# 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:** 504
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10061 "2013-07-16T21:16:45Z")
Ken “I’m going to get into your cooch” Cuccinelli, having not learned from the GOP “skewed polls” debacle in 2012, creates his own [fictional poll](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/07/16/gop_candidate_for_governor_of_virginia_releases_fantasy_poll_to_prove_he.html) after the real [PPP poll](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/07/democrats-lead-in-virginia.html#more) has him trailing by 4%. And get this, he called his fictional poll the “RRR” poll, because the man with “cooch” in his name is nothing but juvenile. However, the best part is the [actual link](http://www.cuccinelli.com/cuccinelli-increases-lead-in-latest-rrr-poll/?utm_content=buffer7a499&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer) on Ken’s official website that reads like a 3rd grader’s playground rant: > [@](#): > > “I’m not one to boast, but I truly believe we have something cooking here at RRR,” said Chris LaCivita, the firm’s founder and chief pollster. “It makes it a lot easier to get up in the morning when you’re able to constantly find favorable polling numbers without having to worry about accuracy.” > [@](#): > > Our poll also shows everyone loves Ken Cuccinelli, and everyone dislikes Terry McAuliffe – they just don’t know what to believe about him. > [@](#): > > Note: There is no margin of error, since RRR only produces error free surveys – and unlike PPP or DDD – we poll those actually voting (as we think that’s important). ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10062 "2013-07-16T21:27:46Z")
But, but, but… OK, wait, they’re not serious. You scared me for a minute there. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10063 "2013-07-16T21:44:18Z")
I get the impression that Ken “I’m going to get into your cooch” Cuccinelli was trying out the role of Ken “I’m going to get stick my tongue between your cheeks” Cuccinelli. As in a sort of tongue-in-cheek dig at PPP and his opponents with some added puffery. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10064 "2013-07-17T16:56:57Z")
Sen. Lindsey Graham R, S.C. wants the US to consider boycotting the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi if Russia gives Snowden asylum. Plus Putin is a really bad guy for other stuff. [No really.](http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/17/19510080-graham-us-should-consider-olympic-boycott-over-possible-snowden-asylum?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=6) I don’t disagree with his characterization of Putin’s actions in Iran, Syria, etc. But making Snowden the casus belli? I mean, an Olympic boycott worked so well last time. Boycott in 1980, withdrawal in 1989. Clearly an effective tool of realpolitik! ---
**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 17, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10065 "2013-07-17T17:09:43Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Ken “I’m going to get into your cooch” Cuccinelli, having not learned from the GOP “skewed polls” debacle in 2012, creates his own [fictional poll](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/07/16/gop_candidate_for_governor_of_virginia_releases_fantasy_poll_to_prove_he.html) after the real [PPP poll](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/07/democrats-lead-in-virginia.html#more) has him trailing by 4%. > > And get this, he called his fictional poll the “RRR” poll, because the man with “cooch” in his name is nothing but juvenile. However, the best part is the [actual link](http://www.cuccinelli.com/cuccinelli-increases-lead-in-latest-rrr-poll/?utm_content=buffer7a499&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer) on Ken’s official website that reads like a 3rd grader’s playground rant: That’s actually pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10066 "2013-07-17T19:23:19Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I get the impression that Ken “I’m going to get into your cooch” Cuccinelli was trying out the role of Ken “I’m going to get stick my tongue between your cheeks” Cuccinelli. As in a sort of tongue-in-cheek dig at PPP and his opponents with some added puffery. I don’t think that tongue’s going anywhere… [Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Campaigns On Effort To Restore Ban On Oral Sex](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/17/2315251/virginia-cuccinelli-oral-sex/) Say :o. ---
**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 17, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10067 "2013-07-17T23:35:54Z")
All this talk of banning blowjobs etc. is small potatoes. It’s not like a Republican is advocating any really radical. Like [banning compulsory education](http://www.senatesite.com/home/compulsory-education/), for example. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10068 "2013-07-17T23:41:35Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > I don’t think that tongue’s going anywhere… > > [Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Campaigns On Effort To Restore Ban On Oral Sex](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/17/2315251/virginia-cuccinelli-oral-sex/) > Say :o. This is from a guy who would suck a goat’s pecker once a day for a month if he thought it would make him President. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10069 "2013-07-18T02:42:39Z")
And the Cooch is the same guy that prosecuted [del]Galileo[/del] Michael Mann > **[The Embarrassing Political Grandstanding of Ken Cuccinelli](https://reason.com/2013/05/06/the-embarrassing-political-grandstanding/)** > > If conservative hero Cuccinelli loses his bid for the Virginia governorship, he may have only himself to blame. > [@](#): > > Three years ago, the attorney general launched an investigation of climatologist Michael Mann. This considerably raised Cuccinelli’s stock among movement conservatives who consider global warming a communist plot. > > The attorney general, however, claimed to be concerned about possible fraud. His argument: that Mann might have obtained grants by relying on work he knew to be bogus. In pursuit of that proposition, Cuccinelli demanded copies of emails Mann wrote while employed by the University of Virginia. This was not long after the Climategate scandal broke, and Cuccinelli may have been trying to replicate it. > > To pry the emails loose, Cuccinelli issued a civil investigative demand, hanging his hat on Virginia’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA). Among other things, that statute – like other parts of the Code of Virginia – protects whistleblowers from retaliation. The trouble was that using FATA against Mann required a remarkably elastic interpretation of the law. Essentially, Cuccinelli argued that (1) Mann took state money, and (2) Mann’s work has been questioned by others, therefore (3) the state could investigate whether Mann had perpetrated a fraud. On that basis, you could investigate nearly any academic who does original research. > > As one of the courts that ruled against Cuccinelli noted, the attorney general could not identify the precise nature of the conduct that constituted the putative fraud. After all, Mann did the work for which he was paid; it’s not as if he spent his grant money on hookers and booze. And, in fact, Cuccinelli went so far as to say he was not alleging any wrongful conduct at all. He was, he said, “simply trying to . . . determine whether or not fraud had been committed.” Bet he can get you a great deal on a bridge in Brooklyn, too. As it is obligatory to say, repeated investigations showed that climategate was a manufactured scandal, and later research by skeptical scientists showed that Mann and others were correct. Guys like Cuccinelli, that doesn’t care to waste taxpayers money seeking to prosecute scientists like a modern day Lysenko, need to be confronted. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10070 "2013-07-18T08:34:55Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > All this talk of banning blowjobs etc. is small potatoes. It’s not like a Republican is advocating any really radical. > > Like [banning compulsory education](http://www.senatesite.com/home/compulsory-education/), for example. That’s not stupid. It’s how they’ll get their next crop of republican voters. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10071 "2013-07-18T14:16:21Z")
I’ve never heard of any young people who are anti-oral sex. Wait for it… ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10072 "2013-07-18T19:16:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > This is from a guy who would suck a goat’s pecker once a day for a month if he thought it would make him President. “I can’t believe that goat lied to me!” — \*Ken Cuccinelli \* ---
**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, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10073 "2013-07-18T23:18:26Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > “I can’t believe that goat lied to me!” — \*Ken Cuccinelli \* “That goat doesn’t love you!” --Weird Al, “Jerry Springer” ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10074 "2013-07-19T21:25:15Z")
[Well, this bullshit again.](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/19/usa-fiscal-cantor-idUSL1N0FP1E520130719?feedType=RSS&feedName=marketsNews&rpc=43) No budget talks until Dems drop demands for higher taxes. Of course, the well is already poisoned because obviously the Dems are demanding higher taxes just because that’s what Dems do. But given that it’s an act of faith among Republicans that raising taxes will cause the job creators to simply hang out on the beach drinking margaritas, thus sending the economy into a tailspin, there are a couple of interesting points in this article. The first is that the Republicans grudgingly accepted some token tax increases last December. The second point is that far from the economy auguring into the ground, tax receipts from an improving economy were much greater than expected in June, thus putting off the day of reckoning for the next budget by several weeks. Someone with a slightly open mind might concede that this is evidence that there’s room for a very tiny bit of compromise on the revenue front. But instead, we’re apparently going to be playing economic games of chicken with Cantor envisioning himself in the James Dean role. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10075 "2013-07-20T00:20:46Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > …games of chicken with Cantor envisioning himself in the James Dean role. Heh, heh. You’re _old!_ Heh. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10076 "2013-07-21T00:42:30Z")
Oh, Ann, Ann, Ann! You should at least make an effort to sound less racist. It just doesn’t look good on you. > [@Ann Coulter](#): > > Perhaps, someday, blacks will win the right to be treated like volitional human beings. But not yet. All the usual tightie rightie warnings: [http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2013/07/17/to-avoid-looking-like-a-criminal-dont-commit-a-crime-n1643187/page/2](http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2013/07/17/to-avoid-looking-like-a-criminal-dont-commit-a-crime-n1643187/page/2) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10077 "2013-07-21T01:18:54Z")
I don’t know what this means: _volitional_ human beings? Blacks wish they were human? Maybe someday if you behave, we’ll treat you like human beings? :eek: 😕☹ ---
**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:** [July 21, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10078 "2013-07-21T02:40:16Z")
Volitional creatures are those whose brains are developed enough that they can make conscious decisions. It’s an old concept used to separate human beings from animals, from back when it was believed that all animal behavior was instinctual. So no, she does not consider blacks human, and came out and baldly said it, in print for all to see. Klansmen are not always so direct. It’s almost refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10079 "2013-07-21T04:50:30Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > This is from a guy who would suck a goat’s pecker once a day for a month if he thought it would make him President. Well, to be fair, what red-blooded American wouldn’t? If only it were that easy! IRL, becoming POTUS is a **lot** more trouble than that! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10080 "2013-07-21T06:25:19Z")
OK, I got a gun, and you got ten seconds to decide: suck off a goat, or boink Ann Coulter. Nine, eight, seven… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=503) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=505)