# 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:** 766
**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 19, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15301 "2014-06-19T19:01:04Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > He’s also left-handed. You know what that means. That’s the hand you use…well, never mind. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15302 "2014-06-19T19:05:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I think all of the pine cones are stuck up Republican butts. Good thing otherwise the corn cobs could escape. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15303 "2014-06-19T19:47:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Good thing otherwise the corn cobs could escape. Well the gay Republicans call themselves the “Log Cabin Republicans,” how about calling all the Republicans who go around saying stupid shit about gays and women and rape and the poor “corncob Republicans”? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15304 "2014-06-19T19:50:00Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > It bemuses and amuses me that, to these conservative “critics,” Obama is alternately a genius tyrant masterminding numerous highly complex and sinister conspiracies, an incompetent boob blown hither and thither by polls… But that’s how libs painted Bush. Though Obama doesn’t have a Cheney or Rove. Yeah, Biden is the one really pulling the strings. He just plays the fool so as to hide in plain sight! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15305 "2014-06-19T20:31:26Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Well the gay Republicans call themselves the “Log Cabin Republicans,” . . . “Soooo, how many logs have you had in your cabin, Senator?” ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15306 "2014-06-19T20:42:08Z")
No. Bush was painted as an idiot being controlled and manipulated by tyrant masterminds (I won’t give them genius). That is the confusion. They are trying to shove the whole thing onto Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15307 "2014-06-19T21:15:26Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > But that’s how libs painted Bush. Though Obama doesn’t have a Cheney or Rove. Yeah, Biden is the one really pulling the strings. He just plays the fool so as to hide in plain sight! I can only hope that this is sarcasm. If not, please note the silence of former President Bush and the incessant yammering of former VP Cheney, his daughter and the boys from the Bush intelligence and military apparatus. This, you will note, is fully consistent with the view of many of us that the former President was a mere stalking horse for the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15308 "2014-06-19T21:22:22Z")
> [@Oldeb](#): > > You forgot Christian Radical (indoctrinated by Jeremiah Wright). > So… > > What can you expect from an atheist, Muslim, Christian Radical, anti-American, Kenyan, Communist, Socialist, Marxist, Nazi, pawn of the UN, dictator pussy? I was trying to figure out a way to get that in there but couldn’t come up with anything succinct enough. You nailed it - thanks! > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > ahem. > > _ **Black** _, atheist, Muslim, Christian Radical, anti-American, Kenyan, Communist, Socialist, Marxist, Nazi, pawn of the UN, dictator pussy… [Ahem](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-reifowitz/did-rand-paul-just-accuse-obama_b_5017035.html). So we’ll be adding black _and_ not-black-enough to the list. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Gay, don’t forget gay. And gay. > [@foolsguinea](#): > > Now, now, let’s not bring _race_ into this! Even if he is an Arab half-breed. And Arab half-breed. So, what can you expect from a black but not-black-enough, gay, atheist, Muslim, Christian Radical, anti-American, Kenyan, Arab half-breed, Communist, Socialist, Marxist, Nazi, pawn of the UN, dictator pussy? > [@elucidator](#): > > [Left-handedness being] a sinister attribute, to be sure. Especially given that both Bill Clinton _and_ George W. Bush are left-handed! :eek: > [@silenus](#): > > I think all of the pine cones are stuck up Republican butts. I just laughed so hard I almost coughed up my spleen! ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15309 "2014-06-19T21:27:37Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > That’s the hand you use…well, never mind. That would never have stopped me from smoking a pint of tea a day. Well, maybe half a pint, these days. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15310 "2014-06-19T21:34:43Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Especially given that both Bill Clinton _and_ George W. Bush are left-handed! That’s second bit of misinformation about George W. Bush in the last few posts. He was not a genius and–according to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States)–he was not left-handed. (His dad was. Left-handed, that is. Smarter too.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15311 "2014-06-19T22:17:26Z")
And Ronald Reagan was bi. That is, he went both ways. Which is pretty common in Hollywood, or so I am told. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15312 "2014-06-19T22:54:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > And Ronald Reagan was bi. That is, he went both ways. Which is pretty common in Hollywood, or so I am told. [Reagan was a pretty versatile guy.](http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2011/08/reagan-bonzo.jpg) He had this thing about chimps too :eek: ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15313 "2014-06-19T23:15:43Z")
May I compliment a Republican for actually attacking a Democrat because the Democrat was a douchebag? [Republican Congressman Mike Coffman calls Democratic ex-Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer a “sexist scumbag” for comments Schweitzer made comparing Dianne Feinstein to a prostitute.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/coffman-schweitzer-sexist-scumbag-feinstein) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15314 "2014-06-19T23:36:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > May I compliment a Republican for actually attacking a Democrat because the Democrat was a douchebag? > > [Republican Congressman Mike Coffman calls Democratic ex-Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer a “sexist scumbag” for comments Schweitzer made comparing Dianne Feinstein to a prostitute.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/coffman-schweitzer-sexist-scumbag-feinstein) And Schweitzer said Cantor was “effeminate.” I know a Democrat I’m not voting for. Fuck him. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15315 "2014-06-20T01:12:40Z")
Schweitzer has always been a Monet Democrat. From a distance, he looks really good. Up close, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15316 "2014-06-20T03:17:56Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Schweitzer has always been a Monet Democrat. From a distance, he looks really good. Up close, not so much. He looks pretty good up close in [an interview](http://www.salon.com/2014/06/19/we_spawned_osama_bin_laden_brian_schweitzer_isnt_done_talking/). ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15317 "2014-06-20T03:37:36Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > And Schweitzer said Cantor was “effeminate.” > > I know a Democrat I’m not voting for. Fuck him. Which is a shame, because he’s really an asset to our political landscape. Hate that he can’t think of any better insults or metaphors than those that denigrate women and gays. His speech at the Convention was incredible, wish his hyperbole matched it. ☹ And now for something complete different ... [Joe Walsh Was Apparently Kicked Off His Own Radio Show For Using Racial Slurs](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/19/joe-walsh-racial-slurs_n_5513574.html) “Found out if I said Redskins or Cracker or Redneck Bible Thumper, I could stay on. But if I said Nigger or Spick, they cut me off.” ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15318 "2014-06-20T04:07:55Z")
_Backyard people And they work all day Tired of the speeches And the way that the reasons keep changing Just to make the words rhyme_ Oh, wait, different Joe Walsh … ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15319 "2014-06-20T16:15:52Z")
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**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15320 "2014-06-20T17:35:32Z")
> **[Perry Admits He 'Stepped Right In It'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-homosexuality_n_5512307?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular)** > > Perry Admits He 'Stepped Right In It' > [@](#): > > Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) admits he “stepped right in it” when he compared homosexuality to alcoholism while discussing gay conversion therapy last week. At least he was aware enough to realize it, something I wouldn’t have credited him with during his failed 2012 run. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=765) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=767)