# 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:** 346
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6901 "2012-09-18T23:15:07Z")
> [@lance strongarm](#): > > Do you? Do I what? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6902 "2012-09-18T23:33:26Z")
> [@j666](#): > > However, I admit that I have not read the book. I admit political autobiographies don’t appeal to me. Is it a good book? _Dreams From my Father_ is a very good book. It is not a political autobiography, since it was written before Barack Obama had begun his political career, and tells the story of his life up to when he attended law school. It is primarily a story about forming an identity while growing up bi-racial and fatherless. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6903 "2012-09-19T00:50:02Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > No, the job title alone is not capitalized. When it’s paired with the job holder it is capitalized, thus “the president” vs “President Obama.” The job title would also be capitalized when you’re referring specifically to the title (“President of the United States”). ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6904 "2012-09-19T01:18:18Z")
Again thanks to the wonderful Rachel Maddow for this. After Romney’s tape excerpt came out, he said that he wanted the full tape released, so people could see the context. It’s now out, and we see that he not only has contempt for half the electorate, but he doesn’t know the difference between a nuclear bomb and a dirty bomb. Best of all, after criticizing Obama for failure to lead in solving the crises in the Middle East, he reveals his plan for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “We sort of live with it. And we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately somehow, something will happen to resolve it.” I accept in advance the apologies of everyone who said he never gives specifics. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6905 "2012-09-19T01:24:03Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > _Dreams From my Father_ is a very good book. It is not a political autobiography, since it was written before Barack Obama had begun his political career, and tells the story of his life up to when he attended law school. It is primarily a story about forming an identity while growing up bi-racial and fatherless. Thank you. I may read it. So, in the section quoted - did he come to accept his grandfather? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6906 "2012-09-19T02:59:34Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The job title would also be capitalized when you’re referring specifically to the title (“President of the United States”). Especially when you are sending the nameplate out for engraving. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6907 "2012-09-19T13:32:39Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Again thanks to the wonderful Rachel Maddow for this. Maddow? Credit goes to Mother Jones (magazine). ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6908 "2012-09-19T13:33:42Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Especially when you are sending the nameplate out for engraving. Romney doesn’t send out engraving jobs. He owns his own engraving company. He keeps it in a basement of one of his mansions. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6909 "2012-09-19T13:40:14Z")
[Pat Buchanan calls the President “a drug dealer of welfare”.](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81385.html) Anybody want to start a betting pool on the name and date of the first one of these guys to slip and say “n_gg_r” on camera? (Admittedly, we need to come up with a definition of who is sufficiently “respectable” to qualify as one of “these guys” to distinguish them from the element that is already doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6910 "2012-09-19T13:51:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Every time I think Mitt Romney can’t shove his foot deeper into his mouth, he just unhinges his jaw like the snake he is and jams it in a little further. How to torment the American Right: Have them nominate a candidate too stupid to know that alienating 47% of the electorate across all party lines 45 days before an election assures a Loss. The cherry on top? _You Paid For It All Folks!_ (… and not at bargain basement prices either.) 😃 ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6911 "2012-09-19T13:54:14Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > How to torment the American Right: > > Have them nominate a candidate too stupid to know that alienating 47% of the electorate across all party lines 45 days before an election assures a Loss. > > The cherry on top? > > _You Paid For It All Folks!_ > (… and not at bargain basement prices either.) 😃 The big screen at Romney headquarters where the returns come in ought to bear a big “WE BUILT THAT” banner. 😛 :smack: ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6912 "2012-09-19T13:59:18Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Pat Buchanan calls the President “a drug dealer of welfare”.](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81385.html) > > Anybody want to start a betting pool on the name and date of the first one of these guys to slip and say “n_gg_r” on camera? (Admittedly, we need to come up with a definition of who is sufficiently “respectable” to qualify as one of “these guys” to distinguish them from the element that is already doing so. This seems to have been page 1 in the new Republican playbook: when bad things happen, own them and see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6913 "2012-09-19T21:54:27Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Do I what? Will I _what_? Oh baby, you know what I like! Heh heh heh heh … ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6914 "2012-09-19T23:05:16Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Maddow? Credit goes to Mother Jones (magazine). Which [got it from James Carter IV,](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/19/jimmy-carters-grandson-on-role-in-leaked-mitt-video-poetic-justice/) grandson of President Jimmy Carter. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6915 "2012-09-19T23:43:01Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Maddow? Credit goes to Mother Jones (magazine). Credit goes to MJ for posting the entire video, which I don’t have the time or patience to watch. Credit, from me at least, goes to Maddow for airing short excerpts I found very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6916 "2012-09-20T13:26:01Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Credit goes to MJ for posting the entire video, which I don’t have the time or patience to watch. Credit, from me at least, goes to Maddow for airing short excerpts I found very interesting. Okay. But MJ didn’t just post the whole video - it located the source of the video and got him/her to agree to release it (despite the possibility the source could be prosecuted for it.) Maddow just has a big show that you happen to watch. Just giving journalistic credit where it’s due. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6917 "2012-09-20T13:27:52Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Which [got it from James Carter IV,](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/19/jimmy-carters-grandson-on-role-in-leaked-mitt-video-poetic-justice/) grandson of President Jimmy Carter. Carter helped, but he wasn’t the source. MJ negotiated directly with the source too. Partial credit to him. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6918 "2012-09-21T07:53:50Z")
I’m sure this is old news, but [there are right-wingers posting](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCnc3dG8PSU&feature=related) many [bizarre things on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4IA8TKAbsA&feature=fvwrel). The first link is a FoxNews segment denouncing Obama for reading Harry Potter to his daughters. The second link (which _must be_ just anti-right satire, right?) shows Bill Clinton speaking on FoxNews, but slowed down 20x and with a cartoon figure superimposed – it proves Clinton is reptilian. I did _not_ go to YouTube looking for right-wing jokes. I was looking for 1930’s movies, came to _The House of Rothschild (1934)_, which was just one click away from _OBAMA; THE ROTHSCHILDS CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT_, and so on… ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6919 "2012-09-21T10:40:27Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > The first link is a FoxNews segment denouncing Obama for reading Harry Potter to his daughters. It’s not surprising given that [Republicans don’t approve of people reading](http://www.examiner.com/article/gop-rep-says-he-will-cut-scientific-funding-because-scientists-read-too-much): > [@](#): > > Footage has been uncovered of North Carolina Republican State Sen. David Rouzer stating that he wishes to defund the Department of Energy because people there read books. > > In specific the senator said: > > _When I served in the executive branch for about a year and a half, and I learned how the bureaucrats operate. It gives me a lot of insight into how to defund them and get rid of them. When I went over to the Department of Energy one day, you walk down the hall and most of them who are drawing 6-figure salaries are sitting there reading books._ Admittedly I’m assuming that they were reading material relevant to work rather than, say, _Fifty Shades of Grey_. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6920 "2012-09-21T13:24:01Z")
Is he complaining because employees are sitting around reading and not working? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=345) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=347)