# 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:** 300
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5981 "2012-07-17T03:40:44Z")
I’m thinking that if people accept retroactive retirement as an excuse for whatever it was that Bain did in '99–'02 that was so bad, he’s got a perfect excuse for passing Romneycare as Governor of Massachusetts. As a Massachusetts resident, I can certainly testify that he didn’t seem to be doing any actual governing from '04 on. Can someone retroactively provide us with a Governor who wasn’t a complete douchebag for the last two years of the Romney administration? ---
**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 17, 2012, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5982 "2012-07-17T07:48:07Z")
Sheldon Adelson, the Vegas casino magnate who’s donated tens of millions to the Romney and Gingrich campaigns, is now in danger of losing his casino operator’s license. Apparently, the Nevada State Gaming Commission frowns on [business deals with the Chinese mafia.](http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/16/525131/adelson-romney-chinese-mob/) ---
**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, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5983 "2012-07-17T12:16:29Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If Romney loses the election, I wonder if he’ll retroactively suspend his campaign back to February. He could probably save a fortune; wouldn’t have to pay any staff, that sort of thing. He could channel all the contributions to RomneyPAC. And best of all, since he wasn’t a candidate, all these allegations about outsourcing would never have happened and he’d then be a viable candidate for 2016. > > He’d be a fool not to do it. The American people would be fools not to elect him, you mean. Under his leadership, the US could retroactively never have invaded Iraq or Afghanistan - how’s that for an exit strategy ? ---
**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 17, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5984 "2012-07-17T12:48:19Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > > If Romney loses the election, I wonder if he’ll retroactively suspend his campaign back to February. He could probably save a fortune; wouldn’t have to pay any staff, that sort of thing. He could channel all the contributions to RomneyPAC. And best of all, since he wasn’t a candidate, all these allegations about outsourcing would never have happened and he’d then be a viable candidate for 2016. > > > > He’d be a fool not to do it. > > The American people would be fools not to elect him, you mean. Under his leadership, the US could retroactively never have invaded Iraq or Afghanistan - how’s that for an exit strategy ? You think far too small:[ul] [li]Social Security and Medicare? Never happened.[/li][li]Pure Food & Drug Act? Never heard of it.[/li][li]40-hour work week? Poof! It’s gone.[/li][/ul] And the list keeps going, and going, and going. It’s enough to make a top-hatted capitalist lightheaded. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5985 "2012-07-17T13:11:39Z")
This Republican governor is too good looking to be gay or bi (according to her). ‘“Black women that look like me don’t engage in relationships like that,” (said) a giggling Carroll.’ > **[Florida Lt. Gov's AWKWARD Response To Sex Accusation](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jennifer-carroll-lesbian-black-women-look-like-me_n_1676937)** > > Florida Lt. Gov's AWKWARD Response To Sex Accusation ---
**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 17, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5986 "2012-07-17T13:12:59Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > You think far too small:[ul] > [li]Social Security and Medicare? Never happened.[/li][li]Pure Food & Drug Act? Never heard of it.[/li][li]40-hour work week? Poof! It’s gone.[/li][/ul] > And the list keeps going, and going, and going. It’s enough to make a top-hatted capitalist lightheaded. Still way too small. [Romney To Travel Back In Time To Kill Liberal Versions Of Himself](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE711qUrJRk) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5987 "2012-07-17T16:21:34Z")
[Today’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15281884&postcount=690) clear winner is our very own **Clothahump.** In a valiant and continuing effort to undermine the position of anyone who might possibly overestimate his intelligence, he [fails to notice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=658831) an ongoing thread on this exact quote, but he commits the exact same stupid error in massively misrepresenting the quote and taking it completely out of context. Congrats, **Clothy** , your ability to make stupid, uninformed, and misleading comments has been demonstrated yet again. ---
**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 17, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5988 "2012-07-17T16:25:30Z")
You know, we really ought to disqualify professional idiots like **Clothahump**. They have an unfair advantage. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5989 "2012-07-17T16:36:22Z")
I can’t believe this “retroactively retired” nonsense is actually happening. Sure, Romney is an inveterate liar, but if you’re going to tell such a stupid, hamfisted lie about your tenure at Bain, a lie prompted by the fact that your most significant life experience has turned out to be a liability to your political career (he previously told the same lie during his successful campaign for Mass. governor), then you really ought to have a better explanation than “I was CEO, chairman, president, and sole shareholder…but I wasn’t really in control of the company.” Really, asshole? Of course, he can always count on his butt-buddies in the media to clumsily attempt to cover for him. If Politifact and their Lie of the Year didn’t prove that our political media is broken and that the “fact check” outfits are in fact propagandistic scams meant to impart a sheen of truth and credibility to baldly partisan bullshit, then Glenn Kessler of Fact-Chuck standing up for Romney by claiming that the SEC filings were “boilerplate” and somehow less credible because the SEC source who brought the filings to the attention of the Boston Globe is a Democrat, should be the nail in the coffin. Shameless hacks all. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5990 "2012-07-17T16:52:10Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > somehow less credible because the SEC source who brought the filings to the attention of the Boston Globe is a Democrat Don’t you know that it takes less than 3 seconds of direct contact with a Democrat for his or her Librul Reality-Distortion Field to completely scramble up the contents of a Republican’s legally-mandated and oath-sworn disclosure forms? ---
**Author:** ![Jilaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jilaad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jilaad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5991 "2012-07-18T01:36:35Z")
OH MY GOD did anybody see the Joe Arpaio press conference today? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!! ---
**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 18, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5992 "2012-07-18T01:41:04Z")
> [@Jilaad](#): > > OH MY GOD did anybody see the Joe Arpaio press conference today? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!! It’s good form to provide a link than to assume that we’ all watched a press conference given by a conspiracy kook in America’s armpit. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5993 "2012-07-18T01:53:09Z")
This appears to be [today’s news conference.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gWFuOqoBBQ) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5994 "2012-07-18T01:53:22Z")
The guy is 80 years old? Has anyone explained the pension plan to him? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5995 "2012-07-18T01:57:33Z")
[http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/17/20120717arpaio-obama-birth-certificate-issue-needs-further-investigation.html](http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/17/20120717arpaio-obama-birth-certificate-issue-needs-further-investigation.html) > [@](#): > > The team also turned up information it said raised concern about whether anyone claiming to be from Hawaii was actually born there ---
**Author:** ![Jilaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jilaad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jilaad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5996 "2012-07-18T01:59:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s good form to provide a link than to assume that we’ all watched a press conference given by a conspiracy kook in America’s armpit. Well I would have, except I can’t find it on youtube. [Here](http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/17/20120717arpaio-obama-birth-certificate-issue-needs-further-investigation.html) is an article on AZcentral about it, but it doesn’t really capture the insanity. [Reading through the Fark thread](http://www.fark.com/comments/7217956/Sheriff-Joe-Arapio-to-offer-indisputable-proof-that-President-Barack-Obamas-birth-certificate-has-been-forged-in-a-press-conference-that-will-be-streamed-live-at-530-PM-ET?startid=78122741) might be better. The first Q&A question from the reporters was “Do you really expect anyone to believe this?” Another one asked why he’s investigating stuff like this when he apparently didn’t investigate 500 cases of child abuse in the county. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5997 "2012-07-18T02:24:30Z")
> [@Jilaad](#): > > The first Q&A question from the reporters was “Do you really expect anyone to believe this?” Another one asked why he’s investigating stuff like this when he apparently didn’t investigate 500 cases of child abuse in the county. Did any reporter ask them how they explain the birth announcement in the local paper shortly after the President was born? ---
**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 18, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5998 "2012-07-18T02:27:16Z")
[George W. Bush Institute Launches Book On Economic Growth](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/george-bush-institute-book-4-percent-solution_n_1678928.html?utm_hp_ref=politics%22) Well, at least the title of the book (“The 4 Percent Solution”) shows Bush’s ability to do more with less, getting by on just a bit more than half of Sherlock Holmes’ standard ration. ---
**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 18, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5999 "2012-07-18T04:20:16Z")
Can I get it on a three-for-one deal with Bill Clinton’s “The Joys of Monogamy” and Barney Frank’s “Why I Love Kissing Ladies”? ---
**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 18, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6000 "2012-07-18T10:20:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Can I get it on a three-for-one deal with Bill Clinton’s “The Joys of Monogamy” and Barney Frank’s “Why I Love Kissing Ladies”? Order now, and for no extra charge get a free copy of Mitt Romney’s “Man of the People” and Glenn Beck’s “How to Argue Logically”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=301)