# 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:** 712
**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 23, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14221 "2014-04-23T18:05:41Z")
Calling him a crappy father based on one out-of-context quote is silly. Stick to calling him a crappy governor. There’s plenty of fodder there already. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14222 "2014-04-23T19:01:28Z")
Reince Priebus wants the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Harry Reid for illegally using a government website and a government login to attack Republicans. [Um, it was twitter](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/23/1294056/-Priebus-all-atwitter-about-SenatorReid?detail=facebook). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14223 "2014-04-23T21:31:29Z")
Even Democrats can have stupid ideas. [Being in the military isn’t a real job.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/22/1293788/-Maryland-Democratic-candidate-Gansler-puts-foot-in-mouth-again?detail=facebook) ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14224 "2014-04-23T21:34:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “Stay away from the brown Bibles! Bummer, man…” “Here, take a hit, pass it on.” “What is it?” “Metamucil.” ---
**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 23, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14225 "2014-04-23T21:38:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Even Democrats can have stupid ideas. [Being in the military isn’t a real job.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/22/1293788/-Maryland-Democratic-candidate-Gansler-puts-foot-in-mouth-again?detail=facebook) Wrong thread. [Over here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=605448) And yeah, the guy’s an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14226 "2014-04-23T21:47:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Wrong thread. > [Over here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=605448) > > And yeah, the guy’s an idiot. He actually seems to be saying that being a **lawyer** isn’t a real job, which is no less idiotic. ---
**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 23, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14227 "2014-04-23T21:59:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > He actually seems to be saying that being a **lawyer** isn’t a real job, which is no less idiotic. It doesn’t matter what the profession is, the point is, only a True Scotsman can hold a Real Job! ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14228 "2014-04-23T22:10:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You are missing the point of the story, and a very important point it is. Why is it a “strict father” vs. a “nurturant parent”? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14229 "2014-04-23T22:17:33Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Why is it a “strict father” vs. a “nurturant parent”? Apparently those are just the names Lakoff gave to those observed parenting styles; and they do seem to fit. The gender specific/inclusive language also seems to fit, that is, fit with the world-views of the respective practitioners of those styles. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14230 "2014-04-23T22:18:59Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Why is it a “strict father” vs. a “nurturant parent”? Because calling them “punctilious parents” and “viand providers” proved confusing in the focus groups; duh. ---
**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 23, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14231 "2014-04-23T23:18:51Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Conservative Woodstock!](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/23/tea_partys_woodstock_fantasy_cliven_bundy_as_the_wingnuts_latest_60s_style_protest_hero/) Which says that Mooselini will be there to campaign against Harry Reid, who will be running … in … umm… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14232 "2014-04-24T00:04:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Apparently those are just the names Lakoff gave to those observed parenting styles; and they do seem to fit. The gender specific/inclusive language also seems to fit, that is, fit with the world-views of the respective practitioners of those styles. Not buying it. Please explain the distinction between “world-view” and “prejudice”. Give three examples. \* - No, don’t. That’s an old joke. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Because calling them “punctilious parents” and “viand providers” proved confusing in the focus groups; duh. Damn, I wish I knew you. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14233 "2014-04-24T05:16:20Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Damn, I wish I knew you. :dubious: To hug or to hit? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14234 "2014-04-24T05:33:04Z")
> [@j666](#): > > . . . Damn, I wish I knew you. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > . . . To hug or to hit? . . . “He moves me to tooth-chattering wrath; he has inflicted upon me, personally, a barrage of sheer piffle, and maundering insult which cries out to the Heavens for atonement. I will thrust my fist down his loquacious maw; better, I will horsewhip him on the steps of his club. If he has no club, I hereby invite him to the broad and convenient steps of the Senior Quill-drivers, although I must say that the Inksters maintain a superior bar, and this shall be my choice since, after trouncing the old fool, I will undoubtedly ask him in for a drink.” Jack Vance, “The Face.” ---
**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:** [April 24, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14235 "2014-04-24T05:36:37Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > “He moves me to tooth-chattering wrath; he has inflicted upon me, personally, a barrage of sheer piffle, and maundering insult which cries out to the Heavens for atonement. I will thrust my fist down his loquacious maw; better, I will horsewhip him on the steps of his club. If he has no club, I hereby invite him to the broad and convenient steps of the Senior Quill-drivers, although I must say that the Inksters maintain a superior bar, and this shall be my choice since, after trouncing the old fool, I will undoubtedly ask him in for a drink.” > > Jack Vance, “The Face.” Jack Vance quote totally fucking rocks! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14236 "2014-04-24T07:21:13Z")
For purposes of rebuke and correction, the Excellent Prismatic Spray is widely acknowledged as superior. (Though this superb example of thaumaturgic art is most commonly attributed to the legendary Phandaal, I believe that close examination of residual perturbations in the ectoplasmic field will reveal otherwise.) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14237 "2014-04-24T12:38:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > For purposes of rebuke and correction, the Excellent Prismatic Spray is widely acknowledged as superior. > > (Though this superb example of thaumaturgic art is most commonly attributed to the legendary Phandaal, I believe that close examination of residual perturbations in the ectoplasmic field will reveal otherwise.) I wonder what would happen to these bozos if they were confronted with the Scintillant Dagger? How many would screech and fall into twinkling ribbons like pulverized tinsel? ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14238 "2014-04-24T14:37:46Z")
Current “top story / headline” on the Drudge Report? **[U.S. President Bows to Japanese Robot](http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/04/24/Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Robot).** I assume that’s meant to stir up some sort of outrage, but for the life of me, I can’t determine what / how. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14239 "2014-04-24T14:53:08Z")
Cliven Bundy continues to enjoy [his 15 minutes](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/us/politics/rancher-proudly-breaks-the-law-becoming-a-hero-in-the-west.html?_r=0): > [@](#): > > “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do. > > “And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.” ---
**Author:** ![Clarisse\_McClellan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Clarisse\_McClellan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarisse_McClellan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14240 "2014-04-24T15:20:49Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Cliven Bundy continues to enjoy [his 15 minutes](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/us/politics/rancher-proudly-breaks-the-law-becoming-a-hero-in-the-west.html?_r=0): You have got to be fucking kidding me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=711) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=713)