# 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:** 636
**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:** [February 9, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12701 "2014-02-09T10:47:41Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > I have a friend who works on the Sink campaign. Late last I Googled her website and that was the first hit. When I saw it I fired off an e-mail to my friend who said they were aware of it and unworried. Today, the site was 404’d when I tried to go to it. > > The disclosures on the internet and newspaper articles about the GOP’s nationwide series of fake websites may have embarrassed the GOP into abandoning the effort. If so, they should have seen this result and it makes a really fine example of a stupid GOP idea. Do you have any other friends involved in other massive scam operations, particularly ones targeting not only people’s money but their representation in our government? Or is the one dishonest scumsucker of a friend enough? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12702 "2014-02-09T11:07:21Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Do you have any other friends involved in other massive scam operations, particularly ones targeting not only people’s money but their representation in our government? Or is the one dishonest scumsucker of a friend enough? Either you read the above poster wrong, or you believe that Congressman Sink’s campaign is a massive scam operation. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12703 "2014-02-09T11:11:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Either you read the above poster wrong, or you believe that Congressman Sink’s campaign is a massive scam operation. Ah yeah, I thought he was referring to the fake webpages, not to the real Sink campaign. And so I thought it was weird that **BAB** , who is one of the most prolific posters at finding crazy shit that Republicans are doing, would have this friend. 😕 I couldn’t understand why **Bucky** would have this friend at all, ya know what I’m saying’? ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12704 "2014-02-09T13:06:42Z")
1.15% That’s the response-to-view ratio in this thread started 5 years ago. Just stating facts. I mean, if anything in the last 3 years was novel or interesting, that might…might…be justification for carrying this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12705 "2014-02-09T13:14:09Z")
Yes, I’m aware of the irony of carrying on a thread to decry carrying on a thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12706 "2014-02-09T13:35:11Z")
This thread is (embarrassingly enough) one of my favorite sources of amusement through the day. I personally appreciate the fact that the focus here has mostly been kept on ‘stupid ideas’ rather than the usual ‘evil ideas’. Onward! Come on, y’all, it is an election year! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12707 "2014-02-09T14:50:46Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > This thread is (embarrassingly enough) one of my favorite sources of amusement through the day. I personally appreciate the fact that the focus here has mostly been kept on ‘stupid ideas’ rather than the usual ‘evil ideas’. > > Onward! Come on, y’all, it is an election year! One of my favorite hobbies as well. As a Recovering Republican, I’m saddened (but not in the least surprised) that this thread has gone so long with no sign of slowing down. (What’s the tally on the Stupid Liberal Ideas thread? We’ve got _over a fortieth of a million_ posts here – onward and downward to November of 2016!) ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12708 "2014-02-09T16:32:04Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > 1.15% > > That’s the response-to-view ratio in this thread started 5 years ago. Just stating facts. I mean, if anything in the last 3 years was novel or interesting, that might…might…be justification for carrying this thread… Hey, a constant ticker of “this is how the republicans are evil/stupid” isn’t a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12709 "2014-02-09T16:37:19Z")
Yeah, I’m not really seeing how it’s much of a criticism of anything to say that this thread’s 12,703 responses is minuscule compared to it’s 1.1 million views. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12710 "2014-02-09T16:48:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And so I thought it was weird that **BAB** , who is one of the most prolific posters at finding crazy shit that Republicans are doing, would have this friend. 😕 I couldn’t understand why **Bucky** would have this friend at all, ya know what I’m saying’? Take your pick: 1. He (I will assume **Bucky** is male) finds value in having a source on the inside. 2. Politics has always made strange bedfellows. 3. I think we all have friends with whom we avoid certain topics. 4. The woman working for Sink is hot. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12711 "2014-02-09T17:06:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Take your pick: > > 1. He (I will assume **Bucky** is male) finds value in having a source on the inside. > 2. Politics has always made strange bedfellows. > 3. I think we all have friends with whom we avoid certain topics. > 4. The woman working for Sink is hot. 1. By “working for the Sink campaign” he meant the friend is working for the Actual Alex Sink Campaign, not the Ratfucker’s Sink Campaign. Or, who knows, I’m sure I have at least one acquaintance out there willing to fuck rats. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12712 "2014-02-09T17:08:56Z")
Would it be part of a meaningful and fully supportive relationship? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12713 "2014-02-09T17:35:31Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > And I posted this already elsewhere, but there are boatloads of stupid coming from the Republicans for making moves like this one against minorities like Hispanics and Asians, seems that they \*\*do \*\*want to lose their votes. > > [Wall Street Journal Whacks Boehner For Caving To ‘Talk-Radio’ On Immigration - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wall-street-journal-boehner-immigration-reform-talk-radio) > And yes, that was the WSJ telling Bohener what a tool he is. And you gotta love how Schumer called Boehner’s bluff on why they can’t have a vote on immigration: [WaPo](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/09/schumer-to-gop-set-immigration-law-to-kick-in-after-obama-leaves-office/) > [@](#): > > “There’s a simple solution: Let’s enact the law this year but simply not let it actually start until 2017, after President Obama’s term is over,” Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12714 "2014-02-09T17:48:33Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > 1. By “working for the Sink campaign” he meant the friend is … … actually A Friend Of A Friend. You remember good ol’ _Friend Of A Friend_, dontcha? She’s the one who got a rat part in her Coke bottle, had an alligator crawl out of her toilet, and accidentally microwaved her poodle. Back in the day, her great-aunt had a bee in her bouffant, and found a hook on her car door. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12715 "2014-02-09T19:18:06Z")
My friends have an awful lot of friends and relatives that weird things happen to, and I’m kinda proud of having every last urban legend happen to people only a couple degrees away from me. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12716 "2014-02-09T20:29:45Z")
There’s an entry on snopes of an incident that happened about 3 houses down the street from where my aunt and uncle live. I swear. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12717 "2014-02-09T21:11:58Z")
> [@](#): > > In the post, Sears claimed that homosexuals prey on children, argued that “Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit” and advocated that Republicans “as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent.” Wait wait wait… the holy spirit lives in the butt? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12718 "2014-02-09T23:07:35Z")
There is so much [del]same old shit being recycled by the GOP[/del] new material that it qualifies as a zombie thread if there isn’t a post or two each day. I’m am personally saving a couple of [del] fine [/del] additional Okie examples in case things slow down. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12719 "2014-02-09T23:14:46Z")
> [@](#): > > “Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit” What, what? In the butt? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12720 "2014-02-10T01:42:54Z")
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