# 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:** 825
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16481 "2014-09-08T13:49:44Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Tancredo isn’t doing anything, he’s talking. As for the GOP being the insane party, has your side given up the 9/11 truther stuff yet? Nah. My dad’s a liberal, and he’s _sure_ that something fishy is up. So’s his friend Yo - who also believes in chemtrails, by the way. But then there’s my neighbor, who’s a birther, an AGW denialist, and believes that any day now, the government is going to come confiscate his gun collection. I’d say he’s a fair bit crazier, dontcha think? Of course, we don’t judge the republican party by the statements of Jimbob the crazy fucking racist. We judge it by its elected officials. And what a surprise - when you look at the elected officials on the democratic side, _even the most harmless forms of popular lunacy seems to [take a back seat](http://www.vox.com/2014/8/1/5954701/neil-degrasse-tyson-gmos-dangerous-safe)!_ The crazies don’t have a voice. Unlike in the republican party, where they not only have a voice, but a fucking megaphone. **Terr** tried (quite pathetically) to pull similar comparisons in a recent thread, and failed miserably, because while it’s true you can find crazy dems if you look deep enough, by the time you’re far enough down the totem pole to find the crazies, the people on the other end of the spectrum are _really_ fucking insane. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16482 "2014-09-08T13:53:27Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > There’s certainly a lot of nuttiness on the right, something I acknowledged right from the beginning. Tancredo is one of those nuts. And so is anyone who talks about “Second Amendment solutions.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16483 "2014-09-08T15:03:42Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > most of us do not believe that Obama should be overthrown, **and exactly none of us actually plan to do anything about it**. Wrong (again). I’m confident that Officer Igor Soldo, Officer Alyn Beck & Joseph Robert Wilcox would differ with you on that last statement, for example, were they still alive to have opinions. > [@adaher](#): > > It should also be noted that no right-wing filmmakers have made movies fantasizing about the assassination of Obama. The nuttiness on the left was thick enough to cut with a knife during the Bush years. You’re an idiot with only a tentative grasp on reality. Cite for all the left-wing filmmakers who have made movies fantasizing about the assassination of Bush? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16484 "2014-09-08T15:11:00Z")
Cliven Bundy and his volunteer militia. Remember them? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16485 "2014-09-08T15:32:14Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Cliven Bundy and his volunteer militia. Remember them? If they had all been black, half of them would be dead today and the rest would be facing a long list of felony charges. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16486 "2014-09-08T15:49:06Z")
Yeah, well, if’n we had elected Willard as we shoulda done, that standoff never woulda happened. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16487 "2014-09-08T15:55:55Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It should also be noted that no right-wing filmmakers have made movies fantasizing about the assassination of Obama. The nuttiness on the left was thick enough to cut with a knife during the Bush years. Once again, I am forced to defend [Death of a President](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), from someone who - I’d lay dollars to donuts - didn’t even see the film. It was in no way a fantasization about killing George W. Bush. In fact, the film bent over backward to be as reverential to the former president as they possibly could while still getting across the central theme of the movie. But since **adaher** probably never bothered to see the film nor read anything about it other than, “lookee them lib’ruls wantin’ to kill the president,” I’m not going to throw him the bone of letting him know what the theme is. Art is completely lost on some imbeciles. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16488 "2014-09-08T15:57:14Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Well my blog, with over two million views has made me … (counts on his fingers and toes) … about $100 a year in gross profits. If you factor in opportunity costs, it would be … about -$20,000 a year. So … profit? If you made $100 off your blog it’s probably more commercially successful than 99.9% of all blogs. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16489 "2014-09-08T16:13:44Z")
Republicanism is admittedly an assumption with [this one](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/08/wash-state-megachurch-closes-branches-after-founder-is-caught-calling-women-penis-homes/), but I’m going with it anyway: > [@](#): > > Washington megachurch Mars Hill announced that it is closing several branches, and has dismissed a pastor after he recently called for the resignation of founder Mark Driscoll … > > “Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while,” Driscoll wrote under the name William Wallace II in 2001. “Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.” > > “Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home,” he continued. “But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not… And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.” ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16490 "2014-09-08T16:14:10Z")
So, is this long and venerable thread going to fall victim to adaher? I imagine someone asked him to see if he could kill it with his own special sauce of ignorance and bullshit. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16491 "2014-09-08T16:21:45Z")
**adaher** + **Stupid Republican idea of the Day** is comparable to _gasoline_ + _fire_ ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16492 "2014-09-08T16:32:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > **adaher** + **Stupid Republican idea of the Day** is comparable to _gasoline_ + _fire_ He thinks being a stupid republican is performance art. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16493 "2014-09-08T16:46:03Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > He thinks being a stupid republican is performance art. It is. He twists things like he’s making balloon arguments. I picture **adaher** with giant feet and a red ball nose that honks… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16494 "2014-09-08T17:03:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tom Tancredo: “[That’s a real pretty government you got there. It would be a shame if anything bad should happen to it](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/07/former-republican-congressman-tells-obama-get-out-of-office-or-face-armed-rebellion/).” I wish people would stop using the word “treason” to describe sedition. They are NOT the same thing. :mad: ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16495 "2014-09-08T17:29:19Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Republicanism is admittedly an assumption with [this one](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/08/wash-state-megachurch-closes-branches-after-founder-is-caught-calling-women-penis-homes/), but I’m going with it anyway: So I’ve been beating God’s dick like it owes me money? If I’m wrong and God exists, he’s going to be very angry, or very happy with me. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16496 "2014-09-08T17:35:59Z")
Is there an expiration date on the oath of office? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16497 "2014-09-08T17:42:48Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I wish people would stop using the word “treason” to describe sedition. > > They are NOT the same thing. :mad: No, but [sedition is also a crime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition#United_States). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16498 "2014-09-08T18:02:07Z")
Ummm, yeah, of course it is. That’s no excuse for misidentifying the crime when you’re _j’accus_ing somebody of it. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16499 "2014-09-08T18:31:52Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Tancredo is a national Republican? He’s a former House member who hasn’t won anything since. He’s equivalent to Cynthia McKinney or Sheila Jackson Lee. Are these the best you can do? I guess you associate McKinney with Trutherism, but what did Lee do that was even 1% as vile as Tancredo? I don’t follow personality politics and dissecting whether McKinney is a Truther or not is of no interest to me. But suppose she is. That’s one Truther compared with > [@](#): > > During an appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball on Tuesday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) told host Chris Matthews that “probably 30 or 40 Republicans” in Congress reject President Barack Obama’s legitimacy in office and are essentially trying to undo his presidency. I know that Republicans need to believe "You guys are just as ugly and venal as we are. :mad: " but seriously? One _ex_-Congressperson who might be a quasi-Truther versus “30 or 40” GOP Birthers in Congress? Is this a joke? Do you have any sense of proportion, **adaher**? Do you even know what the concept “sense of proportion” means? > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > If you made $100 off your blog it’s probably more commercially successful than 99.9% of all blogs. My blog has one little text ad that pays my hosting fee and nets a $120 annual profit or so. 🙂 I didn’t realize this made me a 0.1% elite. :smack: … But even with a wage as low as $2/hour, that profit would turn into a huge loss if my time were considered. ☹ ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16500 "2014-09-08T19:19:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Ummm, yeah, of course it is. That’s no excuse for misidentifying the crime when you’re _j’accus_ing somebody of it. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I blame Obama. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=824) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=826)