# 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:** 799
**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:** [August 3, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15961 "2014-08-03T19:29:47Z")
The simple trick is to focus on the thermometer to the exclusion of facts and reason. It works on the GOP base, it can work for you, too! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15962 "2014-08-04T00:45:17Z")
One July I proved that snow didn’t exist. But could I get a grant? Nooooooo. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15963 "2014-08-04T02:23:42Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > One July I proved that snow didn’t exist. But could I get a grant? Nooooooo. Of course not! Are you some kinda pointy head? What did study or research ever do for _anybody_?!! ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15964 "2014-08-04T04:42:24Z")
It is August, and we have snow here yet. Your research appears to be flawed. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15965 "2014-08-04T05:01:46Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > The simple trick is to focus on the thermometer to the exclusion of facts and reason. It works on the GOP base, it can work for you, too! I’m not sure I agree with her conclusions. I took a temperature reading last night, and then another one this afternoon; at that rate we’ll be melting lead on the sidewalk by Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15966 "2014-08-04T13:59:43Z")
[Ann Coulter Wants America To Handle Border Crisis The Way Netanyahu Would.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/ann-coulter-border-crisis-netanyahu_n_5641337.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15967 "2014-08-04T14:43:17Z")
[Peggy Noonan: America is divided because Obama is “out there dropping his g’s”.](http://www.salon.com/2014/08/01/peggy_noonan_america_is_divided_because_obama_is_out_there_dropping_his_gs/) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15968 "2014-08-04T15:07:36Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Peggy Noonan: America is divided because Obama is “out there dropping his g’s”.](http://www.salon.com/2014/08/01/peggy_noonan_america_is_divided_because_obama_is_out_there_dropping_his_gs/) I guess she never heard his predecessor speak. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15969 "2014-08-04T15:21:13Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > I guess she never heard his predecessor speak. To be fair, “nucular” did get on my nerves a little bit. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15970 "2014-08-04T15:23:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Ann Coulter Wants America To Handle Border Crisis The Way Netanyahu Would.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/ann-coulter-border-crisis-netanyahu_n_5641337.html) _I mean, yes, sometimes Palestinian kids get killed. That’s because they are associated with a terrorist organization that is harming Israel._ Republopath ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15971 "2014-08-04T16:14:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > To be fair, “nucular” did get on my nerves a little bit. To be fair, we got that pronunciation from Jimmy Carter as well. Carter, by the way, had been an officer in Adm. Rickover’s nuclear program for the USN and had been slated to become the USS Seawolf’s first engineering officer. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15972 "2014-08-04T16:29:21Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > To be fair, we got that pronunciation from Jimmy Carter as well. Carter, by the way, had been an officer in Adm. Rickover’s nuclear program for the USN and had been slated to become the USS Seawolf’s first engineering officer. Carter had an odd pronunciation of that word, but it wasn’t “nucular”. It was more like he dropped the ‘l’, “nuc-e-ar”. [Cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhwBLE2bpnw&t=2m0s). ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15973 "2014-08-04T16:32:00Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [QUOTE=Ann Coulter] > [referring to children stranded in U.S. immigration] > _I mean, yes, sometimes Palestinian kids get killed. That’s because they are associated with a terrorist organization that is harming Israel._ Republopath [/QUOTE] Congrats to **eschereal** for coining this useful addition to American vocabulary – Googling suggests this was the very first occurrence of _Republopath_. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15974 "2014-08-04T16:33:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Peggy Noonan: America is divided because Obama is “out there dropping his g’s”.](http://www.salon.com/2014/08/01/peggy_noonan_america_is_divided_because_obama_is_out_there_dropping_his_gs/) Oh, wow. Nooners is still functional. I’d have thought the gin would have taken most of her faculties by now. It’s been a long time… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15975 "2014-08-04T16:34:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > _I mean, yes, sometimes Palestinian kids get killed. That’s because they are associated with a terrorist organization that is harming Israel._ > > Republopath And to extend this analogy farther into Bizarro-world, we should therefore shell Mexico because they’re sending people here to mow our lawns. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15976 "2014-08-04T16:44:34Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > And to extend this analogy farther into Bizarro-world, we should therefore shell Mexico because they’re sending people here to mow our lawns. It’s the leaf blowers that are the real killers. I’d bomb them all but the bombs are noisier than the blowers. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15977 "2014-08-04T17:13:08Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Congrats to **eschereal** for coining this useful addition to American vocabulary – Googling suggests this was the very first occurrence of _Republopath_. It’s a great word, I hope it catches on. You could argue that much of the things posted in this thread are more Republopathic than stupid. Michele Bachmann should probably be referred to as “Michele Bachmann (R - epublopath)” ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15978 "2014-08-04T17:17:00Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Oh, wow. Nooners is still functional. I’d have thought the gin would have taken most of her faculties by now. It’s been a long time… Wait. You think this is a sign gin HASN’T taken most of her faculties? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15979 "2014-08-04T17:26:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Holocaustic privatization? Would the ultimate solution result in outsourcing? Shipping our illegal immigrant children to some other distant country for dispatch? Afghanistan, perhaps? Prisons are already being privatized. I’m surprised executions haven’t been already with these private prisons concocting their own cost-saving methods. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15980 "2014-08-04T17:26:44Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Wait. You think this is a sign gin HASN’T taken most of her faculties? 😃 “Gin” is an anagram for “-ing”, so if a person is dropping their "g"s, I could see how that might make an 'in drinker a little uncomfortable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=798) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=800)