# 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:** 800
**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, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15981 "2014-08-04T18:18:15Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > 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)” To my ear, “republ **i** opath” rolls off the tongue a little easier, and is more reminiscent of “sociopath”. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15982 "2014-08-04T18:20:05Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > _I mean, yes, sometimes Palestinian kids get killed. That’s because they are associated with a terrorist organization that is harming Israel._ > > Republopath Is this like a red letter bible only with Ann Coulter? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15983 "2014-08-04T18:46:48Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Well, there goes [Smapti](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16437291&postcount=21). Harvesting poor immigrant children for their organs is really more of a libertarian idea. ---
**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, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15984 "2014-08-04T19:52:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > To my ear, “republ **i** opath” rolls off the tongue a little easier, and is more reminiscent of “sociopath”. I was aiming more toward “psychopath”, because sociopaths are kind of almost respected. Most right-wing libertarian types are basically sociopaths. Coultergeist is nowhere near that level of emotional stability. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15985 "2014-08-04T20:11:45Z")
Oh, she appears to be quite emotionally stable, as well as intellectually stable. Therein, perhaps, lies the problem. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks. ---
**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, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15986 "2014-08-04T21:10:08Z")
I like _Republiopathic_. Republopath sounds to much like “Republican path.” Google shows that Republiopath is untaken, though _Republipath_ gets [two](http://www.meetup.com/Cumberland-Green-River-Bioregional-Council/messages/42281652/) [hits](http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/12/15/to-know-him-is-to-loathe-him/): > [@](#): > > harlana says: > December 15, 2011 at 6:17 pm > > the death-cheering, soldier-booing, child-labor loving, racist (thanks, Newt, for ramping up the racism back to the “welfare queen” days, btw, good job!) clown show is a gift to the Obama presidency and guarantees his re-election, regardless of the republipath nominee > > they have become simply the party of sociopaths, as evidenced by their candidates. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15987 "2014-08-04T21:25:34Z")
Peggy Noonan has a drinking problem? Sez who? 😕 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15988 "2014-08-04T21:28:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Oh, she appears to be quite emotionally stable, as well as intellectually stable. Therein, perhaps, lies the problem. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks. In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our minds. In loyalty to our kind we cannot tolerate their obstruction. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15989 "2014-08-04T21:53:44Z")
I’ve seen their ways too often for my liking. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15990 "2014-08-04T21:54:54Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I’ve seen their ways too often for my liking. If my computer hadn’t stalled I would have beaten you to it. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15991 "2014-08-04T21:59:43Z")
Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks thinks the Democrats are in danger of becoming perpetual losers because they have launched a [“war on whites”](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/08/04/rep-mo-brooks-talks-war-on-whites-as-the-gop-loses-the-battle-for-votes/). I gotta tell you Mo, when Laura Ingraham says your comments are “a little out there”, you may need to dial it back a bit. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15992 "2014-08-04T22:04:09Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > If my computer hadn’t stalled I would have beaten you to it. I don’t remember that one. Was it in _After Bathing at Baxter’s_? ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15993 "2014-08-04T22:29:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I don’t remember that one. Was it in _After Bathing at Baxter’s_? _Bless Its Pointed Little Head_ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15994 "2014-08-04T22:34:10Z")
Groovy. ---
**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, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15995 "2014-08-04T22:36:40Z")
_If the truth is found To be lies And all the joy Within you dies_ ---
**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:** [August 5, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15996 "2014-08-05T00:04:29Z")
National Organization for Marriage: “[same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/04/1318512/-OMG-NOM-Not-Even-I-Was-Prepared-For-This-Level-Of-Stupidity?detail=facebook)”. ---
**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 5, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15997 "2014-08-05T00:19:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > National Organization for Marriage: “[same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/04/1318512/-OMG-NOM-Not-Even-I-Was-Prepared-For-This-Level-Of-Stupidity?detail=facebook)”. No less rational or valid than all their other arguments against SSM. ---
**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 5, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15998 "2014-08-05T00:19:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > National Organization for Marriage: “[same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/04/1318512/-OMG-NOM-Not-Even-I-Was-Prepared-For-This-Level-Of-Stupidity?detail=facebook)”. Isn’t the argument “Chairs have to have something in common to be called chairs therefore SSM should be illegal”? It’s no more coherent, but I didn’t think the Kos precis captured the precise incoherence! ---
**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:** [August 5, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15999 "2014-08-05T02:23:30Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > No less rational or valid than all their other arguments against SSM. Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to get married to a 2-foot-tall Ewok? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this issue? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this issue! It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending traditional marriage, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must ban same-sex marriage! The defense rests. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16000 "2014-08-05T03:17:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > National Organization for Marriage: “[same-sex marriage should be illegal because not all chairs are exactly the same](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/04/1318512/-OMG-NOM-Not-Even-I-Was-Prepared-For-This-Level-Of-Stupidity?detail=facebook)”. Not only that, but in their love for G. K. Chesterton, they have ignored that H. G. Wells is actually quite right: > [@](#): > > Take the word chair. When one says chair, one thinks vaguely of an average chair. But collect individual instances, think of armchairs and reading chairs, and dining-room chairs and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into benches, chairs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentists’ chairs, thrones, opera stalls, seats of all sorts, those miraculous fungoid growths that cumber the floor of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, and you will perceive what a lax bundle in fact is this simple straightforward term. In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me. H. G. Wells A Modern Utopia, Appendix: Scepticism of the Instrument So, Chesterton notwithstanding, I have to agree with Wells. All chairs are emphatically NOT alike, yet I can call them all chairs from an identical functional standpoint. And if the ghost of Chesterton disagrees, he can stuff a beanbag chair in his mouth. What does THAT do to the argument? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=799) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=801)