# 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:** 456
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9101 "2013-03-29T12:01:10Z")
I do like Sandra, but her habit of matching her kitchen to her outfit is just weird. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9102 "2013-03-29T12:16:00Z")
“Look at me, I’m Sandra Lee / Lousy with virgin-it-ee …” ---
**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:** [March 29, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9103 "2013-03-29T13:22:16Z")
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) [reaches out to latinos:](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/28/republican-rep-don-young-refers-to-latinos-using-racial-slur/) > [@](#): > > Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), in an interview with a local radio station released Thursday, referred to Latinos working on a ranch by using the derogatory term “wetbacks.” > > “My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 or 60 wetbacks and — to pick tomatoes,” Young said in the interview with KRBD. “You know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.” ---
**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:** [March 29, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9104 "2013-03-29T16:23:52Z")
[North Carolina Lawmaker wants a 2-Year waiting period for divorce.](http://www.salon.com/2013/03/29/north_carolina_lawmaker_wants_to_impose_a_two_year_waiting_period_for_divorce/) I guess he wants to help promote gun sales in the Tarheel State. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9105 "2013-03-29T16:42:52Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) [reaches out to latinos:](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/28/republican-rep-don-young-refers-to-latinos-using-racial-slur/) You all have to check out Jon Stewart piece on the GOP messaging effort: [Comedy Central The Daily Show Fan Page](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-26-2013/pimp-my-right) I cannot avoid bursting out laughing at Stewart’s Reince “Drunk Muppet” Priebus impression every time. Especially this: “Remember when you tell a gay person that their love is too unnatural for society to recognize… Smile!” Stewart’s delivery of that bit is comedic genius. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9106 "2013-03-29T19:05:24Z")
If there is one thing that you remember, one thing that you take away with you after watching that video, it must be this: druppets. Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! That’s genius! ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9107 "2013-03-30T00:40:10Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I think it’s a \*Mark Trail \*kind of role. Find bad guys in the woods and punch them. If that isn’t an actual position, it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9108 "2013-03-30T01:03:48Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) [reaches out to latinos:](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/28/republican-rep-don-young-refers-to-latinos-using-racial-slur/) Don Young has been an embarrassment to Alaska and to anybody with any sort of decency for decades now. I hate that fucker and everything he stands for. I met the asshole when I was on business in Ft. Yukon once (where his wife was from) and refused to have my photo taken with him. His temper tantrums, rants, inappropriate comments, failure to show up for extensive numbers of votes, pandering to anyone who will give him money, and his general assholishness have made him dead to me. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9109 "2013-03-31T14:51:12Z")
[I nominate State Senator Dan Shooter](http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/yuma/state-senator-don-shooter-barges-into-yuma-classroom-apologizes) for Stupid Republican of the Day. He found a unique way to convince a school system that there should be armed guards in schools. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9110 "2013-03-31T19:18:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [I nominate State Senator Dan Shooter](http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/yuma/state-senator-don-shooter-barges-into-yuma-classroom-apologizes) for Stupid Republican of the Day. He found a unique way to convince a school system that there should be armed guards in schools. So, a Shooter barged into a classroom… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9111 "2013-03-31T19:22:14Z")
If there was any justice, all the kids woulda been packing heat and he would now be riddled with bullets. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9112 "2013-03-31T20:00:23Z")
Would also solve the problem of over-crowded classrooms. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9113 "2013-04-01T02:58:39Z")
OK, so Google included a picture of Cesar Chavez. His birthday today. Most of you won’t have to look him up, farm labor organizer and Hispanic American leader. You wouldn’t get him mixed up with Hugh Chavez. But they did. Bad enough Google doesn’t honor Easter or Overpass, they have to go out of their way to stick their thumb in the eye of decent Americans by honoring Marxist Hugo Chavez… Story with toothsome examples at _Daily Kos_… > **[GOP Rebranding update: All 'Chavez's' look alike](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/03/31/1198276/-GOP-Rebranding-update-All-Chavez-s-look-alike)** > > Google celebrates Cesar Chavez Day with this: > > > > The Right wing then forgets that they're supposed to pretend to like brown people and lose their collective heads over the search engine featuring a ... ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9114 "2013-04-01T03:08:15Z")
So… Google is Republican? Google is a stupid idea? Or is Hugo Chavez, or maybe Cesar, the Republican? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9115 "2013-04-01T03:20:11Z")
If there’s one thing Google always celebrates, it’s Marxist dictators. But then again, don’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9116 "2013-04-01T04:34:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Boyo Jim > > So… Google is Republican? Google is a stupid idea? Or is Hugo Chavez, or maybe Cesar, the Republican? Google put up a drawing of Cesar Chavez. Some republican’s got angry at google because they thought it was a picture of Hugo Chavez (and because they celebrated Cesar Chavez day instead of Easter Sunday). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9117 "2013-04-01T12:35:25Z")
They only think it’s Hugo Chavez because they don’t know what Cesar Chavez looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9118 "2013-04-01T13:12:13Z")
Well, he was a union guy, isn’t that every bit as bad as a dictator? Besides, all those brown people look alike. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9119 "2013-04-01T13:52:28Z")
> [@keeganst94](#): > > Google put up a drawing of Cesar Chavez. Some republican’s got angry at google because they thought it was a picture of Hugo Chavez (and because they celebrated Cesar Chavez day instead of Easter Sunday). And if Google had put up an Easter doodle, the same Republicans would have been bitching about it being disrespectful. Here’s wishing their Easter eggs don’t get found until Arbor Day. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9120 "2013-04-01T15:56:31Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) [reaches out to latinos:](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/28/republican-rep-don-young-refers-to-latinos-using-racial-slur/) Baby steps. Give them a few decades, and they’ll learn to reach out with more than one finger. That said, the GOP is multi-talented, [reaching out to gays with the same finesse](http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/georgia-gop-chair-warns-that-straight-people-will): > [@](#): > > Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are legally permitted, there will be nothing to stop a straight person from exploiting the system in order to claim marital benefits… > > Everhart also expressed a distaste for homosexuality, which she argued is unnatural. > > “Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this, but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married,” Everhart said. “If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=455) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=457)