# 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:** 301
**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 18, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6001 "2012-07-18T11:51:11Z")
[Rush Limbaugh: New Batman movie is anti-Romney propaganda](http://www.businessinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-bain-capital-batman-bane-obama-romney2012-7) > [@](#): > > This movie, the audience is gonna be huge. A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it’s a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they’re gonna hear Bane in the movie and they’re gonna associate Bain. The thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie, “Oh, yeah, I know who that is.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6002 "2012-07-18T11:57:50Z")
How can the Republicans hope to win out over (what they think are) Democrats smart enough to plant a foreigner in America as a baby knowing that someday he would become POTUS? And now they think Democrats are smart enough to start this by having a guy create a comic book character in 1993 with a name that sounds like their POTUS nominee? How can they possibly think that Democrats are idiots, but they are smart enough and prescient enough to do things with 20 or 40 or 50 years that plant seeds to be harvested decades down the road? :smack: ---
**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 18, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6003 "2012-07-18T12:00:24Z")
Actually, upon further consideration Rush and the Republicans are just getting out in front of the obvious Bain/Bane jokes so that they can say “See? We told you they’d try to conflate the two!” Which is a smart idea disguised as a stupid one. ---
**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, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6004 "2012-07-18T12:41:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Actually, upon further consideration Rush and the Republicans are just getting out in front of the obvious Bain/Bane jokes so that they can say “See? We told you they’d try to conflate the two!” Which is a smart idea disguised as a stupid one. Which might have worked… except that [Rush apparently stole the joke from the previous night’s episode of the Daily Show.](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-16-2012/democalypse-2012---bain-damage?xrs=share_copy) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6005 "2012-07-18T13:35:22Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > How can the Republicans hope to win out over (what they think are) Democrats smart enough to plant a foreigner in America as a baby knowing that someday he would become POTUS? > > And now they think Democrats are smart enough to start this by having a guy create a comic book character in 1993 with a name that sounds like their POTUS nominee? > > How can they possibly think that Democrats are idiots, but they are smart enough and prescient enough to do things with 20 or 40 or 50 years that plant seeds to be harvested decades down the road? > > :smack: Well, the Dems have obviously learned their lesson from Batman, they’ll win if they’re prepared. ---
**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 18, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6006 "2012-07-18T14:58:25Z")
I’ll go out on a limb and assume that a right-wing publication was responsible for [this story](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/connie-schultz-sherrod-brown-reporter-email.php?m=1). > [@](#): > > A reporter’s recent attempt to sandbag Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Connie Schultz proved to be an epic failure — and the only thing saving him from public embarrassment is Schultz’s own grace. I’d quote the whole thing - it’s very short - but apart from board rules against it I’d hate to ruin the punchline for you. Do have a click - you’ll enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6007 "2012-07-18T15:28:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’ll go out on a limb and assume that a right-wing publication was responsible for [this story](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/connie-schultz-sherrod-brown-reporter-email.php?m=1). Considering the site (apparently retroactively to clarify, since the main title is still the same) added “conservative” before “blogger” to the quote and the page name, I’d say it’s a safe assumption. ---
**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 18, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6008 "2012-07-18T15:32:32Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Considering the site (apparently retroactively to clarify, since the main title is still the same) added “conservative” before “blogger” to the quote and the page name, I’d say it’s a safe assumption. Heh - it was actually “reporter” (as per my quote, which was a C&P from the article as was) before becoming “conservative blogger”. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6009 "2012-07-18T16:12:14Z")
And another would-be Breitbart goes down in – well, “flames” is rather too grand for this sort of idiot-level screwup, innit? More like stepping in dogpoo and not realizing it till you’re trying to crash the party. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6010 "2012-07-18T16:17:41Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I can’t believe this “retroactively retired” nonsense is actually happening. > [@vonMises](#): > > But we need not carry the analysis further. For what are we confronted with but the capitalist order of society—the only form of economy in which strict application of the principle of the personal responsibility of every individual citizen is possible. > [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > And now they think Democrats are smart enough to start this by having a guy create a comic book character in 1993 with a name that sounds like their POTUS nominee? To be fair, they could have been engaging in a diabolical plot to detract from Bill Bain’s presidential run and were ousted in that attempt by his not engaging directly in politics. Oh and I engaged in a bit of [childish nonsense](http://i.imgur.com/phDNP.png) for ten seconds in MSPaint… “_Why not put us into liquidation?_” “_Your punishment must be more severe…_” As far as I can divine from the Dark Knight Rises ads though, it seems to be a polemic against polemic uprisings and the necessity of charismatic magnanimous entrepreneurs for society. Lordy knows there are no objectivists in comics. Wonder how Rush would respond to a well written Green Arrow film? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6011 "2012-07-18T17:13:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > How can the Republicans hope to win out over (what they think are) Democrats smart enough to plant a foreigner in America as a baby knowing that someday he would become POTUS? > > And now they think Democrats are smart enough to start this by having a guy create a comic book character in 1993 with a name that sounds like their POTUS nominee? > > How can they possibly think that Democrats are idiots, but they are smart enough and prescient enough to do things with 20 or 40 or 50 years that plant seeds to be harvested decades down the road? > > :smack: Because we are that good! 😃 Dear Republicans, You know what, I’ll level with you. The birth certificate IS fake. Obama was grown in a vat not more than 10 years ago through cloning processes derived from aborted fetus stem cells. We went back in time to plant the newspaper birth announcement. Everyone in Kenya got paid off with taxpayer funds to hush up about his real birthplace (wait, didn’t I just say he was grown in a vat? That’s how good we are, Obama is a natural born Kenyan AND a 10 year old clone). Don’t fuck with us. Now that you know this, you know how powerful we are and the lengths we’ll go to in order to keep him in office. Rush serves as a good reminder of how stupid conservatives are, but he can easily be aborted by using our time machine. Let’s be reasonable. We’re smart enough and ruthless enough to do all of this, plus remove all traces of WMD from Iraq right under Bush’s nose. You WANT people this brilliant to run the country. You know we are just that damn good. So don’t fight it. We’ll acknowledge all of this in Obama’s presidential memoirs because by the time he’s done being president, we’ll have Universal Health Care, welfare mothers will be all given Cadillacs, and NPR and CNN will team up to form a 24 hour porn channel of miscegenous sex in order to eliminate the white race through abortions and race mixing. Then you guys can have the country back, we’ll have accomplished our ultimate goal. Until then, don’t make us use the time machine to kill Reagan. Infecting him with Alzheimers was hard enough, don’t make that effort worthless Thanks, Liberals ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6012 "2012-07-18T17:16:48Z")
The idea underneath a secret conspiracy is that it remain secret. Nice work. You will be eaten first! ---
**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 18, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6013 "2012-07-18T17:29:52Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Do have a click - you’ll enjoy it. I chuckled. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6014 "2012-07-18T17:58:17Z")
> [@](#): > > …I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He’s really cute. > > He’s also my husband… Things like this undermine the institution of marriage as is properly understood, being the legal merger of two people who cannot stand one another. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6015 "2012-07-18T18:29:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Do have a click - you’ll enjoy it. She should have strung him along for a while instead of being gracious, you know, just for fun. ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6016 "2012-07-18T19:07:10Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [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) It just gets [better and better](http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/2012/07/heriff-joe-arpaios-posse-now-has-hard.html): > [@](#): > > Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s posse went to Hawaii and tracked down the 95 year-old registrar, Verna K. Lee, who stamped and signed Obama’s original birth certificate. They asked Lee about the meaning of the penciled in numbers next to the information on the birth certificate. These numbers are codes used for entry into a census computer database… > > Members of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s posse said in March that there was probable cause that Obama’s long-form birth certificate released by the White House in April 2011 was a computer-generated forgery… So… it’s a computer-generated forgery with pencil annotations used to enter the information into the computer? 😕 (Of course, it’s not hard to crack the sooper sekrit code Arpaio is seeing on Obama’s birth certificate: “N1993R”) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6017 "2012-07-18T19:52:54Z")
What country was Giuseppe Arpaio born in? And can we send him back there? Wikipedia says Massachusetts, but I hear it’s “unreliable.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6018 "2012-07-18T20:21:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [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. Note that it’s actually a plea for 4% economic growth. How do they hope to get there? > [@Jamie Stengle in HuffPost](#): > > Glassman said ideas in the book for stimulating the economy include broad tax reform that would keep taxes low – extending the Bush-era tax cuts, broadening the tax base by getting rid of special exemptions and loopholes, taxing consumption rather than income and lowering corporate taxes. He said the book also touches on immigration policy and its effect on the economy, advocating for a policy that would help “attract the smartest people from around the world.” A consumption tax? Targeted immigration? You’re going to get 4% growth from those things? Tell me about your chocolate and booze weight-loss diet! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6019 "2012-07-18T20:24:16Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > What country was Giuseppe Arpaio born in? And can we send him back there? Wikipedia says Massachusetts, but I hear it’s “unreliable.” Massachusetts is sometimes unreliable, what with electing Romney and all. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6020 "2012-07-18T20:25:22Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > …Tell me about your chocolate and booze weight-loss diet! Avoid them. A strict diet of brown rice, tofu, and raw vegetables will guarantee you lose weight. And the will to live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=300) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=302)