# 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:** 699
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13961 "2014-04-09T10:06:44Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > …Causes Congressional Career Crash …and Conservative Cacophony Commences Cautiously… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13962 "2014-04-09T13:57:32Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Minn. R Aaron Miller: [I’m running for Congress cuz evolution made my daughter cry.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/08/minn-gop-nominee-running-for-congress-because-evolution-made-his-daughter-cry/) How can you even look at the guy’s face and trust him? He has the look of a used car salesman trying to sell you a lemon so he can keep snorting cocaine off the butts of hookers. I try not to be influenced by something as shallow as looks, but the guy has one of the most repellent faces I’ve ever seen. Jabba the Hutt as a young politician. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13963 "2014-04-09T14:50:12Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > How can you even look at the guy’s face and trust him? He has the look of a used car salesman trying to sell you a lemon so he can keep snorting cocaine off the butts of hookers. I try not to be influenced by something as shallow as looks, but the guy has one of the most repellent faces I’ve ever seen. Jabba the Hutt as a young politician. Pat Powers? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13964 "2014-04-09T15:29:37Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Pat Powers? Oh, that’s you indeed. Mmmm, internet stalking. You haven’t updated your blog much lately. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13965 "2014-04-09T15:30:11Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > How can you even look at the guy’s face and trust him? He has the look of a used car salesman trying to sell you a lemon so he can keep snorting cocaine off the butts of hookers. I try not to be influenced by something as shallow as looks, but the guy has one of the most repellent faces I’ve ever seen. Jabba the Hutt as a young politician. No matter how many times Republicans do something stupid, I don’t think bringing personal appearance into the discussion is ever valuable or necessary. He’s a normal-looking middle-aged dude, and your rancor (hah! See what I did there?) is best saved for his politics. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13966 "2014-04-09T15:34:35Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Pat Powers? The same! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13967 "2014-04-09T15:37:29Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Oh, that’s you indeed. Mmmm, internet stalking. You haven’t updated your blog much lately. 😃 I’ve been working on books. Plus, my blog seems to get the same number of hits no matter what I do … mostly for the Celebrity Cones, which makes me think everything I do BUT celebrity related stuff is being ignored. I’m mostly working on books now and trying to make money to keep fed, clothed, housed, etc … ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13968 "2014-04-09T15:38:23Z")
This week’s entry for the doublespeak hall of fame: [Bill O’reilly](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-oreilly-attacks-stephen-colbert-deceiver), speaking on Stephen Colbert: > [@](#): > > Calling the comedian an “ideological fanatic,” the Fox News host said it’s Colbert’s brand of partisan comedy, not income inequality, that is actually harming the country. > > “Colbert can be dismissed as clueless, but the guy does do damage because he gives cover to the powerful people who are selling Americans a big lie,” he said, “that this country is bad, that it intentionally oppresses many of its own citizens. That is a lie.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13969 "2014-04-09T15:48:15Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I’m mostly working on books now and trying to make money to keep fed, clothed, housed, etc … :rolleyes: Some people have no sense of priorities! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13970 "2014-04-09T15:50:38Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > No matter how many times Republicans do something stupid, I don’t think bringing personal appearance into the discussion is ever valuable or necessary. He’s a normal-looking middle-aged dude, and your rancor (hah! See what I did there?) is best saved for his politics. I don’t NORMALLY bring that kind of stuff up, but there is just something about the way this guy looks and acts that just sets off every last nerve in my body. I look at him, and I want to hit him. He’s totally repulsive to me. I understand that you can’t judge people purely by their looks, handsome psychopaths who have learned to behave in a charming manner are a well known phenomenon. My point is simply that this guy projects “nasty” with his every move. I do believe in paying attention to my instincts, and all my instincts tell me not to trust this guy at all. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13971 "2014-04-09T15:51:51Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :rolleyes: Some people have no sense of priorities! I know, right. The struggle to survive does what censors cannot do. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13972 "2014-04-09T18:21:32Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > How can you even look at the guy’s face and trust him? He has the look of a used car salesman trying to sell you a lemon so he can keep snorting cocaine off the butts of hookers. I try not to be influenced by something as shallow as looks, but the guy has one of the most repellent faces I’ve ever seen. Jabba the Hutt as a young politician. Evil Captor, I take offense on behalf of used car salesmen. This guy will almost certainly be elected to Congress. He is part and parcel of what is inherently damaged in the GOP structure. Crazy ideologues should not be driving the ship of state. A few are irritating at worst and amusing at best, but the center has shifted so far into clock-cuckoo-land that I think it will be years before any kind of correction will occur. Until then, you will see more of these unqualified anti-science self-righteous people in office. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13973 "2014-04-09T18:37:22Z")
Democrat Tim Walz is running for re-election in that district: he gets a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood and a 90% grade from the Human Rights Campaign. He was in the National Guard for 24 years and a public schoolteacher for 20. Go give him some help if that Miller goon bugs you so much. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13974 "2014-04-09T18:47:49Z")
[RNC Press Secretary is challenged to present the Republican solution to gender-inequity in pay.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/09/what-that-rnc-aide-s-equal-pay-blunder-on-msnbc-says-about-her-party.html) Her response: “I think what we need to do is start looking at some corporate best practices. How are, are, some of these large companies going about, um, you know, paying men, paying, paying, women, and, let’s have this conversation and be transparent about the need, um, to close this gender gap . . . we need to start looking, um, at, at, more solutions.” Now, of course, we have to make allowances because that’s a live _ex tempore_ answer, and if we subtract all the ums and such . . . it makes not one bit of sense more. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13975 "2014-04-09T19:00:36Z")
**BrainGlutton** , it made pefect sense to me. She said “We have no solutions”. Just not using those words. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13976 "2014-04-09T19:50:13Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > **BrainGlutton** , it made pefect sense to me. She said “We have no solutions”. Just not using those words. At least she used the word “solutions” . . . ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13977 "2014-04-09T23:39:19Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > This week’s entry for the doublespeak hall of fame: [Bill O’reilly](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-oreilly-attacks-stephen-colbert-deceiver), speaking on Stephen Colbert: If only that were satire, I’d say that Bill O’reilly is doing a fantastic Stephen Colbert doing Bill O’reilly ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13978 "2014-04-10T00:41:40Z")
It’s Colberts all the way down! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13979 "2014-04-10T04:05:35Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > It’s Colberts all the way down! No, it’s **McConnels** all the way down, more’s the pity. ---
**Author:** ![Oldeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea666f/32.png) [@Oldeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oldeb)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13980 "2014-04-10T04:58:32Z")
Confederate Apologists better be ready to up their game. It sounds like the Heritage Foundation is no longer sure the Civil War even happened. [Jim DeMint doesn’t believe the government had any role in ending slavery.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/09/1290818/-Jim-DeMint-grumbles-that-big-government-didn-t-free-the-slaves) It was just a pet project of Lincoln. Who apparently wasn’t part of the government. And certainly didn’t do something like declare the majority of slaves free by presidential decree. > [@](#): > > So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from God. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=698) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=700)