Wall awaits. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5891 "2012-07-09T02:39:01Z")
And guys? If your parents had named you “Reince”, you’d have issues, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5892 "2012-07-09T03:09:35Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Since Google apparently knows my home state, I just now saw a Google ad (not a vid, just a clickthrough) on YouTube against incumbent US Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri)::facepalm: So, no spending on Mo? Yeah, that’ll help. > > What part of Missouri are you from that you don’t call Missouri, “Mo”? Oh, no, the ad writer’s probably somewhere else. > > Maybe they thought it would read as spending\* by \*Mo. Yeah, sure, as if. > > Guess what doesn’t sell that well (outside a subsistence-level agrarian economy) in a depression: Telling people you aren’t spending money on them or their services, so they just can’t make any money. Well, you know what they say .. Missouri money, Missouri problems ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5893 "2012-07-09T03:18:18Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The Wall awaits. Not pertinent, but I love it: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOI5H0n28qY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOI5H0n28qY) ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5894 "2012-07-09T03:51:42Z")
wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5895 "2012-07-09T15:51:14Z")
Houses of worship for me, but not for thee - CO state senator suggests banning the [construction of mosques](http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/07/07/quote_of_the_day.html). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5896 "2012-07-09T16:20:23Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Houses of worship for me, but not for thee - CO state senator suggests banning the [construction of mosques](http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/07/07/quote_of_the_day.html). I think you’re downplaying the Stupid here: > [@Kevin Grantham](#): > > Mosques are not churches like we would think of churches. They think of mosques more as a foothold into a society, as a foothold into a community, more in the cultural and in the nationalistic sense. Our churches – we don’t feel that way, they’re places of worship, and mosques are simply not that, and we need to take that into account when approving construction of those. So mosques aren’t places of worship like churches are, and churches aren’t a “foothold into a community” like mosques are. Got it. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5897 "2012-07-09T17:55:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Ahead of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, in August, the Republican Party of Sarasota County is giving Donald Trump its [“\*\*Statesman \*\*](http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/trump-statesman-of-the-year.php?ref=fpnewsfeed)of the Year” award. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5898 "2012-07-09T17:59:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > So mosques aren’t places of worship like churches are, and churches aren’t a “foothold into a community” like mosques are. Got it. I sense a certain amount of skepticism. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5899 "2012-07-09T22:10:05Z")
Jerome Corsi, of “where’s the birth certificate? Oh, wait, there it is” fame, has come up with a new explanation for Obama’s “missing” college transcripts. Apparently, his attending Columbia was just a cover story for [the time he spent as a deep-cover CIA agent in Pakistan.](http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/07/09/513284/drudge-obama-cia-agent/) WHAT. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5900 "2012-07-09T23:38:53Z")
Ha. Ha ha. Ahhhh HAHAHAHAHA! Oh, my God, stop, you’re killing me over here, what an imagination you’ve…a link. Oh. A link. Oh, dear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=294) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=296)