# 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:** 696
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13901 "2014-04-07T14:59:55Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > All of a sudden? > > Remind me one day to tell you about a fella called “Tailgunner Joe.” He was very generous with the product of his tailgun. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13902 "2014-04-07T15:01:00Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Women need protection and support from bicycles. Or from **some** kind of cycle, at any rate. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13903 "2014-04-07T15:23:30Z")
Pat Buchanan (if he counts as a Pub any more) [. . . does not exactly say God is on Putin’s side, but does seem very eager to open consideration of the possibility](http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan.html). > [@](#): > > Putin is plugging into some of the modern world’s most powerful currents. > > Not only in his defiance of what much of the world sees as America’s arrogant drive for global hegemony. Not only in his tribal defense of lost Russians left behind when the USSR disintegrated. > > He is also tapping into the worldwide revulsion of and resistance to the sewage of a hedonistic secular and social revolution coming out of the West. > > In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity. His recent speeches carry echoes of John Paul II whose Evangelium Vitae in 1995 excoriated the West for its embrace of a “culture of death.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13904 "2014-04-07T16:37:30Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Or from **some** kind of cycle, at any rate. I’m assuming there is a “she” for you? So either she doesn’t read the SDMB, or your sorry ass is in for a couple of solid weeks of chick flicks and “Yes, dear”. Do NOT cut the red wire. ---
**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 7, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13905 "2014-04-07T17:37:12Z")
Wonder if Pat’s head exploded when he typed that God is on the side of the former Communist Party official. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13906 "2014-04-07T18:03:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Pat Buchanan (if he counts as a Pub any more) [. . . does not exactly say God is on Putin’s side, but does seem very eager to open consideration of the possibility](http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan.html). Putin 2016 😃 Maybe Pat could get behind an ammendment to allow certain furriners to get by his giant immigration wall and run for president. And don’t forget all those Ruskies left behind from Alaska to California. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13907 "2014-04-07T18:06:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Wonder if Pat’s head exploded when he typed that God is on the side of the former Communist Party official. Former **KGB** official, yet; that explains it – he gets God-points just for being consistently authoritarian. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13908 "2014-04-07T18:14:45Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Putin 2016 😃 > > Maybe Pat could get behind an ammendment to allow certain furriners to get by his giant immigration wall and run for president. > > And don’t forget all those Ruskies left behind from Alaska to California. A lot of conservatives have developed man crushes on Putin, and I think it’s totally fair for us to remember that for a long time, and remind them relentlessly. ---
**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 7, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13909 "2014-04-07T18:21:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Former **KGB** official, yet; that explains it – he gets God-points just for being consistently authoritarian. Had to be a Party official to become a KGB official. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13910 "2014-04-07T18:38:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > GA candidate for Senate uses [a fake Obama](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jack-kingston-fake-call-obama-ad) in his campaign ad. I’m trying to make sense of this ad and I’m at a bit of a loss. This was one created by Kingston’s campaign attacking Kingston? Because I get that Obama is faked, and I get that Republicans love touting how much they hate Obamacare. But fake Obama has a pretty good point: if you’ve voted 40 times to and failed to defeat then you’ve wasted everyone’s Goddamned time. I wholeheartedly agree with fake Obama. I don’t want you in the Senate either! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13911 "2014-04-07T18:50:44Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I’m trying to make sense of this ad and I’m at a bit of a loss. This was one created by Kingston’s campaign attacking Kingston? Because I get that Obama is faked, and I get that Republicans love touting how much they hate Obamacare. But fake Obama has a pretty good point: if you’ve voted 40 times to and failed to defeat then you’ve wasted everyone’s Goddamned time. I wholeheartedly agree with fake Obama. I don’t want you in the Senate either! See [Strawman Has A Point](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawmanHasAPoint). ---
**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:** [April 7, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13912 "2014-04-07T19:20:23Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > A lot of conservatives have developed man crushes on Putin, and I think it’s totally fair for us to remember that for a long time, and remind them relentlessly. Jon Stewart showed a clip a few weeks back of a conservative comparing Putin to his “Dear Old Mom.” It was strange. He seemed to be so full of affection for both of them. Cause they’re both tough, or something. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13913 "2014-04-07T19:26:08Z")
If your Mum was Margaret Thatcher, _maybe_. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13914 "2014-04-07T19:28:11Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Jon Stewart showed a clip a few weeks back of a conservative comparing Putin to his “Dear Old Mom.” It was strange. He seemed to be so full of affection for both of them. **Cause they’re both tough, or something.[** It was the chest hair. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13915 "2014-04-07T22:40:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It was the chest hair. Can’t compare with Margaret Thatcher’s! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13916 "2014-04-08T01:03:25Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Can’t compare with Margaret Thatcher’s! Really, I thought she was famous for her fuzzy coin-purse. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13917 "2014-04-08T01:17:09Z")
> [@For You](#): > > Really, I thought she was famous for her fuzzy coin-purse. The proper term is “natural sporran”. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13918 "2014-04-08T01:39:59Z")
[Newly elected rep. Vance Mcallister (LA), whom is married and ran on a platform as a Christian conservative, caught making out with a staffer who is not his wife.](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/07/married-congressman-sorry-after-seen-kissing-staffer-in-video/?hpt=hp_t2) > [@](#): > > (CNN) – Newly elected Rep. Vance McAllister asked for forgiveness from God, his family and his constituents after a local newspaper published what it said was surveillance video of the married Louisiana Republican making out with a female staffer. Gotta love them “Conservative Christian” values. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13919 "2014-04-08T01:41:42Z")
Well hell, running as a conservative Xian comes with a ready-made get out of jail free card. Why _wouldn’t_ for screw around? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13920 "2014-04-08T01:48:17Z")
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