# 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:** 463
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9241 "2013-04-16T23:30:42Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > When I define myself as a “pedant” for the purposes of a post, the premise is that _no_ modern (descriptive) dictionary is good enough. Shouldn’t you be writing in Latin? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9242 "2013-04-17T00:09:27Z")
He had to dumb it down for _hoi polloi._ (I’ve learned not to call it THE _hoi polloi_ when dealing with pedants. A redundant definite article, and all.) ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9243 "2013-04-17T00:13:32Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Shouldn’t you be writing in Latin? Naah. He’s really old style. If he feels that you need a smackdown, he’ll write in cuneiform. If he likes you, he might, just might, write in hieroplyphics. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9244 "2013-04-17T00:22:23Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > **Conservative radio host, Alex Jones, thinks the FBI was responsible for the Boston Marathon attack.** I had to call him on business once. He has an off-the-shelf voicemail system set up to make it appear like he has employees besides himself. I thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9245 "2013-04-17T00:47:06Z")
Once you say “Conservative radio host thinks…” everything else after that is automatically garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9246 "2013-04-17T00:55:27Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Once you say “Conservative radio host thinks…” everything else after that is automatically garbage. As a conservative radio host, I think that Argle Bargle Hassenfeffer Incorporated Mincemeat Pies Gyrating In Tuxedos. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9247 "2013-04-17T01:07:45Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > As a conservative radio host, I think that Argle Bargle Hassenfeffer Incorporated Mincemeat Pies Gyrating In Tuxedos. AM Gold, Jerry! ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9248 "2013-04-17T01:10:59Z")
> **[GOP Lawmaker Calls Women 'Vaginas' In Email](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-hansen-new-hampshire-vaginas_n_3095135?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003)** > > GOP Lawmaker Calls Women 'Vaginas' In Email New Hampshire republican Peter Hansen refers to women as “vaginas” in congressional listserv email. Then complains about being taken out of context, and accuses people who think “vagina” is a derogatory term should get their heads checked. ---
**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 17, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9249 "2013-04-17T01:24:10Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > [Peter Hansen, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Calls Women 'Vaginas' In Email To Colleagues | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/peter-hansen-new-hampshire-vaginas_n_3095135.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003) > > New Hampshire republican Peter Hansen refers to women as “vaginas” in congressional listserv email. Then complains about being taken out of context, and accuses people who think “vagina” is a derogatory term should get their heads checked. He’s a prick, but of course I don’t mean that in any derogatory way. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9250 "2013-04-17T01:29:23Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Actually I don’t know which bothers me more, Alan Keyes’ comparison between gay marriage to boogers, or that his implication that picking you nose and eating boogers should be illegal. The man’s a numbskull. Absolutely nothing he says should surprise anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9251 "2013-04-17T01:30:46Z")
We should write him. I hear the pen is mightier than the V-word. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9252 "2013-04-17T02:29:48Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > > [@TonySinclair](#): > > > > Seriously, why is this such an issue with the right wingnuts? > > Nonsense issues. > > Remember flag pins? Obama got flack for not wearing a flag pin. Meanwhile, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain were all also not wearing flag pins on a daily basis. > > But Obama got flack for it because his name sounds foreign and he’s black. > > Obama didn’t say the word terrorism, even though his white house said they were treating it as an act of terror. So it’s like a game of Simon Says. > > Obama isn’t really the President if he’s not wearing a flag pin and saying the word “terrorism”. He didn’t say Simon Says! You’re outta there! > > Nonsense issues are what the right uses against Obama because they lose on all the actual, non-nonsense issues. So they have to criticize his word choices or fashion statements. You left out my personal (or maybe “poisonal”) favorite: the [Terrorist Fist Jab](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/06/fox-news-asks-i/). ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9253 "2013-04-17T03:01:11Z")
I have apparently participated in many terrorist fist jabs in my day. Imagine my horror when Fox Fair and Balanced News came in and informed me that I was somehow supporting terrorism. I never understood how touching fists among ‘urban youth’ somehow got wound up associated with militant Islamic terrorism. They are aware that the swarthy-skinned middle easterners are not the exact same thing as the decidedly more cocoa-skinned members of the african-american community? Or is anything that isn’t white exactly the same as everything else that isn’t white according to FOX? Don’t answer that. I don’t want to know the full depths of their stupidity. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9254 "2013-04-17T09:27:55Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > New Hampshire republican Peter Hansen refers to women as “vaginas” in congressional listserv email. Then complains about being taken out of context, and accuses people who think “vagina” is a derogatory term should get their heads checked. He should tell it to his fellow Republicans in whatever-state-that-was who chucked a female state legislator out for daring to say the V-word. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9255 "2013-04-17T13:51:06Z")
Yeeaah, that was Michigan. I wish the sexist pigs would get their stories straight when it comes to lecturing the rest of us about what we should and shouldn’t be offended by. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9256 "2013-04-17T14:51:06Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > [Peter Hansen, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Calls Women 'Vaginas' In Email To Colleagues | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/peter-hansen-new-hampshire-vaginas_n_3095135.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003) > > New Hampshire republican Peter Hansen refers to women as “vaginas” in congressional listserv email. Then complains about being taken out of context, and accuses people who think “vagina” is a derogatory term should get their heads checked. Big as I am on gender equality and respect for all peoples, I’m more offended by his use of an apostrophe to form a plural. Republicans are _supposed_ to say offensive things about darkies and women and teh gheys, but they usually do so with proper grammar and syntax. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9257 "2013-04-17T15:38:56Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > is anything that isn’t white exactly the same as everything else that isn’t white according to FOX? Of course not. But militant Islamic terrorists and black American youth also both wear rags on their heads. Really, they bring it on themselves. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9258 "2013-04-17T16:54:55Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > New Hampshire republican Peter Hansen refers to women as “vaginas” in congressional listserv email. Then complains about being taken out of context, and accuses people who think “vagina” is a derogatory term should get their heads checked. So, does that mean he thinks it’s ok for us to call him a dick? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9259 "2013-04-17T17:01:34Z")
He’s presumably okay with _penis_. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9260 "2013-04-17T17:18:57Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s presumably okay with _penis_. I’m ok with calling him a penis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=462) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=464)