# 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:** 758
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15141 "2014-06-11T13:23:34Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert (R-Jesusland) says that America would be better off [emulating Saudi Arabia](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/jason-rapert-saudi-arabia_n_5481020.html). Except we should be Christian, of course. I think he really means it: > [@](#): > > By the way, Saudi Arabia, they don’t live under the same kind of law that we do. They live under the law that they see fit to live under there. We have that right here, too. And that’s why there’s such an injustice here. Yeah, they live under the theocratic law that their King sees fit to impose on everyone else. Just think, America could have a state religion and finally do something about them gays, you know, just like it says in the Constitution!! A tiny group of nutjobs could impose their fundamentalism on 300 million Americans What could possibly go wrong? ---
**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:** [June 11, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15142 "2014-06-11T14:05:24Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > It might take _you_ hours, but it only takes the rest of us a minute or two to come up with a whole list of clever labels: Teanut Gallery, Teabrains, Teanile/Teanility… Teanderthals ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15143 "2014-06-11T14:34:10Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Chavez…Cesar Chavez…there’a something familiar about that name. Maybe it will come to me eventually. It’s a street in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15144 "2014-06-11T14:35:06Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > All over the media, but for the sake of completeness: > > [Failed Arizona GOP candidate Scott Fistler changes his name to Cesar Chavez and tries to run as a Democrat](http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2014/06/10/cesar-chavez-scott-fistler-misled-az-cd7-voters-should-be-tossed-off-dem-primary-ballot/) > > Chavez…Cesar Chavez…there’a something familiar about that name. Maybe it will come to me eventually. Doesn’t seem like a good move to me. Sure, you’d get all the Democrats who mistakenly think you’re Cesar Chavez, Jr., or get the nostalgia vote. But you’d be voted down by all the people who’d mistake you for _Hugo_ Chavez. Or think you were Hugo Chavez Jr., or something. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15145 "2014-06-11T14:37:30Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > No, what this means is that Democrats finally got their act together and up off their asses and voted Cantor out. You don’t register with a political party in Virginia and there was a big push to get Democrats out to vote for Brat. > > [Cooter Has A Plan To Unseat Eric Cantor. It’s So Crazy It Just Might Work.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html) > > And work it did. Everyone’s talking about what a win this was for the tea party when in reality it was a huge victory for the Democrats. We may very well shock the nation again when we take this seat in November, which will happen if Cantor runs as a write-in candidate and he and Brat split the Republican votes. I picture **Shayna** pacing, rubbing her hands together making plans, while lightning crackles outside the window… 🆒😉 > [@Locrian](#): > > I’m still not understanding why these derps chose Tea Party as a designation in the first place. Didn’t the Boston Tea Party want taxes on the tea? Overthrowing the OTHER (overseas) government? Bringing MORE US government against a bigger one?.. What **Kobal** said, but also some of these guys just LOVE the Founding Fathers. They may not actually know much ABOUT them, or accept their religious beliefs, but they LOVE them. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15146 "2014-06-11T14:44:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Doesn’t seem like a good move to me. > > Sure, you’d get all the Democrats who mistakenly think you’re Cesar Chavez, Jr., or get the nostalgia vote. > > But you’d be voted down by all the people who’d mistake you for _Hugo_ Chavez. Or think you were Hugo Chavez Jr., or something. But they’d also get the folks who picture him as Cesar Romero. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15147 "2014-06-11T14:53:31Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > > [@Punoqllads](#): > > > > Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert (R-Jesusland) says that America would be better off emulating Saudi Arabia. Except we should be Christian, of course. > > Perfect example of a teahadist. I hate these obnoxious little labels, but I think you have finally found a circumstance where it is perfectly appropriate. Though Tealiban fits better here. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15148 "2014-06-11T15:17:14Z")
[Quote=CalMeacham] But you’d be voted down by all the people who’d mistake you for Hugo Chavez. Or think you were Hugo Chavez Jr., or something. [/Quote] > [@Ludovic](#): > > But they’d also get the folks who picture him as Cesar Romero. I think he missed a bet by not renaming himself Cesar Salad. I could go for one of those right about now. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15149 "2014-06-11T15:18:16Z")
Quien es mas macho? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15150 "2014-06-11T15:21:19Z")
No, I don’t think I’ll ever be over Macho Grande. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15151 "2014-06-11T15:24:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Doesn’t seem like a good move to me. > > Sure, you’d get all the Democrats who mistakenly think you’re Cesar Chavez, Jr., or get the nostalgia vote. > > But you’d be voted down by all the people who’d mistake you for _Hugo_ Chavez. Or think you were Hugo Chavez Jr., or something. Stewart or Colbert last night (night before?) had a screen shot of his homepage. Full of picture of a crowd holding signs supporting Chavez. Yup, it was apparently lifted from a Hugo Chavez election rally. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15152 "2014-06-11T15:30:13Z")
That was Stewart, Monday night. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15153 "2014-06-11T15:33:55Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > It might take _you_ hours, but it only takes the rest of us a minute or two to come up with a whole list of clever labels: Teanut Gallery, Teabrains, Teanile/Teanility… > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Teanderthals Teaglodytes, Teaboners… they just write themselves. “Hours”, pshaw! Now, getting back on track: [Eric Cantor’s Pollster Blames Democrats For Stunning Loss](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-cantors-pollster-blames-democrats-131901793.html) > [@](#): > > Less than a week before Cantor’s upset loss, the pollster, John McLaughlin, released a survey indicating Cantor had a 62% to 28% lead over his Republican opponent, Dave Brat. Brat would go on to win by 11% — a huge, 45-point shift that was far outside the poll’s margin of error. > > In an interview with the National Journal after Tuesday’s election, McLaughlin accused Democrats, especially “Dukes of Hazard” actor Ben Jones, of meddling in the race… Er… [nope](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/11/did-democratic-votes-doom-eric-cantor/): > [@](#): > > If Democrats showed up in large numbers to vote against Cantor, turnout should have spiked highest from 2012 in Democratic-leaning areas, with Cantor seeing an especially large drop-off in support. In fact, turnout rose slightly more in counties that voted more heavily for Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election… Maybe Mr. McLaughlin will have better luck “unskewing” his resume before he goes looking for a new job more suited to his talents. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15154 "2014-06-11T16:03:17Z")
[John Johnston](http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/28000445-418/gop-house-candidate-defends-facebook-comment-about-poor.html#.U5h9MVjjhtQ), running for the Indiana House, says of the poor: > [@](#): > > “For almost three generations people, in some cases, have been given handouts. They have been ‘enabled’ so much that their paradigm in life is simply being given the stuff of life, however meager. What you see is a setting for a life of misery is life to them never-the-less. **No one has the guts to just let them wither and die**. No one who wants votes is willing to call a spade a spade. As long as the Dems can get their votes the enabling will continue. The Republicans need their votes and dare not cut the fiscal tether. It is really a political Catch-22. The voters are the ones in charge. however when only 10-11 percent show up to vote, not much will change. People simply are not hurting enough, or simply happy enough that they will do nothing. consequently the dole continues.” He’s backtracking as fast as his little legs will carry him, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15155 "2014-06-11T16:05:20Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Teahadists? Are you for real? How many hours of your pathetic lives do you people waste thinking up cutesy-poo bullshit like that? Why do we mock them? _Why do you not?_ ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15156 "2014-06-11T16:18:25Z")
Oklahoma Republican congressional candidate [totally fine](http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/tea-party-republican-ok-with-stoning-the-gays-we-would-totally-be-in-the-right/politics/2014/06/11/89012) with executing homosexuals by stoning. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15157 "2014-06-11T16:31:27Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [John Johnston](http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/28000445-418/gop-house-candidate-defends-facebook-comment-about-poor.html#.U5h9MVjjhtQ), running for the Indiana House, says of the poor:He’s backtracking as fast as his little legs will carry him, of course. This part was nice too: > [@](#): > > No one who wants votes is willing to **call a spade a spade**. I know the saying predates the slur, but in this context, it’s about as tone deaf as it’s possible to be. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15158 "2014-06-11T16:37:26Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Teaglodytes, Teaboners… they just write themselves. “Hours”, pshaw! > > Now, getting back on track: > > [Eric Cantor’s Pollster Blames Democrats For Stunning Loss](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-cantors-pollster-blames-democrats-131901793.html) > > Er… [nope](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/11/did-democratic-votes-doom-eric-cantor/): **Shayna** is taking credit on behalf of Democrats in _this thread_. So either it’s not a stupid idea or it’s a twofer. > [@](#): > > No, what this means is that Democrats finally got their act together and up off their asses and voted Cantor out. You don’t register with a political party in Virginia and there was a big push to get Democrats out to vote for Brat. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15159 "2014-06-11T16:39:50Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [John Johnston](http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/28000445-418/gop-house-candidate-defends-facebook-comment-about-poor.html#.U5h9MVjjhtQ), running for the Indiana House, says of the poor: > > > [@](#): > > > > “For almost three generations people, in some cases, have been given handouts. They have been ‘enabled’ so much that their paradigm in life is simply being given the stuff of life, however meager. What you see is a setting for a life of misery is life to them never-the-less. No one has the guts to just let them wither and die. No one who wants votes is willing to call a spade a spade. As long as the Dems can get their votes the enabling will continue. The Republicans need their votes and dare not cut the fiscal tether. It is really a political Catch-22.\*\* The voters are the ones in charge.\*\* however when only 10-11 percent show up to vote, not much will change. People simply are not hurting enough, or simply happy enough that they will do nothing. consequently the dole continues.” > > He’s backtracking as fast as his little legs will carry him, of course. (emphasis added) Aren’t the voters \*supposed \*to be in charge? He says that like it’s a bad thing! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15160 "2014-06-11T16:42:05Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > **Shayna** is taking credit on behalf of Democrats in _this thread_. So either it’s not a stupid idea or it’s a twofer. I wasn’t aware that **Shayna** was a professional pollster who commands $75k fees. If I had, I certainly would have held her to the same standard as Mr McLaughlin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=757) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=759)