# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/141 "2009-05-08T19:52:25Z")
Ironically, Obama told a story in _The Audacity of Hope_ about his handlers freaking out on the campaign trail once when he asked for dijon mustard at a TGIF. They told the waitress he was just kidding and tried to shove a bottle of French’s at him. The waitress said it was no problem to get dijon, and Obama said he still wanted it. I guess you can’t ever ask for fancy mustard if you’re a Democratic politician. Hannity, by the way, is a guy who refuses to fly anywhere for a public appearance unless he’s provided a private jet. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/142 "2009-05-08T20:42:56Z")
What the fuck? Dijon mustard is elitist? I don’t fucking get it. It’s not exactly a 400 dollar haircut. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/143 "2009-05-08T20:45:56Z")
> [@DaphneBlack](#): > > What the fuck? Dijon mustard is elitist? I don’t fucking get it. It’s not exactly a 400 dollar haircut. Not to mention that it’s Grey Poupon, which is like the Cheetos of dijon mustards. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/144 "2009-05-08T20:47:07Z")
Wait, so am I better than other people because I eat Dijon, or do I just THINK I am better than other people because of it? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/145 "2009-05-09T00:00:11Z")
I don’t feel like starting a new thread, but apparently CBS golf analyst David Feherty decided to slur our military by claiming: “if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.” See [here](http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/200905080029?f=h_top) for Media Matters link. Seriously, WTF? Why would anyone in the public eye think it is acceptable to accuse our military of being traitors? ---
**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:** [May 9, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/146 "2009-05-09T00:47:30Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I don’t feel like starting a new thread, but apparently CBS golf analyst David Feherty decided to slur our military by claiming: “if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.” See [here](http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/200905080029?f=h_top) for Media Matters link. > > Seriously, WTF? Why would anyone in the public eye think it is acceptable to accuse our military of being traitors? I don’t believe that was the intent. I believe the actual intent was something like, “Patriotic Americans want to kill Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for the manner in whch they’ve protrayed the war and the military to the American people.” Plus, “After bin Laden, they are America’s two biggest enemies.” Equally disgusting, in a different way. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/147 "2009-05-09T00:54:57Z")
Clearly, golf commentators have gone lamentably downhill ever since the dirty hippies took over golf. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/148 "2009-05-09T00:58:07Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I don’t believe that was the intent. I believe the actual intent was something like, “Patriotic Americans want to kill Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for the manner in whch they’ve protrayed the war and the military to the American people.” Plus, “After bin Laden, they are America’s two biggest enemies.” > > Equally disgusting, in a different way. I think it’s time we start calling things for what they are. Anyone who killed the heads of our two legislative bodies would be a traitor, not a patriot, and we need to point out what is the logical conclusion of the statement. He is claiming that our military would behave in a traitorous fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/149 "2009-05-09T00:58:09Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Why are Republicans so eager to look so fucking stupid? I don’t know if we’ll ever have an answer to that ‘nature or nurture’ debate, but as a liberal, I think it important to support Republicans’ rights to marry and raise families. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/150 "2009-05-09T01:05:57Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I think it’s time we start calling things for what they are. Anyone who killed the heads of our two legislative bodies would be a traitor, not a patriot, and we need to point out what is the logical conclusion of the statement. He is claiming that our military would behave in a traitorous fashion. I agree in absolute terms with what you say. But I don’t think HE means that. I think Feherty thinks that Pelosi and Reid are the traitors, and real patriots want to kill them. Which I believe is a traitorous sentiment, but not far off what what some wingnut suggested about Obama back during the campaign. Wasn’t there somebody in Congress who said something of the lines of, “He better not come down here…”? I can’t recall who or the details, but it was close to an implied death threat. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/151 "2009-05-09T01:07:12Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I don’t feel like starting a new thread, but apparently CBS golf analyst David Feherty decided to slur our military by claiming: “if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.” See [here](http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/200905080029?f=h_top) for Media Matters link. > > Seriously, WTF? Why would anyone in the public eye think it is acceptable to accuse our military of being traitors? I think what you’ve got hold of there is what is commonly referred to as “a joke”. Admittedly, one in bad taste, but I don’t think he was claiming that Sgt. Rock would \*literally \*pop a cap in Nancy Pelosi. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/152 "2009-05-09T01:15:32Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I think what you’ve got hold of there is what is commonly referred to as “a joke”. Admittedly, one in bad taste, but I don’t think he was claiming that Sgt. Rock would \*literally \*pop a cap in Nancy Pelosi. Like how the conservatives were so quick to give a generous reading to Kerry’s joke about Bush getting stuck in Iraq? I don’t see any reason to give a generous reading to these statements. We’ll have to agree to disagree, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/153 "2009-05-09T01:33:02Z")
Oh, its nothing more than a really, really bad and stupid joke. But I have to wonder if he really and truly believes that the average Iraqi-deployed grunt shares his contempt. That has to be the number one cherished myth of the rightarded. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/154 "2009-05-09T03:07:24Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > President Obama’s [being attacked](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/hannity-attacks-obama-for_n_198851.html) for his choice of condiments. Condiments! I realize that Hannity is already a total loonball, but now he’s being joined by other loonballs in a full-blown case of [Dijon Derangement Syndrome](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/obama-mustard-attack-beco_n_199953.html). This is just the break the McCain campaign was waiting for. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/155 "2009-05-09T03:18:17Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I haven’t kept up with this thread, though goodness knows I could put something here every day, it’s just that I’ve been lazy, but these really deserved a resurrection. > > **Stupid Republican Bigotry of the Day** > > Move over Michelle! There’s a new batshit lady in town! (ok, she’s been around forever and has been batshit forever, but she’s not as young and pretty as Bachman and so doesn’t get the coverage). > > [Virginia Foxx: Story of Matthew Shepard’s Murder A “Hoax” (VIDEO)](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/virginia-foxx-story-of-ma_n_192971.html) > > Disgusting vermin. > > Oh, and… > > Elsewhere, Byron York doesn’t think black people are people too. > > [York: Obama is “Actually” Not So Popular, Because Some People Who Like Him Are Black](http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/04/york-obama-is-actually-not-so-popular-because-some-people-who-like-him-are-black.php) > > I guess all the white people who supported white presidents get their popularity counted, but for some reason, black people who support a black president don’t count at all. > > Disgusting vermin. But I repeat myself. Holy crap these people are insulting. They must have total contempt for the voters’ intelligence to say such trollingly stupid and nakedly hateful things. I would like to see a decent opposition party. Maybe we can find one among the Greens or the Libertarians. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/156 "2009-05-09T03:27:59Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Move over Michelle! [/QUOTE] She has: [Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann Are BFFs](http://gawker.com/5241122/ron-paul-and-michele-bachmann-are-bffs) [Ron Paul the GOP’s new pied piper? Michele Bachmann’s a believer](http://www.minnpost.com/cynthiadizikes/2009/05/05/8569/ron_paul_the_gop%E2%80%99s_new_pied_piper_michele_bachmann%E2%80%99s_a_believer) I’m sure this is a proud day for former Texans in Minnesota, and Minnesotans in general! ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/157 "2009-05-09T04:24:25Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > President Obama’s [being attacked](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/hannity-attacks-obama-for_n_198851.html) for his choice of condiments. Condiments! I realize that Hannity is already a total loonball, but now he’s being joined by other loonballs in a full-blown case of [Dijon Derangement Syndrome](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/obama-mustard-attack-beco_n_199953.html). > > Does the base really need to be propped up this badly? OMG SOCIALIST!! WHO LIKES FANCY-PANTS MUSTARD!! > > They’re a laughingstock. _What_. I don’t like any mustard on my burgers, just ketchup. But I also only eat veggie burgers. So what does that make me? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/158 "2009-05-09T04:27:15Z")
Dijon mustard? _Dijon_? Isn’t that… you know, _ **French** _? That’s all you need to know. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/159 "2009-05-09T04:34:07Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > I don’t like any mustard on my burgers, just ketchup. But I also only eat veggie burgers. So what does that make me? If you were on an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Osama bin Laden, and a soldier with two bullets in his weapon, I’m guessing that makes you strangled. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/160 "2009-05-09T18:05:19Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I don’t feel like starting a new thread, but apparently CBS golf analyst David Feherty decided to slur our military by claiming: “if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.” Naturally. Party before country, after all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=9)