# 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:** 585
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11681 "2013-11-11T21:54:51Z")
I am pretty sure that Sarah Palin would embody a thread of stupid Republican ideas, if we expand what an idea is to include her blather. Here we go with how she responds to another “Gotcha” question from the lamestream Lieberal Media Today Show: > [@](#): > > When asked by Matt Lauer about her alternative plan, Palin gave a rambling answer… > > “The plan is to allow those things that had been proposed over many years to reform a health-care system in America that certainly does need more help so that there’s more competition, there’s less tort reform threat, there’s less trajectory of the cost increases, and those plans have been proposed over and over again,” Palin said. > > While Palin struggled to explain what a conservative alternative to Obamacare would look like, she made it clear that she dislikes the Affordable Care Act. > > “And what thwarts those plans? It’s the far left,” she said “It’s President Obama and his supporters who will not allow the Republicans to usher in free market, patient-centered, doctor-patient relationship links to reform health care.” > > [TMP](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sarah-palin-offers-her-obamacare-alternative) ---
**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:** [November 11, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11682 "2013-11-11T22:05:06Z")
Listening to Sarah Palin reminds me of what H.L. Mencken said about listening to Warren G Harding: > [@](#): > > “It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.” ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11683 "2013-11-11T22:19:20Z")
I guess the Pubbies were right. She is presidential material after all. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11684 "2013-11-11T22:53:52Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > …The thread topic deserves real beef: [The _Atlantic_ has an interesting article “What If Rand Paul Were a Woman?”](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-if-rand-paul-were-a-woman/281258/) suggesting the junior senator from Kentucky gets a pass on his stupidities because he’s male. If she were a woman, the debate would focus on the dichotomy “Pretty vs. Pretty Dumb.” Thank you for sharing this link, **septimus**. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11685 "2013-11-11T23:42:01Z")
> [@detop](#): > > I guess the Pubbies were right. She is presidential material after all. I know, it’s like W had gender-reassignment surgery. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11686 "2013-11-12T00:11:15Z")
Laura would just shrug and say “Yeah, sure. Whatever.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11687 "2013-11-12T03:51:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Laura would just shrug and say “Yeah, sure. Whatever.” . . . whenever W asks for sex. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11688 "2013-11-12T23:57:04Z")
> **[The FDA Is ‘Coming After Your Doughnuts,’ Rand Paul Warns (VIDEO)](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/the-fda-is-coming-after-your-doughnuts-rand-paul-warns-video)** > > Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the Food and Drug Administration’s “nanny state”... **The FDA Is ‘Coming After Your Doughnuts,’ Rand Paul Warns** > [@](#): > > . . . . some unelected bureaucrat has banned trans fats, . . . Soon, we’ll all be forced to eat fruits and vegetables. THE HORROR!! Maybe doughnuts will be the big issue of 2016. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11689 "2013-11-13T00:02:21Z")
Hey, if you want to keep your heart-attack doughnuts, you can! Period! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11690 "2013-11-13T00:34:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Listening to Sarah Palin reminds me of what H.L. Mencken said about listening to Warren G Harding: I’ve pondered this before, but I’m wondering if the people who were fervently behind Sarah back in 2008 look back as if recovering from some feverish dream and wonder what they could have been thinking? I’m sure that there’s a core constituency who still adores her, but by now, it’s pretty clear that she was the textbook case of an emperor with no clothes (or at least no clothes that weren’t bought by the Republican party and never returned). So if you were one of those Sarah supporters, do you now question your core beliefs? Or do you rationalize it by saying that “Well, she wouldn’t have been as bad as Obama.”? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11691 "2013-11-13T00:42:52Z")
Were there any such here? I mean, **Vinny** and \*\*BG \*\*were all about her, but only because she was so _hawt_! Pervs. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11692 "2013-11-13T00:44:26Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I’ve pondered this before, but I’m wondering if the people who were fervently behind Sarah back in 2008 look back as if recovering from some feverish dream and wonder what they could have been thinking? As Rachel Maddow observed, “Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11693 "2013-11-13T00:52:07Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I’ve pondered this before, but I’m wondering if the people who were fervently behind Sarah back in 2008 look back as if recovering from some feverish dream and wonder what they could have been thinking? I’m sure that there’s a core constituency who still adores her, but by now, it’s pretty clear that she was the textbook case of an emperor with no clothes (or at least no clothes that weren’t bought by the Republican party and never returned). So if you were one of those Sarah supporters, do you now question your core beliefs? Or do you rationalize it by saying that “Well, she wouldn’t have been as bad as Obama.”? I doubt you’ll find many of your target audience in here to ponder your question. Might make for a good stand-alone thread, but even then… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11694 "2013-11-13T01:01:39Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [The FDA Is ‘Coming After Your Doughnuts,’ Rand Paul Warns (VIDEO) - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/the-fda-is-coming-after-your-doughnuts-rand-paul-warns-video) > > **The FDA Is ‘Coming After Your Doughnuts,’ Rand Paul Warns** > > Soon, we’ll all be forced to eat fruits and vegetables. > THE HORROR!! > > Maybe doughnuts will be the big issue of 2016. Homer Simpson in 2016! Vote Glomocrat! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11695 "2013-11-13T01:02:40Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Were there any such here? I mean, **Vinny** and \*\*BG \*\*were all about her, but only because she was so _hawt_! Pervs. Once again: I’d **go** with Sarah Palin, but I’d be thinking of Tina Fey. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11696 "2013-11-13T01:03:06Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Were there any such here? I mean, **Vinny** and \*\*BG \*\*were all about her, but only because she was so _hawt_! Pervs. Well, I was more wondering about all those folk out in America’s great heartland. You know, the salt of the earth, etc, etc… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11697 "2013-11-13T03:40:27Z")
[Latest antichoicers’ tactic](http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14347/antiabortion-christian-activist-urges-false-imprisonment-of-women-seeking-abortions) (though it probably comes under the heading of “evil,” not “stupid”): Volunteer to drive women to the abortion clinic, then don’t take them but spend the drive preaching. “And hey even if you can’t change her mind by the time she gets out of your car and realizes she is at a church and not the clinic she’s missed her appointment anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11698 "2013-11-13T06:41:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Once again: I’d **go** with Sarah Palin, but I’d be thinking of Tina Fey. You can tell them apart because Tina Fey is the one who is still hot after she opens her mouth. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11699 "2013-11-13T07:30:32Z")
Also, she blinks. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2013, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11700 "2013-11-13T10:30:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Listening to Sarah Palin reminds me of what H.L. Mencken said about listening to Warren G Harding: I prefer what [Charlie Pierce said about Palin herself](http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/palin-compares-federal-debt-to-slavery-111113): > [@Charlie Pierce](#): > > Here do we find the place where subjects and verbs do not merely fail to agree, but actively lay clubs upon each other until English grammar lies bleeding and helpless in the middle of a cornfield. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=584) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=586)